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   david (david@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:18:12 JST david

   if i ever had a kid im gonna punish them by making them install arch linux or making them install DOS by reading instructions
   
   most parents will say no fortnite for a week. not me tho

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     @david installing DOS is hardly a punishment
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     @david if you wanted your "punishment" to have teeth, you would make them install lfs
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     @david I installed DOS when I was that age fine (5-6ish)
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     david (david@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:19:41 JST david

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     @allison@hidamari.apartments i mean if ur a 5 yr old then its not like a walk in the park i guess lol

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     @david I didn't have a phone when I was that age, just an ancient PDA and a Pentium laptop (pic related)
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     david (david@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:25:27 JST david

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     @allison@hidamari.apartments well most ppl fried their brain from tiktok nowadays lol

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     @david it had its ups and downs, honestly, it was a super archaic laptop even then, the only reason I had access to it was because it was junk that nobody else wanted
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     david (david@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:25:41 JST david

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     @allison@hidamari.apartments it was a different time. better times tbh

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     @david @root that one is more appropriate for 10yos I think
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     david (david@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:29:44 JST david

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     @root@mk.moth.zone I will have to give hints for that one but maybe :P

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     Chesapeake (shark edition) (root@mk.moth.zone)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:29:49 JST Chesapeake (shark edition)

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     @david@hollow.raccoon.quest block all their devices from the wifi
     
     when they learn how to spoof a MAC address? congratulations. you passed this test

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     @david @root (which is tbh the age range I was assuming with OP)
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:30:34 JST Phantasm

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     @david @allison For tinkers, yes. For a normal computer user? Definitely no. Managing IRQ conflicts yourself and figuring out why DMA wasn't working wasn't fun for most. In the 486 days custom computers barely existed and building one wasn't a LEGO set like it is today. Motherboards required manual jumper settings that changed the voltage it gave to the CPU and messing that up could easily kill your CPU.
     
     I would like to return to those times, as everything was much more hands on. One of the reasons why the generation that grew up with these computers usually knows what they were doing. Everything was later abstracted and now teenagers barely now how a computer functions.
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     @phnt @david tfw no magic smoke
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     @phnt @david I was too young/lucky to really be affected by the plague, most stuff we bought around that time either just worked for the expected lifespan or failed for completely unrelated reasons (Pentium D moment)
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:33:06 JST Phantasm

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     @allison @david The smell of blown capacitors in the capacitor plague :)
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     @david @root you slowly have them work their way up to it, also you have their computers run openbsd
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     david (david@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:33:39 JST david

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     @allison@hidamari.apartments @root@mk.moth.zone how will they figure it out without internet tho? can't google how to do it

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     @david @root who needs it, fortnite is bloat
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     david (david@hollow.raccoon.quest)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:34:33 JST david

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     @allison@hidamari.apartments @root@mk.moth.zone yeh but no fortnite

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     @phnt @david I believe the Pentium 4 gaming desktop I first used Linux on still works correctly including all original parts (except upgraded RAM) but I haven't been able to test it in quite a while
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 05:36:41 JST Phantasm

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     @allison @david I was born right in the capacitor plague and surprisingly no computer was destroyed by it in our household. Our old 486 before the plague still works and the two Pentium 4 systems built right in the middle of the plague still work flawlessly (including the original PSUs).