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[โ€“] Muffi@programming.dev 108 points 1 month ago (18 children)

Angry and nihilistic teenagers used to have tech skills and laptops. Now they have iPads and TikTok.

[โ€“] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 32 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I wonder how true that is. Curious to know

[โ€“] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

As a angry, nihilistic teenager: very fucking true. I am literally the only techy guy in my posh bullshit private international school (in Europe so affordable). The only other dude who uses Linux (I'm using that as a bare minimum for "techy") isn't into programming or reverse engineering shit even remotely. I'm all alone (apart from all my non-technical friends). I suppose that's where the nihilism comes from...

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