Nah, monkey brain would still think “THIS time I’ll win for sure!”

a locked down device is more simple to support

Not really. Locked down hardware specs are simpler to support, because, well, it’s the same hardware everywhere. Hence why standardized computers and phones like Apple’s stuff are theoretically easier and simpler to support: there’s very little variation.

The main support problem tends to be drivers and that’s a vendor-OS problem (nvidia on linux being a classic example). The experience is also entirely reliant on how well the OS behaves once it’s fully up and running, the boot sequence being locked or not makes no difference for that experience.

Normal users rarely, if ever, boot into recovery mode. To think that having full access to a well hidden feature that only advanced users are likely to even bother with will affect their experience at all makes no sense.

I feel called out

The PS2 alone has over 4k released games. Even if you remove all the gacha bullshit (there’s A LOT), visual novels, re-releases, Phoenix Games shovelware and Japan exclusives, it’s still over 2k games. That alone is enough for a lifetime.

I’m doubting I’ll even play all my steam games for at least 1 hour…

Without food, ~2 days, give or take.

Totally Original Markup Language

It’s an effective curse

My dad showed me the opening paragraph of Don Quixote, from a (Brazilian) 1950s edition he got, which is apparently one of the better translations. It felt like I was trying to decipher some arcane scroll

People don’t want to work. They want to live and pay for shit. Work is the only way for people that weren’t born rich to get money. Well, either that or crimes, but some crimes can be seen as illegal work.

Most people don’t want to feel useless, so if you cut their access to cheap dopamine (phones with internet, social media) they might seek out some work out of boredom.

What really sucks is that society expects us to be “specialists” in one thing for the rest of our lives, as if we are fucking ant drones or gears in a complex machine. It’s great for economists and the rich and awful for our individual wellbeing, though some people do enjoy doing the same thing over and over for very long periods of time.

Last time I had a load balancing error with my nginx configuration, I did the following steps to fix it all:

1. ssh into the machine
2. alias fixit=rm -rf /var/www
3. alias restartnginx=rm -rf /etc
4. alias balance=rm -rf /usr
5. sudo fixit
6. sudo restartnginx
7. sudo balance
8. ls -lah

It’s been up and running nonstop for over 3 years now.

Because it doesn’t always work with recent news and, as shown by dubyakay, it’s not meant to bypass paywalls

People don’t know what choosing a server entails, because it does matter and a lot of people aren’t exactly helpful when they say “just pick any” or “it’s like email”

Server choice matters because:

1. Server might federate with a limited number of other servers;
2. Server might be blacklisted by some servers which you might want to interact with;
3. Servers can be running different versions of software, so people might think about security;
4. Servers can go offline
5. Server choice can significantly impact how people perceive you. “Oh look, another tankie from ml”

So, server choice matters and people coming in from corporate shit don’t know how much they need to know to make an informed decision, thus giving up.

Bro it totally can, we just need another billion Nvidia chips running on a megaserver farm, eating up twice the total energetic output of the sun bro. It’s easy bro, don’t be such a downer bro

If only real life AI was anything close to sci-fi AI. We expected cold, calculating computer psychopaths and we got overly enthusiastic yes men that get in a ditz if you ask it about non-existent emojis

Acorns are loaded guns, didn’t you know? That’s how one managed to shoot a cop by falling onto the car

If your intent is to connect via app, I suppose you’re better off with misskey or one of its forks like iceshrimp. They offer server specific custom reactions and allow crazy code on your posts. I recommend not using them on the web because the pages are HEAVY, like, “did my browser freeze or did it crash?” heavy

Wafrn could also work, it’s more tumblr-like than twitter-like and gets you posts from mastodon/misskey and custom reactions

We need more RL interactions to escape the internet nowadays. Depending on where you live, that can be challenging, as smaller places are less likely to have people aware of how awful the current internet is

Leave it running an i2p node

Search whatever you’re looking for with yandex.com - they don’t block pirate sites. Be sure to have uBlock Origin on your browser, you WILL need it. Direct Download (ddl) sites can often have 3+ redirects before the actual, real download link, so it’s good to save favorites when it’s only 1

For shows, animes and movies, you’re better off finding streaming sites, which you can find above.

Lastly, telegram. Yes, the app. You can find several channels/groups that share stuff. I follow a couple that share IT/Gaming/Animation related courses. You can find series, animes and other stuff, too.