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Now that my kids are officially "grown" (18+), here were/are my tech rules for the house: 1) We (my wife and I) do not want to know any of your passwords. 2)
by cowmix 6y ago
Now that my kids are officially "grown" (18+), here were/are my tech rules for the house:
1) We (my wife and I) do not want to know any of your passwords.
2) No content filters on any device or router level.
3) Mixed OSes (we had Linux, MacOS and Windows in the house).
4) NEVER share your passwords with friends.
5) Anything you email, txt or post to anyone... consider it public. Nothing online is private.
6) No consoles.
- benbristow 6y agoWhy no consoles?
- protomyth 6y agoApparently the GP is part of the "PC Master Race" and will not tolerate "console peasants" in the house. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Master_Race https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Master_Race
- cowmix 6y agoI don't know all about this PC Master Race stuff. Basically, I wanted my kids to have to maintain, build a system to play games. When my kids were young Minecraft JUST came out. They both learned A LOT about modding early. If they were stuck on consoles they probably would have missed out on all that.
- brandonmenc 6y agoAnd? "Modding" is like, whatever. I grew up programming PCs in the 80s and 90s but when I look back on it, I didn't really tinker much inside the boxes even though I have mistakenly thought that I did. Dad installed a Sound Blaster Pro I purchased in like 5th grade after I went to bed so that I wouldn't screw up his work PC. Past that, I don't think I even upgraded RAM or a hard drive until I was in my 20s, mostly because they were just too expensive. Had an NES, though. I turned out fine. But I would have hated my dad if he was like, "no NES for you!" while shoving a screwdriver at me.
- endgame 6y agoConsoles are consumption devices. PCs are creation devices.
- walrus01 6y agoSometimes when you want to play a game you don't want to sit in an office chair at the same desk workstation that you use for your home office.
- II2II 6y agoYou can connect a PC to a television (or get a device to stream the game from a PC to a television) connect a controller, and crash on a couch. It's not for everyone, but it can be a heck of a lot less expensive and some games are simply better with the third-party mods.
- httpsterio 6y ago> You can connect a PC to a television (or get a device to stream the game from a PC to a television) connect a controller, and crash on a couch. > It's not for everyone, but it can be a heck of a lot less expensive and some games are simply better with the third-party mods. This is what I do 90% of my time, I often make my gaming choices based on which games have good controller support
- cgrealy 6y agoYep, which is why I was disappointed Steam Link never really gain traction. Since I grew up on FPS with kbm, I hate using a controller for them, so I'll happily sit at my desktop. But Steam Link lets me play controller based games on the couch in front of the TV. At least until my wife comes home :)
- seventhtiger 6y agoNintendo games with 4+ player multiplayer is actually a great time with family and friends. In general I think Nintendo makes social games that are intended for the living room, which is harder to find on the other consoles, and almost impossible on PC. I say this as someone who mainly plays on PC and has LAN parties at home. Consoles can be social devices. PCs can be isolating devices.
- Izkata 6y ago> I don't know all about this PC Master Race stuff. It comes from a 10-second throwaway line in a gaming review from 2008 that's actually taking a dig at PC gamers liking overly-complicated RPGs [0], at about 0:53 to 1:03 [1]: > While quickly it becomes obvious is that Witcher is very much a PC-exclusive game which are typically designed to be as complex and unintuitive as possible so that those dirty console-playing peasants don't ruin it for the glorious PC-gaming master race. Then there's about 20 seconds more of him listing out the ways this game is overly complicated. [0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-glorious-pc-gaming-master-race https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-glorious-pc-gaming-master... [1] https://youtu.be/P0dXtOVi2yo?t=52 https://youtu.be/P0dXtOVi2yo?t=52
- krick 6y agoFunny how this is downvoted, since when translated into "reddit-speak" GP's "clarification" gives exactly that.
- tootie 6y agoHe doesn't want his kids exposed to zsh.
- okr 6y agoFair.
- xwdv 6y agoThe list was going very well until the last bit about “No Consoles”. Now the rest of its credibility is shot.
- Shared404 6y agoSee this reply by the GP. I have to agree with him. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24324462 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24324462
- meddlepal 6y agoIts a dumb reason applied to an adult.
- Shared404 6y ago> applied to an adult. I agree. But this was for his kids when they were kids living at his house. If he want's to maintain the no consoles rule at his house later on, meh whatever. That's his business. Edit: Also, what makes it reasonable to enforce this while his kids were young was that he actively encouraged learning about PC's, not just consumption through a different "Magic Box".
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoMy children also learned to type very well at a young age because we did not have consoles.
- elliekelly 6y agoAIM did more for my typing skills than any of my middle school “keyboarding” classes. a s d f j k l ; Who decided typing that on loop is how you learn to touch type?
- Shared404 6y ago
- daledavies 6y agoI totally understand the no consoles rule. The last console I owned was a PS2 and think of those few years as the least productive of my life.
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- walrus01 6y ago6) no consoles I have a hundred times more confidence that microsoft and sony will keep the xbox one and PS4 operating systems up to date, patched and reasonably secure than I do that random cloud-based internet-of-shit consumer electronics vendors will maintain product security.