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Kei trucks are coffins on wheels.

It's the VW Microbus all over again.

I agree, but then again this such a first world problem no?

Latest leak says 400 000 Russians killed in the war, that's a lot more worrying.

If things got worse I'd expect and accept support Ukraine banners thrown in my face while walking down the street.

We are so zombified in our comfort zone that this is what it takes to actually get some attention nowadays.

Not ideal but it is what it is.

I live off grid in Sweden all year round with solar and an EV as battery to power everything except heating which I do with wood from my own property.

I'd have animals too but society is still stable enough to provide me with food.

A new key for my 2004 Suzuki Grand Vitara costs $685 in Sweden.

Insurance company offers a new key for $100.

I said I lost it and paid $100.

I considered buying a Chinese key programmer on aliexpress for $200, or going to a black market key programmer that would do it for $100 but I was lazy.

Looking forward to having a car that only needs Apple Car Key in the future.

Intrusive thoughts tell me to defecate straight down the scenic balcony.

"When I was young, I remember watching my grandfather deteriorate from a powerful, intelligent figure to a frail wisp of a man, who could barely make his own way home."

— Picard in TNG episode Night Terrors

My mother 66 never got comfortable with using computers but loves her iPad.

She reaches out to touch my MacBook display every so often when I show her stuff.

This is the lowest common denominator that Apple is designing for lately.

It's ergonomically terrible.

It doesn't work.

Steve Jobs said this in October 2010 during Apple's "Back to the Mac" special event, where the company was previewing Mac OS X Lion.

Everything is going down the drain right in front of our eyes.

I can't make sense of any counterargument as anything but copium.

Great, what about watching porn?

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

We came from CLI with white text on black. Now dark mode is all the rage for the last couple of years.

I know OLED and all but interfaces feel just like fashion now, to hell with affordances and improving how things actually work let's just make things pretty for that micro dopamine drip and change it up just for the sake of it because jazz hands looks new makes $$

"Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky."

— Ojibwe proverb

You can if you store the energy somehow.

This I leave to your imagination.

I specifically remember having 420 MiB, dunno anything else.

Just mouse, bought a Logitech 3 button later.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Logitech_3_buttons_m...

Flashback to TabWorks.

Compaq Presario 486 1994, I was 10.

And yes, played Myst on it.

Tempus fugit…

I'm not piling on, just an honest question.

Do you consider Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro as mediocre?

Silicon Valley suffers an utter lack of respect for the user, it's user-hostile.

I remember that comment, it's perfect.

Sign up to the TestFlight.

https://yattee.stream/beta2

Super easy.

Get https://github.com/yattee/yattee

I've been watching youtube without ads on all Apple hardware for years.

I use invidious as backend.

https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

Absolutely fabulous.

Could they really though? Isn't it possible to focus some lasers from someone's backyard and cause damage?

~ tHe gOd pArTiClE ~

> The biggest problem, though, is how users are pushed into it without any warning or knowledge of what they're signing up for.

Gf just logged in to hotmail without knowing her password because of a popup. I tried to explain but there was no understanding to be had.

This is how the world works. You either understand it or suffer it unknowingly.

Just like nature intended.

In other words…

Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades.

No Shimano yet unfortunately.

https://infinite-battery.discourse.group/t/progress-on-shima...

At Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg Sweden 80% of the students would pass the entrance exam in the 60s.

These days it's reversed, only 20% pass.

I was told this was the case around 2005 when I studied there.

The exam has not changed in difficulty.

Cool, is there any commercial product that does this? I'd pay for that.

I was using ublock origin lite but now I've converted to wblock.

Absolutely amazing, works inside webviews (e.g. netnewswire).

v3 just released.

https://github.com/0xCUB3/wBlock

I was also a wormholer for most of my time, at the end I was hi-sec mercenary.

My greatest lesson from EVE is that most people are really really dumb.

The same people also vote and drive, it's a miracle we still exist.

I started in 2004 and played on and off until 2015 with a quick stint in 2020.

It was amazing in the early days, it felt like nothing else. I had a background in Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot. I liked PVP and I wanted full loot drop on kill.

EVE online has many times been referred to as the spiritual successor of UO, what made it really special however was the one server architecture (until China shard).

My name was Dieter Rams—I ganked, scammed and griefed. I probably made a lot of people quit the game; this was the appeal. I wanted to play a game where I could be the villain (successfully).

This was the original trailer for the game, in my opinion the true vision: https://youtu.be/GwpgXFA3UQk

Over the years it lost its soul as the internet grew, social media became more prevalent and information disseminated more rapidly (watch madseasonshow on youtube for a great coverage on this topic) around the optimal ways to play etc.

All MMOs suffered for this, you could look everything up before doing anything and so the sense of discovery and adventure was lost. The frontier was no longer undiscovered, and once pay to win came into play everything came off the rails.

The developer made this video in 2014:

This is EVE - Uncensored https://youtu.be/AdfFnTt2UT0

This is when I quit for real or as the EVE players say "won EVE".

A better comedic version of the video is this one by Honorable Third Party (typical EVE humor): This is REALLY EvE https://youtu.be/LmS9vcVNr5A

I came back in 2020 for a month but it's like that saying you can't step into the same river twice. I was older but the game had also changed so much. Other players were pressuring me to multibox (play multiple accounts), it felt terrible.

I knew a guy who played 30 characters at the same time, his setup was a technical marvel but it made me sad what gaming had become. There was a similar issue with buffbots in Dark Age of Camelot.

The fact that EVE needs a new player tutorial says everything you need to know about the state of the game (and gaming in general). Everyone needs a lot of handholding these days, in 2004 you were just thrown into the universe with nothing but the chat and other players to help you out.

Figuring things out was part of the game.

There were no YouTube guides, no tutorial and no real money to make things easier. The playing field was equal no matter who you were.

The magic was lost because of money, it's always the money in the end.