If you want to make shit that is. Utter ugly shit from a butt. If you can edit a shit picture so it’s not shit anymore, you’ll be better starting from scratch. But you still have an unoriginal rot at the core of it, so it’s still smells like shit no matter how much you polish it.
Sure, a bunch of people will continue doing so, but if humanity will preserve concept of beauty, this shit will never stick, and slopfuckers will fuck their slop in the quietness of their homes without pushing it everywhere, and that’s their business.

You might be loosing a grip here a bit

All good, but not enough fourth wall fuckery in those time loops

You really don’t need to be a programmer to check for obvious bullshitery, you just need to read like four pages explaining what part means what there.

Spoilers!

Caring about future wasn’t that popular among kids anyway, but when everyone kinda accepts that the future should be sacrificed on an altar of a line going up, it’s even harder to care. We’re going to burn last available resources and warm planet until we can’t grow crops anymore, so we can generate bad videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti. Who the fuck cares about long division or mitochondria when the most popular occupation in 2050 is projected to be “water refugee”.
Sure, it’s a doom scenario, it’s not guaranteed, we can somehow persevere, humanity always does. And even in the doom scenario It’s not impossible that we’ll conserve the civilization in some form.
What we have lost forever is the trust of our kids, that ship has sailed. When Greta Thunberg asked us not to destroy the planet, the collective response was mockery, anger, and pedo threats. There is a generational disdain bigger than it was for boomers.

Not allowed by The Authority

I grew up with no portable electronics available at all, we also didn’t learn shit. If your topic is shit and your presentation is boring, kids would find how to ignore you. If it’s interesting, they will listen to you no matter how many smartphones they have. It’s hard, that’s for sure, but this infantilising bullshit makes it harder, not easier. You have to treat the kids like people, that’s the only way. Also you need to recognise that they aren’t adults, so you can’t expect them have hours of uninterrupted attention, smartphones or not.

Or better yet, teach your kid responsible usage and live them alone.

Your eventual death of old age is inevitable in every multi-reality.

Game idea: narrative focused crpg, with a relatively straightforward plot, but the protagonist remembers every time you reload and his every death, progressively tries to figure out what’s happening, all while trying to actually succeed the original plot because that also seems important.

Calling Gnome simple and straightforward is quite a funny joke actually

My friend bought a house in a good neighborhood with “good HOA”. Half a year later they went on vacation and while they were away, hoa people entered his yard with a key that they apparently have without informing him, and cut down a beautiful cherry blossom tree in his yard, then sent him a bill for a removal, with the explaination that the tree had “incorrect leaf density”.

I’m running Arch daily since 2015, was on Debian before. I install and try a lot of stuff. Never had anything bad happened to me once. Worst case scenario the shit I just installed didn’t work so I have to debug it.
Not endorsing this apparently dangerous lifestyle, but also a little bit maybe

but llms are here to stay for good

If we believe salespeople that is, and when did they lie amirite?
No, they wouldn’t disappear completely, nothing that exists does. But I firmly believe that the second the bubble popps, this shit will go the way of nft.
Because this myth of usefulness and empowering is just it, myth. It makes some utter shit that nobody needs, and it wastes everyone’s time making everyone’s lives marginally worse.

I’m referring to the letter of his when he said that he’s not going to ban generated code, not gonna “wage a war” on it or whatever. It might sound like “devs are still accountable for the code they commit” and all is a good position, but like with a lot of the other shit, if you’re not explicitly ban 100% of it, you’re now in a position of arguing with bots about nonsense. You still can be tough and all, but you’re alone and the bots are numerous and nonsense is neverending.
That’s what I mean not-anti-slop, and right now it looks like being all fence-sitting about this wouldn’t actually work. I predict that he’ll either will rethink the policy, or limit the amount of patches merged significantly, or lose his mind and will write a big rant and possibly does something stupid.

Linus was openly not-anti-slop recently, so I don’t have enormous amount of hopes.

And no, a 7€ dongle is not a good experience, and not a premium thing. For that price, it’s also probably an analog dongle, which already requires the phone to have the extra hardware for the audio jack inside, just without the convenience of the audio jack.

Either you’re satisfied with dirt cheap DAC in your dongle, or you’re satisfied with the same dirt cheap DAC in most phones, or you require people to put actually good electronics in phones, which practically nobody’s gonna use anyway. You can’t be perfectly happy to listen to shit when it’s from your phone, but suddenly dissatisfied with it when it’s moved outside of the phone, you need to reevaluate whatever the fuck you’re doing with your life.

it follows fairphone’s supposed ideals of reducing e-waste.

It doesn’t, this logic is based on nothing. People an mass aren’t clinging to their old somehow working headphones that they are using daily for the last 10 years. I’m sure such people exist, they are in a vanishing minority. And in the last decade when the push away from jack was happening, majority already switched to wireless. Which allowed us to have phones that have one less weak point.

(in fact, it’s easier to break a usb-c port due to daily headphone use, while I’ve never broken an audio jack, despite abusing some)

You might be an outlier. I worked part time fixing electronics back when we didn’t have BT headphones, broken jack was a number one problem for any piece of electronics that had one. Granted, it was before usb-c so I can’t compare, but what I can assure you, jack is unbelievably fragile, and unless it’s premium quality (so not phones), you can’t make it less so. It gets better for pro electronics, most of those are 6.3 so bigger and beefier.

But your phone doesn’t have a big hole in it that is practically impossible to waterproof, takes all the grime and dust, randomly breaks for no reason, requires a bunch of additional space and electronics, and all that just so small minority of users can avoid having additional three cm of cable on their meter of cable.
It’s a better experience for everyone, and imperceptibly marginally worse for small percentage of people. I can’t overstate how much having a small extension on a phone cable is a non-issue. The best premium one is like 7 euro, 3 cm long, and weights 9 grams.

When I was in uni, my mate started making his own architecture on FPGA, with the goal of arriving at C from first principles. He abandoned it after 4 years, when it got too real, but that was quite a fun ride