And then there was me that at school we were still using 286s with turbo pascal during the windows XP era
When I met my now wife’s 13 year old, his first question was “So I’m building a Linux machine, which file system should I use?”
We had a good discussion about the pros and cons of the different file systems.
He’s gone on in the AI space, speaking at conferences and delivering papers and such.
Lies, all these words and you didn’t say which file system was the best. I bet your wife goes to a different school.
It’s ext4, always ext4.
ZFS would like a word
Oh, isn’t the question a wordplay? btrfs…
Btrfs snapshots tho
He’s gone on in the AI space, speaking at conferences and delivering papers and such.
I’m sorry for your loss…
I know, right? 😂
And that at 13 years old? /jk
Maybe he’ll grow out of it?
No but there are studies that indicate early exposure to computers leads to high tech literacy.
Now that first exposure is a phone or tablet this no longer holds.
The few households that still have a normal computer, the kids will probably have a higher tech literacy if they use the computer.
We used RM Nimbus at school, we moved onto Apple Macs in Year 5 and up to year 8 in secondary school. The first time I used Windows was win 95 when we got our first PC when I was in year 9. I just missed out on Netscape: (
I was used to ClarisWorks and MS Office wasn’t as intuitive and took a few sessions to master. Although if they’d been using the ui they have now, I’d have thrown in the towel. I use libreoffice at home and hate when I have to use ms office and its stupid ui at work.
I did teach myself HTML, php and a bit of JavaScript. I coded a forum software when I was 19 from scratch using php just to see if I could. Coding was my special interest at the time.
I am autistic so I’m excluded from this study.
I want to know more about the school. Public? Private?
Depends on your area. In my public school area we had two schools related to tech, and I actually ended up attending both. I feel like the more selective one did have a far better program, but it was completely free. Other nearby cities had public school CTE programs too, but idk how good they were.
But I definitely did meet Linux and coding freaks at both, but more at the better program school.
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What a nasty, cynical take.
Yesterday, I sold a guitar to a 15 year old kid, and gave him a killer deal on a really nice guitar, and a nice case, because he was dead serious about learning. Today he emailed me that he LOVES his new guitar, and thanking me for giving it up so he could have it, and giving him great advice to get started.
And it felt great to be the one to point this kid in the right direction, and watch him set off on his journey.
And your response would be to blunt it by calling it a lie.
Just fuck you.
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I have no idea what’s going on on lemmy, but the amount of poor natured antagonistic users and trolls seems to have spiked in the past few weeks.
Maybe it’s just holiday stress bringing out the negativity? I sure hope, rather than people bringing reddit style 'tude.
The name of that 10 year old, Rebecca.
Is this a morbid joke on Rebecca Purple?
Romijn, formerly Romijn-Stamos?
I know people will go “and everbody clapped”/ “never happened” but I did meet tech nerds at both middle and high school. I wasn’t deep into tech stuff by 13, but I already had growing passion by then, and when I was 16 or so I went to a program (public and free) school that focused on tech, where I met a bunch of people who had been tinkering with stuff since elementary school. So a 13 year old who works with raspberry pi and Linux is very believable. Have faith people.
And everybody clapped.
For sure! Raspberry Pi started as an education foundation and a big target audience is kids/the classroom. There’s BEST Robotics which in my area was hit pretty tragically by COVID, but there is VEX as well. And did you know you can probably dual boot Linux from your school issued Chromebook so that you can program Lua for your Roblox mod? I didn’t! A kid taught me.
did you know you can probably dual boot Linux from your school issued Chromebook so that you can program Lua for your Roblox mod? I didn’t! A kid taught me.
Funny that you say that, cause our school locked our Chromebooks down so much that we literally couldn’t use the terminal or change 90% of the settings. Schools basically force kids to be tech illiterate by disabiling and crippling our systems.
They do a poor job of it too, security-wise. They put in all this effort and there’s still kids watching porn on their computers and downloading random .exes and running them.
What about teaching them about socialism?
Well, certainly that wasn’t in Germany.
Hope for the future = nerds exist?
Unironically yes.
I’ll take ‘things that never happened’ for 200$.
This is wholesome as hell.
Young people interested in tech always existed but there was half a generation long phase where it was just “people being raised by their parents to work at google one day.”
Computers don’t inherently mean “corporate” in peoples head and are becoming a hobby again.
Now teach the kid about salvaging old hardware, repurposing old laptops as low-power servers. It’s a lot easier to justify for a kid than the expense of buying stuff, and greener.
Some cynical bastards in here had no passions of their own when 10, I guess.
I could see myself as that 10 year old; just with regular ol’ IBM compatible machines and software around in the 90s. I literally begged to get online because I read about the internet in the encyclopedia when I was eight.
I had passions as a 10 year old, I just didn’t have any adults in my life that I saw regularly, with any expertise in a skill to help me flourish. I had to stumble and struggle through those beasts all on my own.
My flagging faith in humanity has been partially restored.
