I get how parts prices and everything else got more expensive… but that’s just insane. Most I’ve ever paid for a Pi was 40 euros for a model 3. They’ve gotten way too expensive since then. The WHOLE IDEA behind them was cheap and cheerful computing. Did a lot of cool projects with them that just aren’t worth it with expensive hardware.

Ugh, that does sound terrible. I liked Reddit reasonably well before 2016 turned everything and anything into politics. And then covid and the whole Ukraine situation turned everything to shit even further.

I really miss the 2000 internet when it was just nerd discussions and the occasional funny gif.

How has it changed? I’m genuinely not familiar with it. I know of the spicy reputation it once had, but I rarely see it mentioned anymore these days. I assume censorship or something like it found its way there?

As a 44-year old who lived through all of those once-in-a-lifetime events (you also forgot 9/11) just once in my life, I’d like a boring decade where nothing happens.

Between the wars, politics, global terror, economic upheaval and the general state of things… I’m really fucking tired boss.

Those do exist! A few libraries in the Netherlands have a system that basically gives patrons a key to access the library even when it was closed. Basically, you’d hold up a keycard, building would open, lights go on, you grab a book and check out and walk out the door. Lights go off, building locks itself.

Wild, right? That only really works in a high trust society of course. They reasoned that avid book readers don’t steal and that thieves don’t read.

Usually they limit it to something like 7 AM to 11 PM, so there is SOME limit to it, but that certainly makes them more accessible to those of us who work.

I think that sort of thing is usually a volunteer detail, so I don’t imagine they’d force someone if there’s people willing to do it.

I personally wouldn’t have an issue shooting this particular guy.

Ugh, absolutely fucking annoying. I’ve been online since 1994. Back then, proper spelling and grammar were enforced by ‘grammar nazi’s’. If you wanted your post to be taken seriously, you had to write it properly. Because of that, I tend to write longer posts with proper grammar.

Unfortunately, not writing like a drunk koala means you now MUST be an AI.

I’ve pretty mych resorted to inserting a random typo somewhere in the comment or post so at least it looks like a human typed.

Sometimes it’s just not worth arguing with people. Certainly not if it’s the fifth time that week or something. That shit gets exhausting.

Also, you’re allowed to simply not give a ahit on some things. We’ve all got our own shit do deal with without needing to form an informed opinion on every other thing that might be happening somewhwre in the world.

Yeah, as a fresh 44 year old, I’d really love to have a boring decade where nothing much happens. Just a bit of a breather before the inevitable climate wars. I’ve lived through so many ‘once in a lifetime’ events, it’s not even funny.

Yeah, we noticed. This week in the Netherlands we had the first day where the entire country’s daytime max temp was below 20 celsius, since june 14th. That means it’s been warm for 86 days straight. And we had some scorchers.

I’m just glad we have airconditioning at home.

Yeah ‘serving size: three jelly beans’ or ‘one Oreo cookie’ are not realistic even for people who don’t actually binge them.

This shit reminds me of that helicopter gunner scene in Full Metal Jacket:

“Everyone who doesn’t show their face is an AI. Everyone who does show their face is a well-disciplined AI.”

Problem is that most people and automated systems are downright terrible at figuring out what’s actually AI. Even AI itself can’t always tell if it’s AI.

I’ve had people accuse my posts on social media as AI, just because I can write more than two sentences without spelling errors. Since they can’t, they think nobody can…

So now I tend to leave the occasional delibarete spelling mistake just so people don’t think this was written by ChatGPT. Unless I put that in my prompt, obviously 😂