A friend is aghast at how I can react the way I do. My response is “do you think these ‘just opinions’ exist in a void?”

How are you feeling, Sosocrates?

Been donating for a few months now, hoping they won’t cave to chat control pressure.

Something something eating ass.

Ah, yes, my bad. Need a file for hard links.

$ ln -s ~/Downloads downloads

You can even hard link it if you feel fancy.

Would that even do much? Apart from frying your hand.

We’re getting jackets as a christmas present from my employer and they had us fill out a size form. “Sizes are as usual.”

Made me think of this.

Did you take the photo while driving? On a highway, at night?

Don’t do that, please.

“We can fix you ❤️”

Upgraded three systems to Debian 13 in the last few days. Went without a hitch. One Proxmox, one media server and player, one workstation.

Wayland still doesn’t work, but that’s apparently because of the noVideo drivers.

MinGW can do that, too. Useful for Git.

It takes ages to boot, might have integrated offline ads, draws power when on standby for features you don’t want like remote controllability via network, and it’ll probably nag you forever to let it online. No thanks, a display will always just be that in this household. Separate concerns please, also easier to upgrade or replace.

Also universally useless. Image recognition solved Captcha ages ago and the new version from Google is literal spyware.

Chuppl has a great video essay on it. https://youtu.be/VTsBP21-XpI

The bullshitters were quick to adopt the bullshit factory.

Mom: Dad! Come help with the kid!

Dad: I can’t, I have to do data entry!

Nobody tell them.

I liked Vista. Aero Glass was cool.

For me, the fact that you have to burn down an amazon forest for every transaction kinda matters, too.

Dude, I keep telling my possibly AfD voting cousin we’re just a few years behind the US if things continue as they do. Our politicians aren’t better people, they’re just sneakier for now.