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Turn off internet then. A computer with a bunch of tools to play with and documentation, and no internet.
by fouc 6y ago
Turn off internet then. A computer with a bunch of tools to play with and documentation, and no internet.
- user-the-name 6y agoCutting your children off from their friends because you want them to copy your own hobbies is not, in any way, a healthy or sane thing to do.
- dang 6y agoWould you please not cross into personal attack? It's not allowed here, and it's particularly destructive in highly emotional areas like parenting. Please make your substantive points without that and without name-calling. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- sandworm101 6y agohttps://xkcd.com/466/ https://xkcd.com/466/ "Moving: There are few forces more powerful than geeks desperately trying to get internet in a new apartment." If my parents turned off the internet, or just blocked youtube, my #1 mission would be to restore that service by whatever means possible.
- brianush1 6y agoRestoring the internet would be a pretty geeky and tinker-y mission on its own
- xyanb 6y agoAgreed! I had a recent experience with no internet and was running around my house yanking coax cables, checking my electrical cupboard and whacking the router. Turns out, there was a line issue outside my house :P
- bcrl 6y agoI resemble that. Somehow the lack of internet out where I live has ended up with me building an 85km FTTH network over the past 4 years. Hopefully it will double in size this year now that it's finally bootstrapped to profitability.