"Sister Kathaliynnry, you made a simple error, you only reset the Mirror of Many Pixels, not the Tower of Processing. My Millennial Master Father Steve taught me such, may the Omnissiah watch over his soul."

"I pray for the birth of the Star Millennial to usher in the new golden age of tech!"

Edit: I was kinda hoping the response to this post would more be people joking about my Warhammer reference, but instead y'all be posting serious analysis here. Real buzzkill.

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[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 25 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I've heard about this since old people have been able to avoid technology until phones and tablets, and kids have been brought up with phones, tablets and consoles. There was only one window of people who grew up 'going on the computer'. My dad took some computer courses back in the DOS days but I wasn't really taught anything through school or any official body. It was really more from needing to troubleshoot things on the computer all the time and seeing the transition from dial-up to broadband when the internet became more accessible.

I want to mitigate this with my kids by restricting their phone time and giving them the oldest functioning Linux computer I can with relatively few restrictions. I have this dual core ultrabook with 4gb RAM from 2012 that still works with Mint on it now. They can play with that, figure out how to pirate games and get them running with WINE and whatever else on there.

I feel my issue will be other parents that are either boomer-style tech illiterate or just not as interested. They'll just get their kids Switches and tablets, then that's what my kids will want to play with their friends. Instead of learning how to host my own Luanti server for my kids and their friends, they'll want a tablet to go on Roblox or a Switch for Fortnite.

[–] LittleFellaNamedBoof@hexbear.net 18 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I think something that has largely been forgotten in the modern day but is 100% true is that one of the biggest parts of being a good parent is not giving your kids all the things they want. It's like eating vegetables instead of candy. You can have a little candy if you want sure, but you need to be mostly eating healthy. Even if you hate it. Kids are blank slates. You as the parent are not just telling them what to do you are literally engraining habits in them that will follow them into adulthood. If you teach them good habits and they grow into healthy adults they might not even realize what a favor you did for them, but their lives will certainly be better for it.

[–] IvarK@hexbear.net 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I agree with you somewhat, but i gotta say most of my peers who grew up pre smartphones/tablets being ubiquitous (late 2000s) with parents that were strict around screen time etc. “for their own good” didn’t really end up being thankful for the great habits that reinforced. Most just became resentful that they were excluded from partaking in their favorite activities with their friends (i.e. hanging out with irl friends in runescape or whatever you did in 2009)

[–] LittleFellaNamedBoof@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Where do you disagree? Was this thing I said not directly related to the concern you mentioned?

If you teach them good habits and they grow into healthy adults they might not even realize what a favor you did for them, but their lives will certainly be better for it.

[–] IvarK@hexbear.net 1 points 8 minutes ago

I’m sorry if you felt that I misunderstood your point. It was not my intention to do a bad-faith reading, my apologies if I inadvertently did.

I think I was more trying to express my gut reaction to what I perceived as a similar line of reasoning to what I grew up hearing from parents (mine were cool but others around me) of “you can play video games for an hour on weekends as a treat but otherwise you have to be outside and play sports whether you want to or not”. These types of arguments never went over well with any of my friends, and usually just resulted in resentment and them finding ways to sneak away and be on the computer at my house or whatever.

I hope that clarifies my feelings I was trying to express!