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    5 days ago

    Most old FOSS is written and maintained in programming languages that Kids these days™ don’t think are cool (and were probably never taught about in school either).

    Hardware used to come with an extensive manual. Hardware these days is a vendor-locked black-box with built-in obsolescence that might get you in court if you open it.

    Kids were more curious and spent more time outside, Kids these days™ spend most of their time under the light of screens, inside their safe spaces and can’t even tie their shoelaces.

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      5 days ago

      Nah, the kids I know learned C just fine. C is simple, C is all you need for writing kernel drivers, pointers are not that hard if you explain them well, it just feels really pedestrian compared to Python or Typescript.