I don’t have a car nor a house and I’m in my 40ies. I’ve been told multiple times that I’m not a responsible adult as long as I don’t have one of these.

Don’t worry, car collisions are only one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the US.

Who cares if you’re blind, you need to go places. Here’s your license. The other shiny dots are just NPCs.

Anything but public or active transit.

Of course. My meat tenderizer connected to the internet has an accelerometer and sensors. For a small monthly subscription fee it tells me how hard I need to beat the meat, and for how long. All powered by AI for my convenience.

A bicycle. No gas to pay, no parking fees, no insurance, and I can do most of the maintenance.

It’s a quote from an episode of the Simpsons. I don’t know who wrote that but I left it verbatim.

Don’t kid yourself, Jimmy. If a cow had the chance he’d eat you and everyone you care about.

Have you worked as a Customer Advocate for a hosting company at some point? Because that looks like the training material they showed me when I did this job.

“There is no aspect, no facet, no moment of life that can’t be improved with pizza.”

Daria Morgendorffer

It’s one of the things that made me prefer using Linux a long long time ago. It’s nice to be able to rename, move, and delete files while they are used.

It was difficult to accept but after talking with a therapist, and years of being discouraged every time I talked to her, I made the same realization and stopped telling her about most of my life. Everyone is much happier if we don’t talk about this. Otherwise she will tell me I took all the wrong decisions and that I should have stayed miserable because that’s how it works.

She (and all of her family) is afraid of pretty much everything. So as soon as you can secure a job, you keep it; for life! Even if it destroys your body or your mental, you have a job so keep it! Don’t go to school, it’s just a waste of money. Don’t look elsewhere because it’s not going to be better anyway. It’s even causing conflict in her family because one of her sister is a nurse and is “too educated”. They consider her snobbish.

It’s my mother, I love her, but I can’t tell her anything or it’s going to be worse for both of us.

AFAIK they did that because of GSM interference and the phenomenon mostly disappeared not because those cheap little speakers are mostly extinct, but because the technology used by cell phones changed. In fact, GSM is being phased out in most countries.

That reminds me of a story I saw about a handicapped athlete in Montreal’s metro. He was literally dragging his wheelchair while going upstairs and holding to the handrail.

He shouldn’t have to do that but the metro here is only partly accessible, and not his station.

Add a handrail and this might be for him.

If you consider god as capitalism then it makes sense.

In two parts.

1. The before map would be of the only high speed train the US currently has, and it’s the Acela Express. So, something like this.

2. If lots of people are consuming Tylenol in day to day life, and it causes autism, and some autistic people love trains, then the US should have a system like the map posted.

I am. That’s why I switched to DDG and deactivated it.

Apparently you can also try with Labubus.

It’s so fun to waste energy!

AI drives 48% increase in Google emissions

I love those energy hungry assistants! It’s wasting resources even faster than everything before but it’s so fun and useful!

I grew up with DOS and used Windows 1 (barely, DOS was better), 3.1, 95, 98, etc… But curiosity made me try a bunch of OS in the beginning of the 2000s, like BeOS, QNX, and Linux (Kheops, Mandrake, SuSE). I dual booted for many years, keeping Linux as my main OS but having to boot Windows for games. I preferred Linux but I was pretty much OS agnostic for a while. I even worked as level 1 tech support for many years, helping people with Windows and Office products.

But then came Windows 8, 10, and now 11, + Office 365 + OneDrive. It’s very difficult to stand any of those new versions, with the ads, the constant peddling for Microsoft products, the “forced” login with a Microsoft account, the updates whenever they feel like it if you don’t pay enough for Windows, if the updates are not breaking something. A few years ago I was helping a friend and discovered a version of Windows 7 where you can’t even change the wallpaper.

TBF, I knew it was coming. Anyone in IT knew for years that Microsoft planned of having everything subscription based. To me, every new versions of Windows or Office, or Teams, is now more intolerable than the previous one.

Anyway, at some point I stopped gaming/dual booting and pretty much kept exclusively on Linux. My workplace used Windows, and I use Linux at home. I’ve been using Debian for 15 years now and despite minor issues with sound recently, since pipewire, every time I use Windows, I’m reminded of how much worse it could be.

Recently I quit my job as a level 1 tech. I can’t help people with Microsoft products anymore. Having calls from people telling me they cannot delete files from their OneDrive when it tells them it’s full, then discover it’s a bug and users with their drives full cannot delete anything, is just disconcerting. Before all that, I could at least see/understand the reason why things were working like they did; I could help and explain it to the users. Now, I’m as frustrated as they are when I use Microsoft products.

One time I was working as a customer advocate in a hosting company and I had one supervisor that never wanted to concede and refund the clients. It wasn’t an issue with other supervisors, I was following policies and he was kind of an asshole.

At one point I told him he was wrong and he replied with the French expression “you will not live on love and water alone”, meaning do what I say or you will be fired and won’t have money to live.

Well, as this happened before lunch break, I went to lunch, wrote my resignation letter and sent it via email. When I got back at the office he was incredulous and asked if I was joking. Nope.

I didn’t have the monetary meams to quit and I had to go back to my previous job, that I also didn’t like, but at least my old supervisor was not such an asshole.

I had the same experience as OP when I tried Matrix a few years ago. No hate on it but it was not easy and I gave up because I already had a simple IRC setup that’s working for me and my friends.

Some IRC clients are now web based and it’s been enough to keep a few of my friends there instead of Discord. We use The Lounge. It can keep a history, display images, videos, play mp3s, and show previews of most URLs. Like, we can simply copy/paste images into a channel and they are uploaded on the server and displayed in the chat. There’s also push notifications and it’s mobile friendly.

Convos also does something like this. Apparently it can also do video chat but I’ve never got it to work.

I’ve recently been thinking about giving Matrix another try but I’m pretty sure my friends are going to stay on “modern” IRC anyway.