You sound like that old Ozzy Ozborne reality show where he would get frustrated and confused by modern tech.
Everything has a microprocessor, been that way for at least 20 years! Don't like it? Wash your dishes in the sink, use an old washtub and washboard with a crank ringer and clothes line, and get an ice box.
You just wait till all the yuppie hipsters get their way and you have to pair your phone and subscribe to data farming to toast your damn bread.THEN, you can complain, untill then, RTFM! [/rant]
Whenever I see someone use the phrase "Ok boomer" I instantly think that they're an idiot and wonder if they even realize how dumb it sounds? I'm a generation younger than the boomers. It's going to be funny when you get old and the kids start insulting you for being out of touch with the latest fads, it will happen.
At least our generations grew up with the internet and computers. Sure "fads" come and go and we all get "old fashioned", but actual tech progress isn't a fad...it's inevidable.
I don't know, nor care what a "boomer" is, since I do not categorise people or their abilities by their DOB. I am 46, I grew up with computers - NOT ONLY that, but I grew up knowing that to do something (BBC Micro), one HAD to type commands into what is now seen as a "scary" terminal - there was no slick UI to prevent you doing "dangerous" (
) things - <------ and I am gonna cringe now at this IDIOTIC phrase computer nerds use ... "dangerous". If these hipsters were handed a computer PSU and a screwdriver, and told to replace the leaky caps, they'd spend a week on it, and then crow about it with hundreds of photos, via Twitter (and secretly shit themselves, but not admit it, when they accidentally touched the mains input terminals - how's THAT for "DANGEROUS!" ?)
So looking back, I had the experience of 80s & 90s era computing **AND** the latest junk (which I know INSIDE OUT - computing is little more than muscle memory, knowing what to type and click, where to do so and when) which the new kids think they themselves conceived the very notion of.
I find the elegance of dealing with things controlled by physics - the laws of nature - INFINITELY more satisfying than the "laws" of some 18 year old Californian "coder", who changes the rules every six months "just because".