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james_s:

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--- Quote from: engrguy42 on February 24, 2021, 03:30:53 pm ---I think the problems with Fry's and Radio Shack and every other electronics supply store here in the US is that nobody is interested in tinkering with electronics anymore. Only a few of us old guys, and much fewer young guys. Now people want dancing robots and AI and smartphone apps where you click a button and it does your laundry while you sit on your butt.

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Ok, boomer.

Seriously this is just nonsense "old man yells at cloud" gatekeeper bullshit.  Far more people are tinkering with electronics than ever before.  They are just doing it differently than before.

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Is there any more condescending and moronic statement than "ok boomer"? I'm not even a boomer (my parents generation) and that just makes me cringe, I automatically assume that anyone who says it is either a moron or an asshole, or both. May as well just say "shut up geezer, I'm too lazy and smug to have an honest debate with you."

You know what? You'll be old before you know it and the younger generation will look at you with disdain for no other reason than you are from a different generation and don't understand the things they think are cool, and you'll think they are idiots for it and remain convinced that back in your day people knew how to do it.
Renate:
This intergenerational rivalry stuff never used to exist.
We didn't have names for generations (outside of sociology).
But I guess that's the fault of the younger generation. >:D

The "nobody does X anymore" / "everybody and their brother does X" is somewhat perception.
Obviously, on these forums there are a ton of electronic hobbyists.
Big cities have their Maker Faires and attract tons of people.
On the other hand, if you wore a blinky LED pendant to the supermarket many would be amazed that you built it yourself.

I find the same thing with musicians (although I would guess that here they are disproportionately represented).
When I go camping I'm always looking for musicians but seldom find any.
Still, the statistics show that amateur music is still thriving.
james_s:

--- Quote from: Renate on February 27, 2021, 12:07:20 pm ---I find the same thing with musicians (although I would guess that here they are disproportionately represented).
When I go camping I'm always looking for musicians but seldom find any.
Still, the statistics show that amateur music is still thriving.

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They're out there. My partner plays piano although not very frequently these days. My younger brother is an avid guitar and piano player, my dad played the cello in high school, stopped when his career took off and he started a family but he was learning to play the guitar and mandolin in retirement before he passed away. Several of my friends have been in bands that played a lot of shows in pubs and such, at least a few of my coworkers play instruments. They're out there, you just have to connect with the right circles. That's probably easier these days than ever before, there must be whole forums for musicians, probably some dedicated to players of specific instruments. Amateur music has been around for thousands of years and isn't going anywhere, it seems to be an innate part of the human mind.
Renate:

--- Quote from: james_s on February 27, 2021, 10:26:11 pm ---They're out there.
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True. Especially for music, there is a tendency for it to clump in families.
Although I have been amazed to see families where the parents are enthusiastic musicians and the children never bothered to learn.
Also families where everybody learned, sometimes with apparent planning who plays what to make a balanced family orchestra.

I just mean that the populations of "Does X" and "Doesn't do X" are often strangers that seem incredulous of the other side.
LaserSteve:
Go to the Cleveland, Ohio Microcenter on a weekday say 1 PM..Throw a stone six feet in any direction. You will either hit another customer or a well trained salesperson who will bend over backwards to help you or find someone who will.

I've been in two other stores nation wide, same thing. My local store keeps wheelchairs for seniors.
My 89 year old mom gets treated better at Microcenter then she does at her physician's office.
They will have a salesperson waiting for her with a chair at the door. Their security guy watches a camera for that.

Did I mention the clean bathrooms?

Even more surprising is that they work at remembering who I am, and often ask me what I think they should stock. When I'm there for work they bend over backwards to accommodate the university's thorny paperwork, and their customer management computer is second to none.

RIP Frys, you saved my *** a few times on the road when I was an  FSE, but you were more interested in checking my receipt on the way out the door then asking me what I needed.

Long Live Microcenter!

Steve
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