huf [he/him]

lol

win98SE was extremely shit, so a friend installed debian for me and i never looked back

the things i remember struggling with were getting the stress right and hyperforeignisms (that is, concentrating so hard on getting the difficult “w” and “th” sounds that i would pronounce “v” as “w” and “s” as “th” by accident. i was once asked if my native language had a “v”, because that was the one i seemed to be struggling with)

the tradition of atheist diaspora jews celebrating secular christmas instead of any of the jewish holidays…

this stupid meme needs to die, something like 30-40% of people lived past 60 in the 1600s…

i’m so old i keep all my memes on my personal microcomputer, not my telephone.

oh yeah. and zoom eats up an entire god damned core minimum. jumps to two entire cores occasionally.

you do if you use eg a jetbrains IDE and your codebase is all dockerized and requires 34 separate containers to be running and also the company makes you install a “security” software that constantly scans every fucking file on the machine…

I’m partial to hanging these clothes on pegs like a medieval peasant

29 minutes of going KAAAAA-MEEEEE-HAAAAA-MEEEEE (trying to gather the motivation and focus) and 1 minute going HAAAAAAAA (actually doing it)?

's okay, people will just take the high speed rail

or you could learn to articulate better. the noise cancelling unit in my brain is sub-par.

because they just talk to themselves out loud, right?

i used to be a sock-preferrer until i was in the thirties, but something changed and my feet got a lot warmer, so now i’d be barefoot all day every day if we didnt have cold weather for 6 months out of the year

what’s wrong with irssi?

I’m not interested in having a political discussion here

you commented in a thread about politics, but dont want to have a discussion about it…

tristram from diablo. it’s great cos i seem to be the only one with it, so i never confuse someone else’s phone ring for mine

pff, i aint reading all that, lemme optimize it:

private bool isEven(int number) {
    return rand() < 0.5;
}

no, i dont think kings had that kind of power without the support of a modern state. they were complicated arrangements of various oligarchies working together, or something like that.

you think ancient and medieval monarchies were dictatorships? uh…