Ignoring data to prove your hypothesis is correct sounds like polling.
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God damnit.
I remember toting around a Linux textbook in 7th grade, because I had just started messing with it.
Same year I got my General and Advanced ham radio licenses.
Does this make me autistic?
7th grade in the US is about 12 years old.
I'm not a doctor, so I won't guess, but...what's your favorite train?
That's easy, The Lionel No. 381E "State Brown" Passenger Cars are 🔥🔥🔥
Counter argument: boomers who needed to type commands and swap disks to get a word processor loaded, who knew all the hotkeys required to issue commands and the alt-codes for special characters, who today cannot figure out where the file they were working on saved to.
I'm GenX but this is me. I hate modern computing and the cloud in particular. SharePoint is a close second. I think the last excellent word processor was WordPerfect 5.1. Everything since then is worse than the version before it.
I do have sympathy for people who are trying to figure out SharePoint or mobile OS file systems which just arbitrarily change the rules.
I started in 1981 at 11yo with a ZX81 writing games in BASIC. In 1984 at 14yo I was cracking games on Amstrad CPC6128, Z80 assembly. At 18 in 1988 it was on PC in DOS (8086). Yes I installed Linux 0.99 on my 486 PC in 1992 or something.
Never touched an Apple device.
I wrote a program in Basic on my Commodore 64 at 6.
I didn’t know how to save my work. I typed and manually proofread code for three hours. It worked. The program was lost when I powered it down.
TI-99/4a for me, but after the first big loss of something that worked is when I found out there was a cassette adapter. My parents did not buy it new, it was maybe 5 or 6 years old by then, so finding a cassette adapter took some effort.
Worth it though IMO.
I wrote basic on my Apple IIe.
I was all Apple/Mac until 1998 when I built a Windows gaming pc with high school graduation money. Learned to code in art school, after which I switched back to Macs when they went intel, built annoying but fun flash ads and games in AS2 (ECMAscript essentially), then when the iPhone came out I switched to hand coding HTML/CSS/JS web apps and got out of advertising.
Then learned Ruby/Sinatra/Rails/Haml/SASS and did straight web dev into the early days of both React, Angular and Vue. Then quit to do a tech startup with robots.
Now I CAD model original designs for fabrication projects, 3D printing and custom automotive designs.
So I’m pretty technically inclined, but I own 4 Macs, 3 Rpis, dozens of physical computing platforms, and a metric ton of salvaged sensors and ex-RadioShack components.
I think it was pretty common back then to have no way to save. Spectrum zx. Amstrad 464. They didn’t initially have a media to save to. Then cassette tapes could be used. Software piracy was recording the tape, like copying a song.
Our Commodore VIC20 came with a big book/manual which mostly taught you how to code. Was an awesome time.
Yeah the “OS” was essentially a basic interpreter and simple editor. I remember that book.
My brother in arms….
It’s like looking at a mirror. Only it was a Sharp HotBit (a Brazilian computer) and I was 7 or 8.
Heh, I was going to comment on my first being a C64 (technically a Vic 20 is the first I ever messed with, but I don't really remember that one).
Discluded? I have another hypothesis.
I have a third hypothesis to add to the mix..
Disclude is a verb that means to exclude or omit something.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/disclude_v (sorry, paywalled).
Okay, if a fucking dictionary is paywalled we have gone way beyond the red line for social recovery.
Eh dictionaries started out paywalled
I don't think the OED has ever been online for free. They took a different tack to Merriam-Webster and Cambridge, who figured that the ad money was lucrative.
Getting annoyed at paywalling is understandable, but we can't demand that companies make their stuff free just because we want it to be free.
Those who use the verb discluded should probably be discluded.
Even autocorrect discludes this as a valid word.
It's perfectly cromulent
Those who don't embiggen this comment should be discluded from consideration.
Engagement bait?
I have ADHD. Always have. Diagnosed ADD/ODD as a kid. Grew up with a old 386 running DOS. Mom eventually updated to a PC running Windows 95, then 98, then Windows ME. When I was a young teen I built my first PC because I was playing Halo 2 on Xbox Live and joined a clan that ran a few Halo PC servers. Learned a lot about stuff then, developed a love for it. Was perpetually broke and pirated a bunch of games, eventually buying most of them.
I recently installed SteamOS on my Legion Go after finding an adapter and new backplate to fit a proper full-sized SSD in it. Also nabbed a couple of extra USB powered fans to keep the WiFi card cool, stuck to the back of the thing with double-sided tape. It's a jury-rigged mess and I love it. I also happen to be a circuit board tech. Not an electrical engineer or anything, but I assemble, test, and rework PCBAs. Had a short stint in helpdesk IT, hated it. I'm much more of a hardware guy. Never did learn to code much past a bit of HTML for my MySpace page back in the day.
I can provide an anecdotal evidence of someone who started in MSX-DOS, then PC MS-DOS, went to Windows, then Unix, back to Windows, then Linux, and now is on Mac.
You went from Linux to Mac?
Many do, and many more use both.
I've used both since about 2004 each has its uses
Not parent, but this was me. I went from OSs before windows, Windows, linux, mac, and now I'm on a quest to get back to linux.
I started on a Power Macintosh, does that count?
Same
I wrote a program in BASIC on my Apple ][, but unlike the Commodore in this thread I knew how to save it. I eventually ended up with a pretty cool maze game. It had several mazes you had to maneuver through, but the mazes would randomly change
lol. Linux didn’t even exist when I was 12 I think or it was very very young
Yeah. I started with DOS. Windows existed, but I had an older used computer with no mouse and a 5 1\4 floppy and leisure suit Larry.
I think I had windows 3.1 on my 386, but I usually lived in DOS because I needed the memory free to play games.
i started with a commodore 64 lol. Man, I'm so fucking decrepit.
What if we started on an Oric-1?
Great! Oric-1 was not super popular, I don't know a lot of people who had one, Atmos a little bit more, but it was when C64 and Amstrad CPC were king, then ST and Amiga.
'Excluded' surely?
Discluded is an uncommonly used word, but it is a word. Could indicate the OP in image is from a UK-English country and an academic - they like the top shelf rare words.
Disclude is a verb that means to exclude or omit something.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/disclude_v (Oxford English Dictionary. Sorry, they have a dumb paywall now. I used a search engine cached-copy from the definition page).
Only tangentially related:
Bonus vs Malus.
In the context of like uh, a stat boost vs a stat detriment.
I don't even care if that is a valid, currently recognized definition of malus... it makes sense, and its simple and easy to say.
Also I'm American and regularly use 'disclude'.
But also, I'm kinda weird.
I concluded the same.
She may have miscluded.
I had some add a kid. When I moved out it became a bit to expensive (and osx happened, which maar all my knowledge of the os moot) so I switched to windows.
Last year I moved to Linux and will never look back