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[–] [email protected] 23 points 15 hours ago (10 children)

I've long said that I believe Millennials, as a generational cohort, are the best at typing that ever has been and ever will be. We were the first generation where adults really recognized that we'd be using computers our entire lives and took steps to teach typing. But, so much more importantly than that, we socialized through typing. I had typing classes in school, sure, but I learned to type quickly on AIM and in chat rooms.

Earlier generations only really typed for business or school. Later generations socialize over phones, so they, too, only use a physical keyboard for school and business.

I guess I should amend this theory to include all tech literacy in general.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Typing was taught to boomers and genx first dude. In fact, as a liminal i'd readily say i've had an arseload more typing "teaching" than you have - both keyboard and typewriter- and i'll wager my mother in the age of typewriters had even more.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I took typing class in high school. On a typewriter. Gen X. My mom was a trained stenographer in her younger years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

X here as well. But 78. So i got to take advantage of the digital age without having my teen stupidity immortalised on it. Truly the sweetest of spots.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

The typewriter generation are probably faster overall because they don't make mistakes.

Being able to delete any error makes you far less careful.

Sure, modern programs will autocorrect for you, but autocorrect to what?

[–] ebc 4 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, it was funny teaching my grandmother to use a computer... She couldn't use a mouse, but she typed really fast!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

I can type fast, but I have to hit the backspace really often.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

As a Zoomer, I also had typing classes, but I learned how to type because I wanted to be able to quickly send messages in Minecraft when I was like 7 years old 🙃

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair, PDFs suck and the only software that handles them well is paid and proprietary

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

PDF gear is free (for now) and excellent

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Libreoffice is pretty decent with PDFs imo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

From my experience, not very much, at least for editing PDFs without fucking up the fonts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I guess

Do Adobe PDF things handle all Google fonts?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

There's one generation between boomers and zoomers? I'm pretty confident I know who it is you're forgetting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Meh, whatever.

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