I wish I could appreciate and deal with things like audiobooks and podcasts but I just cannot.
My brain zones all the way out. So, so soporific. So sub-snail slow. I tried to listen to a podcast once and almost expired from utter boredom. The good new is that it (as they all are) was so plodding I could have 10 different thoughts between each word.
The rest is all bad news. Those things are just not for me.
Work colleague behaviour – absurd or acceptable?
Hey, it’s another one of those things that we’re told women “never do” but is actually quite common — it’s just that women don’t get called out on it.
Funny how that works. Isn’t it nice being “not a threat?” You can get away with a whole lotta shit that way.
Nope. It’s all about data thievin’ and user lock-in. That’s the only reason passkeys exist. And that’s why I will never, ever use that tech. Fuck all that noise.
Windows 11 has a lot of major bugs if you want to do anything other than click on advertising and drool.
Guess it’s what happens when you get rid of your QA department and foist all the testing off on users. And focus on worthless AI and optimize your OS for ad delivery rather than functionality.
Indian manager gleeful about moving US jobs to India.
It’s branded as “racist,” when in reality it’s just an observation: when any people of Indian origin achieve management positions, they tend only to bring on other Indian people (of the same caste, even) whether those hires are in the US or India.
This funneling of jobs to those of Indian origin only is occuring throughout the IT industry. I fail to see how that mundane and obvious observation of reality is racist, but alrighty then.
Why do people use Spotify and crap like that, with how much it takes away from them and steals from them?
Convenience (as with smartphones) is a trap, operationally and cognitively.
When I go to work conferences and people try to hand me their old laptops randomly.
First of all, Karen, I’m not the laptop recycling depot. We have an MSP for that.
Second of all, I flew here just like you did. What the fuck do you think I am going to do with your and half a dozen other people’s machines? I don’t have room in my carry-on for eight laptops (I already carry two myself).
Third, I’d never presume to just walk up to someone and just hand them random junk. What the hell is wrong with people? I know too many see us overpaid computer janitors but that doesn’t mean I am gonna act like one.
I have to use seven different browsers to mimic even a fraction of pre-gimped Firefox’s power.
The future sucks.
The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not.
FUCK THAT. I don’t use Gmail anyway. Yet another reason not to.
Saying the only way to fund trade schools is via cuts to scientific and medical research at Harvard is the Trump equivalent to the woke demand that social services should be financed by defunding police.
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) May 27, 2025
It’s also similar to the left’s assertion that if we could just not send those evil and bad rockets to evil bad and scary space, we’d be able to fund everything.
Without weighing in on the hotness of Hillary Clinton, I do think that progressivism basically going from a sex-positive movement to a sex-negative movement hurt Democrats a lot. https://t.co/5jdmgZrtun
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) May 28, 2025
I also hold no opinion on Hillary Clinton’s past or present hotness, but I very much agree that the turn to anti-sex prudishness did some harm to the Dems — though it does comport directionally with Gen Z and their weird schoolmarmishness.
I'm still freaking out about this https://t.co/YI7xxNkyvC pic.twitter.com/7iZju6glGI
— keysmashbandit (@keysmashbandit) May 28, 2025
Fucking Christ, that’s moronic. Why would you do that to your OS? This doesn’t fix even really a little of all that’s wrong with Windows 11, but it certainly does make a major part of it feel faster.
No end of clownish decisions in that terrible OS.
I was already awake (I get up at 6:15AM) but what kind of disphit-ass motherfucker starts using a leafblower in a residential neighborhood at 7AM?
Apparently the disphit-ass motherfucker next door.
My neighbor runs a loud gas trash pump on his dock all day when he’s out.
This is moronic in about 37 different ways, but this sort of problem is what a .22 Long Rifle round is made to solve. If you’re a good shot that is.
Hit that pump with a couple of those, issue resolved. And .22 LR has low penetrating power from ricochet so there is very little danger of the round going through walls of nearby houses easily. But it will still fuck up the pump.
What’s the worst trait you’ve noticed among Redditors?
Having very little life experience and declaring rather mundane and extremely common events and occurrences to be “impossible” or things that “would never happen.”
It’s weird how completely sincere they are about their belief in the impossibility of the quotidian. Part of it is just that many on Reddit are quite young, but part of is that anti-social basement dwellers post the most. And they’ve done and seen the least.