This is exactly my worry. Usually the reason a VPN is free is because they’re selling your data on the backend. No thank you.

I mean they do sometimes without the proper safety protocols in place, but you still blame the user in the end.

There it is again. Have a day.

The opening of every comment you’ve made. Each one was sprinkled with belittling phrases. Saying I don’t understand nuance, or “spelling it out for me.” Perhaps if you didn’t go complete aggressor and wanted to participate in a discussion, you would realize our viewpoints aren’t that different. But that’s not how you wanted to handle this.

Perhaps that’s how you’ve been talked to, or always talked to people, or you’re just used to immature internet commenting, so you don’t realize how inappropriate or immature it is. In any case, I’m no longer going to continue this conversation. Have a good day.

You know what apparently you didn’t work on during school? Basic discussion techniques and the ability to be civil.

Computers have nothing to do with it. It’s everything to do with curriculum requirements and the lack of explorative reading thanks to standardized testing. Other countries like China, Taiwan, and Finland have been able to adopt technology with no loss in reading literacy. It’s because they have focused, thought out integration and not just slapdash by whatever corporation gives them the best deal.

I totally agree though. It seems like right now either kids are stuck in front of a computer with no prep or any other supplemental education, or they’re completely unplugged and unprepared for interacting with technology outside of an iPhone.

I don’t disagree. We need better computer literacy programs in school. But removing technology from learning 100% isn’t the alternative. Those parents are still probably going to stick an unregulated, fully accessible iPhone in their kids hands where they’re going on Instagram and tiktok with no media literacy skills. How is that any better?

I don’t disagree at all. However, no kid can go tech free in school and be prepared for any sort of productive existence afterwards. Yes, that sucks. Yes, it also sucks that the majority of our experience is measured in productivity. But that’s capitalism. I wish it weren’t that way.

These parents certainly aren’t going to prepare to prepare their kids for a digital future. Heck, they’re probably falling for the same AI garbage their kids are going to fall victim to. Just like everything else, literacy needs to be part of the school curriculum.

I really don’t know why a bunch of people savvy enough to be on a federated social platform are so against this. It’s bonkers to me.

How did I miss the point? You said you didn’t use a computer in school until college, and then you talked about shoving mainstream bloatware into kids eyes. I don’t see how I missed those points. I’m also assuming when you went to college was a different point on time than it is right now. As you know, a lot has changed in the computer and online scene in the last 6 years, and exponentially moreso in the last 3.

And for those people who don’t become engineers? What about those kids who don’t have access to a computer outside of the phone in their pocket? If we want to increase computer literacy, it has to be in schools because it’s definitely not going to be at home in the vast majority of cases.

We don’t need kids going analog unless they choose a career path in a computer-related field. We need schools to be teaching proper computer and media literacy to prepare them not only for a work future, but a media future filled with AI slop and grifters. Not teaching them these valuable skills is how we get kids in their 20s right now getting their news from a fish on tiktok.

Every one of these parents uses technology in their work, I’m betting. They’re seeing their kids up to be under prepared for the future. These are probably the same parents who complain that they don’t teach cursive in schools anymore.

What a fucking child.

I would really like to, but I don’t have the ability to host my own server and set all of that up. So for now, centralized it is.

Downloaded Root, exported my server. Just waiting for all my friends to transition over.

I’m fine with all of these CEOs giving me even more reasons to not support AAA companies and give my money to indies.

Correct. Scientists have done studies on vibrations from plants and they have a reaction to being cut and pulled that could be equated to a “pain” response.

Don’t order from Amazon. Easy fix.

It’s hilarious that this dude thinks he’s a boxer, yet the first time he legit gets punched in the face his jaw breaks.