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I'm an older GenZ born in the late 90s and I've had to show a few younger peers how to torrent recently.
The idea of you needing a "special" program just for downloading a file seems to throw some of them off.
I do know a few young people are tech/programming wizards but "generally tech savy" people seem to be declining. It's either you're really into it or barely know anything outside popular apps.
One other thing I've noticed, People just seem to be more paranoid about downloading stuff not already installed on their devices. Which its good people give at least a bit of a shit about security but convincing people Firefox isn't a virus gets a bit annoying (Yes I've had that conversation).
I feel like we also got a new kind of guy, the tech-forward digital illiterate. They run most of everything.