except that the boy has learned more Unix and scripting in 2 months of running a Minecraft server than he did in 5 years of me pushing stuff on him
That should be obvious, since intrinsic motivation is always better than extrinsic motivation.
But if it were obvious, I, too, would have realized that I should have given my son a unix box to run his own minecraft server. I wonder if that would work for Christmas.
I'm not sure if the potential lag involved in European hosting would make this pointless, but there are some mega cheap-yet-reliable-enough deals out there. 32gb plus a couple of terabytes storage is available from Hetzner for 50 or 60 EUR/month, and I've been quite happy with it too ;-)
I meant by umounting something without telling him, to speed the process along...
Some friends of mine often play prepper games with each other, ranging from "someone just stole all your stuff while you're at the gym...what now" to "your iCloud is compromised and none of the associated devices work, how do you recover"
That should be obvious, since intrinsic motivation is always better than extrinsic motivation.
But if it were obvious, I, too, would have realized that I should have given my son a unix box to run his own minecraft server. I wonder if that would work for Christmas.