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@arielmt unfortunately at this point that would be more fun to me than modern programming

one day i'll have access to adhd medication and then it's over for y'all bitches

maybe i really need brain drugs

me: i could totally program a nes game entirely in assembly

also me: hasn't touched a compiler in months

also me: spent the last entire week doing nothing but browsing social medias

man i really wish my brain was working

now i'm not saying that evolution and new developments shouldn't be made

but i don't think that the conglomerate that couldn't keep an RSS reader afloat should be in charge of what those new developments look like

png is more than plenty adequate for lossless images such as drawings and pixel art, was never considered adequate for things like photorealistic photographs, and yet now simply because it's old we think that it needs to be replaced by webp, a much less adequate format, introducing incompatibilities with anything that is no longer being currently developed (a budget BRICS smartphone from 2 weeks ago, for example), shoved down our throats by a company that quietly stopped saying "don't be evil"

it's interesting how in computing fields we say that anything old "sucks"

"zip compression sucks" so do internal combustion engines but for a while it was pretty much the only form of powering a car

there's a lot of this shifting perception of something being stationary while what moves is time and how it changes how we think and talk about it that i don't think other fields particularly have

or maybe i'm just spewing bullshit again. but i still think there's brain rot in computing

POV youre playing minecraft during halloween

@arielmt ayyyy

@digikitty_x86 at least as a daily driver. if i'm just trying to do dumb shit like run modern firefox on a laptop that has an architecture that linux identifies as "pentium4" then yes it's a great toy, too

@digikitty_x86 don't get me wrong i think linux works great for servers

with the exception of a 2008 thinkpad tablet i still use because of the wacom penabled screen for making pixel art, i refuse to use linux as a desktop system ever again

@digikitty_x86 that's fair! i just don't like it when people don't even try the alternative

like i said in a post a few minutes ago, i think linux programmers need to use a non-free computer again to reset their views on what a computer needs to be again since they clearly lost the plot about 20 years ago