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A study on tech literacy (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 4 days ago

Is Dragon 32 a Mac or Windows computer?

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 14 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Started on Mac. Still use one as my (not so-) daily driver. In the ~30 years in between, I've (professionally) been a PC field service technician, mainframe operator, datacenter tech, enterprise monitoring administrator, and a whole slew of other tech hats. In my personal time, I learned OS 7-8 inside and out (ResEdit ftw), built PCs out of spare parts (throwing Linux on some just to do it), turned an old tower into an external SCSI enclosure, built VM stacks for fun (DOS 6.2, Win 3.1, Win95 all on the same Mac box decades ago, just because I could), half-wired my parents' house for ethernet, built them a Hackintosh from parts, stuck a Linux VM on an old laptop to host Citrix so I could remote into work and have that one extra layer between personal and business, and gotten completely disillusioned with tech as a hobby and as the framework for modern society.

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Some people are just naturally computer savvy. My class and I were taught on how to use command prompt, but only few of us could get it. We just wanted to play Command and Conquer and DOTA, and leave the tweaking to the nerds.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 days ago

Omg, this is the best early-morning laugh that I've had in a long time. Mac-nerd, here. From childhood. Also a Linux nerd for servers. This is so great that I immediately sent it to friends in tech. I'm still laughing like a nut.

[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago (3 children)

But... I started on a BBC Micro.

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[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 8 points 4 days ago

I played education games on a Apple II in 1998; I was in the first grade.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Was taught using Apple2 then Macs in Jr High.

I built my own PC in high school (late 90s), upgraded it through college, then switched back to Mac’s when they went Intel.

I can’t muddle through Ruby, Python, Perl, Php C/C++, Objective-C and Swift. But wrote Actionscript, JS, and HTML/CSS for a living for 15 years.

How you start doesn’t matter and Mac’s are still better than Chromebooks. They have Unix shells FFS.

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 11 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Can confirm. Started on a Mac. Was using terminal, hex editor, resource forks, and squirrel basic to modify my Catz installation before I was 10. Windows peers seemed to think computers were made of rainbows and unicorns

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