Only one generation knows how to fix tech...

Fine with me. Leave us the hell alone.

That’s cool. We’re used to being forgotten and this way nobody will ask us to fix their computer.

By that logic, Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak were Boomers so Boomers all know how to fix computers.

Let's face it, "generational" assumptions are all too coarse to be valuable - and are probably just another way to separate and divide us all so we stop thinking about how to take down the ruling classes.

Gen X is the Aslan lion meme: “Do not cite the deep computer repair magic to me, Millennial. I was there when it was written.”

As one of those Gen-X that actually helped create the dumpster fire we call the modern Internet, I have come to realize that we fall into two camps. You either look young enough to be classified as a Millennial (my wife) or you look old enough to immediately be thrown in the Boomer bucket (me)...which is really unfair because no other generation has hated and fought the fucking Boomers longer than us.

I'd love to show some GenZ photos of Matt Damon, Bem Affleck, Cillian Murphy, etc. and ask them what generation they think they are.

Whatever

And this is how we prefer it.

no, they're just choosing to not fuck with this shit because they've had enough

Hey, Millennial here. Just a friendly reminder to drink your metamucil today

I don’t know about you, but I quit doing that soul crushing work as soon as I could something I really loved.

They said boomers so same dif.

Ahhh I see. So what you're saying is that Gen X is actually the root of our problems? Boomers were just another symptom that needed a GUI.

Eh. Genx understood how to work a VCR and deal with the rat's nest of cables behind the TV

Computers are millennials

I was going to complain, but you're damned right.

Silence is golden.

Millenial here:

This is good advice, sage even.

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EDIT:

I didn't forget the couple of extremely cool and also very knowledgable Gen X mentors/bosses I had, hahah!

I've spent the last decade training Millennials just for that task.

I'll be over here screwing with the K8S cluster if you need me.

The meh generation

At this point I’m happy to let someone else do it. Being everybody's tech support sucks. I can just tinker with and enjoy my own setups in peace.

The generation that couldn't be bothered.

"Meh"

I know of one, and it’s my kid. And they’re just as frustrated as I am about how little their peers know about computers

It’s funny how bubbles can change so much. In my personal experience, most Gen Z people know their way around computers and how to fix stuff. I regularly help my millennial sister with stuff like that.

41 myself and the future scares me for too many reasons, this definitely being one of them.

I am Gen Z, I can copy paste commands from online forums into the terminal, then proceed to fuck shit up. 🫠

(Don't ask me to type commands from memory, I'd rather use windows spyware than deal with command line torture)

I am gen z and just writing my bachelor's thesis for computer science/Cybersecurity. Many of my peers are in CS too.

We fix our own damn computers before the Millenials get out of bed.

The whole history of this meme is a tired Boomer-tier joke. It's 9gag material at this point.

We're already at that end of the alphabet again?

Left out of the meme, not left out of being called to fix shit.

We truly are the middle child of generations, forgotten until we are needed.

It’s OK - whenever we’re not left out we opt out anyway…

I wish

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/opinion/gen-x.html?searchResultPosition=1

Yup.

We could fix it too, but we don’t wanna.

Napping. Wake me up when September ends.

Computers themselves are still pretty fixable.

Tldr; you got your feelings hurt over a meme

My dad’s a retired engineer and my mom was a computer programmer. Literal actual baby boomers.

My grandpa was a robotics engineer and thus knew how to use a PC quite well but watching him operate Windows 10 basically without utilizing any tools that came after DOS was bizarre.

They aren't saying every person of those generations is the same. Your family is very techy and it makes sense that they'd be knowledgeable, but the point of the meme is that there was a generation that grew up with tech that kinda worked most of the time, forcing them to learn how to use it to be effective, leading to a higher proportion of people knowing how computers work. Nowadays, except if your job is fixing computers, the chance you know them in-depth and how to tinker with them is much lower, because there is no need, they just work most of the time.

I saw this as a millennial and immediately thought to myself “did they forget GenX built the internet?”

I'm a xennial or whatever you wanna call us and I can't stand the generational cold war that takes place in our society

The generation labels are arbitrary anyway, I wish people would drop this dumb bullshit.

You're all educated professionals. This meme is more about your average user.

I agree with this person!

Conversely, me and my whole family is dumb as fuck, every generation.

Actually agree.

By age I would be late gen-Z / almost gen-A. I grew up in rural middle-east and was introduced to home internet for first time in highschool(2020)

Where would I fall?

Totally normal response to a meme.

Why the fuck are you oversaturating that saturated field, causing wages to drop?

Go study a trade, ffs

Shhhh! We don’t need them asking us to fix their shit anymore. Let the millennials pretend they are the only ones that can.

Shh, we get to be anonymous, tech literate and be able to buy our own houses.

Shhh - let the Millennials do it, they need the validation, and most of us need a nap.

Same. My older brother got scammed by the "hello this is paypal. Your account got hacked." Eventhough i told him to hang up and that it is a scam

There are luddites in every generation.

Millenial here, its actually the same for us. Most millenials dont actually know how to fix a computer, either.

You do realize Gen X were the ones who were building their own computers back in the late 80's and all through the 90s and loading them with Windows 3.1 and the original flavors of Linux, on top of fostering the open source world everyone here relies upon? All before Millennials graduated from Jr High.

Even Skynet will forget Gen X, trust me.

Same here, but I'm a border generation (born in the late 90s)

Bingo.

Yeah, this is more young X and old millennial. Xers born in the late 60s-early 70s and millennials born in the late 80s-90s don't know shit.

I've heard us (young Xs and old millennials) described as the organ Oregon Trail generation. We grew up along side the tech so we understand it better than your average person from before or after.

And a younger one...

I wouldn't even suck dick that low... Why would I take less pay for something I DONT like to do???

The point is late X/early millennial were the only ones "forced" to fix tech if we wanted to use it (obviously people older than that needed to as well but they were less likely to be into tech). Shit rarely worked out of the box, plug and play was shit, nothing was standardized, etc. Around the late 90s into the 2000s things worked more reliably without needing tinkering, and then apps came in and shifted things even further from tech literacy.

Yeah you clearly have no clue what the 80s and 90s were like for sure

For gen X and older, computers were more niche. They were more difficult to use and mostly reserved to enthusiasts. For gen Z and younger, computers were always just there, and they'd become a lot simpler, a lot more plug n play, and resources to fix them became cheaper and more accessible. Millennials were in just the right environment where computer use became mainstream, but computer software was less developed and user friendly and they frequently had to learn to fix problems themselves.

Every individual will clearly have their own unique experience and not everyone will fall into these buckets, but it's these factors that lead to millennials likely having higher tech skills than average compared to those older and younger than them.

That's it. It's not ageism. It is absolutely generalizing, but mostly, it's social commentary in the form of a joke.

Ok boomer!

Ageism has been around long time

"In all things I yearn for the past. Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased. I find that even among the splendid pieces of furniture built by our master cabinetmakers, those in the old forms are the most pleasing.

And as for writing letters, surviving scraps from the past reveal how superb the phrasing used to be. The ordinary spoken language has also steadily coarsened. People used to say "raise the carriage shafts" or "trim the lamp wick," but people today say "raise it" or "trim it." When they should say, "Let the men of the palace staff stand forth!" they say, "Torches! Let's have some light!" Instead of calling the place where the lectures on the Sutra of the Golden Light are delivered before the emperor "the Hall of the Imperial Lecture," they shorten it to "the Lecture Hall," a deplorable corruption, an old gentleman complained."

Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness), Yoshida Kenkō 1330 - 1332 AD