"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 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That's what I'm thinking. They can have a computer they can talk to their friends on, but it won't be an ipad. I might even book them into typing and excel courses when they're older. They'll hate it, but you never actually get taught to do any of the basic things you do in the workplace. Like how every business uses excel but it's never formally taught anywhere. As far as I'm concerned all highschool mathematics should be done in spreadsheets instead of on scientific calculators.

[–] LittleFellaNamedBoof@hexbear.net 1 points 8 hours ago

I'd say the best way to do it is make it an interactive and exciting event. Buy them a nice laptop (maybe a framework build it yourself kit so they can put it together) and then sit down with them and watch some videos on different linux distros. Look at how things can be customized. Then let them pick a distro to install on it. Let them do the work while you guide them. The excitment of having their own computer will outweigh the work of having to do all that and they'll learn during the process. And using a linux machine will be a constant learning experience for them too.