Makes me think of the scene in Letterkenny where all of the Christian church dudes are on Grindr.

I liked that show.

Yeah he seemed pretty harmless at the time.

I was around for that era of Joe Rogan and he was an absolute dullard of a host.

Yeah, it’s Bill Burr.

There’s an English pub near me that makes both and I love them. The roast beef comes in a Guinness gravy but no horseradish.

A REST/Rustaurant that serves CRUD!

I just installed Nobara on my gaming laptop. The benefits are preconfigured settings, and apps like Steam and Lutris come preinstalled. These distros are a convenience over trying to trudge through all of that stuff yourself. I was able to get things up and running quickly because someone was nice enough to trudge through that stuff themselves.

[brrring brring…] potential spam caller

Every damn time.

It’s interesting because my dad followed a similar path and I wish I had the smarts he did. He worked as an electrical engineer and was with a company contracted by NASA. He told me how he got to work on some of the stuff in the space capsules back in the 70s/80s. Then at some point he became a full-time kitchen designer and was a carpenter. I asked him once why he left such a high-paying and interesting field. He said it was because all of the people he worked with were uptight squares and he just didn’t like it.

He passed away about 17 years ago. I wish he was still around. I could use his advice as a web dev that feels collectively burnt out and in a rut.

I get the thousand yard stare more often as I get older. I learned that it’s my brain forcing itself to take breaks.

I’ve been in tech since 2005 and I wish I had the means to bail like that. I’ve honestly considered taking a fat pay cut and going back to driving a forklift.

Sad that this guy and Trump are basically our only choices. The guy currently fueling the genocide and handing our livelihood over to Israel on a silver platter, or the other guy that would do the same exact thing while in the role, while also fleecing voters through a multitude of side grifts.

Western imperialism is a terrible machine that has painted us into a corner with the worst people at the helm.

I can hold a shield up while still complaining about someone shooting arrows at me. The complaints aren’t suddenly negated simply because I got my hands on a shield.

Also, companies are actively and constantly finding ways around those blockers, and there are psychological and UX reasons as to why companies use tiny X buttons, or X buttons that are often very hard to see. Take a look at dark patterns.

I was a beta tester for AOL, so they’d send me all of those dumb discs. None of the actual software ever changed or improved. All they did was change the graphics around the guts of it. Their whole strategy was essentially fooling people via appearances. I liked collecting the discs though.

My first internet before AOL was Prodigy. I was in a DOS terminal when I was a kid.

Switching between servers and messages is my biggest gripe. It feels awkward.

Yep. Tell it to lie and it will.

It’s honestly a gamble based on my experience. Instructions that I’ve given ChatGPT have worked for a while, only to be mysteriously abandoned for no valid reason. Telling AI not to hallucinate is apparently common practice from the research I’ve done.

I do feel bad when I have to tell it not to. Hallucinating is fun!