I’m going to spoil the shit out of my nephew for Xmas this year who’s just old enough now for some video games with the approval/encouragement of my sister. A fully loaded 3DS XL with a compatible NDS flashcart too plus emulators, themes, and whatever else it sat in a drawer for years with last installed. Battery still good. Hopefully it gives him the tinkering bug with Nintendo’s locked down sandbox blown apart day 1.
Loonix laptop when he’s a little older.
instead they are being raised AI/ phone kids which is probably worst, for genz, alpha. mIlleneals are desktop/laptop kids.
Just realised that gen z are going to wax on alpha about growing up without conversational bots like elder millennials wax about growing up pre internet
Also, no Robux gifts (or Roblox at all, for that matter). They’re getting real games from GOG, Itch, and Steam.
Me when the Southwestern Bell sales rep offered my dad free call waiting and I could finally stop getting in trouble for spending all day on the [dial up] internet when my parents weren’t home.
Actually, installing a CD ROM drive, sound blaster and configuring sound drivers, autoexec and config for dos were instrumental for me. Laptops. Smfh.
I have a one year old daughter. She is going to learn how to work windows explorer and windows shortcuts and learn how a mouse works before she’s ever put in front of any apple product.
If you want to teach your children useful computer skills, teach them Linux.
Still way too easy to get confused in layers of abstraction on Linux. Go big or go home, get a Commodore 64.
Well, personally, I prefer to keep mine locked up in the basement.
Aw, what’s wrong with it?
I meant the children.
Bring the commie to the basement.
I’m a former desktop kid and it shows in my habits of today. I got a desktop computer at age 10, Android smartphone in my mid-teens, switched to a laptop only at age 18, got my first tablet only in my late 20s.
It’s literally my default activity when I’m at home to sit at my desk where a laptop is connected to two computer screens. In fact that’s what I’m doing right now. Meanwhile my tablet is lying somewhere on the couch and I haven’t touched it in weeks, it’s probably not even charged anymore.
Indeed, brother! Unlike the unwashed masses of today, we do not “scroll”. Laying on a couch and “scrolling”? NAY, we sit down in our delectable chairs with lumbar support, at our adjustable desks with perfect posture, we “browse”, we “SURF” the TRUE internet! Unlike those who believe that “the internet” is just a grouping of the 5 most popular websites.
I do scroll on my smartphone too, but not usually when I’m at home, because I have a desktop computer there, way more convenient.
Yeah similar. Got my first tablet at 19 and even that was a eink one for uni work.
I used to do the same when I was single, but now I can’t set up a desktop in the family living room, so I’m using a laptop instead (and a NAS for storage). There are a lot of moments where I’m thinking that it would be nice to plop down behind a desktop for a moment, but it’s too impractical to set up the laptop and put it away afterwards, which is a shame.
My kids are using an old laptop (running Linux) for gaming. I’ve been thinking about whether it would be good to give them an old desktop at some point, so they can do some tinkering. But the mobility advantage of laptops is real, so that’s a dilemma. Maybe I’ll just let them choose at some point.
Even better, desktop kids. And then when time comes to upgrade their rig they can research and do it themselves (with some supervision).
It’s also nicer imho when the internet is in a specific place in the house.
… sent from my phone
The next generation might be looking at RAM the same way the current generation is looking at houses with the way things are going…
Ah yes, the various internet porn, liveleak and rotten [dot] com generation of kids
I remember having to wait some 30s to a full minute for a single image to load via dialup
Someone once snuck a porn image with an Asian lady in a “Christmas” CD of a magazine, those with apps and media and an auto play menu. You could only find it if you opened the disc as a folder with right click and browsed deep into the subdirectories… Which I of course as a kid with nothing to do, at a time when you paid internet connection based on time, did. It was an indescribably wonderous discovery.
linux is the computers i grew up with
i went raspbian -> fedora -> ubuntu ->
macos-> opensuse -> fedorasuperior look of desktop gamer supremacy
I’m gonna raise a Linux kid
If there will ever be a socioeconomic time fit for child making, that is
Laptop kids gain tech skills
IPad kids gain social media brain
Change my mind
Raised a kid on a pc, gen Z, he has no idea how anything works and his eyes go glassy any time we try to explain anything. Millennials are the unique in being more computer literate because we grew up with it.
iPads are content consumption devices. Full stop.
The iPad does not make the kid stupid. The kid that is stupid was already going to be stupid, tablet or not. Blaming “the tablet” or “the videogame” for the kid’s behavior is like blaming pencils for getting bad grades, and simple-minded folks rely on this.
I’ve grown up (as have many of you) seeing others growing up, and have seen a couple generations of kids grow up after me as well.
All traits are on a normal distribution. The kids that are smart will learn all day long with an iPad, and will find videos of kids making songs about addition and multiplication. The dumb kids will spend all day 6-7-ing.
Since traits lie on a normal distribution, the majority of people have the muppety idea that “it’s the tablet that is bad - can’t be my kid” while having passed muppet traits along.You think I’d still have perfect SAT scores if instead of reading 500 books in high school I spent my time playing World of Warcraft? Get a grip.
They are extremely powerful for creative things too? I have a relatively new pro iPad and it doesn’t have any social media on it, just like 30 apps for art, CAD work/lidar scanning, remote music apps for production/djing, and actual music creation apps. Pretty sure you can also get a terminal and remote desktop apps if you need. The case also has a keyboard and touchpad.
I won’t argue that most people are just using their iPads for tiktok and Instagram, but that definitely isn’t close to what an iPad does best.
True. But this is a rarefied use case that doesn’t apply to 99% of teenage iPad users, at least in my pedagogical experience. Keep in mind the average ACT score for college-bound seniors in Florida is 18. Meaning these kids literally can’t even read. They’re not using iPads for anything resembling creativity.
I can guarantee there are kids who are using iPads for coding at this very moment
A lot of things can be good, in the right application, but can also be very harmful when used wrong. In this case, the bad application is the default. Fentanyl is a wonderful drug for the medical industry, but it’s still incredibly harmful on the street (partially because it’s illegal, so people don’t know what they’re getting).
Well mine know what a terminal is and can execute the commend needed to launch a Java Minecraft server instance soo you’re not wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Gotta get that PrismLauncher to play those modpacks for way too much time :D
modded minecraft is a good gateway drug for getting into tech
its a large part of how i did
facts
Cyberdeck kids slay
especially if the laptops run linux
Desktop kid checking in.
Like the gods intended, with Model M keyboard and US robotics dial-up.
I was a desktop kid who kept having to break the windows padlock to play games.
Windows… padlock?
