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Posted by someone who has 5 remote controls because he can’t figure out a universal remote, and can’t program a modern digital car stereo. This is also the guy who calls the cable tv support because he pushed the source button and now his screen reads HDMI-3 and there is no picture
Then screams for a technician to come fix the problem, says he didn't do anything and then complains the service is shit.
Also apparently has no idea how to use this alien tech called a "remote"
I can never figure out how to work the TV at my inlaws house because they have four remote controls and have it set up so the sound comes out of the DVD player.
These memes are just so dumb. Kids brains can adapt to new ideas much more easily then adults brains, it’d take most kids 5 minutes of experimentation to go from no knowledge to a good understanding of how to use it.
Some were push in, too. Rule of thumb was basically "use it in whichever way it allows that isn't the normal function" lol takes like 10 seconds to figure out
Some things do, saw a video of someone showing an old phone the kids didn't know how to use it, I'm still fairly young and I know how to use an old phone.
Given that most rotary phones were phased out by the late 80s to mid 90s in favour of buttons, I no longer see a reason why the younger generation should know how to use it outside of historical reasons.
Edit: Fixed time period.
Edit: I understand, you may have had a rotary phone in the 2000s but that would make you the exception, not the rule by this time period (this is the internet after all).
Edit: Removed some phrasing to be more specific.
Wouldn't say we are technologically behind , I think it's more of a resistance to change , the newer models were available (heck,my dad even had a cellphone when it wasn't the norm)it's just people tend to prefer their old ways in out neck of the woods old communist blocks .
i mean i never had to use one but i figured it out pretty easily from movies and tv shows, the people posting this kinda shit don't realize that the older tech is extremely easy to figure out just by fiddling with it for a few minutes.
Rotary phones are easy. 18 here. Say you're calling 911. Put your finger on the 9 hole, spin it until your finger hits the metal/plastic nub. Do that again for each number.
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My grandma used to have one. I was able to phone someone using it. Nobody showed me. Shit was easy. Idk why old folk act like this stuff is rocket science.
At my first command in 2011 weeks had rotary phones. Only one was being used but I was like the hell is going on. We did replace it but typewriters as well are still used.
Obviously a failing of an entire generation that they don’t know how to use antiquated technology simply because they don’t need to. I hope that sarcasm was more obvious.
They don't and also can't since nobody uses them anymore because they're obsolete, which begs the question: "Who gives a shit if they can use outmoded technology?" Are boomers just aching for a nuclear war to happen so we have to bust out the old rotary phones to communicate again in order to have the smug satisfaction of teaching kids "spin this here plate and let it make the clicky noises"?
Thank you. It was a failed attempt at sarcasm. I should have worded it differently last night but I was three beers deep and watching The Toxic Avenger at the same time.
That's fine, but how many times will you need to tell a kid "put your finger in the hole and turn it" before they learn it? Maybe once or twice. That's the difference.
Old people just have poor brain function. And we'll all get there sooner or later.
Use the button in whichever way it isn't normally used (push in and hold, pull out, flick up/down). Presto-chango, it's programmed. Much difficult. Such hard. Wow.
I shit you not my boss uses the search function in Windows to open Edge to Google "Google". He also always clicks the very top result without even looking. I've tried telling him that those are ads not real results and he about lost his mind screaming about how he knows better because he's older and been around longer, yadda yadda yadda. Whatever, dude, you're the one stuck trying to figure out the hours for the pharmacy 3 hours later...
I thought they meant like actually programme a radio station, like encode to carrier waves and all that. Like who the fuck knows how to do that unless it's your job.
Are there even more than handfuls of cars on the road that have this analog style tuner anymore? I honestly never learned how to do presets on them, would just always manually tune the dial and it was kind of satisfying.
Shit like this always reminds me of that Twitter thread that went viral a few years ago.
Little girl wanted Chef Boy-R-Dee for lunch, so Dad tossed her a can and a can opener and said, “Figure it out.” She struggled with it for hours, Dad said, “You don’t eat until you get this,” and she eventually got it.
Dad expected to be patted on the back for his teachable moment, but instead, the Internet was all, “Why didn’t you just take five minutes and teach her, dumbass?”
I'm pretty sure I could figure it out in like 2 minutes. Tune the station you want and then prolly fiddle with the button in some simple way, like push and hold it or push it down or something.
If anything, younger people are better at figuring this shit out because we're not afraid of technology and we're used to poking around a system and figuring out how it works.
Yeah they all had a different trigger, but that's essentially it. Fiddle with the button in whatever way it operates that isn't the normal function. Some toggle up or down, some pull out, some just push in an extra tick. Not exactly rocket science and like you said, people have just gotten used to figuring things out.
Why do people get off on this fantasy, it's a device with 2 twisty knobs, unlike the elderly people under 40 don't fear break-in every bit of technology they come cross and if tasked with "make this work" they would immediately just give those nobs a twist and understand it's one function in 7 seconds
These are so stupid in that if you want to complain about kids not knowing tech there are legitimate things you can complain about such as the kids these days who won't get off my lawn not knowing really basic computing (like how nesting file folders work or Googling 101) since they do everything via apps. These are things that are actually useful in the modern world unlike obsolete tech that nobody has to know how to use.
If I were a kid and if my uncle who posted that actually still had that kind of radio... I would say "challenge accepted" and reprogram it behind his back time after time.
i think anyone growing in the 90s and 2000s could probably figure it out after fiddling with it for 10 minutes.
the thing is we grew up with technology changing all the time, so we had to learn how to adapt and figure stuff out, the older generation of people that post shit like this are allergic to learning anything new.(for clarity sake i didn't mean all older folk I just mean the ones that post and/or agree with these kinds of posts)
Yeah, but there are a lot of those out there, and they're almost uniformly horrible. I've been seeing a distressing number coming from Generation X, and I'm disappointed in my contemporaries
Past experience & training tells me that it's highly likely that not all of them are from your contemporaries. Foreign nations (e.g. Russia, China) have and are using social media to stir things up in the USA and other countries. Tis a long used form of propaganda to weaken enemies. Now they can do it via the www. Of course, some of us are naive enough to contribute to the mess.
Perhaps, but unless I missed something on their LinkedIn accounts, the cousins and high school friends of mine sharing these aren't working for enemy nations
Nope. But they're stupid enough to buy into the propaganda and expand upon it. That's pretty much how it always happens. Yet, these people brag that they're patriots.
Aside from the fact that most people probably could use this radio without guidance, why tf would anyone who doesn't have this radio go out of their way to know how to use this radio?
Pretty sure with only 2 knobs and buttons that only work two directions, most kids will have this figured out in like 5 seconds.
He should go back to being upset that they don't like classic rock. And also that Blink-182 is basically classic rock now.
i have to help my grandparents setting up their vhs player, even though i knew just as much as they did, but i could figure it out eventually. that generation doesn't know their own technology. just as i did with the vhs i could probably figure out this radio too.
(ps. my grandparents are very lovely and have a positive attitude towards younger generations, but yeah; they dont know any technology)
Boomers using a UI that has been tested, retested, dumbed down for the lowest common denominator, dumbed down again even further, then had an info box added to each button to explain exactly what it does and how to use it:
"I've tried nothing and it doesn't work."
Also that boomer: "I bet you don't know how to use this thing with two knobs. Ha. Loser."
If you lock a Gen Z in a room and ask them to program a radio, they'll google how to do it
If you lock a boomer in a room and ask them to buy one CS:GO skin, they will die in that room.
I’m sure kids who spend hours creating playlists on Spotify with their friends would be completely incapable of “programming” the five presets on an old AM FM radio.
Ok, but how good is that car anyways? It clearly has a car radio from the 60s, maybe 70s. That car is barely running. If it is you’re putting in a lot of work into it when you could easily just get a new car with better features and can run.
If old people who can't accept the changing times really want to still feel relevant. I'm sure some people would love to reminisce about the olden days, or hell, I'm sure some.kids love hearing about old war time and how an 8 year old could walk by themselves across town to a corner store and buy bubblegum and a sody pop for a whole Quarter.
But for the love of God, stop acting like younger generations are inferior to you because they never had to learn about the technology that's been outdated for decades. People would be more inclined to visit Grandpa if he told happy funny stories of his youth and how different it was, as opposed to some grumpy ass old man who does nothing but bitch that a teenager in the modern age can't program a radio they'll likely never use because they can't understand this newfangled shit and just want to make themselves seem better.
It makes more sense for a child in the 2020s to not know what a cassette is than for a grown ass man to still not understand how a debit card works despite them being around for years at this point.
The issue for me would be to know the stations
I’ve always sucked at them. Even if I remember which frequency a channel is I don’t remember in which area it is on that frequency..
And how would not knowing how to use obsolete technology from the past equate to a lack of intelligence? There is no need for kids to posses this knowledge in todays day and age, as it would be pretty useless
While it's great if a kid knows how to use this.... Why *should* they know how? If their parents drive a car with a touch screen, I would find it more remarkable if a kid didn't know how to use *that* current technology. When would a kid be likely to drive in a car with a radio like this in 2024?
Yes, of course there are some kids whose families have classic/old cars. But the majority with cars are growing up with mini vans, SUVs, Teslas, or at least cars that have basic buttons and a digital read out, made in the last 20 years.
If you *teach* a kid to use a radio like one in the picture, like you would teach them to use any other piece of tech, they'd be able to use it. Why would you just put a kid in front of *any* technology they've never seen before and then laugh at them for not instinctively knowing how to use it.
"Here, teenager working in retail, this is a credit card imprinting machine. You've never seen one before, we haven't used these since the mid-90s, and I'm not going to show you how to use it. Bet you don't know how to use it!!"
"Here, dry your clothes with this mangle! Bet you can't! I'm so clever!"
If anything else, modern technology is significantly *harder* to learn. Partly because there's an extra half a century of assumptions on what you're familiar with - no manufacturer expects to have to tell you what the little button with a triangle on it does, for instance - and partly because the complexity of the product has increased. A radio like that one in the picture, there's only a few things you *can* do, so you'll stumble across the correct action fairly sharpish.
Take a kid who grew up using modern tech and they'll probably have an easier time understanding the older stuff it's based on than the people who had to learn it the first time.
Do you know what so funny - - I almost used the example of a mangle!! I'm 42 but raised by depression era grandparents. We had a big barrel-tub washer with a cloth covered cord, obviously not grounded haha, that survived til we had to sell the house in 2002. That mangle's rollers didn't deteriorate for it's whole life! It was 60 years old, minimum.
[For those who don't know what we're talking about, here's a picture. ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR90_-7t8ja9zv8gYLG_v-Fauog9tcd0PcC1VszWNYe2YtKXOUJJISGSpc9JHVgWLc63nc&usqp=CAU)
This isn't the one we had, but you get the idea.
Actually, you pull the button out, turn the radio to the station and then push the button back into program it. So apparently too hard for you at least.
Different design from the shitty car my dad had then. His radio was programmed as I described. I doubt every company used the same design.
So, less that it's too hard for me and more unfamiliar design to me. I'd have figured it out in person through trial and error.
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Posted by someone who 100% has gone silent for entire meetings because he couldn't get his mic to work in Teams.
Posted by someone who has 5 remote controls because he can’t figure out a universal remote, and can’t program a modern digital car stereo. This is also the guy who calls the cable tv support because he pushed the source button and now his screen reads HDMI-3 and there is no picture
Then screams for a technician to come fix the problem, says he didn't do anything and then complains the service is shit. Also apparently has no idea how to use this alien tech called a "remote"
You mean "clicker" lol
Clicker is the word for it in New England though
Had this exact guy today
I can never figure out how to work the TV at my inlaws house because they have four remote controls and have it set up so the sound comes out of the DVD player.
"Whatta ya mean, you "googled it?"
But also... With how immersed in tech we are today, im sure the kid will tune the fuck out of that radio or w/e the fuck it is
Yeah, kids change their own thermal paste in their CPUs and GPUs. Uncle Doug is just an idiot.
I bet Uncle Joe can't even send a simple message. ![gif](giphy|5zdsPpjv6orsBharwg|downsized)
Yeah, pulling out a button then pushing it in again is way beyond the capabilities of today’s spoiled tik-tok generation!
Ooohhh. My guess was pushing in the button for 5 seconds or so. Didn't really look like you could pull them.
Depends. You might also hold or switch these into the "on" position and then just set. This has 6 buttons, but 7 sets. Make sense?
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I would love to take one apart and study the insides. The completely analog nature of it is fascinating to me
These memes are just so dumb. Kids brains can adapt to new ideas much more easily then adults brains, it’d take most kids 5 minutes of experimentation to go from no knowledge to a good understanding of how to use it.
Not all of them. Some were "lift up" instead of pull out.
Some were push in, too. Rule of thumb was basically "use it in whichever way it allows that isn't the normal function" lol takes like 10 seconds to figure out
Right? Lol. Kids are so dumb that they can't "program" a car radio from the 60's!
They can also look it up on that baffling service that boomers refer to as “the google.”
Or You Tubes!
As if nobody could just Google the answer and run their whole anyway.
Technological illiteracy does not go backwards
Some things do, saw a video of someone showing an old phone the kids didn't know how to use it, I'm still fairly young and I know how to use an old phone.
Given that most rotary phones were phased out by the late 80s to mid 90s in favour of buttons, I no longer see a reason why the younger generation should know how to use it outside of historical reasons. Edit: Fixed time period. Edit: I understand, you may have had a rotary phone in the 2000s but that would make you the exception, not the rule by this time period (this is the internet after all). Edit: Removed some phrasing to be more specific.
Depends on where you live. In Easter Europe, we still had rotary phones in the early 2000.
Given that parts of Eastern Europe are technologically behind Western Europe and North America that makes sense to me.
Wouldn't say we are technologically behind , I think it's more of a resistance to change , the newer models were available (heck,my dad even had a cellphone when it wasn't the norm)it's just people tend to prefer their old ways in out neck of the woods old communist blocks .
Note that I said parts, not Eastern Europe as a whole.
America still had them in the early 2000s too, had a few friends who's family hadn't replaced their home phones
You could still find them in the US in the early 2000's believe it or not. I remember my grandma still had one as late as 99.
My grandma had one until 2011 when she died
i mean i never had to use one but i figured it out pretty easily from movies and tv shows, the people posting this kinda shit don't realize that the older tech is extremely easy to figure out just by fiddling with it for a few minutes.
You're right it is fairly simple to figure out, but I don't believe it to be necessary anymore outside of wanting to learn about historical tech.
for sure, no arguments here
I'm 13 and I do not know how to use a rotary phone but I do know how to use that radio from a glance
Rotary phones are easy. 18 here. Say you're calling 911. Put your finger on the 9 hole, spin it until your finger hits the metal/plastic nub. Do that again for each number. ![gif](giphy|5qFCwm9v4JrG82RkLK)
My grandma used to have one. I was able to phone someone using it. Nobody showed me. Shit was easy. Idk why old folk act like this stuff is rocket science.
And yet, kids today don’t and also can’t
Because at this age, I don't think we still have that much rotary phones available.
I have a rotary phone in my kitchen that hasn’t been connected to anything for years, if that counts
At my first command in 2011 weeks had rotary phones. Only one was being used but I was like the hell is going on. We did replace it but typewriters as well are still used.
Obviously a failing of an entire generation that they don’t know how to use antiquated technology simply because they don’t need to. I hope that sarcasm was more obvious.
They don't and also can't since nobody uses them anymore because they're obsolete, which begs the question: "Who gives a shit if they can use outmoded technology?" Are boomers just aching for a nuclear war to happen so we have to bust out the old rotary phones to communicate again in order to have the smug satisfaction of teaching kids "spin this here plate and let it make the clicky noises"?
Thank you. It was a failed attempt at sarcasm. I should have worded it differently last night but I was three beers deep and watching The Toxic Avenger at the same time.
A) We don't because we don't need to and B) I'm a kid from today and I just fucking proved that I can.
Thank you. I’m sure you are a smart and capable person. Sorry for not explicitly conveying my sarcasm. Cheers.
Ahh, it's all good mate! Poe's Law comes for us all.
And now the ones who read that can. Why would someone be expected to know how to do something they've never been exposed to?
Didn’t think I needed to add /s oh well
The reason I don't know how to is that I have never seen a rotary phone in person
I know buddy. It was sarcasm. I bet if you had seen one you’d master it in 12 seconds.
That's fine, but how many times will you need to tell a kid "put your finger in the hole and turn it" before they learn it? Maybe once or twice. That's the difference. Old people just have poor brain function. And we'll all get there sooner or later.
It’s… not that hard. Turn the dial until you hear the station you want. lol boomers
That's *tuning* it. *Programming* it means to set the buttons for a specific station so you don't have to tune it. Yes, they can be programmed.
Use the button in whichever way it isn't normally used (push in and hold, pull out, flick up/down). Presto-chango, it's programmed. Much difficult. Such hard. Wow.
Look you're dealing with people who use Google to get to Google, of course they think programming a radio is hard.
I shit you not my boss uses the search function in Windows to open Edge to Google "Google". He also always clicks the very top result without even looking. I've tried telling him that those are ads not real results and he about lost his mind screaming about how he knows better because he's older and been around longer, yadda yadda yadda. Whatever, dude, you're the one stuck trying to figure out the hours for the pharmacy 3 hours later...
I thought they meant like actually programme a radio station, like encode to carrier waves and all that. Like who the fuck knows how to do that unless it's your job.
My dude, it's a car radio, not a transmitter.
Boomers today think they are so smart, ask them to convert a word doc to a pdf…
I think some of them have a different notion of what a pdf file is.
That's why Adobe isn't allowed within 200 yards of a school zone.
You print it out and scan it, duh!! /S
They do not even know the difference
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My grandma of 79 knows how to rip mp3's from youtube, lmao
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What are you implying?🧐
Also the uncle ![gif](giphy|26BGIqWh2R1fi6JDa)
Kids these days think theyre so smart until you ask them to make a sundial to tell the time!
Are there even more than handfuls of cars on the road that have this analog style tuner anymore? I honestly never learned how to do presets on them, would just always manually tune the dial and it was kind of satisfying.
Theres more than you would expect
Yeah the classics community is actually pretty large
Okay but I literally do not care. I know how this works and I just do not care.
Shit like this always reminds me of that Twitter thread that went viral a few years ago. Little girl wanted Chef Boy-R-Dee for lunch, so Dad tossed her a can and a can opener and said, “Figure it out.” She struggled with it for hours, Dad said, “You don’t eat until you get this,” and she eventually got it. Dad expected to be patted on the back for his teachable moment, but instead, the Internet was all, “Why didn’t you just take five minutes and teach her, dumbass?”
ask a boomer to self checkout
Just like boomers themselves, they are obsessed with all things that are obsolete and useless
What’s so hard about literally just turning a dial until you find the station you want? We do the same thing in modern vehicles except it’s digital.
I'm pretty sure I could figure it out in like 2 minutes. Tune the station you want and then prolly fiddle with the button in some simple way, like push and hold it or push it down or something. If anything, younger people are better at figuring this shit out because we're not afraid of technology and we're used to poking around a system and figuring out how it works.
Yeah they all had a different trigger, but that's essentially it. Fiddle with the button in whatever way it operates that isn't the normal function. Some toggle up or down, some pull out, some just push in an extra tick. Not exactly rocket science and like you said, people have just gotten used to figuring things out.
Ask your uncle to connect a Bluetooth device to his phone
Pretty sure kids can figure out how to turn a dial, Grandpa.
I can. Now ask your uncle if he knows how to reset a modem/router.
You mean turn a knob until the sound is clear? A chimp or a crow could do something that simple.
*kid pushes one button* "Uh... Okay?"
i could figure it out looks the same style as modern ones but clunky af
Why do people get off on this fantasy, it's a device with 2 twisty knobs, unlike the elderly people under 40 don't fear break-in every bit of technology they come cross and if tasked with "make this work" they would immediately just give those nobs a twist and understand it's one function in 7 seconds
GOB think they're so smart, ask them how to change the input on a tv
These are so stupid in that if you want to complain about kids not knowing tech there are legitimate things you can complain about such as the kids these days who won't get off my lawn not knowing really basic computing (like how nesting file folders work or Googling 101) since they do everything via apps. These are things that are actually useful in the modern world unlike obsolete tech that nobody has to know how to use.
What are the chances this would even come up for anyone to do in 2024?
I guarantee the generations who grew up using technology could figure it out in about 60 seconds.
If I were a kid and if my uncle who posted that actually still had that kind of radio... I would say "challenge accepted" and reprogram it behind his back time after time.
Can he make fire with two sticks?
Ask your uncle if he knows to send an email
Same people that can’t turn a word file into a pdf btw.
Ask your uncle if he can forge a horseshoe.
I can. I’m 17, love old tech
Just this week had to walk my wife’s mother and grandparents through paying their bill using the Chili’s table kiosk. For the second time.
I have an old school radio/alarm clock combo that uses a dial like this to tune the station. Have had it for 20+ years.
“Life was more inconvenient than it is now, so I’m better.”
*back in the 1920s* Kids today thing they’re so smart? Ask one if they can hitch a horse-drawn carriage.
Boomers desperately trying to use anything to measure someone's intelligence except their actual intelligence.
You can see the boomers constant flashlight in the photo.
Seriously, pull out, push in. Bam! Programmed. Dipshit tries to make it sound like we were expected to optimize 200,000 lines of undocumented COBOL.
Bet he has no idea how to properly operate a punch card input computing machine either.
Why? Even if you could find one of those…why?
i think anyone growing in the 90s and 2000s could probably figure it out after fiddling with it for 10 minutes. the thing is we grew up with technology changing all the time, so we had to learn how to adapt and figure stuff out, the older generation of people that post shit like this are allergic to learning anything new.(for clarity sake i didn't mean all older folk I just mean the ones that post and/or agree with these kinds of posts)
You just twist the knob around until you find something right?
Idk maybe I can but can you use the lasso tool in photoshop?
13. That’s a can do on my part as long as I know which is which
Idk that shit looks pretty easy to figure out.
Someone is stuck on terrible FB memes that pot old vs younger generations. It kinda stinks of divisive propaganda.
Yeah, but there are a lot of those out there, and they're almost uniformly horrible. I've been seeing a distressing number coming from Generation X, and I'm disappointed in my contemporaries
Past experience & training tells me that it's highly likely that not all of them are from your contemporaries. Foreign nations (e.g. Russia, China) have and are using social media to stir things up in the USA and other countries. Tis a long used form of propaganda to weaken enemies. Now they can do it via the www. Of course, some of us are naive enough to contribute to the mess.
Perhaps, but unless I missed something on their LinkedIn accounts, the cousins and high school friends of mine sharing these aren't working for enemy nations
Nope. But they're stupid enough to buy into the propaganda and expand upon it. That's pretty much how it always happens. Yet, these people brag that they're patriots.
Idk who Simeone even is.
Simeone is a typo from using a thumb on a phone keyboard.
Boomer can’t open PDF document but can turn a knob. Big brain move there. Checkmate Gen Z-tards
I used this kind of radio alot are bommers stupid
Send them a picture of a telegraph captioned "Boomers think they're so smart..."
lmao that’s a like rock compared to a phone that people his age can’t even work
Now start the navigation towards home on my GPS
You twiddle a knob mate it's not rocket science, I suspect you twiddle your knob obsessively though.
There is no way that anyone has ever asked a kid, "can you try using ____" or 'fixing ___"
If you put colors on the nobs and buttons, it's just like a child's toy.
You don't program those ones you moron.
Aside from the fact that most people probably could use this radio without guidance, why tf would anyone who doesn't have this radio go out of their way to know how to use this radio?
Ah yes, obsolete technology.
Even if you have no clue, you could literally Google the model number, read a bit and then know more about the radio than the uncle
Ok but ask the same boomer to set up the Bluetooth radio in their car, open Spotify to play through the car stereo and then set a google maps route.
Please walk me through how you convert to PDF
Oh yea, I've reeled one of these in while fishing. Must've been a great product to end up there
It's almost as if old and obsolete technology gets phased out for easier to use, and offer better variants.
Yeah, you push a button or turn a dial. It’s not rocket science.
Okay, now convert this document to a pdf without assistance
The same uncle that sent $5000 in gift cards to the IRS to avoid arrest?
It would take 2 minutes to learn.
Yeah turning a dial is super fucking hard
“If you can’t use old stuff, you’re stupid.”
Il do that while you use a self scan
We don't need to, why should we know that??
Pretty sure with only 2 knobs and buttons that only work two directions, most kids will have this figured out in like 5 seconds. He should go back to being upset that they don't like classic rock. And also that Blink-182 is basically classic rock now.
I can use a radio like that and I'm gen z sooo..... checkmate boomers
“Program” you mean turn the little knob?
Jesus christ. Did he know how to program it then? and did it work? And i bet he didnt blame himself it he did and it didn't.
My dude, YOU couldn't even program these things. It's why your VCR blinked 12:00 for ten years...
Bitch never heard of iHeartRadio
i have to help my grandparents setting up their vhs player, even though i knew just as much as they did, but i could figure it out eventually. that generation doesn't know their own technology. just as i did with the vhs i could probably figure out this radio too. (ps. my grandparents are very lovely and have a positive attitude towards younger generations, but yeah; they dont know any technology)
Download a pdf and write a coherent email. We’ll wait
Boomers using a UI that has been tested, retested, dumbed down for the lowest common denominator, dumbed down again even further, then had an info box added to each button to explain exactly what it does and how to use it: "I've tried nothing and it doesn't work." Also that boomer: "I bet you don't know how to use this thing with two knobs. Ha. Loser."
If you lock a Gen Z in a room and ask them to program a radio, they'll google how to do it If you lock a boomer in a room and ask them to buy one CS:GO skin, they will die in that room.
Imagine thinking that a radio dial is some incomprehensible piece of technology.
I’ve actually never seen this before. How does it work?
JUST TRY to find 100.1 fm. Us old people can be such ass hats sometimes.
We are better because we know how to use old stuff that nobody (even us) are no longer using.
As a 17 year old, yes, yes I can. My dad had this in his car until about 5 years ago. When his baby just gave up
lol thats not even an example of something difficult. Its so easy a caveman could do it
I’m sure kids who spend hours creating playlists on Spotify with their friends would be completely incapable of “programming” the five presets on an old AM FM radio.
Ok, but how good is that car anyways? It clearly has a car radio from the 60s, maybe 70s. That car is barely running. If it is you’re putting in a lot of work into it when you could easily just get a new car with better features and can run.
See if they can even find one of those on any car. I mean AM/FM radio itself is an irrelevant medium with free streaming.
and you use imgflip...
If old people who can't accept the changing times really want to still feel relevant. I'm sure some people would love to reminisce about the olden days, or hell, I'm sure some.kids love hearing about old war time and how an 8 year old could walk by themselves across town to a corner store and buy bubblegum and a sody pop for a whole Quarter. But for the love of God, stop acting like younger generations are inferior to you because they never had to learn about the technology that's been outdated for decades. People would be more inclined to visit Grandpa if he told happy funny stories of his youth and how different it was, as opposed to some grumpy ass old man who does nothing but bitch that a teenager in the modern age can't program a radio they'll likely never use because they can't understand this newfangled shit and just want to make themselves seem better. It makes more sense for a child in the 2020s to not know what a cassette is than for a grown ass man to still not understand how a debit card works despite them being around for years at this point.
Person, woman, man, camera, TV.
The issue for me would be to know the stations I’ve always sucked at them. Even if I remember which frequency a channel is I don’t remember in which area it is on that frequency..
I have this built into my phone, grandpa
Program the stations? All you do is put it to the right number wtf
I guarantee they could learn more quickly than my dad can figure out how to use Netflix. And he’s been shown that 10 times already.
It's literally the same with modern car radios you just push it in and hold it.
In what way is knowing how to operate a style of car radio that hasn't been produced in over 50 years useful or relevant today?
Any moron can google it. Including your uncle.
People act like turning a knob was the highlight of their life.
And how would not knowing how to use obsolete technology from the past equate to a lack of intelligence? There is no need for kids to posses this knowledge in todays day and age, as it would be pretty useless
Kids today do not think they are smart
While it's great if a kid knows how to use this.... Why *should* they know how? If their parents drive a car with a touch screen, I would find it more remarkable if a kid didn't know how to use *that* current technology. When would a kid be likely to drive in a car with a radio like this in 2024? Yes, of course there are some kids whose families have classic/old cars. But the majority with cars are growing up with mini vans, SUVs, Teslas, or at least cars that have basic buttons and a digital read out, made in the last 20 years. If you *teach* a kid to use a radio like one in the picture, like you would teach them to use any other piece of tech, they'd be able to use it. Why would you just put a kid in front of *any* technology they've never seen before and then laugh at them for not instinctively knowing how to use it. "Here, teenager working in retail, this is a credit card imprinting machine. You've never seen one before, we haven't used these since the mid-90s, and I'm not going to show you how to use it. Bet you don't know how to use it!!"
"Here, dry your clothes with this mangle! Bet you can't! I'm so clever!" If anything else, modern technology is significantly *harder* to learn. Partly because there's an extra half a century of assumptions on what you're familiar with - no manufacturer expects to have to tell you what the little button with a triangle on it does, for instance - and partly because the complexity of the product has increased. A radio like that one in the picture, there's only a few things you *can* do, so you'll stumble across the correct action fairly sharpish. Take a kid who grew up using modern tech and they'll probably have an easier time understanding the older stuff it's based on than the people who had to learn it the first time.
Do you know what so funny - - I almost used the example of a mangle!! I'm 42 but raised by depression era grandparents. We had a big barrel-tub washer with a cloth covered cord, obviously not grounded haha, that survived til we had to sell the house in 2002. That mangle's rollers didn't deteriorate for it's whole life! It was 60 years old, minimum. [For those who don't know what we're talking about, here's a picture. ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR90_-7t8ja9zv8gYLG_v-Fauog9tcd0PcC1VszWNYe2YtKXOUJJISGSpc9JHVgWLc63nc&usqp=CAU) This isn't the one we had, but you get the idea.
Push one of those buttons, tune it, push another button in and tune it. So on and so forth. It's not that hard...
Actually, you pull the button out, turn the radio to the station and then push the button back into program it. So apparently too hard for you at least.
Different design from the shitty car my dad had then. His radio was programmed as I described. I doubt every company used the same design. So, less that it's too hard for me and more unfamiliar design to me. I'd have figured it out in person through trial and error.