Funny, a buddy has been going through this with his 80 year old father, the
teen nephew they were supposed to teach about what a raspberry pi is didn't
care for fakebook or tweeting, but his grandfather took a few and building
stuff on them now.  It's as much or as little as anyone wants to put into
it.

Problem is you have to stab someone to get a pi these days for anything
short absurd prices.  Somewhat sad the future.

-mb


On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 12:00 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> well.... the computers aren't new or anything like that
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 8:29 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2022-10-18 at 14:27 -0400, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
>> wrote:
>> > Is there anything in computers he wants to learn to do? does he have an
>> > interest?
>> >
>> > without that, it is more than likely just spending time with dad.
>>
>> I agree. Play catch with a football, rubber ball, baseball, or flying
>> disc.
>>
>> Something I did was to give my kids old hand-me-down desktops loaded with
>> Ubuntu,
>> take it or leave it. Thus Linux was their first OS, and they learned to
>> navigate it
>> very well. Of course, when they needed laptops for college, those laptops
>> were
>> windows, so they went over to the dark side and never came back. But at
>> least they
>> don't believe all the fake news about Linux --- they know what Linux is.
>>
>> SteveT
>>
>>
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