When I read shit like this I think of Trump tearing down the East Wing. He didn’t do this personally. Multiple people had to agree and execute.

For example; I managed a reprographics shop. We would have flat refused to make signage such as these plaques. Not because management was woke, we simply wouldn’t handle toxic messaging. Somewhere in DC is a shop that said, “Fuck it, the money matters more than morals.” Same for the demolition company.

Sad but true. :(

I’m at the point where I downvote every comment that’s nothing more than, “This is slop.” or “Is this AI slop?”

I’m reading that as, “Look how smart I am! Also, I’m part of your tribe so you should like me!”

As ever, GenX got left out of every one of your examples. 😢

We’re a really unique generation. No one else straddled the digital divide like us. Elder millennials were using the first PCs, but we went from nothing to the first home computers to PCs. Same for video games.

We didn’t grow up anything like our Boomer parents, and Millenials feel like my really young sibling who I completely understand.

At 54, where would you put me? (I know, that’s the exact opposite of your comment’s thrust.)

The term AI has been around for decades. Most people wouldn’t have a clue what an LLM is, even if they use one daily. It was inevitable that AI won out.

I’d stand with Big Tech on this one.

“Make me. Dare ya. We’ll pull all UK sales and block your island off the face of the planet. See how that works for ya at the polls. We’re done here.”

Oh! That’s a new one on me! Maybe sounds familiar?

“Genuine leather” is the designation for the lowest grade leather product.

Doesn’t matter. People fall for it every fucking time.

That is an urban myth. There was one case in one police force and a judge ruled it was OK to select against applicants who scored too well on an internal test.

Jordan v. City of New London

It’s been 25 years, time to put this one to rest.

Wow! Somehow that one passed me by. Was it a rare thing?

This is why I liked online dating. Those bullet points are almost eliminated.

Not Santa, but I’ve tried a dozen or more distros over the last 15 years. Multiple pains in my ass see me going back to Windows, every time. Headless Linux as a server OS rocks out.

The fact that you have to ask is a major point against the Linux desktop.

Me too and I’ve tried Linux on and off for 15 years. Also, I have never once had any of the issues lemmy tells me I’m having. Apparently that pisses lemmy off because I get hella downvotes for merely stating my experience. I think 97% of the hate comes from people with awful experiences at work or they think “Windows” is what they get from their laptop manufacturer. Installing a base ISO is a way different experience.

Some article comes out that an update is doing something bad? I wouldn’t know, hasn’t happened to me, or the Windows fleets I’ve managed, for nearly a decade. I’d say over a decade, but I dodged that update that borked CMS systems because, duh, I manage updates instead of letting them roll.

Linux is my go-to for servers, every time. I’ll only deploy Windows if I must, such as a domain controller, or our software has to run on IIS, stuff like that. Otherwise, I can’t imagine using Windows Server. It’s not so much that it sucks, but why pay for a slower system?!

Worked across the street from an outfit like yours for 5 years. Never saw a crane coming or going, hell, never seen one being assembled. Y’all sneak out in the middle of the night, right?

That’s not socialism, at all. There’s a huge difference between the government owning and controlling industries and services and the government paying for those goods and services.

People aren’t paying for Word, they’re paying for Excel and getting all the other goodies included.

Yeah, LibreOffice is fine for home use, maybe even really small businesses that don’t have to trade spread sheets with external customers, but Excel is the killer app.

Calc’s a fine spread sheet program, but it’s frustrating as hell after using Excel for 30+ years. You can’t trust that it will properly import an Excel sheet and it sure won’t do macros.

For business, they need Excel.

The antivax nuts weren’t doing it anyway and your doctor isn’t going to change his opinion. I’m not sure this changes anything.

They’re right! Call local beekeepers, they’ll almost always be glad to take them.