Fun. I didn’t grow up issuing a Mac, not did I grow up using Windows… Nor Linux.

When I started on computers, we used DOS.

I’m old.

I’m not old enough to remember punch cards, I was solidly in the x86 generation, but still.

For the record, I do IT support now. I’m the one that helps you with your printer.

Can we stop throwing around “autistic” for anything? Have people actually ever met autistic kids? It as nothing to do about having uncommon interest, it imply much more things then that.

back in the 80’s, whole rooms of Apple Computers sat empty, all day, everyday. At all the different schools i went to as a child.

I assume it’s because none of the teachers wanted to learn them, it was real fucking shitty growing up surrounded by so many stupid fucks.

but now, soon, AI will be x1000000000⁷ better teachers. So at least the children will have an actual chance in this world, and so many of them won’t choose liberal arts as their course of studies. -all that time they were just disciplining the children

A home-built (from a set) one-board computer counts as what?

The Picard Maneuver, inciting violence once again, I see. tips fedora

I started on Commodore (Vic20 that I don’t remember much, C64, and A500) mostly with a tiny bit of Atari and then was on Windows at home for decades (I tried installing Linux (Mandrake and Redhat) back when it fit on a floppy, but without a lot of success). I guess I’m too old and not neurotypical enough?

I take it someone has already pointed out that excluded was the word wanted?

Is Dragon 32 a Mac or Windows computer?

Run a second correlation on the incomes of these families and the tech literacy of their children and see what you find. I have a hypothesis.

The thing with Macs is you don’t have to spend 80% of your time troubleshooting them. I love my Mac and OS X. I boot it up, log in, and don’t have to think about it. The UI is very intuitive and easy to use as well.

I’m curious what her hypothesis is, I don’t think there is a correlation at all personally, seen a ton of people who know nothing about their computers regardless of Mac/Windows as their primary os.

Should’ve written “Mac PCs” just to mess with people.

If you’ve had to mess around with EMM386 and HIMEM settings to play Wing Commander 2, you win.

Is the hypothesis that Windows being constantly broken forces you to learn how to fix it ? Because that’s kinda what happened to me 😆

I grew up on Mac and only switched to Windows when I was 30. lol

I still wonder what Linux is like… It’s probably cool.