When I met my now wife’s 13 year old, his first question was “So I’m building a Linux machine, which file system should I use?”

We had a good discussion about the pros and cons of the different file systems.

He’s gone on in the AI space, speaking at conferences and delivering papers and such.

I want to know more about the school. Public? Private?

The nature is healing!

This is wholesome as hell.

Young people interested in tech always existed but there was half a generation long phase where it was just “people being raised by their parents to work at google one day.”

Computers don’t inherently mean “corporate” in peoples head and are becoming a hobby again.

Now teach the kid about salvaging old hardware, repurposing old laptops as low-power servers. It’s a lot easier to justify for a kid than the expense of buying stuff, and greener.

The name of that 10 year old, Rebecca.

Hope that some part of the world will continue to be like you? And if it is, that means it’s good for humanity? That’s…existential ego?

Well, certainly that wasn’t in Germany.

And then there was me that at school we were still using 286s with turbo pascal during the windows XP era

Edit: it was hilarious that the computers didn’t have an hard drive and every student had to have a bootable floppy with dos 5 or something like that, on this way the teacher didn’t have to worry about viruses and hard disk corruption lol

What about teaching them about socialism?

I’ll take ‘things that never happened’ for 200$.

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