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[-] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 78 points 2 days ago

Reminds me of high school. The jocks (mathletes) would stuff me into server closets because I used nano instead of vi. Popular girls would laugh at me because I didn't know about tab complete until junior year. Bad times.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Honestly if you use nano you deserved it

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Why the hate on nano?

I prefer it but generally use vim because I don't want to install it on work machines.

[-] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

My preference is VIM with gasp mouse features enabled. Blasphemous, I know.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

The title of this post seems deranged and nonsensical. No idea what it's supposed to mean. The post itself? Pressing the fuck out of X.

[-] drislands@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago
[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Thank you. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the fediverse to know nothing about Tumblr.

[-] drislands@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Glad I could help!

[-] irelephant@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Its a reference to spiders georg, a tumblr joke.

[-] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 2 days ago

I was using a command line and modifying games I typed in out of a magazine in like, 4th grade. Also not normal.

[-] essell@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I'm with you, I was writing programs in BASIC for ten years before I touched a boob

[-] federalreverse@feddit.org 32 points 2 days ago

I learned BASIC in my 30s too.

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

if it was a something like a c64 in the 1980s, it certainly was normal.

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 7 points 2 days ago

I don't think there were enough C64's produced for it to be "normal".

I was coding Fortran on punched cards then, I didn't know anyone with a computer at home then - they were still expensive hobbies. The Commodore was certainly part of opening it up, but damn few people had them.

I was definitely looked at as unusual at the time for doing any kind of "computer stuff".

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

in the mid 80s, the c64 was the best selling computer (afaik, still is to this day, the single best-selling model ever), sold like 2m+ units a year, outsold even PCs and apple, and had ~ 40% market share.

it was cheap, it had lots of software, and was accessible--selling at discount retailers instead of just computer stores and shops.

yea. it was 'normal'.

abnormal would have been an outlier like a trs80 or ti99/4a instead of one of the 'big three' of the day.

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Normal for personal computers... which were abnormal at the time.

[-] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

It was a Tandy 1000 in the 80s. Which was a weird computer to have, but worked well enough.

[-] mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

In 5th grade I couldn't find the internet explorer icon. The mousepad was full of icons but no internet explorer.

[-] PolarKraken@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

Well, if you were looking for internet explorer on your mousepad, I think 5th grade you was lacking some important info

[-] andybytes@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

I love making desktop entries that run scripts. I feel like god as the dominoes fall yet I see myself as a person who knows nothing. Windows makes this process easy, yet I am not a fan of windows or the new menus ... Like like the right click window...just change the stupid icons back to plain old "cut" and "copy".There is probably a way to change this but I hate windows and spending time on it. windows makes me sad.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 18 points 2 days ago

Nothing taught me more about networking than our LAN parties. Even the least computer literate in our friend group knows how to set up a small network without DHCP.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

When I was six, the idea of a personal computer was science fiction.

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Ha ha you're old.

I mean so am I but you too

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Greetings fellow geezer! Let's have a brewski on the porch and talk about how young people just don't have any respect any more!

[-] embed_me@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

Me too but we were just poor

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

My 7 year old has a Linux box but only uses it to read comics infrequently. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

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