TimeSquirrel

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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I'm 42. I always got systems later than other kids. The Atari was in the house ever since I could form memories, and I finally got an NES in 1990, when the SNES and Genesis/Mega drive were on the horizon.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 25 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Parents?? That was my first console. How young is everyone here?

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

No, OutKast, not Lil Jon.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Does anyody really look at anyone in an ad and say, "Yes, that's a fellow human, I connect with them on a personal level"?

I've been perceiving them as robots since 1986. Because even as a child I knew people in an ad don't act or talk like everybody I knew in real life and what they were portraying was completely made up, unrealistic dialog and scenarios.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 34 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Ever watch somebody who doesn't know about all that use the rawdog Internet? It's amazing how people can just sit there, deal with all that, and not go apeshit. The population has been conditioned.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago

Right up until the first of hundreds of change orders.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We already know how to take care of this in big capacitors. You put a breakaway vent in.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I think there's already a way to forward Google Home requests directly to ChatGPT, I might be wrong though.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 5 points 6 months ago

Yeah it's like what happened to toasters, refrigerators, and home computers. Nobody gives AF anymore.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 23 points 6 months ago (11 children)

Libraries and APIs are a moving target. Eventually it won't run on modern systems anymore without modification.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 17 points 6 months ago

Neofetch is only dead if y'all let it die. Same as Hexchat.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

By "a lot of people", I meant "a great many of them" compared to neurotypicals. Not all.

It often takes a special kind of person to be able to absorb reams of dry technical knowledge in a narrow field and spit it out like it's a second language.

It's easy to recognize in people like RMS, Steve Wozniak, and Torvalds if you are afflicted with it too (although technically none have been officially diagnosed). Even Elon Musk exhibits traits of it (as much as I don't want to be associated with him) I can still recognize the complete social ineptitude and obsessive behaviors that are often associated with it.

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