Are they a med student? I don’t get the context

Why did I read it as cAPITALISM?

And they are both easily findable in the file manager in any modern Linux operating system

This is a key point.

I didn’t realize this until years later, but man is not just for programs, it’s also for concepts like hier, and probably other stuff too.

I like the Linux upskill challenge for rounding out your education. https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/ it’s designed as a 1 month course of an hour or so a day that the author made free to access as his legacy. Don’t start out with this – mess around and learn on your own first, and when you’re comfortable with the system, then you can learn more in depth.

I recommend spending time in a Linux chat room related to learning Linux specifically your distro. When you’re messing around in Linux, you can ask questions, and humans are great teachers in helping you with things you don’t know you should be learning. Discord is the most accessible, but you can find a specific place for the Linux distribution you go with – for example Ubuntu has rooms set up on Matrix and IRC that are both active and welcoming to new folks.

Also just dive into guides on how to do things as you need to do them. How to change wallpaper, how to install programs, whatever. Try finding official documentation, but often guides may be more helpful. But sometimes less. Over time you will learn how to search for answers just like on Windows. If the guides or forum threads don’t seem right, you can ask in the chatroom (hey does this make sense?)

Compared to cmd.exe and Powershell, the Linux terminal is very user friendly, with a user experience they’ve been refining since the 1970s or earlier, and there is a reason power users tend to gravitate towards using the CLI for some tasks. Sometimes it may be the preferred or only way to accomplish something (Windows has this too, but it’s more rare.) Take your time, and read/understand the man pages and the output of nano --help (using nano as an example command: it is a text editor. But you can use the --help option with nearly any Linux command and it will most likely work, by convention.

Sorry if any of this is too obvious or too much information, but hopefully it helps someone.

I worked for a while at a summer camp that didn’t allow phones, and kids loved it … if they could make it through the first two days.

Like you said, kids love being able to make their own fun, but it’s hard to compete with an iPad, and not always appropriate given the context (like if you are in a library you have to be quiet).

I definitely think kids should get more opportunities to play and make their own fun in unstructured but supervised settings – where the adults are there for safety but not telling the kids how to play.

Do people not have the experience of peeking into the restaurant kitchen growing up?

One year I was on an elementary school trip at this restaurant that did a little historical show along with the meal, with a lot of crowd interaction, and I got caught up in acting out my role and went into the kitchen at which point I was immediately told that was off-limits, and I never did it again.

Not the same thing as letting a 2-year-old into a kitchen though. But I definitely explored and learned what was appropriate and what wasn’t as I grew up.

Going off of this, If you never give your kids the chance to exist independently in public spaces (and appropriately discipline them/ teach them) they’ll grow up without really learning this well.

I can’t believe how many kids (high school) these days will call their parents to help them out of any uncertain task in a public space rather than try to figure it out on their own.

Recent example was I was taking a kid to the customer service desk on a trip I was chaperoning because they forgot their pass, and they were so lost about what to do and were calling their parents for help. I had to tell them relax, we’ll just explain the problem to the person at the desk and see what they say. And he could barely do that.

I imagine that if you as a kid had the freedom to explore museums and stuff semi-independently as a 10 year old but also under supervision, they would have so much more confidence in public spaces on their own later.

I’ve been getting into Spiritfarer, it’s got that “one more turn…” energy, and is really good. Really touching too.

We were all so young

That explains why my mind just glazed over lol.

It’s weird, not once have I wanted to comment “this” on Lemmy. But I did it all the time on Reddit. Maybe because I felt a disconnect between voting (rewarding a comment that contributed) and agreeing with the comment.

Maybe the comments on Lemmy are not so knee-jerk and numerous that there’s not a reason to simply show agreement.

I want to see the winning piece

Is 22/7 that approximation of pi people sometimes do?

Iirc etherium is proof of stake

So energy intensive though. There has to be a less wasteful way to do proof of work