The right-wing belief that batteries are hippie-dippy bullshit is putting our nation, and the world, in grave danger. https://t.co/VihMSeeyP6 pic.twitter.com/RJOCMX3Lp9
— Noah Smith
(@Noahpinion) June 3, 2025
How the fuck did batteries get wrapped up in the culture war nonsense? I truly do think culture warring lowers IQ by 50 points.
If you’re against batteries, you’re a fucking idiot. Right or left, doesn’t matter: fucking idiot.
I’ve been seeing more and more regret from people about the moronic tattoos they’ve gotten. Seems like that horrible trend might be in retreat now.
It’d be a good time to start up a chain of tattoo removal clinics I’d guess.
Indian manager gleeful about moving US jobs to India.
It’s branded as “racist,” when in reality it’s just an observation: when any people of Indian origin achieve management positions, they tend only to bring on other Indian people (of the same caste, even) whether those hires are in the US or India.
This funneling of jobs to those of Indian origin only is occuring throughout the IT industry. I fail to see how that mundane and obvious observation of reality is racist, but alrighty then.
When I go to work conferences and people try to hand me their old laptops randomly.
First of all, Karen, I’m not the laptop recycling depot. We have an MSP for that.
Second of all, I flew here just like you did. What the fuck do you think I am going to do with your and half a dozen other people’s machines? I don’t have room in my carry-on for eight laptops (I already carry two myself).
Third, I’d never presume to just walk up to someone and just hand them random junk. What the hell is wrong with people? I know too many see us overpaid computer janitors but that doesn’t mean I am gonna act like one.
The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not.
FUCK THAT. I don’t use Gmail anyway. Yet another reason not to.
Saying the only way to fund trade schools is via cuts to scientific and medical research at Harvard is the Trump equivalent to the woke demand that social services should be financed by defunding police.
— Lee Fang (@lhfang) May 27, 2025
It’s also similar to the left’s assertion that if we could just not send those evil and bad rockets to evil bad and scary space, we’d be able to fund everything.
I'm still freaking out about this https://t.co/YI7xxNkyvC pic.twitter.com/7iZju6glGI
— keysmashbandit (@keysmashbandit) May 28, 2025
Fucking Christ, that’s moronic. Why would you do that to your OS? This doesn’t fix even really a little of all that’s wrong with Windows 11, but it certainly does make a major part of it feel faster.
No end of clownish decisions in that terrible OS.
I was already awake (I get up at 6:15AM) but what kind of disphit-ass motherfucker starts using a leafblower in a residential neighborhood at 7AM?
Apparently the disphit-ass motherfucker next door.
If you work in tech, go to your nearest Best Buy (google it, it’s a store for normal people) and buy a $500 windows laptop made by a legacy vendor. Not a Chromebook.
Go through the 60m setup flow full of SaaS ads. Feel it lag when you press Start. Experience notification hell. https://t.co/9rTySJXDLC
— Conrad Bastable (@ConradBastable) May 26, 2025
I am using Windows 11 on my work laptop now as I need to experience what my users experience.
And it is. Fucking. Slow. OMG SO SLOW. Who wrote this, a snail? It’s amazing how absolutely abysmal the experience of using modern software has become.
A related problem is self-reported caloric intake in diet studies. These are often used to bolster arguments that "it doesn't matter how much people eat."
Fat people who report eating "nothing" or "very little" are just lying. https://t.co/70O0xl6cWO pic.twitter.com/eKh1GKi0xb
— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) May 24, 2025
Nearly everyone lies, but fat people lie a whole damn lot on such surveys. I saw one obese woman claiming she’d only eaten 500 calories a day for decades and had lost no weight.
And no matter how obese you are, you’d die after a year or so on that sort of diet. Just not physiologically possible.
It’s so very oddball how so much of the contemporary left has settled on these fucked up “truths:”
You can kinda see why there was an (equally-stupid) backlash. What the left believes is some pretty vile, outlandish, anti-human stuff.
And the most moronic response to the thread below:
That has abso-fucking-lutely nothing to do with it. Jesus fuck why are people so obsessed with something irrelevant but quantifiable? I guess because it is quantifiable, unlike compatibility, attraction, shared goals and interests, etc.
Clownish idiocy by oafish doofuses.
I broke up with my GF after she got a face tattoo.
Appropriate reaction to any tattoo; if you want to despoil and deface1 yourself, not wanting to be with you is a very appropriate response to that self-destruction.
One of the most baffling things in the world to me is why people buy Apple products. No innovation, worse for work, worse for tech work, overpriced, really the list is endless. It's not even a status symbol anymore given poor people will take out loans to buy one for that aspect.
— psychosomatica (@Xenoimpulse) May 24, 2025
Is this serious?
While by no means perfect, Apple’s machines just work, are wicked fast and their laptops last a whole day on battery. Even their high-end machines. And no, I do not mean a whole eight-hour work day. I mean an entire 24 hours. I brought an M2 Macbook Pro to a three-day work conference, used it for hours after the conf each day and didn’t charge it the entire time I was there. Try that with any other machine.
The Macbook Pro might be the only actually-good laptop on the market. It is truly an excellent machine, the exemplar of what a laptop should be. Lenovo, Dell, HP and any other maker now just seems to churn out absolute crap in this category. They appear to have just given up. Using an Apple machine feels great in comparison.
The M-series chips are pretty damn innovative, by the way.
Apple’s products are overpriced only if you don’t care about quality, reliability, supportability, usability, resale value, and not having to fuck around with your machine for hours to get it to do something that Apple ones just do by default. Or in the case of Windows specifically, spending half a day evicting all the surveillance and ad infrastructure — only for it to be reinstalled on the next update.
And Linux — don’t even get me started. Using that as a daily driver is about as smooth as sliding 300 meters on concrete. Clarification: I use Linux all the time. I was working in three different Linux VMs today that I have doing various things on our network. But as my main machine? Hell no. Too much bother and hassle.
As I mentioned, Apple machines are not perfect. Finder is absolutely chock full of bugs, is ridiculously slow, and has not improved at all in more than a decade. Pseudo-security has been ramped up too much — as with most companies — so you have to actively fight your machine to make it do what you want.
But compared to using Linux or Windows? Or a tablet running any OS? It’s not even a choice. Apple is the way to go.
For a while I worked at a hosting company. Sometimes as a side business, though, we did field installs for customers. Since I was one of the few people there who knew enough in disparate areas (solution design, security, hardware, networking, software, racking, cabling, etc.) I usually got picked to go to customer sites to set things up.
One of our major customers was a nightmare on the phone so I knew it’d be even worse in person. And sure enough when I arrived they were hovering over me, asking how long it was going to take and saying they were losing money while things were down (they had chosen the time for the migration). But after an hour or so I got everything racked, networked, set up, running and ready to get back into full operation1.
When it was all done the hoverer said, “I notice there’s only one server. I thought this would be a cluster. It’s not redundant this way.”
This customer had specifically said they did not want a cluster on multiple phone calls where I stressed this solution would not be redundant and that if enough items in the single server failed2 the virtualized machines hosted thereon would indeed crash harder than a 737 MAX.
So I said, “On our phones calls I noted the chosen solution would not be redundant and if you wanted something with more resiliency it would require two servers. You said this was too expensive and not to do it.”
“Oh. I thought your company would just provide it anyway. That’s poor customer service that they don’t,” the customer said angrily while sighing loudly. This “provide it anyway” would mean giving the customer about $10,000 worth of free equipment. Not even close to happening.
I didn’t really know what to say to that so I took the wiser path by saying nothing and got out of there as quickly as I could. When I made it back to HQ, I let my manager know about the exchange and closed the ticket out.
The customer wasn’t done with their carping, though they let the redundancy “issue” go. The next day they called claiming their new server was only running at 10Mbs. I knew that was impossible because the networking equipment we installed wouldn’t even negotiate a 10mbs connection (100Mbs and above only), so I remoted in to take a look. Somehow, they’d misread 10Gbs as 10Mbs. When I pointed this out they got very defensive and claimed it had said 10Mbs before.
Right.
Customers be crazy, man.