Depression? No, McPression.

Don’t feed your cat glow sticks, people.

You can take my terminal when you can pry it from my cold, dead, hands.

Any one-liner you put together, you can re-run trivially. You can rerun it with modifications trivially. You can wrap it in a for loop that runs it with different parameters trivially. You can stick it in a file and make a reusable Bash script. It’s far easier to show someone else how you did it (just copy/paste the text of your terminal session) than dozens of screenshots of a point-and-click adventure (and not in a good way) GUI app. Bash commands are easier over SSH than GUI apps over RDP or VNC or whatever. You can’t script a GUI app.

I seriously find myself wondering why someone would use a GUI for something they can do with a terminal. Learning curve is the only reason I can think of.

I frequently find myself creating tools that let me do with a terminal what I formerly could only do with a GUI tool.

This Lemmy community is part of the problem.

Hmm. Well, that’s interesting.

My post just said “Fuck 'em.”

I guess we’ll see if this post gets removed. If so, I guess maybe it’s profanity. If not, maybe the AutoMod (or whoever built/configured it) thinks posts that short must be low-effort and remove them on that basis. Or it’s straight up a glitch. Who knows.

I hate when blarn eat showegh whale snert. Every time, yargh hugh mort B.

The only part I don’t understand is why part of it is in Morse code.

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That’s why I never volunteer to be counted on.

https://zombo.com/

Doctor: “But you don’t have bone spurs.”

Trump: “Listen, Doc…”

My mother is constantly googling things and reading me the AI overview. And I know LLMs make shit up all the time, and I don’t want AI hallucinations to infect my brain and slowly fuck up my worldview. So I always have to drop everything and go confirm the claims from the AI overview. And I’ve caught plenty of inaccuracies and hallucinations. (One I remember: she googled for when the East Wing of the White House was originally built and the AI overview told her the year of a major renovation, claiming it was the year it was built, but it had been built much earlier.)

Okay so Emperor Shaddam gave the fifedom of Arrakis to House Atraides after… okay so the houses all make up the Landsraad which was established right after the Butlerian Jih- Okay see the Butlerian Jihad was a war waged between the humans and the thinking machines and the titons- Ok, but before that humans were enslaved by…

This is great and all, but wouldn’t it have been nicer if this could have happened before we were as royally fucked as we are now?

The horrors persist, but so do $5 single-topping hot and ready-to-go.

Nope. I reply to bots quite frequently. I’m often the only commenter in the thread, but if I have something to say about what the bot posted, I’ll comment.

Often my comments are to make fun of blockchain or LLMs. But if the Hacker News bot posts a link to a blog post on underwater beekeeping and I have an opinion, I’ll post whatever I think adds to the conversation.

Nice try, Danny Ocean.

Yup.

Employer match: check. (I think they match 50% of my contributions if I contribute 5% of my income.)

And I also have retirement accounts with EdwardJones.

I’m flush with retirement accounts.

I need to get the rest of my affairs in order. Will, trust, advance directive, that sort of thing.

That sounds like exactly the sort of thing therapy is for. I’m no kind of expert, but it’s very likely there’s a lot of deeper things keeping you from developing achieving the kind of skills you’re wanting. And it sounds very much like it’s a problem in your life that’s causing you a lot of anxiety and pain. I think if there’s any way you can do talk therapy, that’s the place to start.

Crap. I was thinking I might skip the Switch 2. But this might be my reason to get one.

I really want to see a homebrew exploit before I get one, though.

Wow. Huge topic. And it depends on a ton of things. And I definitely don’t feel like I’ve got it all figured out myself.

If you’re young and just for the first time having to manage your own affairs rather than depend on parents to help with that, then self-help kind of stuff might well be a fine place to start. (Just avoid Jordan Peterson.) If you’re older and feel like you’ve had the time needed to develop those skills and still don’t have them, it’s likely there’s something deeper going on that might benefit from therapy.

I personally cared for my ailing grandmother for a long time. And that shit’s hard work, and takes a lot of time. In the process, I let a lot of things go by the wayside like yardwork, home repair, and organization. Now that she has passed, I find myself with a lot of remedial work to catch up on. I feel like I’m making progress. It’s frustrating and slow, but it is progressing and that’s the important part.