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anyone who is inspired to make something meaningful to them, that must unfortunately interact with the morass of structurally arbitrary technological decisions we're surrounded by, is going to be so weighed down by the torture of navigating it all that naturally whatever they originally wanted to make will quickly seem less pertinent than making ever-more-efficient wound-licking devices (or perhaps a special shoe that, with 95%+ accuracy, can detect a rake before it hits your face)

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i think if you do a lot of stuff on the computer, programming specifically, everything is such a pain in the ass to do, not because the problems you're solving are naturally complex, but because of annoying artificial stuff like "configuring this toolchain takes an entire working week", that the cumulative effect on the soul makes your creativity atrophy, and your interests gradually turn inward, toward meta-concerns like programming language and tool design, rather than actually making anything

@jk and the people who love overly complicated toolchains are always the ones saying languages like BASIC aren't serious languages because they're not hard enough to program for yet none of them have made a piece of software that has managed the inventory of a small town auto parts shop for 30 consecutive years

i need more places to hang out on IRC, the channels i'm in aren't too active, where are people hanging?

if you want to say hi i've been idling in in irc.libera.chat for the past few days

mind you it's not particularly snappy but it's not exactly an exercise in patience either

mypal 74, which uses the quantum engine, is frighteningly usable on 20+ year old hardware

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"noooo you can't browse the modern internet with anything less than four cores and eight gigabytes of ram!!!"

my humble compaq n610c with 4 tabs open including one of youtube playing music in the background: "haha Northwood core goes brrrrrrr"

Email is the best form of communication we ever invented. Instant, yet no instant reply is expected. Works universally outside of any app or ecosystem. The gold standard

have two middle names, have no mobile numbers, have no debt, have seventeen cats and five partners, be the one that can’t fit in a database because whoever designed the schema only had two brain cells and decided there’s only two genders

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@NanoRaptor do subfolders count as one or do you recursively count every single content?

be the edge case that tech companies fear

@alexia i already have a banner that shows on my websites that chrome is unsupported, i should add this as well!

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