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richfree

12 karma · joined July 14, 2022

Graduate school student

Interested in efficient AI

Likes to tinker and reinvent the wheel

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richfree··on China's Weakening Economy Is Creating a Lost Generation
I'm a gen-z guy and the feeling of unease is just off the charts. Our generation and the generations after just got handed the worst deal of the past 50 years. It's like the collective generations prior just amassed a giant pile of crap and dumped it on us, while retracting every ladder they used to have.

It's hard to compete for a slot in uni, then it's hard to compete for a slot in the labor market, then it's hard to compete for a slot in the housing market. Every phase is designed to lock you out. And meanwhile cost of living is so high there is no way to grind your way to a decent standard of living. There is no pathway for most young people to "make it". The best we've got is just to survive and hope things get better. And things just get worse every year.

richfree··on The stupidity and arrogance of GNOME developers (2024)
I never used GNOME the moment that I learned it didn't have scroll sensitivity in the settings as a DELIBERATE decision. That was in 2018.

I just went to check again, and yes, even in 2026, GNOME devs are angry that you use a trackpad and not the specific mouse that the devs use.