Rose @ umbraroze @slrpnk.net

I'm just one random nerdy trans girl. ...Oh come on, you've been around fed

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Oh crap, the last time I looked at Slashdot comments, systemd didn't exist yet

There was some old interview with Linus. He said that the first thing people usually notice about the setup is the standing desk (this was long ago, and he was a bit of a trendsetter). The second thing they notice is the wall colour. It's used in mental hospitals. It has a calming effect on human mind.

I found a pencil holder I had in the 1990s. It has these little drawers for erasers and stuff. I was like "oh cool, I can fill the rest of these with my SD cards and USB sticks."

So, while cleaning my desk looking for those, I found one of these. I was like "I'm pretty sure I had at least 2 of these." ...I found three.

...It's okay. I've programmed in far far worse languages. ...It's got its advantages. It's got it's problems. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Edit: If you need a serious answer: Much like BASIC, it's a language often used in teaching programming. In that sense, I guess it's much better than BASIC. You can, like, actually use it on real world applications. If you're using BASIC for real world applications in this day and age something has gone really wrong.

Yup. In theory, it's a program to gently kick the job applicants to apply for more jobs, which sounds like a good thing. In practice, it's yet another way for the authorities to breathe down the neck of job applicants to document the busywork they're already doing, and make sure they're doing nothing productive besides sitting by their phones and waiting for calls (that probably never come because you just annoyed every potential employer by spamming them with applications).

Several years ago, Finnish authorities did another experiment. Universal basic income for a few lucky recipients! People who participated in this couldn't believe how awesome it was to freely engage in a bunch of modern freelancing options that the unemployment benefits program just straight up banned. I hear it was awesome while it lasted. Now, they decided to do this mandatory application bullshit for the rest of the unemployed populace. I'm hoping they got all of the data on which of the options was more productive, because from my point of view, this hasn't been it!

I'm unemployed. A few years ago, the Finnish government introduced a requirement that all job seekers must submit up to 4 applications per month. (This was stupid from both the applicant and recruitment perspective. They did this anyway. Oh, companies just get swamped by applications? :surprised_pikachu:)

Then I started hearing news that major companies are screening applications based on AI analysis. And then I attended one job applicant event where one of the sessions was literally "using ChatGPT to write a cover letter".

I'm in software development. I don't expect to be employed again anytime soon. (Unless I bullshit my way to some AI job using ChatGPT, but hey, I have a few vestiges of morality left.)

I'm from Finland so technically not from Scandinavia. But yes, we do have multiple proofs of the strange and disturbing things happening in Sweden. Here, hardly a week goes by without someone asking "why is PostNord?"

Ah yes, Klarna. The proof that not everything is all right with Sweden. Proof that Nordic countries, too, are capable of incredibly dark things. ...Do I need to continue?

Slide to switch plan

Ooooh, that's cutesy.

How about "Point a firearm at the screen and scowl menacingly to cancel the service"

I don't want to be condescending. Dolphin Wiki has an article about ripping games. You have to Google it. Or something. I can't give a link because 🎶 Nintendo has orbital lazors 🎶 /bill wurz

Would love to, but Nintendo nukes people who do that from the orbit. (Actually, this whole thing started when I tried to download ISOs and found most of the sites down.)

However, if you do personal archival projects, they legally can't do shit! We have laws here.

Ripped all of the discs using a softmodded Wii. Used a few homebrew apps, CleanRip (disc dumping), GCMM (for GameCube memory cards) and I think there was another tool for backing up the Wii NAND (could have been just part of bootmii/homebrew channel)

Yup, those times sound about the same as what happened with me. Plus the time spent swapping SD cards, because I couldn't get CleanRip to work with the USB drives I had at hand, only FAT32 SD cards.

Also, at every step of the way when converting ISOs to RVZ, I ran Dolphin's verification thing, just for paranoia I guess.

Conservatives keep saying they're for the common people.

Are they? Are they really? Seems to me they're really busy doing stuff that regular folks hate.

Yeah but they're just delirious poor bastards at this point. Can you really blame them? Reddit gives them no break. They haven't given them a break for decades now. ...hell, if Reddit tells them to remove shit, they just do it.

I've moderated unrelated web stuff for a bit and I can't fathom how anyone can volunteer moderate stuff for extended period of time across a bunch of forums. Poor sods. Should have unionised or something.

The top mods

The power mods are bad, yeah, but I don't entirely blame them for anything. They're unpaid labour, and doing something that no one should be doing for extended periods of time, let alone without compensation. No wonder they're totally unhinged.

(Which is why I don't create new Lemmy communities because, oh shit, I'd have to moderate them, and, well, urgh.)

I've not been using my main account for years now. I've had an alt account for discussions about sex and sexuality. I recently deleted that one because it was just utterly pointless now, and I won't go back. Both the activity levels and quality of the discussion in sex subreddits has been plummeting in the recent years, and now, I just don't know if the people who remain are just bots or what. The whole thing that was actually one of the things that Reddit could have had an advantage on, because they just allowed sex related subs to exist and didn't care if it was profitable. But with so many people fleeing the site, there's less and less of that critical mass of users to go around.

So niche discussions don't work even when they're definitely not "niche" discussions is top worst thing. The rest of top 20 things wrong with Reddit can be summarised as "admins are stupid and we hate 'em"

Next biz bro bestseller: "Leverage the power of your bowels to produce fertiliser that promotes growth"

That's it, I'm going to skip Switch 2 and get a Steam Deck next. And I'll stick to stuff that can run Dolphin.

(Learns that Xbox Series can also run Dolphin without modding) Well shit, I'm set for life, now just need to sort out the portable console situation