Exactly like a Chromebook. Those stupid things were (are?) such a coordinated landfill and education-decimating campaign.

With my mom in law’s, I had to go through so much crap to overwrite the bootloader using some saint’s scripts just so I could put Linux on it. The stupid thing (an Asus) actually said “We’re done updating this thing. Buy a new one. Lol.”

The way they foisted that Temu-grade hardware on impoverished schoolsystems across the country is disgusting.

It rings a bell but I’m not sure if I’ve watched it. Will definitely check it out. Thank you!

Yeah, I’m also sad to think how many brilliant souls wander the streets because care is withheld out of reach. Whether the victims are geniuses or not though, the streets were the wrong replacement for mental institutes.

I agree, chat bots can be neat (HUGE caveats), but in the midst of unprecedented loneliness and mental anguish, they’re gasoline on a trash fire.

Illustrated plainly by the fact that the next post to this one in my feed was about the always-controversial bcacheFS author claiming he’s achieved AGI and has a self-aware AI girlfriend.

“Oop…hup… Uh-oh. I’m in a hole.”

Something tells me that’d be so scary if Terry (RIP) was able to integrate an LLM into TempleOS.

It’d be miserable but man if we gotta skip some lunches to dethrone unjustified authority structures I’m so down. 👍

This one big time.

It’s anecdotal but like 90% of my psychological torment disappeared overnight when I quit a horrible job I’d been trapped in for 8 years.

A lot of recovery work I’m doing is trying to undo all that. It made me insufferably cynical, angry, depressed, anxiety to 11. But it paid bills.

The other 10% is ADHD. Society also punishes that one in fun ways. (And has now turned it into yet another marketing trend. Hooray.)

But being denied free will to act in the world and determine one’s own course is damaging to the human psyche. Being coerced into doing something stupidly pointless on top of that, for little in return, is even more damaging still.

I am praying this is wrong SO MUCH.

I’m happy seeing so many kids getting into retro hardware and actual computing and physical media and stuff. We should tighten that bolt.

As much trouble as we’ve got, I REALLY will not live in this “everything is just a terminal to The Cloud™” world. It’s disgusting.

There you go, kids! Behold, The Future™!

Having RAM prices skyrocket 9000% and all the ecological destruction was totally worth it for a future that’s continvoucly morged!

Fast forward 30min of training and the final outcome is a model that outputs “do nothing” in 100% of the cases.

To be fair, your program demonstrated the most reliable way to win at crypto! 😉

“I would have been your daddy, but the dog beat me over the fence!”

you can also alias rm to run sl instead :)

Choo-choo!!

Hehe I just thought of a hilariously nefarious prank: alias ls to sl. 😂

I was thinking about the cables themselves but, you’re right about the McGuyvered adapter!

Wonder if it gets hot over time. 🤔

…I really don’t know electronics and want to pick it up soon haha.

I was expecting a pair of flip flops. :)

EDIT: oo, maybe one of those motor-unicycles!

… is it the “UNIX-Hater’s Handbook” from 1994 with a parody of “The Scream” on the cover?

LOL nice, I’ll have to check it out. :) Thanks!

I’ve read this somewhere too! Where are you quoting it from if I may ask?

But yes I also agree 💯%. rm should always be treated with respect and care by default rather than “customizing the danger away.”

That’s certainly something you can do! I would personally follow the recommendation against aliasing rm though, either just using the trash tool’s auto complete or a different alias altogether.

Reason being as someone mentioned below: You don’t want to give yourself a false sense of security or complacency with such a dangerous command, especially if you use multiple systems.

I liken it to someone starting to handle weapons more carelessly because the one they have at home is “never loaded.” Better safe than sorry.

Lol we should have “rules of rm safety”:

• Assume rm is always sudo unless proven otherwise.
• (EDIT)Finger should be off the Enter key until you are certain you are ready to delete.
• Never point rm at something you aren’t willing to permanently destroy.
• Always be aware of your target directory, and what is recursively behind it!

OOOOOOOOOOOF!!

One trick I use, because I’m SUPER paranoid about this, is to mv things I intend to delete to /tmp, or make /tmp/trash or something.

That way, I can move it back if I have a “WHAT HAVE I DONE!?” moment, or it just deletes itself upon reboot.

I’m sure I have a lot, but comes to mind:

EDIT: Sorry this turned into a big reply haha…

• Zombie (both the original and the 2016 Bad Wolves cover) , the second it opens, just visceral; it’s the same old thing, in [2026], in our heads…
• The Kids Aren’t Alright by The Offspring , I hate relating so hard to this as a generation, watching so many kids with promise just get smothered out surviving in a bleak “cruelest dream reality.” Oft by drugs and hopelessness.
• In the Arms of an Angel by Sarah McLachlan : My mom always cries if she hears this song because her late mom did too. Then my cousin sang it at my dad’s funeral so…Yeah, I don’t let that one play. Sorry, Sarah.
• Immortal by Marina and the Diamonds ; The entire song is beautiful and profound. “And if the earth ends in fire, and the seas are frozen in time, there’ll be just one survivor, the memory that I was yours and you were mine.” (Holy shit just typing that…)
• Pretty When I Cry by Silent Rival ; Such a beautiful song I thought was about a partner who taught the singer about true unconditional love… It’s about her late mother. It empowers me to fight to be there for those I love, and it sends a powerful message that we can be strong in our weakness.
• Dust in the Wind by Kansas ; anything about the fleetingness of life hits me hard.
• Memories by Maroon 5. I miss people…

Lots of happy songs too…Like they’re beautiful and wistful and lovely and I think I cry because I can’t imagine such peace… My wife likes these songs and I guess I kinda break imagining us getting to just unshoulder our burdens and truly live.

• Perfect by Ed Sheeran
• Just Too Good by Phil Wickham
• “Will the Circle Be Unbroken?” , a popular Christian hymn from 1907, made prominent in recent history by BioShock Infinite.
• On that note, Amazing Grace really is amazing, but it doesn’t help that it’s the ‘somebody died’ song now…
• The Prayer by many artists: Celine Dion and Andre Bocelli
• Prayer by Hayley Westenra
• In My Arms by Plumb (has some sweet remixes, but man, a mother’s love is truly something…our first is on the way and I really feel it now…)
• Somewhere Only We Know by Lily Allen

… Okay I’m sensing a theme here. Yeah, I’m a person of faith. Thinking of a refuge in my Father where I can stop worrying, stop fearing, stop fighting. Songs about pure and unyielding love, or lullabies , crush me instead of relax me for some reason. Maybe because the contrast with our present circumstances is so harshly defined and such respite feels like it can’t be had in this life.