4grams

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[–] 4grams@awful.systems 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I know, but it’s not really a misspelling though, Milquetoast was named after milktoast.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 1 day ago

My first intro to it was Milquetoast the Cockroach from Bloom County. It all makes perfect sense :)

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

It’s an excellent word, means a timid, meek, or unassertive person. I love it since it sounds like exactly what it is “”milktoast” sounds boring, unappealing, and bland, just like milquetoast people.. it’s an effective synonym regardless if intended or not :)

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 2 points 5 days ago

I’m m an Infrastructure architect and engineer, this is the same problem in enterprise. Cloud, SaaS, proprietary vendors, they all want to lock you. Time and place for all of it, but you’ve gotta know what you are getting yourself into.

What chance does the average, non-30 year veteran of industry have? It’s bad out there.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 5 days ago

Nah, wasn’t “we” , it was “them” who sold us on a promise, but was really a leash, or muzzle. The “them” is the oligarchs, the billionaires, the epstein class…

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 1 points 5 days ago

Oh, I know, ai was trying to point out the insanity in a few words as possible. All the solutions and conveniences we are being sold are bullshit. They are sold as helpful but just make you hate the world.

I had an Apple Watch, the simplicity of not having to take out my phone was the draw, I could see my notifications quickly and easily. All it did though was create more distraction, more digital cruft to wade through and dismiss. I get more value out of the rubber band that I have on my wrist right now than I did the Apple Watch.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 25 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Goddamn, I am so tired of modern convenience. My god we have made shit complicated in the name of simplicity.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have an 86 45 shirt I used to wear during the first term. When the comey bullshit first hit the news, my father called me and told me how I shouldn’t wear violent messages, told me that I’d better watch my back if I wore something like that again. I hung up and ordered an 86 47 shirt. Wearing it today in fact.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago

I’m so tired of all these attempts on his life.

I’ll let you decide where the emphasis belongs in this sentence.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago

yes, work in progress actually..

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

With how fucking slow windows has gotten on my work PC with all the copilot bullshit, I’m pretty sure MS is doing the same thing. No proof, just a painfully slow machine after getting all the AI updates..

I hate having that machine in my house, on my network.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 22 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

He’s only concerned because he knows his and his allies actions are so bad, one might say biblically bad, that he’s trying to control the narrative to look in another direction.

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