Back to the Future 2.

Kids think whatever they’re exposed to.

Neither of my kids use their tablets anymore after having/getting access to a laptop. They were a little confused, at first, since the town uses touchscreen Chromebooks for K-1, but they got used to it, since none of my laptops have a touchscreen. Now they view touchscreens as being for babies. Like that kid in BTTF2 with the lightgun…“You mean you have to use your hands?”

My point is, you seem to think that the new way is better, with everything touchscreen. Just because it’s new doesn’t mean it’s better. People thought Teflon and cartridge razors were better too. Turns out they were just brainwashed.

Newer absolutely does not mean better.

This is why we are seeing a return to old household items. People are realizing that Teflon and cartridge razors and Tupperware aren’t really as great as we thought they were. We just grew up familiar with them because that’s what everyone used, so they must be better, right?

This is all because boomers and the “greatest generation” were really easy to market to when TVs came into homes. People weren’t ready for that level of advertisement.

I don’t think we’ll see a return to punch cards, but I don’t see keyboard/mouse ever going away.

Heheh that was my oldest a couple years ago. He’s 9 now but I let him use one of my laptops when he was like 7 to play Minecraft, and it eventually became “his” laptop.

He’s also using Tumbleweed.

He learned how to do all sorts of Minecraft console commands mostly “on his own” (as in, without my guidance, he saw some of the stuff streamers were doing and I explained what it was printed out a little cheat sheet for him and set him off on his own to mess with it. I haven’t taught him any Linux shell (yet), but he is getting pretty good at typing and keyboard shortcuts.

I don’t much care for the streamers. Especially a lot of the Minecraft streamers that pander to kids (cough Mikey and JJ). I don’t allow them in the house anymore. But I’m glad he got some inspiration out of it at least.

Care to name the comic? My kid likes going onto scratch and checking out other people’s stuff, and made a few little animations himself…but the whole thing is a bit overwhelming at first.

The problem is, the real money is in either the data that it acquires or in recurring monthly costs.

Unfortunately, making a good, reliable product with no MRCs and no spying means fewer repeat buyers. Which is especially a problem for a niche community like selfhosters and privacy-conscious. You sell the product once and…that’s it. Eventually the market is full and some people are upgrading but now your product is selling on the secondary market.

This is business in the 21st century. They can’t survive without forced obsolescence, telemetry, and/or MRCs.

And I’m sure most of those people were comparing VHS tapes or regular analog cable TV, or hooking up their DVD player with composite.

What is the soup du jour?

“It’s the soup of the day.”

Mmm, that sounds good. I’ll have that.

Yeah it’s been a long road for me to be fully Linux on my personal systems. I think I started messing with Linux circa 1997 and didn’t switch over fully until I think Windows 7 went EoL.

desperately need another to denigrate

Whoa whoa whoa we can’t use that word man. Say “white wash” or “Jim Crow” or something.

Is that what making me poop all the time?

My psychiatrist warned me about stimulants also stimulating my bowels…but not the antidepressants. She warned me that would kill my sex drive, but that’s about it.

When I worked at RadioShack (late 00’s), I would get so tunnelvisioned doing things like planograms or putting away orders, and not really reacting when people talk to me…and I would do this constantly.

My manager at the time referred to it as “buffering”, and I don’t think there’s a better term for it.

man rsync
man cron
xdg-open \ 
  https://lmgtfy.app/?q=debian+rsync+mirror

Low key I think you should go fuck yourself.

I remember writing something similar, though that was after drinking a significant amount of DXM.

Is it possible ol’ Chucky was robotripping in the Galapagos?

Oh I know. Especially with Vyvanse. It’s better now but between the generic shortage and then the precursor “shortage”, it was bumpy.

Pfft you think that’s bad, what about having to remember to contact your doctor for refills?

Every fucking month.

Now I’ve got a kid who is on stimulants too. Bad enough I gotta remember to call my doc, now I have to remember to call his, too.

And worse, I’m on Vyvanse 40mg and he’s on Adderall ER 10mg. These are both blue-and-white capsules. I freak out every time I give him meds that I’m accidentally giving him mine.

He has one left. I need to call his doctor. But instead I’m thinking of making a meme about it.

But if either (or god forbid, both) of us go unmedicated, we set each other completely off. We are so alike it’s uncanny, and I have no idea how to deal with myself from the outside. I was handled with verbal abuse so I learned to internalize everything. That’s something I try very, very hard to not pass down.

Update: I called the doctor, they are submitting a refill. Thanks op for reminding me, kinda.

I like moode for the Spotify connect feature.

I’d much rather use that over Bluetooth to my speaker, if only so that my phone notifications don’t keep interrupting my jam.

I wish I could just cast to it tho. It supports airplay but last i checked I couldn’t do old fashioned Chromecast.

Who the fuck ever wanted to work on the first place. Bitch, we have to work.