Assholes.

And don’t be ashamed about it. Don’t advertise it, but also don’t hide it. It’s 2024 and we’re allowed to ask for help.

Yeah, it’s about projecting confidence when you want something and you’re intimidated by it.

It gets mighty expensive.

I had the biggest crush on a coworker, but I stick to this rule like it’s oxygen. I waited to ask her out until after we stopped working together. To my surprise, she said yes.

Shit, I was able to get my GED to get in to college, didn’t complete, and get a job at one of the biggest tech companies on a prestigious project without completing either. But I was self taught and lived and breathed tech stuff to get there at 29 while the people with CS degrees were getting there at 22, so there’s a downside. But it’s just a piece of paper.

I’m in IT. The frequency of my asking if someone held the power button to kill a frozen device and them saying it didn’t work says that buttons have been made to require too long of a press. People remember that working in about three seconds. I tell them to hold it for ten seconds while looking at a clock or watch. Works every time.

Fucking zionists.

We’re the biggest assholes in the world, after Israel.

Only when I feel like it. And OS updates that require a reboot maybe four times a year. And I run pro audio software that takes a long time to catch up, so never the new whiz bang version of macOS. And never the N.0.0 version for any of my other devices. I used to work / dogfood development software for work. Never again. It’s begging for your existence to be hell.

We’re being forced to move everyone to W11 by the end of the year. It’s gonna be hell.

This is the thing I hate most about windows. Did it register the thing I clicked? Is something happening? If I click again will it do the task twice? Complete opposite of how my Mac works.

They’re too long. Geez, learn to implement shorthand or acronyms. What are you a monster?

/roast

I don’t think there’s any group that doesn’t have some members who like domination. But I’m just speculating and am not an expert.

This is the year of Firefox-on-the-desktop. I can feel it.

It’s been more than 20y since the first time I remember sternly declining to give either a phone number or postal code to a cashier in a retail shop. It pissed me off then and still pissed me off now.

Because I hate psychological abuse of children, I ironically love this. Similar to throwing a plate of food on the ground and yelling, “clean it up.”

Yes. I’ve worked in tech ever since I was able to teach myself enough to hold a job amongst people with CS degrees. I hadn’t been on Reddit for a lot of years up until six months before the exodus. I had no account and only consumed. Here feels worth submitting links and discussing things.

Asshole.

Even if you pay, you’ll still be tracked.