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Look at the top 4 of irresponsible people...Computer Guru...it's because tech is viewed as replaceable and or disposable items. A Baby Boomer will use a flip phone "until Shiloh comes"!!!! Millennials want it just to work (apple generation) and if it doesn't - get a new one. Wanderlust...put it down because there's always more...

I forgot number 4 - rural dweller......let's go fishing. (the Baby Boomer was used as a contrast to a Computer Guru/geek).

Millenial and "Computer Guru" (IT Engineer) here. I'll cop to bringing the phone into the bathroom (and disinfecting it after) to do work, but everything else seems like generational attitudes rather than being "risky". All too often, millennials are renters who have no idea what "maintenance" of our appliances actually means; we frequently don't have the manuals, and believe a basic wipe-down with bleach wipes is good enough for most appliances. We view tech as replaceable because the Baby Boomers market it as such to us, all the while refusing to relinquish their vice grip on their old flip phones and Pentium II PCs.

It's also worth noting that this takes into account physical activities, but what about virtual ones? Baby boomers tend to have more viruses (in my experience) than millennials, as well as more malware, unsupported operating systems or OSes running outdated and unpatched versions, behaviors which can have far more devastating consequences than a poorly maintained fridge or bringing our phones to the beach.

Just...ugh. Strike two, guys. This is, what, the second week in a row you guys have published something seeking to cast disdain on my generation? This doesn't seem related to Sound & Vision at all, unless you're attempting to draw a correlation between millennials not being involved in High-End A/V that doesn't involve our depressed wages and outrageously expensive housing market. Painting us as "risky" as a way to explain why we're not into High-End A/V is a pretty lame move, if that's the intent of this article.

Here's an article idea: why don't we try and draw a correlation between the lack of pervasive lossless digital music services and storefronts for the majority of mainstream music (if not the majority of music as a whole) and the fact baby boomers continue to use systems like vinyl and CD? I know! We can call Baby Boomers "outdated and out-of-touch with progress" because they refuse to consider new formats that could potentially enlighten newer generations to lossless audio without us needing to track down CDs or vinyl records!

Please give me articles I want to read, I don't care for numerous articles bemoaning a generation. I like hifi and home cinema I couldn't care less if the majority of my generation don't.