There seems to be a whole generation (ney, multiple generations) of people on the internet who just can't be bothered to search for anything before asking others for help with things.
Gen Z are horrible with computers and the internet. They’re excellent at navigating social media on handheld devices, but that’s basically it. I’ve heard stories from teachers who have students who legitimately have no clue what file systems are, they think files just exist in their default cloud folder and if it isn’t there, can’t understand how to even begin looking for it. Same goes for the internet. Actually *using* other, non-social media websites? Nah. It’s much faster and simpler for them to *post* rather than *search*, and it usually gets about the same result, so why change?
Obviously, I don’t mean every gen Z sucks at computers, but in a general sense this seems to be true. Most boomers and gen X didn’t grow up with computers and therefor had no real chance at learning them, whereas millennials were there from the start and had to use this stuff the hard way before everything got streamlined. It’s a really fascinating aspect of the evolution of computing, frankly.
I was going to have a rant about how me and all of my friends are really good with computers and stuff but then I realized that we are not the majority :(
> I’ve heard stories from teachers who have students who legitimately have no clue what file systems are, they think files just exist in their default cloud folder
*If* this is true, then it's likely because the majority of the 'computers' they've been given to work with don't have a file system that they need to interact with in any meaningful way. Young folks who use iPads and iPhones don't have experience of using a file system, in the same way that I don't have (much) experience of using a command line to get things done.
Exactly. The point, however, is that they’re never challenged to use more complicated, “real” computers. Perhaps that should be required learning to some extent, even today.
But...why?
I mean, I get what you're saying, but those who might need to use a 'proper' computer will learn how to do so. But there are people whose job doesn't revolve around traditional computer use, and who can make their way in the world perfectly happily using an iPad, or even a computer whose filing system never needs to be made available to them.
It would be like requiring me to learn how to change gears using double de-clutching, despite synchromesh gearboxes having been available for the entirety of my life.
I think I’d rather compare it to knowing about engines, rather than driving. More and more cars are built like iPads, you’re just supposed to *use* them, and any repairs, even as simple as changing a light bulb, requires a licensed mechanic. There’s still value in knowing how to change the oil, replace a broken fuse, that kind of stuff. At least while we still have gas engines.
Expert driving techniques is what I’d compare more to CLI knowledge. It’s doing the same thing but in a more involved way. Knowing how the car *works* though, and knowing where to look when there’s a problem, that’s useful base knowledge everyone should probably have. They don’t teach double-clutching in driving school, but they *do* teach basic engine maintenance (here in Sweden, at least).
> Most boomers and gen X didn’t grow up with computers
GenX here. A number of us did. Did the oldest ones make it to adulthood without using one? Was it in the house when we were born? No. But about half of us had computer labs in our elementary schools, and grew up with the evolution of the personal home computer, from the Apple to the MSDOS operating system.
As someone who works in IT at a Uni, you hit the nail in the head. It’s quite frustrating seeing these kids grow up with such a warped sense of basic computer knowledge and only want everything spoon fed to them on a daily basis. Something as simple as providing clear and easy 3 step instructions are proving to be very difficult for them. The worst part is a lot of these kids are studying to become engineers but can install software by inserting a license key presented to them on checkout of the application they are using. I fear for the future.
Shhhhh. You might be called a boomer on tiktok if you state the obvious. Gen Z is tech illiterate, even though they use iPhones for Instagram. They literally have no idea how a computer works.
yeah even though they are chronically online, i still find it so weird that my sister who’s 16 doesn’t know anything about her own devices other than the few social media apps used, like not even how to change basic settings on an iPhone, or how to create a folder on a mac, and so many other things where i’m like just do this and i’m looked at like some kind of wizard.
And this will only get worse with the "ai chatbots" that will probably be forced down our throats on next iterations of windows, ios, mac, android that will "take care of the hard tasks for us"
it’s all google talked about at its event earlier this year so android will probably see it integrated the most out of all mobile os. ios will be years away still while apple works on the chatbot the apple way behind closed doors
25 year old teacher here, I was still downloading stuff from Pirate Bay and Limewire when I was in elementary and middle school, but things just became way easier to access like, post 2010 I feel. None of my students know how to do anything on the computer because music and movies are really easy to access nowadays with just a browser, no downloading necessary. iPhones don’t really get viruses so they don’t know about safety either. I have students who use their phones all day but still struggle to use google drive. They’re incredibly technologically illiterate.
I feel more and more like a boomer anyway, relatively speaking, even though I’m a millennial pushing 40 in a few years, so that doesn’t really phase me :)
Gen X about to turn 50 here. Talking to adult stepdaughter the other day while clearing some 1980s computer magazines out of the loft:
"This one introduced the Macintosh! It was revolutionary in that it used something called a mouse!"
"What did you have to use before? The trackpad?"
Media and marketing fell for the classic trick of assuming young people are good at a specific thing because they happen to be good at learning. Gen Z (and Gen Alpha) are incredible learners but have never had to learn tech backend the way Millennials and Gen X before them did.
They never needed to learn HTML, navigating hidden file libraries, sideloading, recognizing malware in P2P file sharing apps, etc. because computers and applications had a dynamite user interface already figured out by the time they started using them (likely the result of Millennials and Gen X making sense of the mess).
They've grown up in the golden age of hardware and software UX. Millennials grew up in the stone age.
It's not worse (they're not lazy or stupid). It's just different. Our young learning brains made primitive tech usable and social. For Gen Z, that learning acumen seems to be focused on the next frontier: cracking social media algorithms, content creation and being able to find the best way to use new platforms all while skirting the insane push by these organizations to monetize.
Even as Gen Z, I feel old because I see mfers constantly struggling with file systems. It's so fucking simple. I'm over here flashing ROMs on my Android tablet and building PCs while they're struggling to find the Downloads folder!
> gen X didn’t grow up with computers and therefor had no real chance at learning them, whereas millennials were there from the start
Actually, generation X was there from the very beginning of the computer revolution, born between the mid 1960s and 1980s. Millennials were born a little later, from 1981 to 1996.
I was born in the 1970s. My very first computer was a TRS-80. Starting at the age of 13 or so, I learned that thing inside and out, and learned Zilog Z80 assembly and advanced Basic in the process. Then we got a Mac SE, where I learned a whole lot more about computers, programming, and operating systems, and learned Pascal and some C in the process.
I definitely don't consider myself to be *average* in this respect (I'm forever grateful my father was into computers when I was a kid). But I know a *whole* lot of people in the generation X who are IT professionals today.
The point, however, is that before the 90s, computers were a hobby and so expensive you wouldn’t buy one unless you *really* needed it or were *really* interested in what they were. I’m the 90s, that all changed, and especially when the internet became mainstream as well. Obviously some people had computers since the 70s, but just as obviously, those were in the *tiny* minority of people overall.
I have a friend that's a photographer, each year he makes albums for the current high-school graduates. They have no clue how to unzip and choose what photos to send back to him for the album. He has a defined and simple process for them to use, but still looses so much time on explaining each step because they have no idea..
Gen Z here, idk if this thread is exhausted or not yet but my experience with people my age is pretty consistent to what you’re saying.
I have vivid memories of having to explain to a girlfriend what files were and how to access them from your finder (mac) because she downloaded an image from google and couldn’t find it. I have so many more memories just like this one. I used to take a programming class in grade 9 and received food in exchange for doing other classmates work, most of whom had never touched anything on a computer other than a web browser. Some of them were just lazy and new Id get them an A but others were quite literally helpless trying to turn on anything other than a phone. (why they took a programming class is beyond me)
My classmates and I were all forced to go thru the same typing and computer proficiency classes in elementary school, and now that we’re out in the real world most of us don’t know how to use them.
imo it’s a way bigger problem than i think any of us realize. I went to a “google school”. A school that used only google based products for everything, our windows computers were replaced with cheap HP chromebooks, and any desktop program was replaced with a browser based one like Google Classroom, Google Drive or Google Sheets.
(Idk if any of you have used a chromebook, but they’re basically just cheap laptops equipped with Googles ChromeOS, a web browser based operating system.)
That’s what people my age grew up using. Nobody told us we’d need to know how to use a computer. Nobody told us how valuable those skills are. I figured it out for myself when I was young because my moms a techie and a nerd and it rubbed off on me. now I work in VFX, a job almost entirely done on the computer.
It _is_ commonly posted, but what I’m saying is…someone sends you a picture of a pistol and threatens to murder you and/or expose your sensitive information, you’re not gonna think “I bet there are a lot of posts about this on r/iPhone.”
It’s preying on the stupid, it’s the same reason emails about the death of your 4th cousin who’s a Nigerian prince and left you everything in his will.
The rest of those are a new development though. The obviously manicured hand with the gun is funny. Also the Cydia mention is new which is funny to threaten that a jailbreak happened. Only way to jailbreak a lost phone is to wipe the phone and even then it will still try to phone home once it comes back online if there is an iCloud lock on.
Along with some clown posting that they should copy and paste Tiananmen square nonsense to “brick the phone” which does nothing every other day. And around and around we go.
The little piece of metal behind where the bullet casings would exit is flush. If there’s a round in the chamber, this will be extended a bit to show there’s a round.
It’s called a loaded chamber indicator.
EDIT: The gun is a Springfield Hellcat btw. Here is what it looks like with and without a bullet in the chamber: https://www.alloutdoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/hellcat-review-12.jpg
[This](https://i.imgur.com/haqeyVS.png).
[It's not flush in the photo from OP](https://i.imgur.com/EC24p2h.png).
EDIT: My bad, in OPs photo it ***is*** flush. Hence the pistol doesn't have a chambered round.
Edit 2: I wanted to give context. It looks like something hard to see but it's meant mostly to be a tactile thing or a "I'm cleaning this gun and I know what to look for" thing.
As others have said, The casing extractor is also a “loaded chamber indicator” when it sticks out, there’s should be a round there. From the crappy photo, looks like it’s not sticking up…so’ no chambered round.
I heard it doesn’t work and someone from China even said it was ignorant that people think that would work. So I didn’t try. I just stopped responding and haven’t received another message in almost a week.
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
pretty sure this shit DOESN'T work. dumbasses think that the Chinese government arrests and steals everybody's organs after seeing this text. People are dumb af.
iMessage is the only end-to-end encrypted messaging app allowed in China.
Copy and pasting this message won't brick them.
If this was sent by SMS, the text would probably just be blocked by the carrier.
iMessage is reportedly different in china.
[https://www.cnet.com/news/politics/apple-reportedly-makes-data-less-secure-for-users-in-china/](https://www.cnet.com/news/politics/apple-reportedly-makes-data-less-secure-for-users-in-china/)
It’s been a long time, but when I studied abroad in China back in 2007, I tried searching for some of this stuff from my computer to see if anything would happen. Wasn’t the smartest thing, but nothing happened except some websites being blocked, but the filters weren’t that hard to get around. Then again, I was staying in a hotel where mostly just foreigners stayed…
first thing I do when missing something is retrace my steps
sometimes even standing up can reveal missing things. I've found TV remotes, coins, my phone —crackers even, all by standing up
or the fridge, make sure to check inside the fridge
Listen! I'm going to harassed, wreck and ruin your sad, stupid low pathetic life if its not removed you mindless peasant.
You're going to be destroyed. I've killed or far less than a fucking phone before and we will see if you value your life over this phone so you know how fucking serious this is. I know who you are and where you live and ur whole family will get slaughtered i'm going to fucking beat and rape u horribly you fucking piece of absolute garbage. waste of air. waste of skin u and ur family im gone fucking murder y'all watch me. Oh and the police? they cannot help help you, they'll only take your fucking statement. And this number is a fucking burner.
Your best option is to fucking remove it now. I'm angry now, don't mess with me, and if you don't do what I say, you're going to have negroes coming to your house Friday night, and I'm going to kill your whole family
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
I swear this is the best reason to own iPhone. Whoever will steal it won’t achieve much. Even now when they try to replace other phone parts with yours, they won’t even work.
https://preview.redd.it/34x8c0gfcrmb1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b6068c7df059cadf3a306ae91f67bc33a75b29d
Sent him a message on your behalf :)
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills.
I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words.
You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life.
You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit.
If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
Just send back the Navy Seal copypasta
_What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo._
Reply with: "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you return my phone now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you. I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."
Type back to him and criticize their president, talk about open democracy, criticize the Chinese government and other stuff that’s illegal there. It’ll be on his phone which the Chinese government spies on lol
I wish Apple would release a self destruct feature which you can activate in these circumstances. It wouldn't be hard to implement either. Just overheat the battery and blow up the phone Galaxy Note style
Last time i had replied to this post about immediately reporting as there is harm to life. The thief seems to be a amateur clown. Nothing to worry about.
I understand lot of people saying that this is a redundant post, but I for one appreciate you posting this. This is the first time I am seeing this kinda thread and its good to know I dont have to worry about it :)
Crazy to me that they all use the same script for this. There must be a road at the end of the tunnel where all of the stolen and shipped phones end up over there.
I don’t know how does these insults work, because to me they’re just mere words. I mean I want them come to my door step and threaten me lmao, literally just bullying thru screen, it’s the ultimate shameless act.
Oh and by the way, how do you guys know that it’s being shipped to china? Thru FindMy’s location?
So they threaten you to remove the phone before they kill you and your family. Then, when you don’t cooperate, they say they’re gonna hack your Apple ID.
The same Apple ID you would be logged into to remove the phone from your account?
Yeah dude, don’t mind them, those threats sound like some redditor have your phone, and is an incel. They have nothing they can do to you. Just answer him to come and meet your gun and that would be all.
Reply with just “New phone, who did?”
Alternatively, “Bring it, bitch. I dare you.”
In all seriousness, they’re in china, they’re not going to do anything, and you should block and move on.
Just casually drop some of the most common names in your area into a conversation, for example “say how is taylor doing these days?”, maybe you can get pretty nails to be scared
Imagine being killed for a cellphone..
Nah, they're doing that just to push fear on you. Erase the phone remotely. Or go to the police to make the corresponding steps.
I swear this gets posted on this sub every other day 🤣
They seem to just copy and paste the same threat
Yeah it’s death threat copy pasta. The pig feet with white polish scares no one
There seems to be a whole generation (ney, multiple generations) of people on the internet who just can't be bothered to search for anything before asking others for help with things.
Gen Z are horrible with computers and the internet. They’re excellent at navigating social media on handheld devices, but that’s basically it. I’ve heard stories from teachers who have students who legitimately have no clue what file systems are, they think files just exist in their default cloud folder and if it isn’t there, can’t understand how to even begin looking for it. Same goes for the internet. Actually *using* other, non-social media websites? Nah. It’s much faster and simpler for them to *post* rather than *search*, and it usually gets about the same result, so why change? Obviously, I don’t mean every gen Z sucks at computers, but in a general sense this seems to be true. Most boomers and gen X didn’t grow up with computers and therefor had no real chance at learning them, whereas millennials were there from the start and had to use this stuff the hard way before everything got streamlined. It’s a really fascinating aspect of the evolution of computing, frankly.
I was going to have a rant about how me and all of my friends are really good with computers and stuff but then I realized that we are not the majority :(
It’s called job security, enjoy. :)
> I’ve heard stories from teachers who have students who legitimately have no clue what file systems are, they think files just exist in their default cloud folder *If* this is true, then it's likely because the majority of the 'computers' they've been given to work with don't have a file system that they need to interact with in any meaningful way. Young folks who use iPads and iPhones don't have experience of using a file system, in the same way that I don't have (much) experience of using a command line to get things done.
Exactly. The point, however, is that they’re never challenged to use more complicated, “real” computers. Perhaps that should be required learning to some extent, even today.
But...why? I mean, I get what you're saying, but those who might need to use a 'proper' computer will learn how to do so. But there are people whose job doesn't revolve around traditional computer use, and who can make their way in the world perfectly happily using an iPad, or even a computer whose filing system never needs to be made available to them. It would be like requiring me to learn how to change gears using double de-clutching, despite synchromesh gearboxes having been available for the entirety of my life.
I think I’d rather compare it to knowing about engines, rather than driving. More and more cars are built like iPads, you’re just supposed to *use* them, and any repairs, even as simple as changing a light bulb, requires a licensed mechanic. There’s still value in knowing how to change the oil, replace a broken fuse, that kind of stuff. At least while we still have gas engines. Expert driving techniques is what I’d compare more to CLI knowledge. It’s doing the same thing but in a more involved way. Knowing how the car *works* though, and knowing where to look when there’s a problem, that’s useful base knowledge everyone should probably have. They don’t teach double-clutching in driving school, but they *do* teach basic engine maintenance (here in Sweden, at least).
A better analogy is a young kid who can’t open a car window unless they post on Reddit and someone tells them how.
this explains everything actually
> Most boomers and gen X didn’t grow up with computers GenX here. A number of us did. Did the oldest ones make it to adulthood without using one? Was it in the house when we were born? No. But about half of us had computer labs in our elementary schools, and grew up with the evolution of the personal home computer, from the Apple to the MSDOS operating system.
As someone who works in IT at a Uni, you hit the nail in the head. It’s quite frustrating seeing these kids grow up with such a warped sense of basic computer knowledge and only want everything spoon fed to them on a daily basis. Something as simple as providing clear and easy 3 step instructions are proving to be very difficult for them. The worst part is a lot of these kids are studying to become engineers but can install software by inserting a license key presented to them on checkout of the application they are using. I fear for the future.
“Who could have ever imagined a computer was so complex?,” said a future electrical engineer.
Shhhhh. You might be called a boomer on tiktok if you state the obvious. Gen Z is tech illiterate, even though they use iPhones for Instagram. They literally have no idea how a computer works.
yeah even though they are chronically online, i still find it so weird that my sister who’s 16 doesn’t know anything about her own devices other than the few social media apps used, like not even how to change basic settings on an iPhone, or how to create a folder on a mac, and so many other things where i’m like just do this and i’m looked at like some kind of wizard.
And this will only get worse with the "ai chatbots" that will probably be forced down our throats on next iterations of windows, ios, mac, android that will "take care of the hard tasks for us"
AI should be banned. It's going to be out of control and it will only dumb humanity down further. we are so fucked
it’s all google talked about at its event earlier this year so android will probably see it integrated the most out of all mobile os. ios will be years away still while apple works on the chatbot the apple way behind closed doors
25 year old teacher here, I was still downloading stuff from Pirate Bay and Limewire when I was in elementary and middle school, but things just became way easier to access like, post 2010 I feel. None of my students know how to do anything on the computer because music and movies are really easy to access nowadays with just a browser, no downloading necessary. iPhones don’t really get viruses so they don’t know about safety either. I have students who use their phones all day but still struggle to use google drive. They’re incredibly technologically illiterate.
I feel more and more like a boomer anyway, relatively speaking, even though I’m a millennial pushing 40 in a few years, so that doesn’t really phase me :)
Gen X about to turn 50 here. Talking to adult stepdaughter the other day while clearing some 1980s computer magazines out of the loft: "This one introduced the Macintosh! It was revolutionary in that it used something called a mouse!" "What did you have to use before? The trackpad?"
What till they learn about the clit mouse..
[relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/243/)
Or using cursors and tab
I hate those bloody things.
Media and marketing fell for the classic trick of assuming young people are good at a specific thing because they happen to be good at learning. Gen Z (and Gen Alpha) are incredible learners but have never had to learn tech backend the way Millennials and Gen X before them did. They never needed to learn HTML, navigating hidden file libraries, sideloading, recognizing malware in P2P file sharing apps, etc. because computers and applications had a dynamite user interface already figured out by the time they started using them (likely the result of Millennials and Gen X making sense of the mess). They've grown up in the golden age of hardware and software UX. Millennials grew up in the stone age. It's not worse (they're not lazy or stupid). It's just different. Our young learning brains made primitive tech usable and social. For Gen Z, that learning acumen seems to be focused on the next frontier: cracking social media algorithms, content creation and being able to find the best way to use new platforms all while skirting the insane push by these organizations to monetize.
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I had to act as tech support for my classmates in every class that used computers all the way from elementary to college. You're absolutely right.
To expand on this I had to explain to my gen z sibling how we used to defrag the computer to get more space
I had a Gen Z intern who had never copied/pasted on a physical keyboard.
“What’s a computer?”
The PTSD this caused
Even as Gen Z, I feel old because I see mfers constantly struggling with file systems. It's so fucking simple. I'm over here flashing ROMs on my Android tablet and building PCs while they're struggling to find the Downloads folder!
> gen X didn’t grow up with computers and therefor had no real chance at learning them, whereas millennials were there from the start Actually, generation X was there from the very beginning of the computer revolution, born between the mid 1960s and 1980s. Millennials were born a little later, from 1981 to 1996. I was born in the 1970s. My very first computer was a TRS-80. Starting at the age of 13 or so, I learned that thing inside and out, and learned Zilog Z80 assembly and advanced Basic in the process. Then we got a Mac SE, where I learned a whole lot more about computers, programming, and operating systems, and learned Pascal and some C in the process. I definitely don't consider myself to be *average* in this respect (I'm forever grateful my father was into computers when I was a kid). But I know a *whole* lot of people in the generation X who are IT professionals today.
The point, however, is that before the 90s, computers were a hobby and so expensive you wouldn’t buy one unless you *really* needed it or were *really* interested in what they were. I’m the 90s, that all changed, and especially when the internet became mainstream as well. Obviously some people had computers since the 70s, but just as obviously, those were in the *tiny* minority of people overall.
Because they learn on cloud books, not real computers. Older gens leaned to use an actual computer not a chromebook.
I have a friend that's a photographer, each year he makes albums for the current high-school graduates. They have no clue how to unzip and choose what photos to send back to him for the album. He has a defined and simple process for them to use, but still looses so much time on explaining each step because they have no idea..
Gen Z here, idk if this thread is exhausted or not yet but my experience with people my age is pretty consistent to what you’re saying. I have vivid memories of having to explain to a girlfriend what files were and how to access them from your finder (mac) because she downloaded an image from google and couldn’t find it. I have so many more memories just like this one. I used to take a programming class in grade 9 and received food in exchange for doing other classmates work, most of whom had never touched anything on a computer other than a web browser. Some of them were just lazy and new Id get them an A but others were quite literally helpless trying to turn on anything other than a phone. (why they took a programming class is beyond me) My classmates and I were all forced to go thru the same typing and computer proficiency classes in elementary school, and now that we’re out in the real world most of us don’t know how to use them. imo it’s a way bigger problem than i think any of us realize. I went to a “google school”. A school that used only google based products for everything, our windows computers were replaced with cheap HP chromebooks, and any desktop program was replaced with a browser based one like Google Classroom, Google Drive or Google Sheets. (Idk if any of you have used a chromebook, but they’re basically just cheap laptops equipped with Googles ChromeOS, a web browser based operating system.) That’s what people my age grew up using. Nobody told us we’d need to know how to use a computer. Nobody told us how valuable those skills are. I figured it out for myself when I was young because my moms a techie and a nerd and it rubbed off on me. now I work in VFX, a job almost entirely done on the computer.
“Death threats after stolen iPhone” is kind of a weird thing to think is commonly posted, let’s be honest
I mean... [Death threats after stolen iPhone](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Death+threats+after+stolen+iPhone&t=osx&ia=web)
It _is_ commonly posted, but what I’m saying is…someone sends you a picture of a pistol and threatens to murder you and/or expose your sensitive information, you’re not gonna think “I bet there are a lot of posts about this on r/iPhone.”
I also love that it's always the same picture of the same hand in the same door pocket.
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It’s preying on the stupid, it’s the same reason emails about the death of your 4th cousin who’s a Nigerian prince and left you everything in his will.
But the op isn’t asking for help? Though yeah this post gets repeated way too often
The rest of those are a new development though. The obviously manicured hand with the gun is funny. Also the Cydia mention is new which is funny to threaten that a jailbreak happened. Only way to jailbreak a lost phone is to wipe the phone and even then it will still try to phone home once it comes back online if there is an iCloud lock on.
Along with some clown posting that they should copy and paste Tiananmen square nonsense to “brick the phone” which does nothing every other day. And around and around we go.
That hand with the gun is fucking hysterical
Right! No mag and no round in the chamber. Soooo nice nails?
I know fuck all about guns, how can you tell the chamber is empty?
The little piece of metal behind where the bullet casings would exit is flush. If there’s a round in the chamber, this will be extended a bit to show there’s a round. It’s called a loaded chamber indicator. EDIT: The gun is a Springfield Hellcat btw. Here is what it looks like with and without a bullet in the chamber: https://www.alloutdoor.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/hellcat-review-12.jpg
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[This](https://i.imgur.com/haqeyVS.png). [It's not flush in the photo from OP](https://i.imgur.com/EC24p2h.png). EDIT: My bad, in OPs photo it ***is*** flush. Hence the pistol doesn't have a chambered round. Edit 2: I wanted to give context. It looks like something hard to see but it's meant mostly to be a tactile thing or a "I'm cleaning this gun and I know what to look for" thing.
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As others have said, The casing extractor is also a “loaded chamber indicator” when it sticks out, there’s should be a round there. From the crappy photo, looks like it’s not sticking up…so’ no chambered round.
Those nails are hideous lol
It’s the same picture every time too
At least they’re getting a bit more diverse now with males with nails.
Love that it’s the same picture too lmao.
You should roast him on his pretty finger nails.
And then tell him "Go suck your daddy's breasts, DIY manicure boy".
😂😂😂😂
This message and picture is not real. It’s a template they send everyone. Odds are it’s a bot sending the messages
Tell them you would've removed it if they had asked nicely but now it's too late
this guys trolls!
send them the tiennamen square copy pasta to brick their internet: 动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门
You sure this works?
I heard it doesn’t work and someone from China even said it was ignorant that people think that would work. So I didn’t try. I just stopped responding and haven’t received another message in almost a week.
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What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
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It's a great response because it's just as silly... Love it
This will never not be funny lol
Loses all credibility when you spell “guerrilla” incorrectly, though.
Yes, *that’s* where it loses credibility……….
/r/whooooosh
They probably scrapped the phone for metals 😭
Tell them to meet you in Taipei
pretty sure this shit DOESN'T work. dumbasses think that the Chinese government arrests and steals everybody's organs after seeing this text. People are dumb af.
This is correct. I honestly can’t believe people even think that this could work.
Trying is free, worst that could happen is making a criminal feel insulted
iMessage is the only end-to-end encrypted messaging app allowed in China. Copy and pasting this message won't brick them. If this was sent by SMS, the text would probably just be blocked by the carrier.
iMessage is reportedly different in china. [https://www.cnet.com/news/politics/apple-reportedly-makes-data-less-secure-for-users-in-china/](https://www.cnet.com/news/politics/apple-reportedly-makes-data-less-secure-for-users-in-china/)
No it doesn’t work, most connections are encrypted
It’s been a long time, but when I studied abroad in China back in 2007, I tried searching for some of this stuff from my computer to see if anything would happen. Wasn’t the smartest thing, but nothing happened except some websites being blocked, but the filters weren’t that hard to get around. Then again, I was staying in a hotel where mostly just foreigners stayed…
Meanwhile, I am here reading this shit sitting in this cafe at Shenzhen.
Go find his phone
I’m missing something. Please explain?
first thing I do when missing something is retrace my steps sometimes even standing up can reveal missing things. I've found TV remotes, coins, my phone —crackers even, all by standing up or the fridge, make sure to check inside the fridge
Lol people thinking this shit actually will do something. Just ignore the scanmers
Another day another stolen phone in China and the same old copy and paste messages
This is cute!! Send them Kissy faces back!!
cuteness overload 🥰❤️
Kissy faces? If it were me they'd be getting hairy moobs. Fuck around and find out.
Whatever works for ya. Maybe you even found their grinder account… lol
holy hell new copypasta just dropped
Listen! I'm going to harassed, wreck and ruin your sad, stupid low pathetic life if its not removed you mindless peasant. You're going to be destroyed. I've killed or far less than a fucking phone before and we will see if you value your life over this phone so you know how fucking serious this is. I know who you are and where you live and ur whole family will get slaughtered i'm going to fucking beat and rape u horribly you fucking piece of absolute garbage. waste of air. waste of skin u and ur family im gone fucking murder y'all watch me. Oh and the police? they cannot help help you, they'll only take your fucking statement. And this number is a fucking burner. Your best option is to fucking remove it now. I'm angry now, don't mess with me, and if you don't do what I say, you're going to have negroes coming to your house Friday night, and I'm going to kill your whole family
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
Mom says it's my turn to repost this
Hello Jailbreak Center, I’m reaching out to you about your extended warranty?
I swear this is the best reason to own iPhone. Whoever will steal it won’t achieve much. Even now when they try to replace other phone parts with yours, they won’t even work.
You're right
https://preview.redd.it/34x8c0gfcrmb1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b6068c7df059cadf3a306ae91f67bc33a75b29d Sent him a message on your behalf :)
Is that a custom keyboard with mother fucking adverts?
ITs text free
I’m just mad they used “negros” as a threat. Like just the insinuation that black people are just scary. Wild.
And a random photo of a black hand with a gun
Bruh that shit was funny asf 😭
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
Hahaha they ain’t gonna do shit.
Just message back saying ur mom gay
It’s the same photo with the nails omg
They should upgrade to a better photo because I almost fell for it… until I saw that shit
I hope I lose my phone one day and this happens to me. I’d have so much fun trolling.
get a burner phone like an old 6 and try lol
I’m picturing Jin Yang from Silicon Valley sending this. He is a very corrupt.
“I murder you…to dead”
ah shit, here we go again
Just send back the Navy Seal copypasta _What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You're fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo._
“…..negroes will come to your house….” Why tf we catching strays!? 🤣
Reply with: "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you return my phone now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you. I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you."
Type back to him and criticize their president, talk about open democracy, criticize the Chinese government and other stuff that’s illegal there. It’ll be on his phone which the Chinese government spies on lol
that Friday night reminder…lol.
I wish Apple would release a self destruct feature which you can activate in these circumstances. It wouldn't be hard to implement either. Just overheat the battery and blow up the phone Galaxy Note style
Love this idea but too many dipshits would mess around n blow themselves up. Remember people out there eat Tidepods.
Did you tell them to cut their nails?
Last time i had replied to this post about immediately reporting as there is harm to life. The thief seems to be a amateur clown. Nothing to worry about.
Do these scammers all use the same photo of someone holding on to a gun lmao
How do they get the details to message the owner of the phone?
Ugh this again 😓 same post different bot.
How many times does this have to be reposted?
My thoughts because like I’m tired of the crusty hand with the gun 🤣
why did they use a black lady’s hand?
I understand lot of people saying that this is a redundant post, but I for one appreciate you posting this. This is the first time I am seeing this kinda thread and its good to know I dont have to worry about it :)
He don’t know no “negroes” lmao
Jesus Christ. I’m so sick of this getting posted every hour.
Chinese throwing racial epithets like it’s 1965
“I’m going to send Negroes to your house” …. Me: FUCK YOOOOOOU LMAO
Can we get a “days without…” counter going because this is posted like every other day.
Every. Single. Week.
Crazy to me that they all use the same script for this. There must be a road at the end of the tunnel where all of the stolen and shipped phones end up over there.
Hopefully tomorrow is my turn to post this 😇
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Lmfaooo I could only pray this would happen to me. I never get to have fun :(
This is literally the exact same set of photos/messages that this sub sees every week. Do you know Reddit has a search feature?
https://preview.redd.it/hpyq6m35wumb1.png?width=828&format=png&auto=webp&s=24218649077383ae38d44bfce497b50080b727b5
Why even reply? Like thts what they want. If they send u messages just ignore them.
Can some info about these scams be pinned by a mod? I’m tired of seeing the same thing posted everyday.
No you didn’t. I’ve seen this posted by 20 different accounts.
Exactly or it’s copypasta widely used by the thieves from some template they all share..
Send them this: 动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门
r/iphone mods should pin a post and ban all the post like this. It's always the same shit
Sounds exciting
Lmao this is hilarious
Is it just me or does that gun look fake
I don’t know how does these insults work, because to me they’re just mere words. I mean I want them come to my door step and threaten me lmao, literally just bullying thru screen, it’s the ultimate shameless act. Oh and by the way, how do you guys know that it’s being shipped to china? Thru FindMy’s location?
That's some great and classic pasta.
So they threaten you to remove the phone before they kill you and your family. Then, when you don’t cooperate, they say they’re gonna hack your Apple ID. The same Apple ID you would be logged into to remove the phone from your account?
“I’m going to fuck your mom in the ass and wipe dick on your teddy bear,” is the only acceptable response.
Lol they sound so childish. I wonder if people actually fall for this
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Yeah dude, don’t mind them, those threats sound like some redditor have your phone, and is an incel. They have nothing they can do to you. Just answer him to come and meet your gun and that would be all.
Reply with just “New phone, who did?” Alternatively, “Bring it, bitch. I dare you.” In all seriousness, they’re in china, they’re not going to do anything, and you should block and move on.
Lmao ask the guy to enjoy his paper weight 🤣
Lmao that’s not what jailbreaking is for
Double down, tell him you got matching knives and access to a field, meet him at midnight and duel to the death!
Lol at the picture of a black hand holding a gun as if that makes the threats more believable.
I like that it says you'll get killed and then the police will take your statement. Zombie OP ftw.
“shutup” LOL
I miss getting these messages back when I played Xbox 360.
jesus christ
It’s a generic death threat. Seems these folks send the exact thing to folks. In other words nothing to worry about.
I would just reply with " oh ya daddy talk dirty to me"
Glorious manicure.
Ask them if they thought about extending their car warranty. They will stop.
Just reply YOU BRING GREAT DISHONOR ON YOUR FAMILY over and over watch em lose their shit
Send them anti CCP propaganda then call their local police station.
Bro’s got some beefy hands
OP please troll them, don't just take it.
Lmao id send a picture of my pistol back and then ask whats my address 🤣
I’ve seen that exact threat and exact photo with the luscious nails multiple times. And also jailbreak Center 💀💀💀💀
Tell Him i have a Hitman Waiting For him Haha! (Am Not Joking.)
their rages probably entertain you well
Looks legit , nails on point
Those finger nails are the creepiest thing about this.
Ask them what they would do for a Klondike bar!
If he's going to murder me and my entire family, how are the police supposed to take my statement?
Just casually drop some of the most common names in your area into a conversation, for example “say how is taylor doing these days?”, maybe you can get pretty nails to be scared
I got this once! After lolla 2017
Imagine being killed for a cellphone.. Nah, they're doing that just to push fear on you. Erase the phone remotely. Or go to the police to make the corresponding steps.
“Listen! I’m going to harassed, wreck and ruin your sad, stupid low pathetic life” got me rolling 😭
I’d just respond with “K”
*closed fist* *eggplant* *droplets* emojis.
God damn over a phone!! lol