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They'll let you rent one at 21 in the US but it's more expensive with insurance up until age 25.

Come to think of it, it's probably the only sane thing about any kind of insurance..

Yeah it's wild. I don't think it's good but I'm not doing a great job teaching. One of my gen Z nephews expressed an interest so I gave him my old PC, took it apart with him and put it back together, explained everything.

He rearranged his room and told me when he hooked everything back up his games were super slow. Every time I touch his PC I clean it up from scam shit spyware etc. I pretend not to notice where all this stuff came from.

But this time was different. He'd plugged his monitor into the motherboard instead of the graphics card. He recently redid his room again and got it right this time! Small victories.

For real. I've taught people copy paste shortcuts and they act like I'm an alien.

So I've been in the DOS/Windows world for at least 30 years. I have never used Linux, but I can configure a Cisco server or switch and stack a rack. Yet I fail your test?

I'm a xennial. I was so excited by computers, and later the internet. It completely absorbed me to the point that I would get up an hour early for school so I could mess around with the computer before catching the bus. A beautiful (ugly) Compaq with a 200n megabyte hard drive, 2 megs of ram. 86 architecture. I was about 11 years old.

I played a few games, but I spent much more time messing around the system in DOS. Making batch files, then working with qbasic. Of course I played Nintendo games as well. After we got internet I used a 28.8kbps modem to upload my own webpage via FTP.

I remember thinking, even as a child/teenager, that the kids of the future were going to be incredible, being born into the digital internet age. I was so wrong. My classmates struggled with computers because they weren't amazed by them like I was. Touch typing class had nothing on ICQ.

I think there are a lot of xennials on Lemmy. It was crushing to see that the generations before and after us can't comprehend the basics of computers. Then smartphones happened and everything got so much worse.

OKAAAY

I have ADHD and sometimes can't focus to do more brain intensive work if I'm in a room with a bunch of people talking. Street/background noise doesn't bother me at all. I grew up suburb rural adjacent but I've worked in huge cities for long periods and it just doesn't bother me like six people having two conversations would.

It's so hard to leave. Not only is it expensive, but the family ties tie us up. My mother in law refuses to move away from my sister in law's kids. My wife refuses to move away from her mother, because she is elderly and needs our help. I owe a lifelong debt to my wife so I will not leave her.

My friend is moving to Uruguay. I would love to join him.

I agree with you that it's sad and insulting. Europe and the US were about tied in support, with the US slightly higher. That is until today, when the EU announced a new $732 billion in support and war material. Go EU! Fantastic news. That's almost double what has already been sent in total by all countries over the past three years.

Olaf Scholz just announced the EU will be donating $732 billion of war materiel to Ukraine. I'm so happy about this. They're not going to let the US sell Ukraine out.

I wish I lived in the EU so badly.

My state is trying to rename our tallest mountain Trump Mountain. I wish I was kidding.

They didn't disclose any diagnosis or medication, just some psycho behavior they witnessed.