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[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 35 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Get them a raspberry Pi or equivalent for Christmas and teach them how to run a Minecraft server on it

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Necessity is the breeder of invention

I cringe at parents who build there kids gaming PCs. They should just give their kids "junk" and let them figure it out.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 days ago

I mean a gaming PC is awesome but getting some old garage sales PC and spending an afternoon and showing them how to build a website would be awesome.