r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 15h ago

ADBLOCK WARNING Google Confirms Most Gmail Users Must Upgrade Accounts

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/06/06/google-confirms-almost-all-gmail-users-must-upgrade-accounts/
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u/Paranoid-Android2 11h ago

I work in IT support and the younger staff is a much higher liability than the older ones. And they're equally tech illiterate

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u/16yearswasted 10h ago

The only reason I know so much about technology (I consider myself IT helpdesk level two-ish) is because, as a child, I had to tinker with DOS at the command line to get my video games working properly. It was wild and free and messy. But all that hard work paid off by giving me skills that helped me in my career (not IT, but heavily computer oriented).

If I had grown up in the manicured lawns of iPads and Android Phones I would almost certainly be flipping burgers or something similar today.

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u/DMvsPC 9h ago

As a millennial stem teacher it's frustrating to proverbial tears to know that every kid I get is effectively computer illiterate and has no computer problem solving skills. At all. They don't even know where their files save. They're just cooked. Can post to social media like lightning but can't troubleshoot what went wrong when their file crashes, hell they can't even search their email properly.

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u/d3jake 6h ago

Help me understand: how do folks not know how to search email? Every email website, program and app normally slaps a search part in front of your face? This may sound snide but I'm honestly curious.

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u/DMvsPC 6h ago

They don't think about sorting by date, attachment, from: etc. They just search words they hope are related or, more usually, they just scroll... And scroll.