…because you know that last time you were happy you fucked something up by forgetting. And it was too late to fix that thing,

THIS. How come we constantly find ourselves messing up things where the only practical solution would be simply time traveling to not having done it?

I’m kinda sick of it at this point, either give me a way to fix it, or the slack I give everybody else. If nobody was mortally threatened by my mistake, it’s not worth endlessly rattling on or yelling about.

I HATE disappointing people but I’m going to, and sadly statistically at a higher rate than others. Forgive me and move on, or I’ll forgive myself and do the same.

It honestly kinda crushes me but I’ve found myself candidly and sincerely saying things like:

“No I don’t wanna go to / do that fun-sounding thing unless I’ve literally got the whole day for it, because whenever I have too much fun I end up in some kind of trouble where I totally forgot something important or I had some place to be or something, so nah.”

I really do wish I could turn to whimsy or serendipity more often, but I’m just expecting to suddenly look at my phone and see missed calls and texts like “Are you almost here?” or “WHERE ARE YOU!?” or something of the like…

I’m even aware this seems like irrational anxiety but boy have I been burned before…

extremely good “search engines” or interactive versions of “stack overflow”

Which is such a decent use of them! I’ve used it on my own hardware a few times just to say “Hey give me a comparison of these things”, or “How would I write a function that does this?” Or “Please explain this more simply…more simply…more simply…”

I see it as a search engine that connects nodes of concepts together, basically.

And it’s great for that. And it’s impressive!

But all the hype monkeys out there are trying to pedestal it like some kind of techno-super-intelligence, completely ignoring what it is good for in favor of “It’ll replace all human coders” fever dreams.

It will have consumed the GigaWattHours capacity of a few suns and all the moisture in our solar system, but by Jeeves, we’ll get there!

…but it won’t be that impressive once we remember concepts like “monkey, typing, Shakespeare” were already embedded in the training data.

Sometimes a bad UX is just bad UX.

Totally can be! Absolutely!

Although Blender’s amazingly usable now and has had lots of love in that regard! But it took a LOT of support to get this far.

Good UX is crazy important.

I think I’m more irritated at the people who seem to show up in so many FOSS discussions, expect FOSS alternatives to compete 1:1 with their billion-dollar corpo-ware of choice, demand the world of it, offer zero support, and then declare “it sucks and isn’t ready for the real world” because it’s not so perfect that Autodesk and Adobe are like “Well we’ve had a good run, guys.” and give up lol.

I sympathize because I know where the frustration comes from. They’re sick of their tools being held hostage by interests that constantly seek to screw them! But change requires flexibility, cooperation, and support.

I think a lot of people just don’t want to say “I want Maya/Photoshop/Excel/Solidworks/Windows/etc…but free and without dark-patterns!” (Don’t we all lol) Because they know that sounds unreasonable (yarr aside lol) , but people tend to get settled and comfortable with whatever got to them first.

But taking that out on the community isn’t helping anybody.

Constructive criticism of UI/UX is absolutely essential though, and requires a lot more understanding of how humans interact with things than simply “Well, billion-dollar-ware has always done it this way.” Haha

Godot is something I can still be super newb at and yet straight up admire. The nodes tree / scene system is a work of genius and I love it so much.

I do feel like a lot of inspector bits suffer from unintuitive “hard to distinguish menu to sub-sub-sub-sub menu” UX, but I think the editor’s “expand all inspector headings” (or something) option is really handy for knowing what you’re working with, and mitigates that a little.

I am sympathetic but also so damn tired of seeing what essentially translates to:

“Look, [megacorpo] bought out my school’s ecosystem so that’s all I learned. It’s “industry standard”, I can’t believe this FOSS can’t even do this one niche corporate-job feature, therefore it’s objectively terrible / not ready / inferior / useless for job work.”

Which can usually be further boiled down to:

“I tried it but it wasn’t a carbon copy of my preferred corpo-ware without any strings attached so it basically sucks.”

It’s more kinda pitiful. They’re just really bumbling and clumsy so you’ll occasionally just hear a little thunk against a window like a lightly thrown acorn or something hahaha.

I kinda feel like we’re 75% of the way there already, and we gotta be hitting with everything we’ve got if we’re to stand a chance against it…

I don’t think they meant that. Probably more like

“Don’t upload all your precious data carelessly thinking it’s un-stealable just because of this one countermeasure.”

Which of course, really sucks for artists.

I wonder, can I serve it ads and get paid?

…and it’s just bouncing around and around and around in circles before its handler figures out what’s up…

Heehee I like where your head’s at!

I feel like the down-vote squad misunderstood you here.

I think I agree: If people made software they actually wanted , for human people , and less for the incentive of “easiest way to automate generation of dollarinos.” I think we’d see a lot less sophistication and effort being put into such stupid things.

These things are made by the greedy, or by employees of the greedy. Not everyone working on this stuff is an exploited wagie, but also this nonsense-ware is where “market demand” currently is.

Ever since the Internet put on a suit and tie and everything became abou real-life money-sploitz, even malware is boring anymore.

New dangerous exploit? 99% chance it’s just another twist on a crypto-miner or ransomware.

A needle in a tumbleweed, if you will. :p

Yeah, it’s crazy it was hiding this long but I see this as a win that they dealt with it so swiftly and show they take their package security seriously.

Well if we’re listing all that, you forgot Predator! :p

Peace is finally an option.

I hope they checked his pockets before the MRI violently pulls a bunch of rings at dangerous velocities!

I’ve really enjoyed Monaspace as well as using Inter for my interfaces. Maybe you will too? :)

I will definitely say I wish encryption setup was a lot easier in Linux. Windows is like “wanna Bitlocker?” Done.

With most Linux installers, if you’re not installing in a very default way, and clicking that box to encrypt the drive, it’s time to go seriously digging. For a while.

I managed to encrypt a secondary drive with the same password on my EndeavourOS laptop, but I still need to enter the same password 2 times before getting into the OS.

I consider that a feat, and I’m not touching it for fear of losing everything lol.

• Nanobots?
• Sorcery?
• Hotel?
• Trivago

100% with you on that one.

I really enjoy the discussions here, even if it’s a little slower paced sometimes. (And I find that to be a feature!)

I’ve come to feel that technology is for anyone , but not necessarily for everyone , at least, not all at once.

It seems like a series of Eternal Septembers are usually coaxed along by corporate interests to spur mass-adoption for fun and profit, and the existing communities that get flooded tend to suffer for it, because there’s no time to support or acclimate the newbies to the community, and they bring their existing assumptions with them.

Granted, we’re gonna end up with /r/sinkpissers. Lol

All seriousness, there’s a lot of neat communities I wish would find their way here. Heck, I wish there was a way to just export the history over so old archived data wasn’t lost forever.