Today, you. Tomorrow, me.

Now I can read the Atlantic for free while also DDOSing people. The future is now.

It was fun when knowing programming was almost a superpower that you had to learn by reading lots of books, etc. Now a computer can do much of the job. The computers are even solving long-open Erdos problems. We're all just mediocre meatbags.

The frequency with which I've seen the si attribute included in youtube links has made me painfully aware of just how many people are not using the internet the same way I do; they're experiencing the internet through a handful of mobile apps, not through a web browser on the desktop.

Throwaway culture exists with software but without the waste that comes with physical things. If one distro doesn't work, try a different one. It's only bits. The only thing wasted is your time.

Also, even though people claim to be happy to answer your questions, I think there's a strong likelihood that if you said what issue you had, nobody would be able to solve the problem due to how complex any modern operating system is, and due to not having direct access to the machine to troubleshoot. Seriously, they're so big and complicated that they're approximately black boxes. The easiest way for you to resolve the problem is to try something different until it works.

your meme except it's 1998

How ancient is this gif?

The Grim Reaper made a wrong turn somewhere.

You sent who to the underworld?! I didn't say Linsey Graham! I said Mitch McConnell! Mitch-fucking-McConnell! You know, the other dirtbag southern Republican senator, the one in the hospital. You had one job.

Where Ships Go to Die, Workers Risk Everything | National Geographic

The Shipbreakers | 60 Minutes Archive

All this LLM shit just gave crackpots a new tool to annoy the hell out of the rest of us.