Oh hey, it’s that thing from my last therapy session that hit me like a fucking train because the therapist pointed out correctly that I never grew up feeling this, which is something I’ve never truly acknowledged.
Like I get it logically, but rarely have actually felt it.
Thanks for the reminder friendo.
Always one of the character ones. The others you can get at stores pretty easily. Not as a kid, but still.
It only takes a few taps to go from a meme, video, or picture you’re showing someone to the browser.
Didn’t have smart phones when I went to college, but I had some friends who prided themselves on how fast they could get to browser history on an “unattended” laptop, as in, I turned around to talk to someone else for ~60 seconds.
Also toddlers:
Me: “Why did you just throw your toy? We don’t throw things in the house.”
Toddler: “Because I needed to.”
Me: “Why did you need to?”
Toddler: “I meant it! Hmph.”
Unfortunately a number of my friends from college fell prey to League. A few of them were already dating who they’ve ended up marrying, so I can only assume yes.
The key is that they grew out of it long before 20 freaking 26.
Oh 100%.
Microsoft claimed ages ago when they made updates effectively mandatory (you can turn them off entirely or delay them by 27 day chunks forever on non-enterprise installs) that they would dynamically detect the times your computer wasn’t actively being used and try to target that, but it never really made a difference besides “aim for when the computer is likely powered off anyway”.
And that still doesn’t hit the basic “is the user presenting in PowerPoint, running a full screen video/program?” sort of common freaking sense stuff you’re talking about.
In some nicer news, Microsoft finally started trying to release some updates as “live updates” that don’t require a reboot late last year. So maybe in a decade they’ll get close to the Linux update experience.
My kind of people. Lesbians, apparently?
At around 22 years old, I met an athletic little stick of a 19 year old lady who hadn’t grown out of her rebellious phase yet. She was into a somewhat rare combination of dad-bod and bad boy, trying to maximize parental upset. Going for the complete opposite of how she appeared at first glance.
A friend in their late 20s had brought the young one along to help pretend they weren’t rounding the corner on 30 themselves. Funny thing is, the 19yo and nearly 30yo had a falling out later when the younger one settled into responsible adulthood before the older one.
Younger one got out from under her parents and settled into responsible (and domestic) adulthood almost immediately, dropping the bad boys and keeping the dad-bod thing. Married pretty quick too, to what looked like a kind snuggly bear of a guy, before I lost touch with her.
Sounds like your IT doesn’t know how to properly orchestrate updates.
Best way to do it in a Windows enterprise environment that I’ve seen so far:
If your Windows machine hasn’t rebooted in a week and a half, of course you’re going to have performance issues. What, you expect devs to avoid memory leaks?
That all said, the amount of Windows sysadmins who haven’t entirely given up on wrestling Microsoft’s update bullshittery is shrinking every day.
People doing crazy shit instead of just finding a ladder.
pidgin
God how I miss interoperability. I went to college right as all the disparate chat systems started coalescing into everyone just using Facebook, and it was super useful being able to chat across all the platforms (including FB) from one program
But I need my armpits for THE STINKING
It’s an edit of one of their real marketing slogans, “play has no limits”
So your complaint, for posterity
More seriously, you pretty much got it. It’s an unfunny failure of a caricature of these fuckers, based off what is years old news, that does nothing but stoke impotent feelings of elitism.
It’s self-making your own circus for the bread and circus distraction from doing anything useful about the problem, and I find it awfully similar to public masturbation at this point.
A more succinct comment, and what I probably just should have went for my initial comment given this is a shit post community, is the meme of Squidward saying “brave today, aren’t we?”
It’s boring and overdone.
No shit Sherlock. So why are we trying our best to turn them into the clowns to make a circus to go with the bread instead of talking about how to do something? Why are we helping them make things worse by just turning them into a punchline.
More so, why are we settling for such a weak ass punchline about a version of the problem that’s from multiple years ago?
This limp dicked masturbatory elitism just downplays the seriousness of the situation while stoking a futile feeling of elitism that goes nowhere. “Look, aren’t we better than these hilariously sad excuses for a cum stain? Time to go be smug and continue sitting on my ass doing nothing.”
Neither did the constant media and internet frenzy focusing on the stupidest aspects of their bullshit. Are we going to start talking about the two scoops of ice cream again? Look at the birdy and ignore the gutting of the board of education.
Man, I sure do love when people put words in my mouth I never said. That is one bad jacket there.
There are plenty of more recent and more relevant examples of this type of bullshit without having to go back years, and this is some of the weakest "call out"s of these stains on humanity I’ve seen in a long time.
Next time you want to masturbate about how much better you are than Trump’s useful idiots, get some better material at least.
Are we really still giving any attention to the tiki torch carrying fucks? How long ago was this shit again?
Fucking tease.