I knew it wasn’t worth upgrading my computer just to play doom.

You obviously haven’t heard of the Westboro Baptist church. Louis Theroux has a couple of good documentaries on them.

I spent some more time thinking about this. Me and a group of friends spent way too many years playing a MUD game back in the 90s. Some would jot down maps of areas.

I didn’t find maps particularly helpful, but I guess I felt like the rooms had a direction and would navigate by that. I could probably still find my way around there. I’d describe it like a vector database.

People do seem to get upset when you remind them about all the Christian terrorists that set fire (or similar) to abortion clinics.

The machine stops.

Yes. I have a good spatial thinking and memory. I know where I’ve seen my glasses last, I just can’t visualise it.

I delivered packages for the postal service one summer during studies. It took me two weeks to memorize all the streets of the town I had moved to two years prior.

I prefer to do my 3D modelling in OpenSCAD because 2D visualizations are harder to work with than math & code.

Chop Suey by Noplan.

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I’ve heard they shut down domains for no reason and without appeal process.

I read the title as if he was going to be fencing (swordplay). He’s to lazy and fat for that.

The touchpad on my late 2015 15" MBP stopped clicking because of a pillow that eventually bent the whole top chassis.

Any battery will pillow up if you run it hot and overcharged 24/7.

There’s a whole business around surrogacy. It’s a moral and legal gray zone - in some jurisdictions you can’t eventually adopt a child alone as a man.

It’s expensive, too. You’re paying for the procedure, for the surrogates time and health care - and there are still no guarantees that you’ll end up with a child. Expect ~$100-150k if you’re willing to travel to exploit a woman in a third world country.

And a newborn/toddler is no walk in the park. Expect about two years of lost work.

Are you even in a financial position where this is feasible?

I 'member getting two sheets of dot-matrix-printed bad blocks with my 26MB harddrive. It took forever to fill those in the BIOS for the XT controller.

When the internet was new, hip and cool in 1997 it was the best way for a poor student to really get knees deep into networking and hosting. I just haven’t seen much reason to try anything else.

I did use OS X for work when doing iOS development a few years.

And in a perfect world I’d rather run a UNIX certified operating system. Linux support is just so good at the moment that I can’t really be bothered.

I don’t have any music subscription service.

I self-host navidrome where I stream musical soundtracks for long drives. Book of Mormon and little shop of horrors are my gotos when I get drowsy.

When doing focused work I stream hypr demoscene radio. I’m a software engineer and demo soundtracks just get me in the zone.

There’s plenty of BBSes still being hosted on hardware like this. Like fria bad.

Most of them do require a proper PETSCII terminal, to keep the lamers out.

YTA

I have. Tempo is a bit abandoned. Tempus has momentum and android auto support.

I self-host my music with Navidrome, play it with Tempus on Android.

I can agree with most of the points in the thread. Especially the forced use of AI where it makes no sense.

I’m a software engineer going on my second decade in developing media streaming technologies.

LLMs are useful in my day-to-day work. They speed up development a lot, but I do realise that I am getting disassociated with my codebase. I know that the individual commits are on a level that I would’ve written myself, often even better. But I don’t know the codebase as intimately as if I actually wrote it myself. The cognitive load of reviewing two other people’s AI-assisted code is also very taxing.

But, we can hate it as much as we want. Pandora is out of her box, and it’s better to get ahead with it than be left behind.