I didn't get a PS5 when it came out for the same reason. Now it's more expensive than it was at launch and my wages haven't changed.

N o t i f i c a t i o n s .

My phone going ping because someone outside of work wants something. Slack going ping because someone at work wants something. Windows going ding because of some bullshit and I'm not allowed to use Linux for work. Some other thing going ping in the distance because it's not connected to the internet, or it is connected to the internet and has an update.

Why did we build this world for ourselves

I genuinely can't see any reason to get one. Like... if you're a PC gamer with enough spare cash to get one, you can probably get a better gaming PC for the same money. If you're a console gamer, there's no reason to switch because the 512gb with no controller is almost double the cost of a five year old PS5, which has better specs and a controller, plus you'd have to buy all your games again, if they're even available on Steam (and also if they even work in Linux.) The only thing I think it could be be good for is as a budget gaming PC, but it's wildly over-priced for that.

Not Valve's fault of course, but yeah there's no way for me personally.

One time in high school I was supposed to go to a movie with a friend of mine, she was supposed to come to my place first and we'd leave from there. She never showed up (and it was the 90s so no texting) so I was just like "okay" and went about my day. Two days later she randomly showed up at my house and asked if I wanted to go. I said no because she was two entire days late and now I'm doing something else, and she got annoyed at me for not dropping everything and going.

I do not understand this.

Especially if you have one of those friends who invites you to do something, and then they "just have to do a thing real quick" and you end up going with them while they do a bunch of random chores in various places.

One of the supermarkets near me did that for a while (in Canada) and it was great. I don't think they do it anymore though.

I don't have kids so this might not work for you, but for me getting a nice pair of noise cancelling headphones has been a real godsend. They were a little pricey but being able to just have a silent bubble you can turn on whenever you want is great. They also completely cancel out the background sound of being on a plane.

I feel like the Steam Machines are going to be even worse. I'll be very surprised if the price isn't completely bonkers, this seems like pretty much the worst possible time to be launching new hardware. They'll probably all sell out anyway though.

I deleted my banking app off my phone because it asked me for a selfie lol. I will absolutely switch banks over this.

I always felt like Canonical had a big problem with going all-in on something they thought was neat (the Unity desktop, Mir, that thing where phones and desktops were supposed to merge, now Snaps) and letting everything else stagnate, then getting the thing they were working on to the point where it was almost good, then dumping it and going after the next shiny thing.

But yeah these days I think things like Pop!OS and Mint are better Ubuntus than Ubuntu is.

You can apparently 3D print a record, although it's almost certainly not worth the effort.

TBH this is just how it goes in general I think. A small group of people build something neat, and if it attracts enough people then the corporations and money come in, they attract more people and it all goes to shit, then a small amount of people from that group leave and start a new thing. reddit was the neat little alternative thing once.

I suspect eventually we'll probably have to build a second internet lol

I suspect it's just their way of inching towards requiring everyone to provide ID to access the internet, they pretty much always wrap this stuff up in some sort of "protect the children" hysteria, so they can accuse anyone who protests it of being a pedophile.

Also Meta is lobbying for it so they can get off the hook for having to moderate their own stuff by shunting the responsibility onto someone else.

Proposed solution:

• Make sign that says "please keep this area tidy." Send to supervisor for approval.

• Wait 5 minutes

• Make sign that says "please keep this space tidy." Also send for approval.

• Wait for supervisor to ask why 2 different signs were sent for approval.

• Say you'll look into it

• Do nothing for 2 hours

• Put up a sign that says "Keep this area tidy. Thanks!" Maybe add some clipart for spice.

• Tell supervisor "turns out there was a mixup with the drafts but I went ahead and took care of it."

If done properly that could probably kill half a day or more.

I mean you could even take the bottom number and leave them with the top number and they could still live in unimaginable luxury forever. Or just take the lot because fuck em lol.

I have two, one is actually complicated and one was so obtuse that I never would have figured it out in a million years:

Actually complicated: I still don't know how it happened, but somehow an update on Arch filled the boot partition with junk files, which then caused the kernel update to fail because of no disk space, which then kind of tanked the whole system. It took ages, but with a boot disk and chroot-ing back into the boot partition I eventually managed to untangle it all. I was determined to see it through and not reinstall.

Ridiculous: One day when using Ubuntu, the entire system went upside-down. As in, everything was working perfectly fine, but literally the screen was upside-down. After much Googling I had no luck figuring it out, then I accidentally found the solution - I'd plugged a PS4 controller into the USB on the laptop to charge it, and for some reason Ubuntu interpreted the gyroscope on the controller as "rotate the screen display" so when I moved it, the screen spun round. I only figured it out by accident when I plugged it back it and it spun back to normal lol.

I used to make animations for YouTube, which weren't monetized because I hate ads, and one day they copyright struck me for some very provably public domain music, but the way they did it was to insert ads into my video without my consent so they could monetize them to send the money to the scammer who flagged me. So I just deleted my entire account, fuck them.

I started reading up on him and apparently he said this:

I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful), or that he’s America’s Hitler.

That fact that he thinks Trump could be Hitler and is still prepared to get behind him for his own gain tells me all I need to know about the principles of the man.

If it counts, definitely the Steam Deck. With that and emulators, it's like having almost every game I've ever owned in one portable machine.

My favourite Paul Ryan moment was when he said Rage Against The Machine was one of his favourite bands, and then Tom Morello wrote a lengthy article in response about how much of a jackass he is.

Like imagine naming your favourite band and then they go super far out of their way to tell you specifically to go fuck yourself lol.