ScottinSoCal πΊπ¦ π π³βπ @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es
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So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.
Joined Nov 2022
Every time my personal laptop updates, it forgets how to wifi. I have to uninstall/reinstall drivers to get it working again. I've got a bone stock Dell laptop - as vanilla as it gets. If Mickeysoft can't even get that right...
@evan Qualified no, I don't trust a computer to update properly unless I'm staring at it. In my experience, whenever a computer updates and I'm not looking at it, it gets into a strange state I can't recover from because I don't know how it happened.
That said, if other people want their computers to update while they aren't paying attention, it's fine if that's an option for them, as long as I still have the option to watch mine.
Has anyone tried turning the U.S. off and then back on again?
@russellmcormond @somecat @Pathfinder @loops @simid @rabia_elizabeth @actuallyautistic I've learned the hard way: The first thing I do when I start a new position is learn the people directly above me in the hierarchy. I usually get it at least a little wrong, and end up treating a more senior peer like a boss. But it's better than completely ignoring the hierarchy and getting fired for not doing what's expected of me.
@allenstenhaus @alice @seldo @actuallyautistic
Well, I wouldn't call him a tool.
Tools are useful for fixing things.
@theautisticcoach Like a lot of autistic people, my differences in childhood development compared to my peers made me equally a target for ridicule and praise. Being described as "special", even a "genius" by the adults around me did nothing to mitigate the growing sense of dehumanisation I felt during my childhood. And I fell off that pedestal in a big way when I grew up. @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics @autisticadvocacy
@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics
None of us knew that's what it was, but yes, the message was strong to "settle down and act normal."
Have my #ActuallyAutistic comrades ever been told or conditioned not to stim? I donβt mean dangerous stims like self harm, but the more common day to day ones like fidgeting, singing, etc.
@liscarey @Phoenixrisen82 @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics
My mother, too, along with "*stop* *fidgeting*!".
As an adult, and with a parrot who loves weird noises, I gave myself permission to make all the weird noises I want, when I'm at home. The first step on the road to making myself finally completely comfortable in at least one spot in the world.
@Phoenixrisen82 @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics My mother would very sharply tell me to "stop making that noise" that I hadn't even been aware I was making.
My dad was better, much more calmly stopping only stims that has harm potential. But it was the 50s & 60s. We were both undiagnosed autistics, & understood each other, but not why other people were so different.
You know those holiday commercials, where there's a new car sitting in the driveway with a bow on it, and the recipient is over-the-moon thrilled? That's a lie. I bought a new car for hubs two weeks ago, got yelled at for it, even though it's exactly the car he said he wanted while we were car shopping, and it was a great deal, and I paid for it. Finally, yesterday, he admitted the car was great. And reminded me I should have asked him about it, first.
A science fiction story, written in the 1940s, also predicted a vast database of knowledge, accessible to everyone in their homes, through a dedicated viewer / keyboard setup.
Ingenious librarians
A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it
by Monica Westin via @aeon+psyche magazine
This should work out well. Good luck with that, Mikey.
Mike Pence officially enters 2024 US presidential race, pitting himself against former boss Donald Trump β live https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2023/jun/05/trump-nikki-haley-2024-washington-sonic-boom-biden-politics-live-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
I remember when the tech magazines were writing articles about this proposed new site that had a goal of being the index to the internet. Anything you wanted could be found, just by searching. A ridiculous notion, the internet was too big, and it had a silly name. Google, really?
Being an elder of the internet is actually kinda fascinating in some ways.
I watched so many of the bigger sites start out and find their footing.
I knew eBay when it was a tiny marketplace. And Amazon when it only sold books.
I knew sites like teeturtle before it was just another art factory.
I knew woot! when it actually had real discounts and wasn't just another Amazon affiliate.
The Space Jam website wasn't some kind of Internet artifact. It was cutting edge!
And I remember using a 33.6k modem (that's right - not even 56k yet!) to try and load a website. I'd walk away for dinner and when I came back, there was a 50/50 chance the site had failed to load. And you didn't just try again because now mom has to use the phone - maybe tomorrow?
I watched AOL rise and fall. Myspace rise and fall and do a dead cat bounce. And Facebook was only for college kids.
Oh, and there were more than just 3 websites and Google didn't exist.
The internet really doesn't look like it once did.
Jack promoting RFK Jr. on Bluesky demonstrates that Bluesky intends to best Twitter in key time-to-enshitification metric.
Ben is back from getting his haircut.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
- Orientation
- So gay. So, so gay.
- JoeMyGod
- Ε ΔΕΕ§Ε§ Δ - πΊπ¦ π
So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.
Joined Nov 2022
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