Oh it’s not a complaint. I’m just pointing out that somebody mentioned spore, and someone else chimed in to say hey I just mentioned spore I can’t believe it. And then right below that post, for me, was the third person mentioning Spore.

It’s funny.

My feed:

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Balls.

Installed DuckDuckGo browser as soon as I saw the news the other day.

“In order to protect uptime of our glorious data centers, neighborhoods will begin experiencing rolling brownouts to reduce demand.”

• Texas soon probably.

Well, if anyone is seeing this, I decided to buy a Pi 5 and a case and we’re going to get some Linux variant running, and I’ll set him up with some browsing capability and some kid friendly apps.

Who gives a shit what a bunch of dumbasses think.

graft /grăft/ noun

Deceitful or fraudulent use of one's position, especially in public office, to obtain personal profits or advantages. Money or advantage obtained by such means. 

intransitive verb

To gain money or advantage through deceit or fraud. 

I mean, short kids books. Dr. Suess and whatnot.

I can relate to this. Zero interest in baseball, basketball, or football, because it was forced on me. I sucked at all of them. Never learned the basic rules. Although now, as a lawyer, one of my favorite things to watch on YouTube is videos of teams experiencing the application of obscure rules that most of the players don’t seem to know. Like a bunch of videos in baseball where something will happen and the fielding team will think it’s a dead ball, but someone on the at-bat team knows the subscure rule and for some reason it’s not a dead ball, and they nonchalantly tap home base and then start celebrating as the other team all walks to the dugout.

I will definitely follow up on some of these. I have some limited experience with ADB. I have a PiHole for DNS; think I need a VPN, too? It definitely breaks some things for me, but when that happens I know I’m better off without it. Thanks for the reply.

I agree most people hate fishing and find it boring. I am a diehard fly fisherman and fancy myself as an angler; I’m not fishing, hoping I might get lucky and catch something. I’m working an angle, trying to fool a fish. And given our relative brain size, if I can’t fool a fish, I have bigger problems. There’s no luck about it.

Yes, yes, yes. That fishing advice hits close. I think him seeing me go fishing and seeing all my hesr and stuff has given him a real interest in it. I take him with me often and we make a trip of it, I do most of the fishing and we walk the river. I take a few casts, then he gets to throw rocks. We also spend time finding cool rocks and learning about whatever cool plants and bugs we find.

I like the idea of building one together.

Shit, Minecraft is a great game for adults. I will follow up on some of these suggestions for sure.

Awesome suggestions. Thanks for the reply.

I don’t know what Gentoo is but this sounds hilarious.

Listen every kid is going to go at a different pace, and they’re going to follow their own interests. Right before covid lockdowns started, so he spent his formative years at home with Mom and Dad, who worked from home, and who are both highly educated with masters and doctorates, and you don’t get that kind of education without being able to teach. So he was around adult language constantly and had two parents that knew how to take complex subjects and boil it down to its most basic forms. Like one example of teaching him logical operators was with a little plug-in night light/ flashlight that he has in his room. He could figure out no problem what the circuit must include. A power source, a light sensor, and a three-way switch, and so he can understand that that light sensor was checking to see if there was light and if so it would stay off, else it would turn on. I did a big project over the summer with installing PVC piping into a raised garden beds and ended up with a ton of extra parts. Splitters and valves and what not. And with that I was able to teach him some of the more advanced operators, and, xor, and nor. Like We would plumb one pipe from the water source and then split it and then put a valve on each side and then connect them back so it had one outlet. And from that or with some other connectors you can teach basically all the operators and even binary. Plus we would read books with him every night, and still do, four or five books a night, and often we talk about the books to develop critical thinking. We also encouraged transcendental thought (tell your brain what to do, ask your brain what you should do), and abstract thought. There was one awesome book for abstract thought that I can’t remember the name of, but every page was like a picture of a tree but each leaf was a hand. And the text would say something like, “what if leaves were hands? Then the tree could climb you.” And for a while we would make up his own all the time. There’s also a series of books called like Astrophysics for Babies, Optical Physics for Babies, Relativity for Babies, so we would read those and combine them with little experiments we would do with my telescope or my big laser. Also spend a lot of time reading the dictionary and going through an encyclopedia, each written for kids, like “my first encyclopedia.” He’s been in Montessori school for a year now and has a wide range of interests; they teach meditation, yoga, karate, and all sorts of practical and life skills. Stuff I never even thought about at his age. It’s pretty cool. We know that every child will experience their own heartbreak and letdown, and will internalize things as trauma no matter what we do. I wish my brain was still soft and as hungry as a kid’s. They suck up whatever info you give them.

I like the idea of setting them up with his own profile so he has to log in and then Go through the steps of opening the browser and starting a game. Thanks for the reply…

RTS, yes. Another poster suggested that, related to my own start in computing with Warcraft I, and on from there.

Thanks for the reply. I got started with RTS pretty young. They just rereleased the Warcraft Battle Chest!