wait can i talk my shit for a sec part of the reason that the new generation is so tech illiterate is because of those shitty ass chromebooks because they're cloud-based and you can't really open up a terminal or like a proper settings or anything and while I know not every school has the budget for bulkier thick client computers and that stuff is restricted as a security thing but a worrying amount of people don't even know about basic components (cpu, ram, gpu, etc) and I feel like we need to fund better education on these types of things and I know some schools have pilot programs (army jrotc cyber for example) but this needs to be a more widespread thing!!!! you don't even need to go that much in-depth just like "ok kids this is a terminal" even make it a game like a little flash game or something!!!! I'm tired of people seeing a command line and/or inspect element and immediately go "omg they're hacking!!!!!!1!111!!!!" and that's lowk the media's fault with the "hacker" character in the 90s and 00s "I'm into the mainframe!" and that along with the tech industry boom really made compsci and cysec seem really inaccessible which it really isn't at the basic level! but alas, the things I've suggested aren't in place right now so go out and educate yourself! I don't have any resources to do that (so much for practicing what I preach) but if anyone has any that'd be really cool. the rise of GUI and cloud-based systems isn't completely at fault but it is still a part of the problem
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