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The answer is "bark".

I can't say I'm much of a fan of the publishing industry, but sneakily buying up books just to feed Augmented Ignorance & then destroying them just to avoid law suits? That's not just morally & ethically WRONG its CRIMINAL. www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/... #NoAI

I'm done. I'm going to become a hermit and live off the land in a cabin somewhere.

Them: "Read this document, linked to another & another & another. Now you're an expert! You know exactly what this 1 sentence deployment instruction means." Me: nope. I read about 20 words into your document, my brain did -static-, then I went upstairs and watched StarTrek.

My entire career has been a big game of "Telephone". Someone else telling me how to do a thing. That is the only way I would have learned any of it anyway, because I cannot sit through a class, read a book, skim a manpage, or follow a set of documentation to save my life.

"Easy" deploy in Windows: run app, answer questions, maybe reboot. "Easy" deploy in linux: clone repo until (no more pre-req's){ become expert at pre-req's clone pre-req's } sudo run repo "error on line 29456 in file [no name]: [unknown error]" ADHD sucks when you're into tech.

You know, AI wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the world ending consumption of resources and ownership of it by like five people who have more money combined than the rest of the world's economy.

Even worse. Joanne "I'm going to publish a series of books as Robert Galbraith because -I- am allowed to identify as a man because I'll make money doing it, but all those -other- people just trying to be themselves can FSCK right off." Rowling. (S)he can eat all of my shit.

Joanne "I'm going to use initials so people think I'm a man so my books will sell more, because I think that kind of sex morphism is okay but transgender morphism isn't" Rowling: "Commit a sex crime to make yourself feel like you're preventing sex crimes."

At 19 years of age, Alex Toth landed work for the Green Lantern book. During this, he became very ill and stressed about deadlines. His mother called the offices and he soon received this letter.

Turns out, I don't have to watch the progress bar. He keeps checking it himself. Either Microsoft Word is this guy's fent, or he has some sort of bet going about when he'll get this proposal done.

I'm just watching him work, waiting for the MS365 "I'm done!" box to hopefully pop up. Part of me wants him to to try to open a Word document and get an error. I would literally LOL at that.

I'm remoted in, watching MS365 reinstall. He slides the install window to the side and casually keeps working. I can't see the progress bar. Is it done? I don't know. Hope he doesn't jack it up. Not sure how I would explain that his past impatience caused his future inconvenience.

After that, I had to rip/reinstall MS365 to fix an unrelated printer issue. He asked me "how long is this going to take?" As long as it takes to fix the issue sir. I could, optionally, you know, just not fix it. I didn't even have the chance to set expectations, and they were already sky high.

Today's client changed a Word setting and "broke" it. Just a simple view setting. He: a) wanted me to restore his entire computer from cloud backup to a point only 15 minutes prior b) wanted it done in less than 5 minutes That's not how that works. I just changed the Word setting back instead.

BlueSCSI WiFi is magic! 😍

Going to add to this: If you vote by mail, check to see if you can drop your ballot off at a official drop-off point. If your election office has a drop box, make use of that. I would not mail it right now. USPS is immensely fucked for just *normal* mail at the moment.

In PA, there are drop-off locations for mail in ballots across the state, or return them at your county election office www.pa.gov/agencies/vot...

"The modular Laptop Is Real.... garbage"

Dear friends. The USPS is enshitifying the system -right now-. If you vote by mail, my suggestion is that you either: a) vote early in person if at all possible, or b) mail your ballot at least a week earlier than you usually do.