TheInternetCanBeNice

TheInternetCanBeNice , 1 year ago to technology in "Kids Can't Use Computers" is now ten years old, and it's only gotten worse

I’m going to go a bit further and say that kids today are not worse than in the past. It’s been 20 years since I taught computers but the doom and gloom here could have easily been posted in 2002 with only minor rewording.

GUIs got good with the launch of the Mac in 1984, and by the launch of XP Mac OS X in ‘01 good GUIs were cheap. This brought computers into way more homes and exposed them both to kids who liked them for their own sake and to kids who saw them primarily as a tool.

I think people like this handwringing about kids not understanding computers on a deep enough level for their taste are just being obtuse.

I write software now instead of teaching and I write the kind of software that people should be able to just use as a tool.

We’ve had 20 years where the vast majority of computer users understand latin better than they understand their computers. It’s fine. It’ll continue to be fine.

TheInternetCanBeNice , 1 year ago to nostupidquestions in Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?

Maybe the post has been edited between when you posted and now, but that’s not what OP is saying.

He’s saying that people don’t want to use SMS. They want to message him via some other platform.

Honestly, I’m the same way. I don’t like SMS and talk to my friends on Android via WhatsApp.

Especially for group chats of any kind, SMS is garbage compared WhatsApp, Signal, or Threema.

TheInternetCanBeNice , 1 year ago to nostupidquestions in Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?

These schools are using iPads in place of computer labs. I’m old enough to have actually managed a computer lab, and I can tell you that a fleet of managed iPads is way easier to maintain than a computer lab.