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Comment Re: Over (Score 5, Insightful) 157

by af1n (#65991554) Attached to: 'I Tried Running Linux On an Apple Silicon Mac and Regretted It'
All good, but it's a single use device. Once anything fails, you have to thorw it away because it is not repairable. If you are wealthy it's not a problem, you just buy stuff and throw it away when you are no longer interested in it. There are numerous issues with apple laptops: - soldiered memory, if it dies you need expensive equipment to fix it - soldiered SSD drive - if it dies Apple recommends a 500$ - 1000$ motherboard replacement. Not to mention that the only supported operating system is MacOS. So after 8 years and EOL you are screwed. My kids are using 10 year old thinkpads that still perform great and have latest security updates on Linux.

Comment af1n (Score 2) 40

I have two kids aged 8 and 11. I've noticed very early that anything above 15 mins of screen time turns them into mindless zombies without motivation to solve any difficult problem. I have only anecdotal evidance, but a lot of parents I've talked to also reported improvement in concentration, motivation and behaviour after limiting screen time (especially social media).

Submission + - The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood (archive.is)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Something went suddenly and horribly wrong for adolescents in the early 2010s. By now you’ve likely seen the statistics: Rates of depression and anxiety in the United States—fairly stable in the 2000s—rose by more than 50 percent in many studies from 2010 to 2019. The suicide rate rose 48 percent for adolescents ages 10 to 19. For girls ages 10 to 14, it rose 131 percent.

The problem was not limited to the U.S.: Similar patterns emerged around the same time in Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, the Nordic countries, and beyond. By a variety of measures and in a variety of countries, the members of Generation Z (born in and after 1996) are suffering from anxiety, depression, self-harm, and related disorders at levels higher than any other generation for which we have data.

The decline in mental health is just one of many signs that something went awry. Loneliness and friendlessness among American teens began to surge around 2012. Academic achievement went down, too. According to “The Nation’s Report Card,” scores in reading and math began to decline for U.S. students after 2012, reversing decades of slow but generally steady increase. PISA, the major international measure of educational trends, shows that declines in math, reading, and science happened globally, also beginning in the early 2010s.
Read: It sure looks like phones are making students dumber

As the oldest members of Gen Z reach their late 20s, their troubles are carrying over into adulthood. Young adults are dating less, having less sex, and showing less interest in ever having children than prior generations. They are more likely to live with their parents. They were less likely to get jobs as teens, and managers say they are harder to work with. Many of these trends began with earlier generations, but most of them accelerated with Gen Z. . . .

I think the answer can be stated simply, although the underlying psychology is complex: Those were the years when adolescents in rich countries traded in their flip phones for smartphones and moved much more of their social lives online—particularly onto social-media platforms designed for virality and addiction. Once young people began carrying the entire internet in their pockets, available to them day and night, it altered their daily experiences and developmental pathways across the board. Friendship, dating, sexuality, exercise, sleep, academics, politics, family dynamics, identity—all were affected. Life changed rapidly for younger children, too, as they began to get access to their parents’ smartphones and, later, got their own iPads, laptops, and even smartphones during elementary school.

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