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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Im so glad I grew up with computer savvy parents.

I had a 3rd grade teacher who had an absolute meltdown because I was handing in homework that was "done on a computer". This was a long time ago, the space-age super-intelligent computer that was apparently doing all my homework for me was a 12MHz 286 with 1024 kb of memory and a 40 mb hard drive.

Matters escalated to the point where there was a meeting with the principal, then the teacher and the principal, and finally my parents and the principal, where this dumb old woman had to explain why she wouldn't accept the homework I was actually doing. She eneded up being told "More kids will be doing this every single year, he's just the first, you need to get over it."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She didn't like typing or something?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She thought that the computer was doing everything for me. Which is possible now, but 30 years ago when CD-ROM and 256-color graphics were a cool new thing, not so much.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Isn't possible now.

As someone who uses LLMs at work, i can tell you that they are a tool. You have to learn how to use them and what its limitations are.

A good friend of mine who is a teacher, tells me it is really obvious if one of his students uses AI for their homework. Not much difference as when they would pay one of the smarter kids to do it for them.

Different technology but the same discussion as when ppl where afraid, that Wikipedia will write the kids homework...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Be me in 1991, i was the tech-savvy boy in the block. The kid next door asks me to help with the computer because his mom bought him a c64 as they told her it could "help her kid with the homeworks". The kid had typed the text of the math problem in and expected the c64 to spit out a solution lol.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I've been here before, I don't even use Linux and this is a very relatable story. We had a old desktop computer that was breaking down and I did all I could to make it last longer because I was just a kid and they're not going to listen to me about why they need to buy a new computer.

They kept blaming me because I was the one who was online the most, when I was using this computer in high school despite the fact that it was the same computer I had when I was like 8.

I had my stepfather come over and slap me for downloading viruses into the computer.

Literally I was just running an anti-malware program to try to fix the computer. So literally the exact opposite of what they were accusing me of.

No it is not okay to be running Windows 98 in 2005.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Someday, I’ll be diagnosed with cancer and I’ll know it was bc I read too many green texts. On the plus side, I’ll be able to make my own.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll take things that didn't happen for $1000, Alex.

[–] BananaPeal 1 points 11 months ago

Right? This story suggests that school IT was not consulted before calling the cops.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Stupid things like this still happen.

My kids go to school with a laptop specifically installed just for that purpose. It runs plain Mint.

I was dumbfound when a teacher complains they can't install Scratch on the computer and if Scratch is not available, my kids will fail the class.

Install Scratch via Flatpak, which is a newer version that the school is running on its machines.

Linux. Not Windows. Get your dirty hands off the hardware.

[–] aBundleOfFerrets 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi guys, I use linux on my school laptop, no one cares. This doesn’t happen. Also the school chromebooks suck dick, I would say about 1 in 5 kids choose to bring their own laptop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The most interesting part of this for me is the realization that high school kids know what Lemmy is and actively use it.

[–] sharkfucker420 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to roll bullshit commands I wrote in notepad to make it look like I was hacking in like 7th-8th grade. It was very entertaining for a bit.i also wrote a recursive command that exponentially opened cmd beause it looked cool but it would sometimes crash the computer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I told my friends I could hack their MSN accounts through telnet. Even loaded up the old prompt and faked signing in.

Reality: "hey what's the name of (other friends) pet?"
login via secret question
move some folders around
hailed as God the next day

[–] mindbleach 7 points 1 year ago

Shout-out to that tiny Catholic high school I attended for one year, where students were openly watching getting movies on Kazaa in one corner, and the teacher popped over my shoulder with a dead-serious "whatareyoudoing?!" because I had a window open with FTP.

Hmm. Might've been because I had it open to idgames. But I kinda doubt it mattered.