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The question is not as much shelf life, as whether you want your kids to be builders or consumers.
by izacus 6mo ago
The question is not as much shelf life, as whether you want your kids to be builders or consumers.
- vermilingua 6mo agoYou can put Linux on Macbooks, you can build on macOS.
- embedding-shape 6mo agoEnvironments foster certain behaviors, even restrictions foster certain behaviors, sometimes the opposite of what you try to restrict. There are no right answers :)
- TheDong 6mo agoYou cannot run Linux on the macbook neo at the time of writing, unless you mean in a VM, and the processor + memory are barely enough to reasonably manage that. Even a mid-sized rust project, or a nixos build, would OOM for a VM.
- carlosjobim 6mo agoDo you want your kids to play the piano or repair the piano? Should they learn to drive a car or repair a car. Etc.
- DANmode 6mo agoIf my kids play or drive, and can’t eventually tune the instrument or put air in the tires of the car, I’ll be disappointed.
- carlosjobim 6mo agoNo piano player can tune their instrument, they call in professionals. It's quite difficult. Putting air in the tires is on the level of charging the battery. But messing with drivers and config files and antivirus and RAM - that's not being creative or productive, that's being used by the machine instead of using the machine. No specialist knowledge should be needed to use a computer, and thankfully Apple is providing that experience for people who are interested in what the computer can do for them. I remember when hardware had to be configured with COM ports and whatnot. Networks had to be configured with gateways and masks and whatnot. What a nightmare.
- DANmode 6mo agoGot me. I want them to know the piano needs tuning. If you’re a developer and can’t diagnose a broken Ethernet port on the dock for your MacBook, I’m (perhaps silently) disappointed in you.