cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27501866
source: @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
Correction: there are 10 generations that know technology inside and out. IYKYK.
this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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Just helped build my 12 year old cousin his first computer and was forced into putting Windows on it. Now, I get that it's important that he at least understand what the "normal OS" is, but I did want to put at least Mint or something on there. Zoomers and Alpha really don't know how to navigate even the basics, though, and this kid was no exception.
Well, technically I wanted to put something based on Arch but even I know that's a bad idea for a sink or swim computer moment.
What do you consider "the basics"? I regards to getting a 12 yr old started on Linux
The kid didn't know file systems and didn't even know not to just power off the system randomly. Granted, Linux plays by different rules and would arguably be easier in some regards, but yeah... walk before you can run.
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Guess me and my partner are exceptional zoomers? Them having a diploma in computer science and i am a software developer
Don’t worry, the vast majority of every generation are shit with computers. Tech-ies just think their generation is better because their friends (also in tech) are better than the people they randomly run into from other generations. It’s just selection bias. Most millennials I know don’t even know the keyboard shortcut to save in word.
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Is this some Acrobat functionality or something?
Off the top of my head, there's pdfjam, pdftk and imagemagick (don't forget the --dpi switch) who could probably do that, after reading the man pages. Or ghostscript' gs, if you want to go in-depth.
But generally, just rotate the source material you've got the pdf from. That's how it is intended.
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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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I work with some guys much younger than me. They’re great at programming and stuff like that but none of them have ever built a computer. They seem to think it’ll be really hard.
The sad part about that is building a PC is easier than ever. I hadn't built one in over a decade and was shocked to find out that everything is toolless and just snaps right into place! The only part that's maybe intimidating for newbies is putting the thermal paste down without making a mess but even then, you just go slow and take your time and you'll be fine.
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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.
I mean, the ability to independently google "how to rotate a PDF" isn't universal.
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