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[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 44 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think so too. My kids are around the age I was when I first started tinkering with PCs, but they don't have any awareness of what's going on under the hood, (to be frank, nor do they seem to need it, as everything is so polished these days).

I'm thinking of asking their teachers if I can take them out of school for a day each and bring them to work with me for educational purposes so they get some perspective in the form of networks and servers.

Sure, they're mostly interested in gaming, but I want them to see what kind of infrastructure is needed for a multiplayer game, specifically the hardware that they never get to see.

I'm building a new server stack in a couple of months, and most of it will be used for testing, so I'd like for them to help build and connect it.

[-] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 4 months ago

(to be frank, nor do they seem to need it, as everything is so polished these days)

The problem is if you don't know basic concepts of computers you cannot transfer your knowledge from one program to the next. Folder structures are a bizarre thing for many people and if they see one in program A, then they won't understand that in program B it works the same way.

I have never had any issues learning any new software from scratch, but I see people my age not figuring out where to click next or where something they are looking for might be hidden in the options. Then an update comes that changes things and they are back to square 1 and helpless.

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 48 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I just had a chat with my oldest (almost 13 years y.o.) asking him some theoretical questions in the hope to spark some curiosity: "When you connect to a Roblox game, what do you think you're connecting to?". It took him a few leaps of imagination to realize that he's connecting to a physical machine somewhere, and now he's curious as to how such a machine looks. So that server stack I'll be setting up, he's interested in tagging along.

He already knows full well that there are more to PCs than just the windows UI, as I'm a linux guy, but I don't think they're aware of just how much can be done with a computer once you go outside of the usual GUI app that connects to some cloud service.

So, provided that his teacher agrees (after all, I have to take him out of school for what effectively will be "alternative education" for a few days so we can fly down to the head office), he'll end up with bragging rights of having dealt network hardware that costs more than the average computer, and computers that cost more than the average house.

[-] Maerman@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 months ago

Good on you. You can teach your son some valuable perspective, while getting in some quality time as well. Please let us know how it goes, if you don't mind. I feel invested now.

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 9 points 4 months ago

Remind me in two months, and I'll tell you what's happening.

[-] kionite231@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago

!remind 2 months

do we have something like this on lemmy?

[-] neidu2@feddit.nl 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

No idea. I'll look into creating one.

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago

@RemindMe@programming.dev exists, but im not sure if it is whitelisted

2 months

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Best I can do is “[voice assistant] remind me about that post in two months”

Drat, gotta open the reminder and paste in the comment URL too. Do wonder if that bot mentioned is whitelisted or not. More social, beyond just being native. And hopefully it has “send me a PM to reduce spam”