• @DJDarren@thelemmy.club
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      My HR manager is also 60 and routinely publishes the company newsletter as a .docx.

      Nothing is a given in this life.

      • @greenskye@lemm.ee
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        Also the new intern might not be able to do this either. There’s a surprisingly narrow age range where this skill set is expected

  • BoofStroke
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    Give me somebody who uses markdown with pandoc and I’ll be impressed.

  • @bazus1@lemmy.world
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    We’re fast approaching that golden age where every president comes standard with PDF creation skills.

    • @ramble81@lemm.ee
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      Not with their average ages creeping up. It’s the same generation of of people over and over.

    • @OpenStars@discuss.online
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      I dunno, mobile devices aren’t “computers”, and Gen-X gets ignored so hard it’ll likely be skipped right over, and we’ll jump immediately into Idiocracy (it’s what plants crave).

      Although I bet Pete Buttigieg knows how:-).

      • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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        Harris’ birthdate is October 20th 1964, she’s pretty much Gen X, having had to deal with the 80s crap as a teenager/young adult, hell, 1965 is the first year for Gen X

  • @Lizardking27@lemmy.world
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    I’m pretty sure you can just select pdf when saving the file in word.

    Edit: lol wasn’t really commenting on the politics of this post, just being pedantic about word processing software. Please don’t read any political meaning into my statement lmao.

    • @jonne@infosec.pub
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      I believe the point is that deep in this digital age the only President that’s actually used a computer before was Obama (probably).

    • @egrets@lemmy.world
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      One candidate is 78 years old, types in all-caps, and forgets what he was saying halfway through a sentence. For my money, I think it’s a fair bet that the difference between a PDF and a native MS Word file eludes them.

      On second thoughts...

      Come to think of it, a regular client of Epstein’s teenage human trafficking ring probably know more about ‘PDF files’ (ahem) than most of us.

    • @dwemthy@lemdro.id
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      Right, but keep in mind how low the bar is for politicians. They have people for this.

      Are we sure this isn’t the first presidential election where a candidate even knows what a pdf is?

    • @taiyang@lemmy.world
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      To be fair, Teddy only managed to convert to PDF by sheer gumption. No matter how many clippies he faced, he never gave up, never crashed his Word, and always disabled OneDrive before anything else.

    • ditty
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      For sure Obama could convert a Word doc no problem. Hell, Cheney Bush Jr. probably could’ve as well.

      • @OpenStars@discuss.online
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        With his youthful, tech-savvy vibe, many assumed that Barack Obama knew this stuff. But when pressed about how to convert file types, he responded, “What do I look like, some kinda fuckin’ nerd?” His honesty was refreshing. After all, converting a file shouldn’t be the president’s job. That is what interns are for. (Recent surveys show 90% of interns’ work hours are spent combining, condensing, and converting documents in a way that doesn’t crash the aging government servers.)

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