If you've had to mess around with EMM386 and HIMEM settings to play Wing Commander 2, you win.
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I just want to point out that I was somewhat tech literate in the 2000s. and The Mac OS still scared me.
Omg, this is the best early-morning laugh that I've had in a long time. Mac-nerd, here. From childhood. Also a Linux nerd for servers. This is so great that I immediately sent it to friends in tech. I'm still laughing like a nut.
I learned because I was torrenting and broke the family windows computer. It was either fix it or get grounded.
Is the hypothesis that Windows being constantly broken forces you to learn how to fix it ? Because that’s kinda what happened to me 😆
I switched to Linux after my experience with Windows Millennium Edition. Many people have since referred to me as some sort of programming genius and hacker.....I don't know crap about any of that. I've simply followed instructions and referred to the help communities, whenever I've had trouble. Using the mainstream distributions (I'm guessing) has kept me from having much trouble.
I think my kids may benefit, as my wife only uses Mac, I have 2 Ubuntus and a Mint, and the kids use Chromebooks at school. We have 2 iPad and a Galaxy tab in the house. 1 kid has an Android phone and the other an iPhone. My wife and I both have flagship Android phones.
Sometimes it's fun to watch them debate over which systems they prefer, depending on the school projects they work on.
Mixed messages here: "I’ve simply followed instructions and referred to the help communities, whenever I’ve had trouble." Fellow human, those are the actions of a programming genius and hacker. The bar is remarkably low. A lot of people can't even read what it says on the screen.
Peoples' definition on programming is unclear.
I watched two people argue if Dennis Ritchie or Mark Zuckerberg is better at programming in comments on a youtube video about C.
And they are relatively tech-savy if they watch those videos.
Mac not being able to play any games forced me to mess around with other operating systems on it
Looking at the comments, it occurs to me that we're not a representative section of the online community.
Were literally people who went out of their way to not use a conventional/commercial tech product.
I wonder what the % of people on here is who have built a pc, used a raspberry pi or installed Linux compared to the outside world.
Considering linux, self hosting and open source gets mentioned in every community here... I'd say it's a significant amount
I also bet the % is very high.
I wouldn't even consider myself especially techy compared to Lemmy, but I've done all of those things.
I would bet the number is extremely high. I've done all these things.
Hah, the joke's one you: some of us are too cheap for using a Raspberry Pi and instead use chinese Pi clones!
Beaglebone checking in! Although I have splurged for a hardware packet sniffer.
I played education games on a Apple II in 1998; I was in the first grade.
Discluded? Are you sure you don't mean excounted?
No, discounted
oh nice, 20% off
Must be hard to understand these terms as an American I guess.
I used MacOS for a bit, switched to Windows, then when I was 15 I installed Linux :3
Granted I do very much have autism
I used MS-DOS as a kid and installed Windows 98 when I was 12. Started to use Linux in my 20s.
Granted I am old.
Used DOS and an IBM Selectric II in highschool. Installed windows 3.1.1 in college. W95 at my first job. Upgraded to them all to W98, ME, 2000, 7, 8, 10, and 11
Installed Linux the first time with Unbuntu Warty Warthog. Had the CD mailed to me.
I still managed to fuck up GRUB today again.... because I'm very talented apparently.
Did you really stick it out all the way from Win2K to Windows 7?
Can you even call yourself a Linux user if you didn't fuck up GRUB a few times? 😀
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