This is probably the worst one. Exploiting the generosity of others is disgusting.

Probably broken or ultra low quality

You can raise children while both parents are working. Billions of families do it every day. Especially if you also get rid of the notion that raising children is mostly a mother’s job while the father is free to drink beer and watch TV after work.

Lentil soup is my favourite

1. Lentils (any colour)
2. Diced carrot
3. Diced celery
4. Diced onion
5. Half a diced sweet potato

Chili mac is also really good

1. Macaroni
2. Can of crushed or diced tomatoes (or marinara sauce if you prefer)
3. Ground beef or your vegan alternative of choice
4. Taco seasoning
5. Chili powder to taste

Doubles the workforceRemoves the artificial societal limit that arbitrarily cuts the workforce in half

FTFY

Microsoft Surface.

In no particular order:

The Al Cantera keyboard cover stated delaminating and the top layer started peeling off just from the friction of resting your hands on it. Started happening within months of getting it.

Battery failed after just a few years of daily use, I’m talking completely refused to charge, you unplug the charger even after leaving it in overnight and the screen goes black instantly. And while most laptops can run just fine with a dead battery as long as you keep it plugged in at all times, not the Surface. The little magnetic connector supplies so little power that the device is forced to down clock to below 1 GHz to keep from shutting down due to undercurrent. And sometimes it shuts down anyway because fuck you.

It’s also glued so tight, and the front glass is so thin, that you basically can’t open it without destroying the screen in the process.

Also, the magnetic charge connector started having contact issues around the same time the battery was starting to fail, so the moment you bump it, it disconnects and causes the device to turn off. It also just refuses to connect half the time when you plug it in. Gotta jiggle it, blow into it, shake and hit it a bunch of times, and pray. I’m pretty sure it’s the tablet’s side that’s the problem because changing chargers did nothing, and the charger that came with the problem tablet worked fine on another Surface. Gotta love when companies make the fragile part of the connector apart of the $2000 device that’s sealed shut with glue and put the more robust part on the cheap and easily replaceable charger.

It’s also really bad at going to sleep. Way too many times I’ve closed it, put it in my bag, and when I take it out it’s scalding hot and the battery is nearly drained. It’s your own device Microsoft, running 100% your own software. How the hell do you fuck it up?!

Worst. Tablet. EVER. And probably ruined any potential that laptop-replacement tablets once had, which is a shame because I still like the tablet form factor.

More like yelling at the one fighting the fire because they’re getting water everywhere

Where app data is stored.

~/.local

~/.config

~/.var

~/.appname

Sometimes more than one place for the same program

Pick one and stop cluttering my home directory

Me me me me me

but should we really be putting the individual in the cross hairs without knowing what their story is

Hey so this serial killer who boiled his victims alive had a really sad upbringing. We should just call it a wash and let him back out on the streets right?

Learning what their story is might be good to do for a common thief, and maybe you’ll choose to be sympathetic as opposed to angry at the loss of your material possessions, but at a certain level of depravity, I don’t care what their story is. The victims of their atrocities don’t care what their story is. They can tell their story to the devil before getting thrown in the lake of fire.

I think maybe countries with free healthcare and education dont have a lot of room to weigh in on this

Why not?

You were the only country to invoke NATO Article 5. Twice. Both times you were the invading aggressor fighting countries half a world away while spinning it as “defense”. Where you forced soldiers in countries with free healthcare and education (like Canada) to fight and die in wars you started. And then refused to pay us after the fact.

And what does free healthcare and education have to do with anything? Are you going to claim that America “subsidises” us?

Someone should make an app that detects if you’re drunk through its motion sensors (use AI and shit IDK) and deny you access. Run it as root.

This is why I love gender neutral bathrooms.

All the stalls have actual walls and doors that actually give you privacy.

Some even have sinks in each stall so you can go from wiping your ass straight to washing your hands without touching anything else. And if you have a bag with you, you don’t have to grab it with your grody poop fingers and walk to the sink.

Zoomer in computer science here: I’ve noticed that there are two types of people in my age range, you have the people who are really passionate about technology for the sake of being technology and want to know how things work under the hood (like me) and people who see technology only as a means to accomlish a goal like writing a document, maintaining a social media presence, playing a game, etc, and can’t care less about how it actually works.

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with the latter, but there can be conflict between the two groups because their priorities are completely different.

This is not unique to technology and you see this in other fields too. For example, you have the car enthusiasts who do their own oil changes and are constantly tuning up their cars, installing aftermarket mods, etc, and then you have everyone else who see cars as just a way of getting to where they need to go, have never even opened the engine compartment, and bring it into the shop when the scary lights on the dashboard appear.

I agree with everything you said except for this:

Plus, DotNet is almost trivially cross-platform these days and almost ridiculously easy to develop with… for something like an install script you really don’t have an excuse to not hit all three platforms anymore.

But so is Java. Or Kotlin. Or Rust. Or Python. Hell, even JavaScript is acceptable for a simple GUI program that’s meant to be run once to install the real program.

And those are open source and don’t have Microsoft telemetry in the build tools AND IN THE RUNTIME!!! So you now have to taint your Linux or Mac system by installing the JVM we have at home.

How’s signal compared to Element?

Also, is there a secure way to directly send messages to someone else’s phone without the message having to be stored on a central server? As in they’re only stored on the recipient device. Is that even possible with how the internet works and how packets are routed between networks? Even if the server has no way of decrypting messages by default, just having the encrypted messages stored there is a liability because your encryption keys can easily get leaked by malware running on your device, phishing, etc.

Money is just paper, or worse, numbers on a computer. It requires a working civilisation and government system to have any value so it won’t matter if/when civilisation collapses. Being rich will allow you to prepare and stockpile as much resources as possible while civilisation is still in place, but once all hell actually breaks loose, money will become worthless.

This is why the Democrats are being so “spineless” or whatever.

They’re completely okay with what’s happening and are only giving the most superficial effort toward pretending they’re not.

LLM scraping is a parasite on the internet. In the actual ecological definition of parasite: they place a burden on other unwitting organisms computer systems, making it harder for the host to survive or carry out their own necessary processes, solely for the parasite’s own benefit while giving nothing to the host in return.

I know there’s an ongoing debate (both in the courts and on social media) about whether AI should have to pay royalties to its training data under copyright law, but I think they should at the very least be paying to use infrastructure while collecting the data, even free data, given that it costs the organisation hosting said data real money and resources to be scraped, and it’s orders of magnitude more money and resources compared to serving that data to individual people.

The case can certainly be made that copying is not theft, but copying is by no means free either, especially when done at the scales LLMs do.

I just use the same power setting for everything. It’s not like my shitty microwave is consistent enough for it to matter.