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   iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 12:55:57 JST iced depresso

   • zonk
   @zonk they have been its just the computers are designed for paypigs now instead of augmenting the user
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     @icedquinn @zonk Who remembers back when BASIC was included with pretty much every home computer? :blobfoxgoogly:
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 13:06:35 JST iced depresso

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     @tk @zonk yeah thats basically the biggest problem. someone said termux was their on-ramp to real computing and it made me a little sad.
     
     then the person i related the story to got upset that i called termux an onramp :ablobcateyeroll:
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 13:09:22 JST iced depresso

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     @tk @zonk i read some article this week about 'digital courses' being mandatory in schools now. the teachers were like we don't really like the software. and the students were unhappy about the machines robotic lack of understanding when they would write answers that are maybe correct but not the keyword the syllabus was specifically coded to accept
     
     the school admins answer was basically 'cope'
     
     reminds me of how much of creativity has died and given way to 'what word lets you do', doodles and runes gone because keyboards don't do that, and then you see people with paper and they're doing all kinds of crazy shit.
     
     we have artificially dumbed everyone down to make them more easily manageable.
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     @icedquinn @zonk All I can say here is: I'm really glad I didn't run into exams that you take on computers until I was in community college. :blobfoxsweating:
     
     . @glitter even went to high school online. The school has since shut down. :blobfoxgoogly:
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 13:14:23 JST iced depresso

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     @tk @glitter @zonk i had some math tests done by computer. the software would punish you for looking up math reference by adding more arithmetic assignments before you were allowed out of the unit.
     
     then the grading was literally just "be at unit # by tomorrow"