TLDR:

Making your kids go without smartphones could be difficult because their friends will most likely have phones and will most likely leave your kid out of events and conversations.

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    3 years ago

    Oh yeah absolutely same, one day I'm 12 doing dumb javascript snippets for an Internet forum full of other dumb kids, suddenly im thirty-mumble trying to untangle someone else's Gordian knot of a kubernetes cluster

    • fox [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      There's probably something to zoomers being less adept with computers than millennials. We grew up with computers that were fairly easy to use but still required some technical knowledge. It's all been abstracted away for ease of use now unless you really go digging or use :tux:

      • crime [she/her, any]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, that and spending more time with their phones than on devices with keyboards/terminal access/etc like a desktop or laptop