How to do a "family home computer" these days?

Sun Wukong said

For most people this is true because they do nothing but use them for social media or a few other apps. But the VCR comparison doesn't work because there are entire career paths out there thst still very much use computers to do things phones can't do, and Gen Z is wildly tech illiterate due to being raised on smart phones and tablets which require no real understanding to run. Giving kids access to a real computer is important. It promotes actual tech literacy.

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Interesting.. i was inclined to agree with Orion’s VCR analogy upthread.. i was going to suggest that using tablets/apps vs learning how to use an actual computer was akin to how we had to learn math in school, when now all i pretty much use is a calculator- or more accurately, the calculator app on my phone.. i suppose there is a case to be made for learning the ins and outs of an actual computer, but as someone else mentioned- i think the need for that would be mostly if you have some type of specialized job that requires it .. also, if you did have some sort of ‘family computer’ setup Chuck, i feel like it wouldnt get utilized much since their default for 95% of things would be to use their phones and apps .