During class. You made up “study time”. No one cares if your on your phone studying during “study time” in the library. But if someone is lecturing you shouldn’t be on your phone or have earbuds in.

Wrong. Get off the phone.

That’s a large generalization. Computers were not present in early schooling for boomers. It’s important to take in account when leaps in technology occured for certain generations. Computers just get faster and smaller now. It will be a bit before we see another paradigm shift similar to what occurred in the mid 90s when home computing became a norm.

With that said, I have heard of computer literacy dropping in youth despite ubibiquitous usage of social media on phones --which obviously doesn’t teach you much about how computers actually work. I’m not sure what exactly to contributes to that besides that maybe we are living in a post PC world (at least outside of working professionals in the tech industry). I work in game dev with a good amount of engineers under the age of 25 that could easily school me on low level computing architecture.

It’s complex.

To sum up my opinion, I don’t think age as a factor alone can be used to correlate computer literacy. We are products of our environment.

How to feed your computer dust.

I have a feeling the concept of separate instances here on Lemmy with throw off a lot of non-techy people. When they can’t figure out how to sign up or why they need to pick a server you’ve lost the huge majority of the population. Maybe it’s a good thing.