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There are piles of such projects on HN regularly. There was a recent mini-parade of Show HN hobby OS's of all stripes.

they just sit and watch tiktok etc.

The no-longer-young griping about whatever it is the youths are up to remains a permanent interest, at least.

Well, every young person I know is constantly glued to the phone watching tiktok. I don't mean to be negative. I installed tiktok myself, but I could not really understand what they like about it. Maybe you can explain? I tried to understand (seriously), kept swiping etc, but it simply did not work for me. I would love to understand them better. But that's the point. It's hard to communicate with them. They seem very shy.

How excited were you about talking to your elders when you were a teenager?

I showed them my game on the c64 ;-) No, I talked a lot with my elders when I was young. And I also talked a lot about tech to millenials when they were young, even helped them to learn coding or other tech. It's just that the youngest generation seems so insanely hard to reach. Or maybe I am just getting too old.

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