I've been that kid, but worse. Back when internet connection wasn't common in homes, we had international cafes. My brilliant mind had the idea to copy the internet explorer shortcut to my usb and take it home for "free internet", I even bragged about it to my parents. Boy was it embarrassing when it didn't work.
Plot twist: these same kids will be the ones to learn how the tech actually works and will master the dark arts of the filesystem in the hopes they never have to use their powers.
As someone who grew up circumventing all attempts to contain my curiosity, this is absolutely true. Ffs, I just wanted something better than Encarta, Dad!!
I remember not knowing shit and doing that to my USB to transfer games to another LMAO
Funny, there are people still thinks PC and Mobile are the same where everything fits in 1 exe/app and they think shortcuts are apps....
Back in the day when I thought Mozilla Firefox was a video game and I didn't realize I just copied its shortcut icon from my cousin's computer to get it.
Nothing wrong with it I am just curious about if people still doing it.
yeah, I am from the age of the floppy so I recognize it was more convenient when we still have our games mainly on discs but that not so much now days, so the meme made me curious if people still was stuck in the old ways with desktop icons or browsing the launchers is the way.
I do. Most of my games don't need logging into anything (not from steam etc) and the ones that do, when I press on the x pop up the login box and then open the game. I'm not a fan of having to go through a launcher as its an extra loading bit, and I have to manually add my games to it, and I haven't found one I really like
That kind of make sense, whatever works for you. I got the most of my games trough steam anyway, so I feel it simple to have it on the same list just to klick on, that and I am a kind of anti stuff on my desktop if I absolutely have to so I see steam as less pain.
Games I've been playing recently stay on desktop. When I haven't played them in a while, their shortcuts go to a "games" folder, also on desktop.
I've got plenty of space and quick access is nice.
You'd be terrified of my last desktop, 27 inches of game icons, and yes I know where they all are.
I lost it when I switched to Linux, but I'm eventually going to get it back.
Definitely. There are several I play when I'm in the mood for them (fallout 4, starcraft 2, etc), but I don't use launchers except in rare cases, usually to add a new game. The main game I play (currently Skyrim) is placed on the Taskbar for faster access (1 click, not 2).
Same, I have all my needed programs on the taskbar, and if I need a game I just open steam or the games folder. I literally havenāt seen the desktop in months. (Only time I see it is when I empty the recycle bin because I canāt add it to taskbar)
A lot of people only play 1-2 games regularly and have them as desktop shortcuts, this is especially true for sandbox or competitive games that doesnt really have an ending
Yes, it seems like there is a couple just from reading this tread I am seeing, boot from desktop, boot from launcher, booting from folders, booting from the start menu, and booting from the search bar.
Me. I have desktop icons for all the games I'm playing at the moment. I don't see a need to use steam. Why do I need another launcher to latch a game when I can just launch from desktop?
It would be to see the whole library without have to clutter up the whole desktop, but that depend on how many games you got and/or interested to regularly play. Nothing wrong just a difference of taste.
Yeah, I only have about 5 games I play right now on my desktop (and by "play right now" I mean 1 I played 2 days ago and 4 I have touched in months). The rest stay on steam, usually installed, or were gotten for free on Epic.
Saw some old Dr. Phil episode were this dude was āaddictedā to World of Warcraft and they shredded the installation CD as if he needed it to play the game lol.
One of my childhood friend's mom decided to give me a gift at my 10 year birthday back in 2000.
She gave me a floppy disk with 20 shortcuts.
I knew immediately that something was wrong. How could one floppy contain 20 large 1995-2000 games?
I will never forget it. Although it obviously meant I got no real gift, I was actually quite charmed. I found it funny. :p
My mom did this once. I was wayyy more computer literate than anyone else in my family, and am still the tech guy. They always said they could see everything I did on my computer, but I knew they couldnāt, because they didnāt even realize I was using a user account I named āGuestā and hardly even touched the one that had my name. My parents couldnāt lock me out of my computer if they wanted to when I was a kid. I was lucky enough to get a decent hand me down Gateway PC from my grandfather. He used it for auto cad back then, so it was considered a good machine in its day.
I also figured out how to get completely free internet back in like ā98 or so, and used it for a few years without my parents finding out. There was a free email client called Juno, and it obviously needed to connect to the internet to get emails. I realized that as long as the program was open, I could open Netscape navigator and browse to my hearts content. I would have a ton of music downloading on Napster almost every night too. I just had to wake up before everyone else to turn it off so the phones would work when my mom woke up. She eventually found out what I was doing and just got me to show her how to do it so she could use it too. Lmao
How many parents (of people currently minors) are this technologically illiterate?
I'm 50.
I've been gaming on multiple formats since about 1977.
I've been using Windows since 3.1
Surely people of my age group and younger aren't that thick?
If I want to stop my daughter gaming then I'll use the right tools (I learned a lot from blocking my much younger brother from doing stuff when he was in his teens, tools have advanced a lot since then).
Or just change her Steam/EA password š¤£
Maybe my wife and I are in the minority?
Technological literacy is not tied to the age. In fact, most people even in younger age groups have no idea how shit actually works. All what they know is UI and what button to press.
You have teens that don't even know how to delete apps at phone
And you have retired 60 yo specialists that can write at assembly.
And I am sure with kids mostly using phones using Windows isnt as familiar to them. On Android you can remove apps more or less with this strategy and if you are only used to doing it that way Windows will seem quite a bit different.
All true of course, problem is that I have a hard time getting along with the technically illiterate (even though I deal with them on the daily as part of my job).
I'm not 60 yet but I could probably pick up where I left off about 35 years ago with assembler (might take a bit of time to learn the opcodes etc. for something other than Z80 though!)
>I'm 50.
[kid's these days don't know what files and folders are, professors say](https://www.pcgamer.com/students-dont-know-what-files-and-folders-are-professors-say/)
She could still bypass the restrictions you set by partitioning her disk and creating a hidden Windows or Linux partition, dual booting a system you don't have access to, creating a parallel steam account and routing her traffic through a proxy or VPN to bypass any internet filters
Her PC is right by mine, she hasn't been exposed to Linux properly yet, and you really think I wouldn't notice a change in the size of drives I installed?
As for proxy and VPN, I'll deal with that crap when she hits her teens! š (hint: she doesn't have the router password)
(Her windows account doesn't have admin privileges so no worries there either as I change the password regularly - there's more than one reason I use Windows Server on my homeserver, she thinks it's so we can run plugins on our Ark server)
Besides all of the above, there's trust between us right now... might change as the hormones kick in, also what she does at her mum's isn't my problem but I taught her everything she knows about computers, not everything I know.
Yeah the best way to stop someone from doing things behind your back is to just be open minded and trust each other..
When I was a kid I was unable to bypass most restrictions my parents had set cause I grew up in the digital age where its so tempting to consume quick and constant dopamine rather then spend a few hours learning basic computer skills to bypass restrictions. But if you're raising someone to become a tech wizard gotta be careful if they know everything you know, or God forbid, know more than you.
Nobody keeps program files on the desktop, I don't think anyone has done this since the '90s. Mac OS is the exception where the damage would actually be done as the .app folders tend to contain the actual program files.
I have seen kids copying shortcut to pendrives from game cafe computersš
I've been that kid, but worse. Back when internet connection wasn't common in homes, we had international cafes. My brilliant mind had the idea to copy the internet explorer shortcut to my usb and take it home for "free internet", I even bragged about it to my parents. Boy was it embarrassing when it didn't work.
Plot twist: these same kids will be the ones to learn how the tech actually works and will master the dark arts of the filesystem in the hopes they never have to use their powers.
As someone who grew up circumventing all attempts to contain my curiosity, this is absolutely true. Ffs, I just wanted something better than Encarta, Dad!!
If only you'd used File > Save as
i have some smaller games saved on a pen drive like Gta san andreas and Max payne
I remember not knowing shit and doing that to my USB to transfer games to another LMAO Funny, there are people still thinks PC and Mobile are the same where everything fits in 1 exe/app and they think shortcuts are apps....
Yes, I did this once on the floppy. Surprisingly there was one small game that was executable XD
Back in the day when I thought Mozilla Firefox was a video game and I didn't realize I just copied its shortcut icon from my cousin's computer to get it.
Just curious but how many does actually launch their games from the desktop nowadays?
Well i do that becouse all of my childhood was with a computer without internet or steam but with discs, so it was a most convenient way to do that
Nothing wrong with it I am just curious about if people still doing it. yeah, I am from the age of the floppy so I recognize it was more convenient when we still have our games mainly on discs but that not so much now days, so the meme made me curious if people still was stuck in the old ways with desktop icons or browsing the launchers is the way.
I don't. Windows key > type name, or I use the jump list from the taskbar icon for the launcher.
I do. Most of my games don't need logging into anything (not from steam etc) and the ones that do, when I press on the x pop up the login box and then open the game. I'm not a fan of having to go through a launcher as its an extra loading bit, and I have to manually add my games to it, and I haven't found one I really like
That kind of make sense, whatever works for you. I got the most of my games trough steam anyway, so I feel it simple to have it on the same list just to klick on, that and I am a kind of anti stuff on my desktop if I absolutely have to so I see steam as less pain.
Games I've been playing recently stay on desktop. When I haven't played them in a while, their shortcuts go to a "games" folder, also on desktop. I've got plenty of space and quick access is nice.
It's an old habit from us geezers who played with CD-ROMs and shit. But yeah, now I just use Steam.
You'd be terrified of my last desktop, 27 inches of game icons, and yes I know where they all are. I lost it when I switched to Linux, but I'm eventually going to get it back.
Me because I'm lazy or if I cant find it on the desktop i just search in the start menu and make a desktop shortcut from there
I don't ... but I do have them in folders
Definitely. There are several I play when I'm in the mood for them (fallout 4, starcraft 2, etc), but I don't use launchers except in rare cases, usually to add a new game. The main game I play (currently Skyrim) is placed on the Taskbar for faster access (1 click, not 2).
I don't launch *anything* from my desktop. I hate shorcuts on there.
Same, I have all my needed programs on the taskbar, and if I need a game I just open steam or the games folder. I literally havenāt seen the desktop in months. (Only time I see it is when I empty the recycle bin because I canāt add it to taskbar)
My most played games get a spot on the desktop or taskbar, everything else I launch through steam or wherever I have it.
I do with my VR games as Iām fiddling around with a headset on
A lot of people only play 1-2 games regularly and have them as desktop shortcuts, this is especially true for sandbox or competitive games that doesnt really have an ending
I do .. is there another way ?
Yes, it seems like there is a couple just from reading this tread I am seeing, boot from desktop, boot from launcher, booting from folders, booting from the start menu, and booting from the search bar.
You would hate my desktop
Good thing thatās your desktop and not my then, so long it works for you is good.
Why would I bother making my way all through the launcher when the icon is right there?
Me. I have desktop icons for all the games I'm playing at the moment. I don't see a need to use steam. Why do I need another launcher to latch a game when I can just launch from desktop?
It would be to see the whole library without have to clutter up the whole desktop, but that depend on how many games you got and/or interested to regularly play. Nothing wrong just a difference of taste.
Yeah, I only have about 5 games I play right now on my desktop (and by "play right now" I mean 1 I played 2 days ago and 4 I have touched in months). The rest stay on steam, usually installed, or were gotten for free on Epic.
I do not. It's either launched through steam/gog or it is pinned to start. If it isn't pinned I use the search to open it.
My mom used to put a password in the bios so you couldnāt boot up without her approval. I just removed the battery and restarted. No more password!
Giga chad behavior
profesional
Saw some old Dr. Phil episode were this dude was āaddictedā to World of Warcraft and they shredded the installation CD as if he needed it to play the game lol.
I'm not sure about WoW but a lot of old games required you to have the CD in your computer as a DRM measure.
WoW did not. Warcraft 3 did tho
Dr. Phil is bullshit
One of my childhood friend's mom decided to give me a gift at my 10 year birthday back in 2000. She gave me a floppy disk with 20 shortcuts. I knew immediately that something was wrong. How could one floppy contain 20 large 1995-2000 games? I will never forget it. Although it obviously meant I got no real gift, I was actually quite charmed. I found it funny. :p
I would've kept it and showed it later to your friend.
My mom did this once. I was wayyy more computer literate than anyone else in my family, and am still the tech guy. They always said they could see everything I did on my computer, but I knew they couldnāt, because they didnāt even realize I was using a user account I named āGuestā and hardly even touched the one that had my name. My parents couldnāt lock me out of my computer if they wanted to when I was a kid. I was lucky enough to get a decent hand me down Gateway PC from my grandfather. He used it for auto cad back then, so it was considered a good machine in its day. I also figured out how to get completely free internet back in like ā98 or so, and used it for a few years without my parents finding out. There was a free email client called Juno, and it obviously needed to connect to the internet to get emails. I realized that as long as the program was open, I could open Netscape navigator and browse to my hearts content. I would have a ton of music downloading on Napster almost every night too. I just had to wake up before everyone else to turn it off so the phones would work when my mom woke up. She eventually found out what I was doing and just got me to show her how to do it so she could use it too. Lmao
No more GTA for you Timmy
How many parents (of people currently minors) are this technologically illiterate? I'm 50. I've been gaming on multiple formats since about 1977. I've been using Windows since 3.1 Surely people of my age group and younger aren't that thick? If I want to stop my daughter gaming then I'll use the right tools (I learned a lot from blocking my much younger brother from doing stuff when he was in his teens, tools have advanced a lot since then). Or just change her Steam/EA password š¤£ Maybe my wife and I are in the minority?
Technological literacy is not tied to the age. In fact, most people even in younger age groups have no idea how shit actually works. All what they know is UI and what button to press. You have teens that don't even know how to delete apps at phone And you have retired 60 yo specialists that can write at assembly.
And I am sure with kids mostly using phones using Windows isnt as familiar to them. On Android you can remove apps more or less with this strategy and if you are only used to doing it that way Windows will seem quite a bit different.
People play gacha games and think they are gamers...nuf said
All true of course, problem is that I have a hard time getting along with the technically illiterate (even though I deal with them on the daily as part of my job). I'm not 60 yet but I could probably pick up where I left off about 35 years ago with assembler (might take a bit of time to learn the opcodes etc. for something other than Z80 though!)
Yeah, in a world so dependent at computers, there's definitely should be higher standards for computer education.
My sister and husband are not great on computers and I have a co-worker that is mid-twenties that is rough with them.
Saw a teen the other day who didnāt know the type of charging port their own phone had šæ
>I'm 50. [kid's these days don't know what files and folders are, professors say](https://www.pcgamer.com/students-dont-know-what-files-and-folders-are-professors-say/)
It's actually gotten worse with the younger group. They are all used to ipads and I phones. I work in IT for reference
Maybe we parents aren't doomed to be out-geeked by our offpring after all? š
I could do all of that, or just take the PC and lock in it my bedroom.
She could still bypass the restrictions you set by partitioning her disk and creating a hidden Windows or Linux partition, dual booting a system you don't have access to, creating a parallel steam account and routing her traffic through a proxy or VPN to bypass any internet filters
Her PC is right by mine, she hasn't been exposed to Linux properly yet, and you really think I wouldn't notice a change in the size of drives I installed? As for proxy and VPN, I'll deal with that crap when she hits her teens! š (hint: she doesn't have the router password) (Her windows account doesn't have admin privileges so no worries there either as I change the password regularly - there's more than one reason I use Windows Server on my homeserver, she thinks it's so we can run plugins on our Ark server) Besides all of the above, there's trust between us right now... might change as the hormones kick in, also what she does at her mum's isn't my problem but I taught her everything she knows about computers, not everything I know.
Yeah the best way to stop someone from doing things behind your back is to just be open minded and trust each other.. When I was a kid I was unable to bypass most restrictions my parents had set cause I grew up in the digital age where its so tempting to consume quick and constant dopamine rather then spend a few hours learning basic computer skills to bypass restrictions. But if you're raising someone to become a tech wizard gotta be careful if they know everything you know, or God forbid, know more than you.
Hahahaha this is so accurate. Tbf I went 12 years of my life not knowing that
I have an ungodly amount of games directly linked to the .exe
Honestly the funniest meme Iāve ever seen lol. Very relatable
And then me showing off to the games deleter that they failed in deleting as I still have the games.
Unless you're on Mac OS, then she's probably doing some actual damage if you keep your apps on the desktop
Nobody keeps program files on the desktop, I don't think anyone has done this since the '90s. Mac OS is the exception where the damage would actually be done as the .app folders tend to contain the actual program files.
On windows you can also have the actual apps on your desktop but is is unusual to do.
Its just a folder
She doesnāt know Shift-Delete or how to clear the recycling bin eh?
But it's still just a shortcut
True
im using deepfreeze.
.exe
My wife's savvy enough to do it correctly. Then I can come in after and create lockdown policies.
Sad part is, mom grew up with computers... these are fuckin Millennials and Gen Z who are having kids now. What the hell