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Yeah, I just don't agree. I don't think you (or we) get to decide what makes someone feel that hacking feeling. There's a term for not finding "you can run an

Yeah, I just don't agree. I don't think you (or we) get to decide what makes someone feel that hacking feeling. There's a term for not finding "you can run an embedded linux under 10 minutes with less that 20 bucks with a RPI by reading some tutorial or watching a youtube video" exciting: jaded. "What's the fun about that?"... seriously, dude? Listen to yourself. It's only not fun because you've done it so many times. It's fucking incredible. News flash: the fact that you were able to be alive at a time when C64s and XTs were happening, that you had someone who loved you in your immediate family that could help you if you got stuck was an enormous privilege. I challenge you to explain to me how someone today learning to hack a Pi from a Youtube video even though their parents are manual labourers and electricity isn't always available is somehow less hacker than you ever were. Get out of your own head.

scoutt 7y ago
> get to decide what makes someone feel that hacking feeling I agree, but I wasn't deciding for anyone; just saying what happens in my case. > It's fucking incredible. I totally agree, but it's not hacking. It assembling LEGO with instructions. I am not saying I'm a better hacker or that it has to be done the way I say. What I'm just saying is that if you follow the instruction books, tutorials or videos, you are not doing any hacking. You are just assembling IKEA furniture. I am not saying that is not useful, that won't teach you anything or that you should be doing something else. I'm just saying that is not hacking.
- peteforde 7y ago
  I guess you tell your current or future children that their feeling of excitement at the realization that they can build anything they can imagine with time and effort is less legitimate than the pure rush you experienced on a C64 just because you didn't have any access to reference material? I just think you're being a bit of a temporal chauvinist. I'm not angry with you and it's okay if we disagree. :) https://vimeo.com/312006066 https://vimeo.com/312006066

scoutt 7y ago

> get to decide what makes someone feel that hacking feeling I agree, but I wasn't deciding for anyone; just saying what happens in my case. > It's fucking incredible. I totally agree, but it's not hacking. It assembling LEGO with instructions. I am not saying I'm a better hacker or that it has to be done the way I say. What I'm just saying is that if you follow the instruction books, tutorials or videos, you are not doing any hacking. You are just assembling IKEA furniture. I am not saying that is not useful, that won't teach you anything or that you should be doing something else. I'm just saying that is not hacking.

peteforde 7y ago
I guess you tell your current or future children that their feeling of excitement at the realization that they can build anything they can imagine with time and effort is less legitimate than the pure rush you experienced on a C64 just because you didn't have any access to reference material? I just think you're being a bit of a temporal chauvinist. I'm not angry with you and it's okay if we disagree. :) https://vimeo.com/312006066 https://vimeo.com/312006066