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2026-05-21 23:23 UTC
@jannem@fosstodon.org @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au @odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange @Gargron@mastodon.social that's more or less my point indeed.
I can open a computer and do all that that I did in the 80s, 90s and 2000s, but it's not a requisite anymore,... until it is. So there's less incentives to learn. Kids don't need to learn to code to use a computer. Yet they still can. But they have to be educated about the value of learning for the sake of it, and put the time and effort on it instead of doomscrolling.
Like we tinkered instead of doing whatever else.
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@jannem@fosstodon.org 2026-05-21 23:34
@gabriel@fedi.gvisoc.com @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au @odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange @Gargron@mastodon.social My point is, most kids were never interested and didn't learn, no matter how much you pushed a technical interface on them. The computer "revolution" of the 1980s only ever touched a geeky subset of mostly boys. For all that people hate on locked, "dumbed down" interfaces, those enable the large majority of people to make use of computers. Just like cars only became mass transport when you no longer had to be a mechanic to drive one.