Laptop kids gain tech skills

IPad kids gain social media brain

Change my mind

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.

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I'm gonna raise a Linux kid

If there will ever be a socioeconomic time fit for child making, that is

I'm playing the equiv of Minecraft (Luanti) and my 4 year old sits on my lap and helps me jump and use the two mouse buttons. Usually stuff like this begins with the parent's habits.

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.

Ah yes, the various internet porn, liveleak and rotten [dot] com generation of kids

I was a desktop kid who kept having to break the windows padlock to play games.

Also, no Robux gifts (or Roblox at all, for that matter). They're getting real games from GOG, Itch, and Steam.

Computer kids will always be more tech savvy than touchscreen kids. They'll have better critical thinking skills and better abilities to apply their knowledge in ways that aren't spelled out for them by patronizing tech companies like Google and Apple pushing their walled gardens.

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.

Better than iPad kids. Not ideal obviously, but still far better.

iPads (and mobile devices/OS's generally) are designed to be as simplistic and easily understood as possible. They abstract away complexity, have to make menus less cluttered and make buttons larger to accommodate how people use them, and the lower power processors also mean less functionality than desktop-based systems.

If you grow up using less shit, you'll learn how to use less shit.

I teach in a makerspace and I have to start every new class by teaching the basics of using a mouse and keyboard. It is really hard to teach 3D modelling to students who have no idea what modifier keys or a scroll wheel is.

I miss the laptop generation. The phones are good for consuming they are not good for creating.

Put my 2 yo in front of CS 1.6 the other day. She managed to switch the game from one screen to the other and I have no idea how. Guess I’m going for the next donk then.

My kids will be playing the same sacred edutainment games from 1992-2005 as I did on a virtual Windows XP machine and this is unironically a hard non-negotiable for any serious long term partner

superior look of desktop gamer supremacy

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.

Desktop kid checking in.

Like the gods intended, with Model M keyboard and US robotics dial-up.

linux is the computers i grew up with

i went raspbian -> fedora -> ubuntu -> macos -> opensuse -> fedora

gameboy kids

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.