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Re: Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

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Post by apocalypstyx »

formercoder wrote: post #89
mixmastamyk wrote: post #78

Tech banned in my house :D - Windows and telemetry-based apps. I do have a VM for a work VPN however. - Google, except the school district forced an exception. - Youtube, unless supervised on a shared anonymous tablet. - Double-click and other advertising sites. - Third-party cookies, and most third-party javascript. - No giving out information to any site, make it up if required. - Alexa etc, wife uses Siri. As you…

Maybe the internet is a different place now but if these restrictions were placed on me as a kid I never would have grown up to be who I am today.

This is a false premise. It looks at it from the perspective of what you would loose now. But if other things had happened in your life, that would be the you that is. There would be no comparison because the you who is now wouldn't be and never would have been to consider not being.

Re: Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

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Post by walrus01 »

cowmix wrote: post #6

Now that my kids are officially "grown" (18+), here were/are my tech rules for the house: 1) We (my wife and I) do not want to know any of your passwords. 2) No content filters on any device or router level. 3) Mixed OSes (we had Linux, MacOS and Windows in the house). 4) NEVER share your passwords with friends. 5) Anything you email, txt or post to anyone... consider it public. Nothing online is private. 6) No conso…

6) no consoles

I have a hundred times more confidence that microsoft and sony will keep the xbox one and PS4 operating systems up to date, patched and reasonably secure than I do that random cloud-based internet-of-shit consumer electronics vendors will maintain product security.

Re: Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

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Post by acituan »

formercoder wrote: post #89
mixmastamyk wrote: post #78

Tech banned in my house :D - Windows and telemetry-based apps. I do have a VM for a work VPN however. - Google, except the school district forced an exception. - Youtube, unless supervised on a shared anonymous tablet. - Double-click and other advertising sites. - Third-party cookies, and most third-party javascript. - No giving out information to any site, make it up if required. - Alexa etc, wife uses Siri. As you…

Maybe the internet is a different place now but if these restrictions were placed on me as a kid I never would have grown up to be who I am today.

What percentage of these technologies were available when you were a kid? Chances are addictive nature of these engagement driven websites would have sucked up our curiosity and autodidactism to an extent that there wouldn’t be much time left for actually doing hands on experimentation, self-directing our research, coming to our own conclusions and experience inventiveness that come from boredom. I think this downside is more important in comparison to the information they make available.

Re: Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

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Post by aaomidi »

Rules for my kids:

If you're over 10 years of age you should know what your limits are. I'm always going to be here for advice and help to get yourself back up from an accident or something that went wrong. I won't block content. I won't demand access to their phones. I won't shame them in any way.

I'm also planning on being sex and body positive. Nudity isn't inherently sexual and shame is a social construct. Nothing should be forced on my kids and unless they actually agree with me on plans I won't force them to do anything.

Re: Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

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Post by endgame »

cowmix wrote: post #45
protomyth wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently the GP is part of the "PC Master Race" and will not tolerate "console peasants" in the house. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Master_Race

I don't know all about this PC Master Race stuff. Basically, I wanted my kids to have to maintain, build a system to play games. When my kids were young Minecraft JUST came out. They both learned A LOT about modding early. If they were stuck on consoles they probably would have missed out on all that.

Consoles are consumption devices. PCs are creation devices.

Re: Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

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Post by GoofballJones »

I just use technology. I never was a windows kind of person, just didn't gell with it. I was more unix. I know that system. I know what it does and why it does things. I could have done that with windows, but just never wanted to.

I guess I was more of a tinkerer than the author of this piece, which is why I went with Linux. And I'm talking Linux when Linus first put it out there decades ago.

Before that, I tinkered with DOS, of course. Windows 3.1. OS/2. Windows NT. But, like I said, it just didn't gell with me. Linux was where it was, and still is. Yes, I've gotten Macs because again, with OS X, they were unix and I knew the underlaying structure. I didn't really find the need to install a gaming OS like Windows, because I'm not a gamer and that's basically all I saw it offering.

And now? I don't allow any Google products in my home. I don't even use Chrome nor any Chromium derived browser. And absolutely no Android.

No Amazon Alexa anything.

No "smart" devices at all. No "Internet of Things" BS.

Re: Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

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Post by krick »

LegitShady wrote: post #14
dijit wrote: post #5

I am genuinely sick to death of people taking up arms in some sort of faction war against their supposed "opponent" technology. I see it everywhere. PlayStation or Xbox! PCMR or Console! MacOS or Windows! iOS or Android! Disturbing tribalism. Liking Apple does not make you cool, not liking Apple does not make you cool. Apple produces hardware and software, it is not a religion. I see so many people taking up arms aga…

I think it's a combination of human nature and a side effect of marketing. Since neither human nature or marketing are liable to go away any time soon I doubt the team mentality to buying things will either.

"Side effect"? Good advertisers do whatever they can to trigger that part of human nature. Actually, Apple's "I'm a Mac" campaign was entirely about this very thing from the very beginning.

Re: Tech my dad banned in our house when I was a kid

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Post by Spooky23 »

dijit wrote: post #5

I am genuinely sick to death of people taking up arms in some sort of faction war against their supposed "opponent" technology. I see it everywhere. PlayStation or Xbox! PCMR or Console! MacOS or Windows! iOS or Android! Disturbing tribalism. Liking Apple does not make you cool, not liking Apple does not make you cool. Apple produces hardware and software, it is not a religion. I see so many people taking up arms aga…

Back in the day, having a MacBook gave you way more nerd cred than the school issued Thinkpad or cheap ass Dell that everyone had.

More exotic power tools are similar. Before I start butchering a project, anyone with a clue can spot my Ryobi or harbor freight junk and know I’m a noob.

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