Man, I had stuff to do today. Now I’m just going to end up watching this over and over for 7 hours.

You’re

Is…is that how I get permission?

Yeah, I think that seeking simple meaning is the inevitably of growing up in the mess of being online. Being offline and finding meaning in life is the purest form of rebellion to the status quo.

The number of them fully embracing and aspiring to things like tradwive life is terrifying. Their motivations are different, but the result is very similar.

You should get a better VPN. Mine only gives me this rarely, often when I’m using a node that I can assume is where a bunch of prime would use to run bots.

I get this. If I wasn’t already familiar and comfortable with OSX, I wouldn’t have been nearly as confident switching over and knowing how to tweak things.

Both NYC and LA have good ramen places. Doesn’t mean I’m only a hurry to get on the 405 in a new car when I know the MTA map like the back of my hand.

There’s one more…

https://thechive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/thtablrtsuyc1.jpg

Looks like one of those images that’s a old as the internet. Mac OS 8 on the screen was released in 1997, and this looks like a pretty late 90s type of photo. The 90s were wild when it came to things like someone taking photos, being then developed, scanning them, putting them online, etc. Stuff like this was the foundation of early memes and websites.

I think the real cross-generational parallel here going back is Boomers and cars. Their parents before WWII had the equivalent of bare bones stuff, but Boomer era cars were more complicated, but also meant status and were a hobby.

Looking forward, the Gen Z and A kids are just utterly abused by the social media that we xennials/millennial told them was a safe new requirement for life. It wasn’t. It was our leaded gasoline and secondhand smoke. However, their opportunity environment is that they don’t behave like we did as consumers. Their expectation that all media should be free and immediately available is where the world needs to bend to them. As Boomers loose their grip on the economy, open source everything is going to be the world they created for us.

We don’t need to expect everyone to learn like we did because it was a unique moment in time where tinkering got us somewhere in that specific area. But can you fix a carburetor float? No, and Boomers see your lack of awareness there the same as you see deficiencies in others.

They’re gladly letting it all burn because they lazily expect it to mean easy wins in 2026. Then they’ll manage to barely take the House and maaaaybe Senate, and literally do nothing with it.

How do you do, fellow Linux enthusiasts?

Not shocked at all.

Source: Check list of ransomware attacks daily.

As much as I hate to say Elon might be right… The problem is that critical parts of the US government run on systems older than his goon squad. There’s actual COBOL in use, right now today, by the US government.

https://www.gao.gov/blog/outdated-and-old-it-systems-slow-government-and-put-taxpayers-risk

If Elon could fix the actual problem without being a dick about it all, no one would have a problem with any of this.

Hey now, I’ve been paranoid for years. Don’t call me a newborn.

Qute browser

Elder Millenials and young Gen X can have all 3 if they grew up near a busy highway in a home built before the 1980s.

Me after a restart following a seemingly harmless package update:

“Ah, curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!”

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