This is exactly why I laughed out loud, incredulously, at Dell’s “AI powered laptop” commercial that promises you will “free up so much time for the things you love” by using AI.

From washing machines to robot assembly, we’re still buying that old lie??

The tools improve, the expectations increase, the wage stays the same.

“Please. Make me a pizza.”

“Security, help! They’re turning her into a Papa John’s!”

I owned it. Still do. I was a foolish child who liked Superman. Still do!

The most insulting part was using GameShark to level skip and realizing the rest of the game wasn’t much fun (or finished) either.

They could have done so much better by removing the timed rings thing and just let you fly around a mostly empty city, blowing up Lex’s robots or something. It would at least have felt Superman-esque lol.

This reminds me: I was thinking of “Independence War Deluxe”, because sheesh, I couldn’t even get that running from a PC Gamer demo CD on release-era hardware LOL.

This. This. A thousand times a thousand times, yes. Nobody should be blindly trusting their safety to Amazon, one of the worst abusers of trust and privacy.

(Plus they’re the most common hardware… Guess what’s getting targeted for mass exploits?)

Almost anything is better than giving Amazon access to your home.

I’ve always dreamed of silly but cool interfaces like this! Awesome!

… Now link it to HomeAssistant and you really can use it to toggle door locks! :p

That sounds fun and extremely dangerous. Lol

(Cat steps on mouse button and BFG’s /home)

“…well, crap!”

Ooo yes I feel more terminal LARPing in my future. This is gorgeous, thank you for sharing this! :D

I thought CoolRetroTerm was as rad as I could feel doing terminal things. :D

As a KDE person who’s got an 'ol reliable Mint machine, I’m really glad Cinnamon has fans. I do wish certain customization was a little easier maybe? But it really does “just work” while looking pretty enough and not being overly obtuse.

I love my KDE and it kicks butt right now, but I don’t want to see everything converge on a single DE. I want them all to improve for the people who love them for their own reasons.

Cinny rocks.

Wow. I dropped it too early then.

I kinda rolled my eyes and was like “Is EVERY Viking story just an endless circle of killing fathers killing sons killing fathers again?”

Maybe I should give it another chance…

Yeah I’m kinda terrified to watch that one, not gonna lie. I get an emotional overreaction just looking at the cover…

It’s definitely a tight rope. I was a bit of a “gun nut” as a teen. Mostly by way of fiction and research.

But the difference, and why I’m probably alive and with all my fingers today, is my dad constantly and heavily emphasized safety alongside exposure in controlled environments. They were something to fear and respect, but not be afraid of.

I worry about this as a soon to be father myself. We might be in a situation where arms become necessary, God forbid.

An interest can be healthy, but we definitely need to put the ridiculous carelessness and violence-porn power fantasies into the “outrageous stupid entertainment in moderation” box, rather than glorifying it as a core part of our culture.

I still feel really curious about getting around to that one.

The most unsettling thing is working at my local library, and that movie’s been out for a long time now, and I see it circulating CONSTANTLY.

That speaks volumes about what’s on people’s minds, I think…

“Would you like to play a game?”

I’m so scared to play that game. I also am very much not willing to engage in real warfare, so, I guess it’d be preaching to the choir… But yeah…

Dice. Definitely dice.

And also highly fatty meats. It’s usually just butter. So much fucking butter.

Anthropology: The study of mankind’s quest for readily available fat.

LOL I learned so much from this, thank you.

And also: Fume and dust extraction is no joke!!

I think we were all hoping that some loveable genius was quietly subverting their surveillance state and getting a view of the outside world via Team Fortress 2, but, yeah, if it’s not North Korea’s fattest man, it’s probably a high ranking military crony.

. . .Hey just musing here but that sounds like a kinda hilariously easy doxx. You don’t think they’d keep state secrets on that same machine? . . . Surely. . .? Noooo. . . 🤔

I never noticed but it feels like that’s “Cool Retro Term (CRT)” running that amber interface in the background there.

I’d be willing to guess it, anyway. :D