cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27501866
source: @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
To be fair, I don't actually know how to rotate a pdf. I re-learn it every few years, then immediately forget it again.
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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I mean, the ability to independently google "how to rotate a PDF" isn't universal.
Pdfsam. At least that was the best way when I last needed to rotate a PDF about 500 years ago.
Goomers and hoomers and foomers and schroomers are all alike and your generation is smarter.
I am gen z and know how to use a computer
Most of us should have been taught how to use computers in school then we expand our knowledge from there on our own
Is this an american only problem?
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I felt like an idiot the other day. Customer sent in a pdf with confidential information. I needed to upload the document without the confidential information but only have the free Adobe. I normally redact the information in paint but paint wouldn't accept the file format.
I ended up asking a gen x teammate and she instantly told me to use the snipping tool which solved my problem. Thank you Gen X coworkers
Gen X checking in here. I’m actually happy to be left out of the memes. Carry on.
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I thought they would be wiz kids...
Me too. They were born with phones in their hands, right? Understanding technology should be like breathing to them! But it turns out they started using it after corporations had locked it down and simplified it, so they only know how to use apps, not how any of it actually works.
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They know how to use technology but they have no idea how it works or what to do if it breaks.
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Helped a Zoomer coworker build a PC for gaming and was then shocked watching him try to navigate Windows and being confused on basic things. Then I realized that, yeah, he probably never really used a desktop for much unlike us Millennials who grew up sitting at desks. He’s doing much better a couple years later so they are definitely able to adapt though!
Unlike with boomers, this shit was your fault. Y'all refused to kill off iPhone and macbooks and chromebooks and Windows and now this is the world we live in.
Guess me and my partner are exceptional zoomers? Them having a diploma in computer science and i am a software developer
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Eh PDFs are just annoying to deal with. I could do this stuff the adobe acrobat when I had the paid version in school but I'm cheap and no longer have it. If I'm feeling desperate I'll find the ghostscript command that does it otherwise I just do something horrible (for example scanning to jpeg rather than PDF creating an HTML page with both images and printing that to PDF)
From writing a limited amount of code to generate PDFs from scratch the standard is just cursed. It was using 7 bit ASCII until fairly recently resulting in an eighth of the document being wasted space. Also when they switched to PDFs being an open standard the specs went from something freely available on adobe's web site to a challege of how to send 98 swiss francs to ISO to get access.
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Yes you are a monolith block when born in a certain age group.
Nothing wrong with that statement apparently.
Divide and conquer.