Yep, I was privileged to have a computer at home and family members who worked at a university so I could get a dial-up SLIP Internet connection and access to Usenet and IRC.
So what. How is that even a remotely useful response to my comment?
The article is explicitly advice for students. It matches the path your life took, but would your advice to drop out and get a GED be good advice for someone without your privilege?
Point out where /I/ provided advice for anyone? I described what I did and my observations, I didn’t provide advise for anyone else.
There’s way too many people who reply to every personal anecdote shared online by “calling out” the sharer’s “privilege”, which adds absolutely nothing of value to the conversation and implies that nothing about the sharer is relevant or important except their demographics.
It’s not the efforts I put in seeking out mentors, contributing docs and code and my time volunteering in open source, studying and passing certifications, or any of my long hours and excellence in the workplace. Oh no, no, not any of that. It’s my “privilege”, that’s all that matters.
Oh fuck off, both of you, seriously. You don’t know anything about me and your responses to what I shared are a net reduction in value to this entire conversation. Be better.
Cool. And?
Yep, I was privileged to have a computer at home and family members who worked at a university so I could get a dial-up SLIP Internet connection and access to Usenet and IRC.
So what. How is that even a remotely useful response to my comment?