The other benefit of being in highschool is many people have loads of time to spend.

I honestly don’t know if there is any advice I can give to someone with a fulltime job and care giving responsibilities that would be convincing.

I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about how nobody can get through the AI filters when applying for jobs.

These are the people who get through the filters.

but the advice is that instead of pointing, tell a riddle

Since I started learning enough about computers that I have a reason to be hanging out in forums and issue trackers I’ve really changed the way I think about tech problems.

From feedback given to me, and to others, and from general posting guidelines, I learned to be more systematic about looking for answer. Going through the process of writing out in full what happened can clarify things. I often start writing a question, never to post it because it gets solved half way through. Assemble the logs. Check the environment isn’t wonky somehow. Upgrade everything. Check the docs. Check the latest release notes. Verify the details.

I’ve always been comfortable with the software side of computers but I have a lot more confidence lately because of all this. But I never would have been able to learn it on my own. Equally important as the thinking is that I know I can lean on community members to help me get through those cognitive bottlenecks. By reading the vast archives of prior discussions and problem solving, and occasionally asking my own, or even answering if possible, I’m getting smarter at my areas of interest every year.

But I wasn’t born knowing that, nor was it kept from me. I got socialized into a certain way of doing and thinking things that is appropriate to these situations. There is no reason why any newcomer would arrive so socialized. So you need to bring them through the process.

Must point out that this essay was published in 2006. World of Warcraft was big 2002-2006 yes? So @jnod4 is mistaken about having grown up on the good old days.

Also mistaken, as you point out, that any such experience can be generalized to the rest of a generation.

I’m not much of a gamer at any stage of life but I feel like there is a ton of modding going on and there are certain games that are very well known for it. I’m sure there are opportunities to get into stuff for younger people.

Tho I do agree with the general sentiment that slick interfaces and anti-hacking legislation really does us all a disservice.

one of the major benefits of going to school is you can learn stuff your parents don’t know or can’t teach.

In your country, when you were a child, how many parents out of 1000 knew more than a computer teacher about computing?

You are advocating for a world where only the children of the educated can become educated.

Technology has really slowed down a lot since that time. There is less public investment and corporations sure as shit aren’t going to finance all their own R&D. So why bother?

There’s no virtue in needlessly cycling through new devices all the time just to satisfy one’s own emotions.

No I’m one of those “think!” nutjobs

We’re trying to have an intelligent discussion here.

You think every Lemmy admin should be forced to fed with CSAM instances, and therefor host on their own servers CSAM? Wow great plan you have for expanding the fediverse.

It would be solved for people who are primarily interested in tech and gaming. How about bellow challenges?

Gaming is huge so presumably lots of gamers are interested in the wider world, which is not exactly well represented here compared to the major platforms.

And we can’t ignore the inherent complexities of federation. If a user signs up to another instance but for some reason that instance (or game 's instance) is blocked by others or even goes offline, then it will be confusing if not ruining of their experience.

the above comment was written by a person who’s lack of understanding of consent suggests they are almost certainly guilty of sex crimes.