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To me it all went went to shit with the advent of social media, who in the hell thought it would be a good idea to give people a platform? Before that internet was an interesting if weird place to be.

Google decided rectal scans will be sufficient in all their generosity.

Implied Causation #2: health insurance has a bearing on longer life

Vænn diagram

Another Manjaro user, there are dozens of us!

Not everyone was navigating using stars, most people couldn’t even read their own name and believed sky spirits would be offended if you took a bath. (I can exaggerate too!)

Thank you for saying this, same kind of strawman thinking along the lines of governmental privacy violations not mattering if you have nothing to hide.

I picked up programming using “C for Dummies” book at age 13 and absolutely fell in love with developing/tinkering. My school didn’t offer any IT lessons (yes I am old) so I couldn’t wait until I got to a college that offered CS classes. Once I started these classes, I started absolutely hating development, to the point I dropped the course six months in and ferverently avoided anything IT related for the next decade. Eventually I found my way back to it via homelabbing for my own projects through organic need.

The point of my long winded anecdote: a formal education may actually hinder your IT learning more than it helps. The best teacher I found was in fact necessity or passion. Formal education will also teach you next to nothing about skills needed for selfhosting.

Of all the things AI boom is responsible for this has to the absolute worst. Seagate hardrives were the only ones to consistently fail on me.

This was the final straw that made me switch to Linux in fact.

Likewise, the constant finger dancing between various symbols gave me RSI and was a readability nightmare. Shame because I liked Rust as a language.

everyone else arguing about being snowflake or not, I just want to know the joke

I think this meme is to do with newly introduced about:keyboard in Firefox that allows you to edit default keyboard shortcuts. Ctrl+Shift+C is a common shortcut that ends up unnecessarily launching DOM inspector.

Seemed like a real good idea on Friday but I am full of regret now.

I seed so you may leech and give me huge ratios.

Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power

no guy has ever dropped the line “you don’t know what I’ve been through”

I had this moment years ago when I realised 95% of root tweaks I was using were available non-rooted anyway. The other 5% I learnt to live without and now struggle to remember what they even were.

Not sure what kind of apps you are into that know when you’re taking a shit but my banking apps have notification permissions and that is about it (camera when needed but yank it straight after). Most bank and broker websites are limited compared to the app. I have 8 finance related apps and it was constant musical chairs with which one will break after an update requiring hours of workaround research, if one is even available. Any version of Interactive Broker straight up refused to work on rooted device. You may personally be OK with giving up that functionality on your phone but not everyone is in the same boat as you.

Great description of a problem I noticed with most LLM generated code of any decent complexity. It will look fantastic at first but you will be truly up shit creek by the time you realise it didn’t generate a paddle.