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Sure they can, in person, school, or with a book. I became a hacker just fine w/o internet as a kid. People did things just fine, just took a bit longer. Tha
by mixmastamyk 3y ago
Sure they can, in person, school, or with a book. I became a hacker just fine w/o internet as a kid.
People did things just fine, just took a bit longer. Thankfully kids have a lot of extra time.
- anthk 3y agoWithout a working internet connection, you can simulate network setups, but not the real deal. A teen at SDF could learn much faster with people with wisdom than by themselves. They can be guided in a much easier way. Hint: I didn't got internet at home until very late. And, back in the daw I knew a lot in some areas, such as drivers under GNU/Linux, adapting basic BTTV drivers and so on, but severely lacking in others, because there was no proper information to start with.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoI used LANs half a decade before connecting to the wider net. SBCs and VMs are much greater resources than I learned on. Routers are cheap, I just set up a dynalink with openwrt for $75. No one is asking teens to set up a production kube cluster. There’s so much to learn—they’ll be fine.