I’m interested. Comment when you remember.

I’ve got two. One blocks porn, the other blocks anything that isn’t porn

About 10. Used Tails to use my dad’s laptop to watch Battlestar Galactica until 3 am.

I didn’t see the point of mainstream distros at the time because

1. I was 10 and was forbidden from computers at the time
2. Windows 7 was great

I think you misunderstood the timeline. But your point would have been valid back then. I was a bit obsessed with the screen time that I wasn’t allowed at home, and did some pretty bad things to my parents computers so I could watch Warehouse 13 and Battlestar Galactica until 3 am.

I distinctly remember a moment when I was 21 when I suddenly realized that I could actually control my impulses. It’s so freeing to have a fully developed prefrontal cortex.

I didn’t get a suspension because my parents and social worker went to bat for me. But still

It’s such a rejected behavior to even consider suspending you for this.

They did take the smooth-brain interpretation of “He figured this out because he was buying drugs on the school computer” instead of considering that if that was my motivation, I would no longer be able to buy drugs on the school computer after telling them

It was a very enlightening experience for me LOL

I usually say that, but still poke at it until I figure out how hard the problem is:

• If I can easily figure out how to fix the problem, I will fix
• If I know what the problem is but can’t figure out how to fix it, they get a free diagnosis followed by “idk how to fix that on your device”
• If I got no clue what is going on, I tell them that I have no clue what’s going on. I occasionally reccomend ritual magic, like leaving citrine/quartz under the monitor or letting the computer sit overnight in the light of the moon. It works sometimes ig?

Tbh the only reason I can get away with the free help is that I live a slow-paced life and usually only speak to 2-5 different people each day

The amount of bloatware in windows 10 made me very uncomfortable (and the fact that they stopped supporting briefcases infuriated me) so I stayed on Windows 7 until Microsoft stopped supporting it in 2020. Tried out some distros like Mint, Pop OS, Puppy Linux. The one I liked the feel of most was Zorin OS.

The main thing that surprised me was how little I actually understood about what Microsoft has become. I did not know, for example, that you can use the Office apps online until this week. I also had been completely oblivious to Minecraft Java Edition being forked into a Linux Edition until I tried to install it. It honestly feels like waking up from a 5 year coma, where everything seems familiar but slightly different.

My main regret is that I can’t tell people I’m terrible with computers now, since my family and friends know I use Linux. The upside of this is I’ve gained some confidence with tech since I can’t just throw up my hands and go “oh no, i cant fix this, my tiny monkey brain could never comprehend the arcane arts”

Who is that