MonkeMischief

I'm so tired of being relentlessly and aggressively marketed to because

"You enjoyed this thing we did 20+ years ago that was unique back then, but we're scared of risks now so we want you to buy that thing again please. Remember how much you liked it? Also we want to sue people for enjoying the original if we can."

...so tired.

That's pretty neat. I do hope they do some solid UI/UX research on it, and figure out their own way of smoothing things out without simply "making it like Photoshop" like the grouchy masses are clamoring for. :p

Blender had some odd ideas at first, but I really appreciate their unique approach that, IMHO, makes an Autodesk product feel heavy and kludgy by comparison.

Depends how strong the espresso was. 😅

I don't think it's that bad-faith. I myself still find it positively mind-blowing to comprehend when the data is right in front of me.

Someone might equate wealth to hard work, but it hasn't really hit them, the real literal difference between 1 million dollars, and 1 billion, and then the news is talking about "trillionaires."

There's just no way to earn a billion dollars, to yourself, through honest work and by not exploiting others. And I think a lot of folks really don't realize this. They know that's a lot, but they might change their mind and realize how outrageous it is, when you present them with something like:

"Joe, you could get 3 more promotions and work 80 hours a week for 13 lifetimes and still not earn that much. Do you really think this is just petty jealousy at play?"

They might just change their mind.

But a lot of folks grew up in a time or place where people who ran the company started at the bottom, and it really needs to hit them hard that this just isn't reality anymore.

Or my favorite "Well did you tell them to stop treating you that way?"

Woah, Master Oogway, that's some deep enlightenment right there. :O

Not saying your experience was a good thing by any stretch, but I do think especially in the U.S, we all run into that point at one time or another, when it really hits you that the "authorities" don't really have much stake in your well-being, and so usually disregard it.

A lot of times this will be in school, yeah, with nonsense "zero tolerance policies."

Other times it's the "You can trust me and tell me anything" HR department that fires you for "performance reasons" conveniently after being a harassment victim.

Eventually something goes the wrong way and you realize "Help ain't coming." And it sucks.

Ourselves and each other are who we've really got in the end. Look out for each other. <3

Basically like they (and Google) have handled phones. "Wow look, a majority of the OS work is done for us! Sooo if we just...overlay it all with proprietary blobs and un-removable software and locked bootloaders and..."

That's always weird to me. If I meet another penguin-enthusiast in the wild, I try to ask all enthusiastically "Oh neat, what distro?" And I am genuinely curious and open about any answer.

But it's funny how most of the reactions are like "Eh, y'know. This one. But mostly for work." or something. Like I know forums are hostile but c'mon.

Big bummer. :( lol

That's so painful and I feel for you. I had the same situation with a Honda Element. (I've heard of people going to Flexes as a more recent but similar body haha)

Except for me, I broke it myself, and it was a VERY PARTICULAR bolt that nobody wanted to touch. Thing was leaking oil all over the place and nothing could fix it.

Turned a ~$4000 sale price to $800 junker haul-away. :(

But I got 219,000 miles out of it, so...

Here's to those roomy boxy brick cars everybody called ugly but were absolutely awesome and refused to die...until they did. 🍻

That's a really good breakdown of the differences!

Now if you'll excuse me I have a few Ell-Ee-Gee-Oh sets to put together. :p

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