Gen Z Kids Don't Understand How File Systems Work

Re:Gen Z Kids Don't Understand How File Systems Work by dvngnt_ on Monday February 07, 2022 @08:40PM (#30253974)

back in 2012 there was a girl who asked me if I could see a file she uploaded online. I asked her for a link to which she replied "c://users/hername/documents/photo.jpg"

I was in shocked especially considering she went to a private school costing over 20k in one of the wealthiest places in America

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Re:Gen Z Kids Don't Understand How File Systems Work by barbazoo on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @12:02AM (#30255071)

I'm not sure how the amount of money one pays for education is in any way I dicarive of their knowledge of how computers work.

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Re:Gen Z Kids Don't Understand How File Systems Work by dvngnt_ on Monday February 14, 2022 @09:05PM (#30341685)

I don't think dicarive is a word?

And it absolutely can.

School with less funding often don't have the same access to technology. This school required a laptop purchase from each student, and there's probably a correlation between income and computer literacy.

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Re:Gen Z Kids Don't Understand How File Systems Work by karmakaze on Monday February 07, 2022 @09:00PM (#30254087)

Did she use the forward slashes? Makes it look valid: protocol 'c', host 'users' and whatever default port protocol 'c' uses. ;-)

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Re:Gen Z Kids Don't Understand How File Systems Work by reincarnate0x14 on Monday February 07, 2022 @10:43PM (#30254681)

Many Windows tools will convert to / if they're presenting a URL, I'd imagine there is some special case code that treats unqualified path-lookalikes as file:// minus the protocol specifier. In fact chrome produces exactly that result when I did it just now, and only if you expand the full address bar do you see a file:// preceding /c:/what/ever/path

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