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Im so glad I grew up with computer savvy parents.

I had a 3rd grade teacher who had an absolute meltdown because I was handing in homework that was "done on a computer". This was a long time ago, the space-age super-intelligent computer that was apparently doing all my homework for me was a 12MHz 286 with 1024 kb of memory and a 40 mb hard drive.

Matters escalated to the point where there was a meeting with the principal, then the teacher and the principal, and finally my parents and the principal, where this dumb old woman had to explain why she wouldn't accept the homework I was actually doing. She eneded up being told "More kids will be doing this every single year, he's just the first, you need to get over it."

Yeah I've been here before, I don't even use Linux and this is a very relatable story. We had a old desktop computer that was breaking down and I did all I could to make it last longer because I was just a kid and they're not going to listen to me about why they need to buy a new computer.

They kept blaming me because I was the one who was online the most, when I was using this computer in high school despite the fact that it was the same computer I had when I was like 8.

I had my stepfather come over and slap me for downloading viruses into the computer.

Literally I was just running an anti-malware program to try to fix the computer. So literally the exact opposite of what they were accusing me of.

No it is not okay to be running Windows 98 in 2005.

Someday, I’ll be diagnosed with cancer and I’ll know it was bc I read too many green texts. On the plus side, I’ll be able to make my own.

Stupid things like this still happen.

My kids go to school with a laptop specifically installed just for that purpose. It runs plain Mint.

I was dumbfound when a teacher complains they can't install Scratch on the computer and if Scratch is not available, my kids will fail the class.

Install Scratch via Flatpak, which is a newer version that the school is running on its machines.

Linux. Not Windows. Get your dirty hands off the hardware.

Hi guys, I use linux on my school laptop, no one cares. This doesn’t happen. Also the school chromebooks suck dick, I would say about 1 in 5 kids choose to bring their own laptop.

I'll take things that didn't happen for $1000, Alex.