• SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    92 here. My boys 10 and 8 have their own machines, they are told to Google it first before I come help.

    “I’m not raising end users…get your shit together kid.”

    Love,

    SysEngineer Dad.

    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      fellow tech dad here. how did you strike the balance between “look up shit online” and “hiding the terrors and lies of the internet from my kids”?

      Mine’s still little, but knowing sooner is better.

      • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
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        9 days ago

        I have the Microsoft safety shit on, and I made every site they can go to a web app. My router blocks nsfw/nonkid traffic. My phone gets notifications when they do anything at all.

        And I have extensions blocking all nsfw sites just in case. And I’ve nuked the entry for any web browser on their start menu and task bars. Can’t even scroll to find it. If you open it, it requires my admin PW, which is 14char #$@-123-ABC so good luck turds.

        Steam is locked down in kid mode - also they just play Roblox or cool math games anyways lol. Steam has browser disabled.

        Only things they have access to is Bing.com with their signed in kid account. And coolmathgames.com.

        It took about a week on and off to setup and I just did the two laptops in tandem. Windows 11.

        The family thing can be a pain, Microsoft has a lot of half baked ideas https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/how-to-set-up-parental-controls-on-a-windows-11-pc

        • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
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          9 days ago

          My parents and school administrators’ attempts at blocking unsanctioned activities is what taught me computer literacy

          There was nothing quite as satisfying as getting caught opening addictinggames on a web browser through a proxy when the teacher was convinced they had blocked it completely.

          • The_v@lemmy.world
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            9 days ago

            My son’s group in middle school hosted their own proxy overseas. They then pirated a whole bunch of educational videos that the teachers liked to use and made nice clean interface. The games pages had no direct links on the educational videos screens. They had to type in the the page directly in the URL.

            So the teachers all loved the site and gave the official “approved for all students” bypass on the districts Chromebooks. The kids had uninterrupted access to all their games.

            The kids were smart enough to keep the location of the games to students with a B or higher GPA. Most of the teachers turned a blind eye to them playing games when they did get caught. The games pages also had a home button that sent the students screens to a random educational video. I was truly impressed with their clever approach.

            The IT department either never caught on or enjoyed the games themselves because its still up and they are all in highschool now.

  • Radioactive Butthole@reddthat.comEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Gen Z/A are good at using tech, but they don’t really know anything about how it works. I work in IT support and it can honestly be a tossup sometimes if the person who doesnt know how to clear their cache is a boomer or not.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
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    10 days ago

    I wonder: Has this happened with anything else?

    Where an older generation struggled to understand at all, a middle generation adapted to it early enough to witness all of the quirks, and then a later generation was born into an already-smoothed out system — and they all lived simultaneously?

    Seems like a uniquely modern thing, but then again agriculture and clothing and currency have all had periods of rapid change in the past.

    Like were there Generation F dudes out there like “omg we’re the only ones who understand knitting frames smh”?