We are in age where computers were for so long that a lot of stuff became surrounded by myths...

We are in age where computers were for so long that a lot of stuff became surrounded by myths. These were created years before zoomers and some millenials, who now follow them without knowing the real reason.

Would there be any point in attempting to explain these myths to the zoomers? Would they be interested or would I be laughed at, because at this point stuff like a "computer virus" is so abstract? It's so distant that zoomers believe in the "common sense" meme so hard that explaining dangers of viruses, trojans, adware and such would be basically a tale of 1001 nights to them?

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everyone knows computers are (an outdated) magical box that does stuff, viruses are stuff that makes your pc and phone slow (they also install themselves) and phones are magical glass things that can do anything. hackers are people in hoodies, type very fast and hack anything in seconds.
just let them fucking die, natural selection 2.0. we need people to clean the toilets and make our food

>just let them fucking die
but I see a lot of stuff I know and I understand on Jow Forums, but I'm baffled at dumb explanations and answers zoomers come up with. You know, I'm a nerd and I'll remain one even if my hobby got absorbed into the mainstream.

Some zoomers can understand it, most of them are beyond help though. All in all I wouldn't waste my time with them

It's for the best that zoomers sont understand computers. How will i get paid to fix their problems?

I'm not sure I get what you're trying to say. I had this mentality before, that I wanted the world to understand computing and technology like I did, that there are no such things as magic boxes. I gave up because not only most of them just can't absorb the information, but because they simply _don't care_. They want technology to be little black, magic boxes, and understanding something hard and useless is completely pointless for them. If you happen to know someone interested and/or that you care about and have patience with (a good friend, a lover, family, idk) and want to explain stuff to them (remember the interest part. it's no use forcing stuff into their throats if they don't want it or find it boring), give it a shot. It's not a matter of you either know computing or die a complete ignorant, however there are people not interested that'll never learn, on purpose

>where computers were for so long that a lot of stuff
Nigger what

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This book explains why it's probably like this. The way GUI's have been designed since the early days is to create a system of metaphors, which helps people get to using the computer but they get misled in the process, so when something goes wrong it contradicts what they think they know about their machine. The best example is editing a document in something like ms word. People understand the concept of putting shit on a page, but when you're writing on paper you don't expect it to vanish into the ether if you don't "save" (a concept that doesn't really exist outside of computers), or for it to suddenly become corrupt and change all the symbols into gobbledygook.
Imagine if from day one someone was taught that the letters they're typing are a string of bytes, they're held in RAM, and that you create copies on a storage device.
There's nothing about that that's more complicated than a metaphor that's not even consistent, but it makes you a lot more equipped to actually use a computer and not be a inconvenienced by it.

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