I was born in 2001 and I still used casettes when I was a kid

ok mr fancypants how about I call it a flopper? How bout that

Gen beta will probably still see faxes being used by public administration

Germany still uses faxes, it’s not surprising at all.

Tho tbf they’re common in Italy too even in the better universities

fun fact people born after 1996 are Gen Z

just keep an eye on pirate forums or learn how to steal ig

nobody cares about Gen X

that’s not just young people that’s 80~90% of users

but also have you met boomers? Tech literacy as we knew never existed.

Nobody expects the University of Florence!

Performing open heart surgery on yourself

It’s moreso that they have some abandonware that only works on windows XP.

Windows XP itself is abandonware and you shouldn’t use it in any other case, just use Linux if you don’t like newer windows. You certainly aren’t doing any photoshopping on XP nowadays so that’s no concern.

Yeah seems about right.

In my lab we have a spectrometer and an HPLC with computers that use windows XP.

Tho I noticed the HPLC one is connected to the internet, gonna have to ask them of that’s necessary

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doubt they’re connected to the internet. In fact I’d wager 99% of shit running windows XP is not connected to the internet (and shouldn’t be)

the lengths people will go to not simply use a better OS

I’d say more likely it’s labs, hospitals, and other scientific stuff where you have to deal with old instruments cause lack of money. I’m fairly certain the military uses some other OS, I believe NATO uses Solaris for example.

I mean let’s be real, a pandemic and 2 wars in the span of 4 years will sure make anything earlier than 2020 feel like centuries ago even without that

I mean I lived in a rural part of Italy (read: small town) but I live in a city now and I do see kids playing in the square. Usually they’re playing real life Among us or something judging by the “HE IS THE AMOGUS RUN!” screams.

American suburbia and places that imitate it are car-centric hellholes that are unsafe for kids and the American (or respective) government would do well to carpet bomb it and then build something decend in its place.

Bold of you to assume it’s not the same now. I didn’t have a cellphone until Inwas 12 or something and I distinctly remember playing “lay on the ground while a guy on a bike runs you over”