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except that the boy has learned more Unix and scripting in 2 months of running a Minecraft server than he did in 5 years of me pushing stuff on him That should
by danielweber 14y ago
except that the boy has learned more Unix and scripting in 2 months of running a Minecraft server than he did in 5 years of me pushing stuff on him
That should be obvious, since intrinsic motivation is always better than extrinsic motivation.
But if it were obvious, I, too, would have realized that I should have given my son a unix box to run his own minecraft server. I wonder if that would work for Christmas.
- tptacek 14y agoSwear to god, what the boy wants for Xmas this year: MORE RAM FOR HIS COLO. I'm not sure whether I'm thrilled or terrified.
- debacle 14y agoJust wait until he finds out about bitcoins.
- tptacek 14y agoNo way. Boy! In our house, we obey the rules of macroeconomics!
- mootothemax 14y agoI'm not sure if the potential lag involved in European hosting would make this pointless, but there are some mega cheap-yet-reliable-enough deals out there. 32gb plus a couple of terabytes storage is available from Hetzner for 50 or 60 EUR/month, and I've been quite happy with it too ;-)
- rdl 14y agoYou should teach him about backups :)
- tptacek 14y agoThought about it, decided now would be a good time for life to teach him about backups.
- rdl 14y agoI meant by umounting something without telling him, to speed the process along... Some friends of mine often play prepper games with each other, ranging from "someone just stole all your stuff while you're at the gym...what now" to "your iCloud is compromised and none of the associated devices work, how do you recover"