Sorry, as there is so much easy access to worry these days, but then also don’t read this: https://csl.noaa.gov/news/2025/427_0428.html But actually, do at some point, but just store it in the same file as “things that suck that I can’t control, so I have knowledge and can learn, grow, respond, while realizing it just goes in the same pile of bad decisions people of power are doing to destroy our planet.” The knowledge is annoyingly necessary to build onto the next puzzle piece, despite the frustration. Although we kinda do have control if we just stop playing their game.

Incorrect, they don’t have natural de-orbit. They have to be controlled. They haven’t solved natural de-orbit, and every de-orbit puts more aluminum oxide in the upper atmosphere that will decimate the ozone layer in 15-30 years.

Discord, the cancer that replaced IRC. Which was an earlier form of cancer, but at least more disposable.

That paying extra to get faster service thing is a complete scam too, at least with DoorDash. But they probably didn’t bother researching anything about how these junk services work either.

IIRC, Apple’s “open” browser implementation was so fundamentally broken and difficult that it made the actual implementation of a third-party browser exceedingly difficult. Kinda like how their call-blocking API is nothing more than a database loader with no feedback, so call blocking apps can’t share data back to improve through crowd-sourcing. The products all have to learn from Android phones on the same product to be able to share with iPhones.

It is fun if you use fancy formatting with columns, and somehow the anchor character doesn’t show up on the ghost page even with hidden characters on, and you give up and choose 11.8pt font to make the page go away.

I miss ClarisWorks 2 and 3. Best office suites ever made.

The entire universe could collapse and these tabs will live on. Forged by Satan himself.

Oh, yeah, you’d think, but no. Instead you have to try and bend the clips, and while doing so, they catch the two layers of the spindle-hole and either crack the disc, tear the disc, or tear the layers apart. Sometimes the disc even comes out.

I’ve seen a dozen DVDs cracked in the spindle-hole across multiple box sets from this travesty of a design. Bought replacements and exchanged them. Seems they went back to a more sane storage format and these disc-eaters were just unloaded over the holidays or something.

If your ThinkPad is old enough, so is it.

I’d take Windows XP. It looked professional by comparison.

Their deluded vision is that they think the traditional user interface is going away. Rather than interact with a machine, you’ll just be walking around, sipping coffee, having thoughtful conversations with a bot laughing along with your jokes as it writes your letter and does your taxes.

I’ll go a step further, they don’t even want “civilians” to have access to any kind of general compute anymore. Just a speaker/microphone, maybe a display that you talk at. No traditional UI, no ability to own or save documents, or even have any concept of where these files live.

Now seems the perfect time to shed the cloud from one’s daily life and do the exact opposite. If one wants or needs compute, it lives in their home. Offsite backup at a friend’s or family’s home. There is not particularly a “need” for all these centralized datacenters for any human other than those that want control of everything.

So, NVIDIA CEO, shut it all down for a month and see what happens. I bet nobody will care.

I have to use a lot of LLM tech daily and wouldn’t miss it a bit, myself. Would even sleep better at night knowing all that energy use isn’t destroying the planet’s habitability.

I actually heard from an acquaintance that their employer is forcing employees to burn at least $100 of tokens a day “or else” - like, what??

Such a bubble. Can’t wait for it to pop.

Man, that person really needs more friends. Not a diss either. I have friends spanning countries, cities, life, I have friends that have died. I have friends that still live. Why the fuck not talk to people and be friends?

Also, am adult.

Absolutely blows my mind at how much up their own asses they are to smell those farts.

They keep creating tools to create images, video, text, content. They’re replacing people with machines. Sure, this can have tangible benefits in some roles, especially dangerous ones, but they aren’t doing that. What in satan’s fuck is left in life if we don’t get to create, to build, to have purpose? Did they all collectively watch Wall-E and get the wrong message?

I always come back to that one scene in Star Trek: Insurrection:

Sojef: Our technological abilities are not apparent because we have chosen not to employ them in our daily lives. We believe that when you create a machine to do the work of a man, you take something away from the man.

While in that context, they took it a bit to the extreme, it is still poignant.

It seems the timeline right now is Office Space -> Wall-E -> Idiocracy -> Mad Max.

Companies want that sweet, sweet live telemetry.

That sounds hilariously delightful.

Allegedly, I heard that they have to list any side effect that came up in placebo trials, even if the drug didn’t cause them. Still just wish drug commercials would be banned again like they used to be, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Telekom

The German government owns 31.9% of Telekom.