I don’t know, I’m just a sqwrl.
They/them 🏳️⚧️
Amazing how wide the gaps can be in tech. A friend of mine is all over Windows power shell scripting of which I know next to nothing about, but he’s just as stumped when he sees me writing C for embedded microcontrollers.
But people who aren’t heavily into tech will just look at both of us and ask to fix their printer because we’re both “good with computers”. 🤣
Sure, potato is nice, but also running Linux on an actually powerful machine is also very nice. I love compilations of some things being reduced to seconds from minutes. It spoils you and you never want to go back to potat.
I can’t believe I’m older than this thing.
The zoomers and gen-alpha aren’t doing much better. Just ask the average teen what a filesystem is and how to find a file without it being organized in some sort of media gallery app.
As a millennial, I often feel like I’m surrounded by tech illiterates on both the upper AND lower sides of my age bracket.
You gotta put the sticker on lest you forget it’s even there, just being an OS and getting out of your way.
Wow, you must be one of today’s lucky 10,000!
(the term “Winblows” is like 30 years old. We were trash-talking Windows 95/98 with it 😂).
Have some more:
Micro$oft
Micro$hit
Microsucks
Internet Exploder
I’m gonna squeak up in this thread too and shift the average up some more because I also am furry trash.
It’s not very good at it though, if you’ve ever used it to code. It automates and eases a lot of mundane tasks, but still requires a LOT of supervision and domain knowledge to not have it go off the rails or hallucinate code that’s either full of bugs or will never work. It’s not a “prompt and forget” thing, not by a long shot. It’s just an easier way to steal code it picked up from Stackoverflow and GitHub.
Me as a human will know to check how much data is going into a fixed size buffer somewhere and break out of the code if it exceeds it. The LLM will have no qualms about putting buffer overflow vulnerabilities all over your shit because it doesn’t care, it only wants to fulfill the prompt and get something to work.
I wish mobile Krita had a more mobile friendly interface though instead of just being a squished down desktop UI. I primarily draw on my tablet with a stylus.
Replace anime girl with a furry character and you got it.
Started messing around with it some time in 2003, on Mandrake Linux when I was 21 years old. Experimented and ran servers with various distros in the years since but it didn’t become my daily driver until about 2014-15, with Debian.
We are Tandy buddies!
Still looking for an original monitor.
“STUPID FUCKING SMELLY NERDS”
I stopped using it regularly several years ago, then I come back to help someone install it and it took me more time than I want to admit to figure out how to make a local account that wasn’t attached to a Microsoft cloud account.
I remember some dude on the Internet with a jar and an MLP figurine that might be able to help you out.
No, you’re supposed to smoke it, not fuck it.
KDE since 2002. KDE 4 lyfe.
Option three: YOLO it and be the first to come up with a working config for it after ripping your hair out for weeks.
And then never tell the rest of the Internet…
For shits and giggles I played with them in a virtual machine a couple years ago. They are near fucking useless.