TBH this reminds me of the people who say they’ve given up (e.g.) using Facebook because “fsck Zuck” and then they still use Instagram and Whatsapp. Still Meta.

Look, sorry dude, but if you vape, you haven’t given up smoking. If you take nicotine pills, you haven’t quit.

Don’t make BS statements. QUIT ALREADY.

If you use Windows for your toys, you’re still using Windows. If you need Youtube so badly you haven’t quit brainrotting online media. If you use VPNs then you are still playing pretend.

Just bloody stop, or shut up about it.

I don’t care about websites.

Agree, in spades.

Writing a program in C that finds a shortest path in a graph and dumps it to the terminal?

Disagree, although I am not immune.

Graphics. That, for me, is key. Drawing pretty pictures (procedural stuff, like Logo; fonts; and teenage me’s particular crack, fractals) was where it was at.

Fuck C and everything it spawned. Give me a Pascal-family thing that doesn’t have so much fucking syntactically significant punctuation marks FFS. WORDS, mthrfckr, words not code-breaking types of bloody parentheses.

a Visual Basic program that had no graphical user interface.

I approve of this sort of thing.

I hadn’t seen this post of yours before. I like it. I like it a lot.

My $SPROG can’t really read very well yet but she can open a saved program in Scratch and run it and show off the results, in SUGAR. I was so proud.