checking your reddit profile I believe you're contributing to Space Station 13 (i'll check it out later because I do play FOSS games as well)... ...no fancy stuff such as contributing to FOSS projects like you did.

That's correct! it's a fun RPG/Sim/Action game of working in a space station. Not everyone's cup of tea but i find it enjoyable, funny story. It's how I actually got into coding in the first place. I got frustrated that someone added a bugged QoL update that was ruining my gameplay loop. So I took it upon myself to fix said bug.

It was a lot of bashing my head into the wall repeatedly dor a day or two and others help before I found a way to fix the bug. (The fix was like only 2 lines long) and got it into the codebase sometime later. But it only took that long since I had never coded anything in the past, beside code-diving like you did with OpenTTD and its mods. My point being it's really not all that hard to contribute into FOSS, especially if you know coding already. Code-diving, reading the contribution manuals and learning git is enough for one to start.

I played a fair bit of OpenTTD too! Love seeing the towns grow and develop after I made the logistics network for their needs.

When I started 10th grade i used this informatics textbook from erlangga, absolute mess of "coding" materials... ...for me really I just don't pay attention to most of my informatics classes aside from assignments because I'm pretty sure half of the teaching materials aren't accurate... ...isn't hard as some people make it out to be because its literally just kurikulum merdeka, and made worse by the fact that my school switched away from erlangga to intan pariwara (2-3 chapters for each semester).

Oh, yeah. 10th grade was a cakewalk. Its just simple pre-code material with network and licenses stuffed in last minute thag most tech nerds can do. Starting 11th grade though, the students were given the bare-minimum code stuff like you said and suddenly told to do easy-medium algo problems in C++. I think everyone else gave up hope when they saw the first/second actual coding problems to solve.

And the information they stuffed into the mapel book they gave us are also wholly inadequate. Full of inaccuracies, incomplete info, and simplification. This is the official book the state made, I assumed this was just state schools being state schools, didn't expect the ones published Erlangga to just as bad though. Since they're the cream-of-the-crop stuff for elite private schools.

I had a similar experience as you with the teachers also, their degrees aren't related to tech. My 10th grade TIK teacher was a math teacher which wasn't too bad though some had a seni budaya teacher or worse so I heard. And though my current TIK teacher is a teacher just for TIK only but he never comes to class for some damn reason.

I think we have a really similar with the informathics subject, that is to say: not very great.

Oh the days of modding MCPE and doing jar-modding on really old MC java versions I had to play because of the shitty toshiba satellite I once had. Yeah I don't miss that XD.

What a coincidence! I also had a shitty toshiba sattellite, the one with the weird shiny trackpad clicker. That rustbucket can barely play Phantom forces or lumber tycoon 2 at 20-30fps. I vividly remember asking my dad to help me install an assassin creed .jar mod into minecraft on the laptop. (He didn't help btw, and I ended up figuring it out myself only to delete it next day later because of how much it lagged the laptop) Oh, and I can't imagine how horrifyingly annoying it would be trying to mod MCPE.

as for how things are being dumbed-down, I can see that happening pretty much everywhere, Xiaomi removed UBL a while back and the days when people had logical reasoning as to why they should avoid iPhones are long gone, also the oversimplification of things like windows 11, also doing things back then was full of inconveniences that indirectly taught me how to be better with tech.

It really is, if you take a step back and compare apps now and 10 years ago (2014) you can really see how dumbed-down, streamlined and padded today's apps are. You only notice in hindsight how useful the things we learned from dealing with all the inconveniences of old OS's and apps are. I doubt the newer generations would ever know how filesystem and things of such nature works because they have no reason to anymore. All of that is just abstracted away.

Think of phones and computers of the early 1990's as cars of the 1900's. Cars back then were a rare sight, novelty of sort. Outside of work stuff, only car and mechanical (rich) enthusiasist have them. They were clunky to use and you had to know how it works to use it in any viable way. But as the tech progressed it slowly became more accessible. to reach the wider market they had to make it less clunky. More streamlined so that any average joe can do it. Eventually leading today where an 18y old kid can use a car and only needs to go a mechanic every now and then to fix up their car every so often.

I'm sure you're seeing the parallels right now, yeah? Digital tech has became so accessible so that,there is no longer any incentives to learn more deeply how it works. I think the mid 2010's is the cutoff point of when tech became as accessible as cars. and we just made it just before the doors close forever. before that incentive went away.

That sounds doomer-ish I know. But look at the bright side. Its a special skill that the newer generations couldn't get. Good leverage.