Varmasti yksi syy tähän on se, että työttömiä kannustetaan yksityisyrittäjiksi, vaikka kaikilla ei siihen ole rahkeita. Sen sijaan, että keksittäisiin kehittää työttömyystukijärjestelmää niin, että freelancereita ja muita lyhyen työrupeaman löytäneitä ei enää rankaistaisi ja oudosti mulkoiltaisi, kun tämä on monilla aloilla jo normaalia. Ja kevytyrittäjyyteenkin Kela suhtautuu mulkoilevin silmin.

…but those aren’t even words. He… he’s not even attempting to… produce words…

This is such a stupid timeline.

Is that a Nikkor 13mm f/5.6?

…hmph. Huh.

Looks like it is not.

[Giant big shrug]

NEVER MIND THEN.

/sarcasm

Random Republican, transported through time from 15 years ago: “No no no no no! You see, gerrymandering has everything to do with census data. It’s completely impartial! There’s no way the process will fail us.”

[Gets shown the footage]

Random Time-Displaced Republican: “Excuse me, but… Who the hell is in the power right now?”

[More footage]

RTDR: “Ohhhhh shit I HAVE TO GO BACK TO MY TIME!!! …What do you mean you can only time travel forward in time?”

Me, upon installing Debian KDE distro, and having Dragon Player pop up: I ALREADY INSTALLED VLC, WHAT THE HELL DUDES

Dunno how things are in America, but at lest here in continental Europe, during the pandemic, the app-economy delivery shit was mostly run by befuddled immigrants. Who got absolutely screwed over what comes to fair wages. Not to mention the fact that most of the small and medium sized restaurants that had an existing delivery services basically got bullied to joining the app-economy shit. It’s capitalism in it’s raw form. Fuck all of these apps.

Now that the name Karen has been run to the ground, maybe it’s time to do the same for Peter.

You know a Peter, right? Everyone knows one. There’s always someone who smokes a joint and gets the bright idea to burn down a church or whatever. Ugh. Everyday annoyance, am I right? Such Peter behaviour. Don’t be a Peter.

Like 80% of the games I already play are random indie stuff. I buy maybe 1-2 new big studio games a year, and even those aren’t exactly AAA. Right now, feels like big studios aren’t trying hard to produce actually interesting games, just more franchise slop.

Steam machine got a solid “Oooooooo! Can’t afford one right now but I’m sure keeping an eye on this one!” out of me.

Side note: I’ve been waiting for decades now for the official folks to finally mail me a copy of the Homosexual Agenda, but they never do! It’s maddening! How the hell are queer people supposed to coordinate stuff???

Boeing CEO: “We’re always innovating, and sometimes we need to boldly embrace the wisdom of the past if it can be re-examined in light of current technology. From now on, our airplane navigation systems will be based on the Flat Earth model. This makes navigation so much more computationally efficient, guys.”

Probably heading to the city centre to pick up a copy of Skyrim for Xbox 360.

I got home, did my NaNoWriMo writing sprint, and then fired up Skyrim and played like 12 hours straight.

Don’t wake up to be fucking Average

Spoken like a true Average

“A Study in Emerald” by Neil Gaiman (…bflrgh) included a bunch of random fictitious advertisements between the chapters. Doesn’t seem so far-fetched now.

[Random glance at the Krita recent files] [Ponderous inhale] It sure would be weird if someone hypothetically would be doing that, but I’m not sure I would be able to do anything about that.

I like how, unlike other animals here, the turtle has no description. I guess the shell-buddy was just neutral. (Also, it’s not uncommon that turtles outlive the people who love them. That is the true tragedy of turtles.)

Macintosh Killed My Inner Child

For 99% of computer users, if the GUI doesn’t have an option, it doesn’t exist.

Literally 99% of Windows tech support is

Have you right clicked on Windows menu, selected Terminal (Admin), then entered sfc /scannow and then DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth and DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth? …ohhh shit you’re still fucked up - well, maybe you need to completely reinstall windows, well, here’s the page on how to do it.

That’s the difference with Linux. Your average user never uses terminal, and when they do, they find the tools suck.

Well, the commands that I presented (sudo, mount, umount, ps, kill, even lsof) are actually just normal commands that you use to do ordinary things on your system to manage account elevation, mounted disk volumes, processes, and running processes. You need to “memorise” them just as much as you need to memorise their counterparts in a Windows system (Run As/Explorer/Explorer Eject/taskmgr) (…what kind of nerd memorises Ctrl+Alt+Esc anyway?).

…except you don’t have lsof, you literally need to install SysInternals Process Explorer.

I’ve used Process Explorer.

“What file handles are open that match <This drive letter and then some>?”
“Well there’s Dropbox now.”
“Oh. Again?”
“Dropbox, I think.”
“Again.”
“Maybe nothing???”
“OK, let’s try ejecting now.” (It fails again.) “Are you sure no file handles are using this drive?”
“I’m positive.”
“Well fuck this then.” (Unplug USB)

Now. I said I’ve used Process Explorer. I didn’t say I’ve used Process Explorer. I wish to be, one day, one of those frightening people who live and breath Process Explorer every day. There’s still a long journey to get there, I know.

Which is exactly what I do if sufficiently annoyed! Problem is, Windows is usually hella vague about which particular devices have Quick Removal™®© enabled.