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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoThink of all the kids who grew up without a computer and now they have no idea how they work and can’t do basic tasks.
Hi there. Didn’t have a computer until the 12th grade.
In the 30 years I’ve been working with Linux professionally, some of it was at a distro, working to secure it, and also Unix. I’ve managed an ungodly number of computer hosts, and I took over and maintained a somewhat well-known security tool I’m not gonna name. Lately I do automation: mgmtConfig when I can, Ansible if they pay me so much I can forget just how amazingly bad it is.
I was getting paid for Linux work long before I got a cell phone.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Uh ok mate thanks for your life story. Did computers even exist when you were in the 12th grade?
I fail to see how this is at all relevant to kids in the modern age being kept away from technology. Not having technology access today is completely different to 30 years ago.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I think their experience is very relevant. It illustrates perfectly that kids don’t need to be immersed in technology from a young age to become proficient at it later in life, if it’s beneficial to them.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
Its anecdotal at best. Its like if someone was saying “we should give kids school lunch so they preform better at school” and then I replied “I didnt have school lunch and I got top my class” you’d think ok that changes nothing.
There is a lot of research to support the idea that adults are less likely to pick up a skill if they weren’t exposed to it as a kid. If you dont grow up working with technology to make things you’re less likely to go down that route as an adult or late teen. Thats a huge disadvantage in today’s age.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Eating lunch at school meets a basic human need and doesn’t really have a downside, though. It seems like there’s increasing reason to believe that cellphones, social media, online classes, etc actually hurt young people’s psychological and social development. I can understand why some parents would be wary of feeding into that.