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mac people/kids are wealthier, so yeah they'd have better academic scores, generally.
Linux people are the insufferable know it all who just inject themselves into things to brag about how superior and smart they are for an arbitrary operating system choice.
the computing equivalent of that football dad who brags to everyone how good has in high school and how he could have gone pro.
Did Linus Torvalds sleep with your wife or something
I think that Mac people will score significantly lower than Windows users because the OS is built for people with zero technical literacy.
I think there is some selection bias there with your analysis of Linux people. Maybe you only know the ones that interject because they have interject. Meanwhile a lot of Linux veterans don't bring it up because we don't want to answer questions about it.
it's a joke about lemmy users dude. and how insufferable they are about linux and all the twats in this thread bragging about how they learned linux in grade school like it's a contest to prove how hardcore and smarter they are.
The windows kids know more because there was a possibility some stuff might work with the right sequence of rituals. The mac kids just knew not to try because nothing will work
Shit, I shouldn't have ordered that Ubuntu CD as a kid.
If we're talking post-year-2k macs, you're de-facto going to skew the results as those were less affordable than budget family windows boxes.
When I was 10, I installed BackTrack (now Kali Linux) because I liked its background and theme and thought it would look cool to show my classmates
Ignoring data to prove your hypothesis is correct sounds like polling.
Good studies correct for outliers.
To correct, you have to measure them first. How else would you know how much to correct. Measure the variable to control for it is basic good practice.
God damnit.
I remember toting around a Linux textbook in 7th grade, because I had just started messing with it.
Same year I got my General and Advanced ham radio licenses.
Does this make me autistic?
7th grade in the US is about 12 years old.
Legitimate question, no judgment. When did you first get laid? If you have yet.
Same year I got my General and Advanced ham radio licenses
Damn, you sound like you were super cool haha
no, it makes you an insufferable nerd though.
I'm not a doctor, so I won't guess, but...what's your favorite train?
I really dig futuristic ones similar to high speed rails. I do love variety between Steampunk/Solarpunk/Cyberpunk.
That's easy, The Lionel No. 381E "State Brown" Passenger Cars are 🔥🔥🔥
Hmmm... do you struggle with understanding sarcasm and figures of speech? Do you often feel like you are manually learning social norms like a robot, rather than understanding things intuitively? Does eye contact feel awkward? Do you often communicate in a literal manner and get misinterpreted as rude or blunt?
Do you feel upset or angry when plans or routines are changed/interrupted? Do you feel like you are overly hyperfixated on any specific topics or interests that you could ramble about for hours on end? Do you have problems with reading people's intentions or emotions? Do you feel like you are overly sensitive to touch, noise, sounds, taste, or textures?
These are actual questions to think about. I say this as someone who's been legitimately diagnosed since 2008. If you answered yes to all or most of these questions, it might be time to visit a doctor.
figures of speech
Speech lacks a physical form and thus cannot have a 'figure'
No, but I do think all of those things are generally kind of stupid and annoying, and frankly, boring as hell.
if anything if find the predictability of people's norms and emotional reactions to be depressing as fuck. and their intentions, to be scary in how selfish they often are.
The most important question when it comes to adult autism diagnoses: can you afford to talk to a doctor? I'm pretty sure my wallet would burst into flames like a vampire entering sunlight if I walked into a psychologist's office
How has getting the diagnosis helped things for you?
I was a 4-year-old still only learning how to properly communicate on an age-appropriate level, so I needed specialised therapy. I had ABA therapy to teach me facial expressions, communication, and other things. I'm also legally disabled.
Fair.
I wrote a program in Basic on my Commodore 64 at 6.
I didn’t know how to save my work. I typed and manually proofread code for three hours. It worked. The program was lost when I powered it down.
Counter argument: boomers who needed to type commands and swap disks to get a word processor loaded, who knew all the hotkeys required to issue commands and the alt-codes for special characters, who today cannot figure out where the file they were working on saved to.
those aren't the same boomers.
I'm GenX but this is me. I hate modern computing and the cloud in particular. SharePoint is a close second. I think the last excellent word processor was WordPerfect 5.1. Everything since then is worse than the version before it.
Discluded? I have another hypothesis.
I have a third hypothesis to add to the mix..
Disclude is a verb that means to exclude or omit something.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/disclude_v (sorry, paywalled).
Ditch OED, befriend Wiktionary
disclude (third-person singular simple present discludes, present participle discluding, simple past and past participle discluded)
(transitive)
(now nonstandard)
Okay, if a fucking dictionary is paywalled we have gone way beyond the red line for social recovery.
Those who use the verb discluded should probably be discluded.
Even autocorrect discludes this as a valid word.
It's perfectly cromulent
But what if OP remains intragnisent?
From the context it is clear what you mean.
I started on an Apple computer before macs were a thing, the Apple IIe, but my next computer was a Windows 3.1 one and I never went back to Apple.
My first computer was some kind of IBM with a floppy disk drive and Chip's Challenge.
First computers at school were the iMAC G3s with Zoombinis
Hell yeah, Chips Challenge. I have a copy somewhere, want to sit down one day and beat it fully. Always had to stop since people needed to use the pc.
It had passwords so you could always start it back up on the level you were on. That game was too tough for me as a kid, it also got scary ha