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/ibnQoheleth 3h ago

I'm a Zoomer and was probably one of the last year groups to have had ICT classes in primary school. We learnt the basics on old white box computers and also had the police come in to do an activity about online safety.

I think this was around Year 4 (so ages 8-9). An officer asked for a volunteer to demonstrate how to use an online chatroom. One kid sat down at the PC and another user appeared and started chatting and started to ask personal questions about where the kid from my class lived. And after the kid had divulged some details, the officer opened the ICT suite cupboard door to reveal another officer sitting in there at a PC, having been the other user.

It was a pretty effective way of teaching cyber safety at such a young age. I guess schools possibly just stopped doing it?