Education on its own is very much dumbed down, but if you do extra work, and a lot of it, you can end up fine. I learned algebra over the summer, and it should be great next year. Smart phones are addictive and just really bad for people, especially young people. I also see in restaurants people have their young kids on iPads, they don't learn well when they are not socialized normally. Linux and computing is fine and great, but when people's lives are made to easy by smart phones and tablets, they end up lazy and well, not smart. I have a ThinkPad, and another ThinkPad, but schoolwork, Linux, and robotics are the limit of what I use my computer for.
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I don't even have a smart phone; the name is stupid also. The only thing a "smart" phone does is make you dumber. At least, if you are on it your entire life. I am in Robotics, FTC, it is a robotics league started by Dean Kamen. I am on one of the better teams. I use linux to run programming for Robotics, I have some programs that predict meet outcomes to a 95% accuracy rate, it is all I need to do on linux for the most part.
You and me both, MY boss spends most of her day watching soaps and American chick flick [for those short of a few brain cells, she also watches a lot of new and old quizzes, I am appalled and the general knowledge of most of the contestants under 30, two of the most important happenings in UK history are 1066 and the defeat of Harold Godwinson by William 3rd duke of Normandy at Hastings, and 1215 the signing of the Magna Carta by king john at Runnymead, this was drummed into me at junior school in history lessons,
yet today's young-en's struggle to answer who won the battle of Hastings and haven't a clue who signed the Magna Carter
[This is like our young friend not knowing who was the first president of the USA or who they fought against in the war of independence]
Yes, I may not be an expert on UK history, as I am American. But I did study Admiral Nelson, and the East India Trade Company, out of interest. I am appalled at the fact that many kids in my school know practically nothing about US history. When I was in 3rd grade, I read 3 history books by Edward Eggleston the historian, and many novels by Washington Irving. I now understand all the most important events in us history up to 1895 and of course I did learn about WW1, WW2, and the Cold War. But it really is surprising most kids don't even know the most basic events, nor even the 50 states.
I do think the UK is in a wors position than the US, your nation has lost it's culture to a point where it is unretrievable. And you church is in an even worse position, I'm not sure if you're Anglican, but the Anglican church has drifted so far away from the truth it is terrible. That is why are rise in young British men converting to Catholicism has occurred.
No we are followers of the old ways, and true pagans [that's not the American idea of what a pagan is] we follow the natural order of life and the world around us. Unfortunately its not just Anglican, and protestant churches that suffer the RC church has also lost membership, I would say that a fairly large proportion of our young are atheist, but the worrying thing is many are turning towards Mecca,
I will not continue further as we are pushing the site rules on religion and politics,
@Brickwizard, I am Catholic, I am sorry if this conversation has gotten too that point, I would really appreciate some help with Slackware, so if anyone is able to, please do.
OK so its over 10 years since I last had a serious play with Slackware, but I feel sure LXDE use to be in the repositories, that would be the 64 bit version not the 32 bit, it may be worth checking
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A thought, Brian. Would the 32-bit build of Q4OS be any good to our young friend? I seem to recall it's one of the few remaining distros to still offer an up-to-date 32-bit build.....and from what I understand, it's fairly lightweight into the bargain..?
Just an idea, FWIW.
Mike.
A thought, Brian. Would the 32-bit build of Q4OS be any good to our young friend? I seem to recall it's one of the few remaining distros to still offer an up-to-date 32-bit build.....and from what I understand, it's fairly lightweight into the bargain..?
Just an idea, FWIW.
Mike.
I am trying out Slackware, and various flavors. the KDE desktop did not work too well, it was very slow, and I have known this from prior experience. I am now trying Porteus with LXDE, it should work, once I am finished installing I will post an update. q4os also could work.
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I had some feeling you're not 14, you don't sound like one.
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OK, have you run the command suggested in your other thread?
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