I know of a fun game called linux roulette. Type all the commands from this comment section into your terminal as root and if your computer still works afterwards you win.

at first I read Jonathan as “Johnson” and for a split moment in time I was filled with hope that it would be “Mike Johnson” but nope. Now I feel like the guy in that old Russian joke about checking the newspaper headline every day for an obituary.

I fucking hate these kinds of questions. D is the CORRECT answer because TECHNICALLY html is a markup language and not a programming language but the average person irl will just call you a dipshit for trying to explain that. If this were a question on a shitty academic exam, its going to be a 50/50 toss up on which will get counted as correct because the Autograder Bot Knows All™ but you better not fucking use AI to get your low effort AI-generated homework done quicker because fuck you.

underemployed, not unemployed. I got REALLY lucky when I was younger and enjoyed a short but glorious period of time where life was actually working out. Turns out jobs that pay a living wage are really hard to get and hard to keep. There’s always shitty retail or fast food jobs.

I’m still coasting off the success from when I was gainfully employed up until 2018. I sure am glad I did nothing but stockpile savings into a bank account during this time. I can’t believe I’ve made it this far just living on a “at least im losing money slower” basis. Don’t know what I’ll do next. I should have used my savings to buy a plot of land and a camper to homestead on since that seems to be the only way to circumvent unfair apartment rent and unfair housing prices. I think I could have lasted even longer doing it that way, live and learn I guess.

How the fuck do you get cum in the ass and mouth in one operation? Do professional rapists carry around a vial of extra cum for hole-filling purposes? What happens if they have a rape planned but forgot to bring their auxiliary cum? How long can they keep a vial of auxiliary cum before it starts going bad and needs to be replaced? Do professional rapists use a FIFO system and use expiration date labels or do they walk around loaded up with rotting cum? How to they handle this for tax filing purposes? Rape just sounds like too much extra effort. Just fuck a couch or something. Jeez.

In the US, being white on its own without also being rich doesn’t really help you out much anymore. It’s different if you’re very obviously living a 1950s lifestyle, have a tradwife, a bunch of kids and are a neurotypical Christian of course. Employers are seemingly more interested in hiring those types of people above all else even when there are more qualified candidates. I need to start lying about my life and maybe using ai to back it up with pictures.

I kind of wonder this sometimes too. Maybe not from an organ harvesting standpoint but enslavement. If I were captured/kidnapped and became a sex slave or a scam call center slave or something, my #1 goal would be to escape and if that’s not possible, go on a violent rampage and murder as many of my abusers as possible before they kill me (they’d just kill me when I outlive my usefulness regardless) and if that’s not possible, the s-word, as a last resort. Does this type of thing happen more often than they make it sound? Perhaps they are really efficient at going after the families of victims that don’t fully submit which keeps victims in check? Maybe victims are kept in holocaust-like conditions so they aren’t physically capable of anything in the first place, but then they wouldn’t be capable of work, so idk.

Human trafficking disturbs me enough that I try not to think about it.

I thought about posting that here but decided not to because its too far-fetched and absurd ¯_(ツ)_/¯

be careful with this one because the types of people this applies to will just twist its meaning into “people need to own less/nothing. Minimum wage is too high. The Bible says having enough money to survive is bad”

If the sorry state of the broken society we live in isn’t express incentive to not have kids at all cost, I don’t know what is. I’ll chop my dick off before I ever cum anywhere near a vagina. If the next presidential administration strips employers of various freedoms they’ve been using to abuse people and forces them to treat people better (which would never happen), MAYBE then I’ll reconsider but even then probably not.

well I sure am glad gen z and swing voters decided to throw away my future in exchange for putting a stop to this OH WAIT THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN, AS ANYONE WITH A SINGLE FUNCTIONING BRAIN CELL COULD HAVE PREDICTED.

no fucking shit

Unpopular opinion but graphics do matter a little bit or at least more than the meme depicts. Dwarf Fortress was unplayable before they added actual graphics to it. I wish things moved between tiles fluidly like in Rimworld instead of it being a slideshow, but I can actually stand to play Dwarf Fortress now. If the only video games that existed were text-based, I’d probably never play video games again. Ps2 era graphics on the other hand, hell yeah. 90s era dos graphics are passable too. But PLEASE no text adventure games.

Computer engineer here (well I have a computer engineering degree and have worked on several computer engineering projects at least). The only point of fucking with an i486 in 2025 for reasons besides “vintage computing” or playing MS-DOS games is that it’s probably the most powerful cpu that can still run on a cheap 4 layer circuit board. This cpu is also simple enough that a i486 chipset can be DIY’ed without ball grid array components. Electronic devices with 4 layer circuit boards are less susceptible to getting ruined by tariffs because they can be manufactured for a reasonable price in places besides just China. Ball grid array components require specialized equipment in order to put them on circuit boards. The easier surface mount (quad flat package) chips required to build a viable and performant i486 motherboard are simple enough that all you need is a cheap soldering iron and a steady hand to solder them onto a circuit board.

What I’m getting at is that prior to them dropping i486 support in Linux, it was possible to use cheapo microchips from Mouser, connect them to i486 cpu and singlehandedly DIY a modern-Linux capable computer, in theory at least.

With Linux dropping support for i486, the bar is now much higher. It’s still possible to completely DIY an ever more powerful, non-i486 based Linux-capable computer yourself if you REALLY know what you’re doing (and people HAVE done it).

I wanted to build one just for fun and maybe to use it like super high performance arduino but now there’s a lot less of a point so meh.

I don’t know, but I know of one thing citizens SHOULDN’T do to prevent their country enabling genocide. That is forfeiting their future by electing a dictator that might genocide poor people on the other side of the world a little less in exchange for giving up freedoms. I get it. Voluntarily making our lives worse/harder because it might help poor people in another country sounds like a grand and noble thing to do. But now they’re sending American citizens to concentration camps. If you think this was a fair trade, just block me right now. Don’t be like gen Z and swing voters in the 2024 US election. Sometimes you just have to choose to save yourself first.

I mean, his enablers are just as guilty. The entire christofascist movement would have had a hard time getting anywhere if it weren’t for a few key corporations providing the services and technological development required to enforce or at least facilitate the enforcement of this ideology. I am being intentionally vague here.

All I know is that I go out of my way to discriminate against and fuck over people who support things that fuck me over.

LXDE sucks ass because no one has ever figured out how to mod a search bar into the start menu.

please for the love of fuck can someone please mod a search bar into LXDE.

technically, the command line on modern computers runs in graphics mode and not text mode anyway. It ends up being more efficient to do this because of fonts and font sizes and multiple colors and whatnot. It’s been like this for at least the past 20 years. So the ctrl+alt+f1 screen is still a gui.

I would say yes. Personally it is kind of against everything I stand for to pay a corporation for ai. With that being said: the only reason I personally have not yet set up a completely ai-driven self-hosted lan forum or lemmy instance meant to simulate the Old Skool ™ days of the internet is because a) none of the forum software has an api that’s worth a damn (phpbb for example. gnusocial is also lame and stupid and impossible to work with) and b) lemmy instances are actually pretty difficult to both set up and get ai bots to operate with.

I could definitely hack up some diy python-bottles or django thingy in less effort than it would take to actually pull off any of those other approaches but I currently have marginally better things to do with my free time so it will have to wait.

If I ever finish the mountain of “more important” personal projects I have then I probably would eventually get a completely fake self-hosted self-made ai social media hackfuck.