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I've thought about this with my daughter since she will wonder what I am doing on my computer. I have to make the screen 'professional' looking so much so that
by guessbest 5y ago
I've thought about this with my daughter since she will wonder what I am doing on my computer. I have to make the screen 'professional' looking so much so that it won't appeal to a child as a game, but more of a functional tool. I mainly use macos so I am constrained, but I was thinking of a TUI like screen or tmux. I've only a few more months until she is aware enough to start wondering.
- elliotec 5y agoThis is really strange to me. Why does it have to look "professional" to avoid curiosity from the child, and what does a professional look entail vs video games if you're not literally playing video games? And what is the harm of it appealing to the child?
- p_l 5y agoI think it was more that to make it appealing it would need to resemble what the parent was doing. I definitely do have a strong nostalgia for AutoCAD and related computer wizardry because of observing my father, and while I might have started with computer games, a non-trivial portion of my interest was that the game I played was a flight sim - and my father worked in aviation so I have photos as a toddler in pilot's seat :)
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