RE: My Nieces Make Me Feel Old...

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At their age, I haven't seen a computer working other than in movies (maybe) and our telephone had a wire and a rotary dial. I had my first contact with Spectrum OS-based computers when I was one year older than my oldest niece. The following year I saw the first 286 PC in reality and it's probably when I fell in love with computer science.

When you say it like that, I think you live in my mother-father generation 😭. Well, the generation gap is really felt nowadays even with just 5 years of gap. It's time to catch the gap or let the next generation do it. I think I'm on the edge as I still like PCs (work and play) and consoles (play) especially Nintendo Switch rather than smartphones tbh 😂. Smartphones are just for business calls and messages only.
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I haven't had much direct contact with consoles tbh, other than also at my nieces, but they got bored with them quite easily, probably because they only had a limited number of games and they rarely played with their friends, while on Roblox they keep saying they have access to 1000 games. I believe the graphics on those kids' games is awful (especially compared to console games), but they seem to enjoy them.

What this platform does well is that it splits players and games into age categories. I guess for their age categories, graphics is secondary to having fun. As it is here in crypto secondary to earning rewards, still.

When you say it like that, I think you live in my mother-father generation

I'm borderline Baby Boomer - Gen X, but living in communism until my teenage, we were always lagging when it came to high tech compared to the West in those times.

Well, the generation gap is really felt nowadays even with just 5 years of gap. It's time to catch the gap or let the next generation do it. I think I'm on the edge as I still like PCs (work and play) and consoles (play) especially Nintendo Switch rather than smartphones tbh 😂. Smartphones are just for business calls and messages only.

Someone who uses a smartphone for everything they do, and all day long, like some youngsters nowadays will always know more tricks, have experience with more apps and phone models, etc. than someone who uses different devices. I'm not trying to catch them on that front, I know I wouldn't be able to keep up at the same speed. There are other things they lack, generally, like focus, and we often still have more. There are exceptions, obviously.

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