I “do work” just fine on Arch but maybe I’ve just gotten used to the quirks and the DIY aspect of it. None of it is an obstacle to productivity anymore.

I do realize I’m not the average person and am some kind of freak that likes to take working stuff apart and put it back together for funsies.

The world is dominated by people like this Karen. Making society so fucking dry, boring, and lifeless. The same sort of people who invented corpospeak.

I usually do it when we take over a customer’s access control system and we have half their doors on the new system and half in the old still and are migrating them over. I’m an electronic security tech, this is what I do for a living.

I use it at work to clone a customer’s proximity card when I work in their building so they don’t have to leave me theirs to get around. The one legitimate use I found.

I guess being able to trigger the customer service announcement without having to find a button in a store is nice.

I know exactly what would make me happy, the problem is the people who would make it their mission to make me as unhappy as possible in life for daring to try to be happy.

This is the dilemma I’m facing. Continue to masquerade as a man and have a somewhat “normal” life, or live as my authentic self and suddenly make life 100x harder having to live with transphobic shitheads out there because I know damn well I ain’t gonna pass.

Thank you!

Please tell me there’s a Shermanposting community on the fediverse.

Texting this to my roommate who’s house I live in…

I can’t believe I’m older than this thing.

The zoomers and gen-alpha aren’t doing much better. Just ask the average teen what a filesystem is and how to find a file without it being organized in some sort of media gallery app.

As a millennial, I often feel like I’m surrounded by tech illiterates on both the upper AND lower sides of my age bracket.

You gotta put the sticker on lest you forget it’s even there, just being an OS and getting out of your way.

This analogy doesn’t really work because there are thousands of different wheels that all spin on an axis but are used for many different things. If the wheel was never reinvented or improved upon we wouldn’t have automatic transmissions, rocket engine turbo pumps, gyroscopes, etc.

Don’t put money in your mouth, it’s dirty.

I know exactly 0 people who are still watching over-the-air TV.

Wow, you must be one of today’s lucky 10,000!

(the term “Winblows” is like 30 years old. We were trash-talking Windows 95/98 with it 😂).

Have some more:

Micro$oft

Micro$hit

Microsucks

Internet Exploder

💜🫂

Those shitheads had an unintended opposite effect on me. All this attention on trans issues in the last decade or so made me think about some things about myself and my past and made me finally realize I’m not cisgendered either. 40+ years living as a man, and now am planning on going on HRT soon to live as the androgynous enby I really am.

A history teacher in the 22nd century: “And that, class, is how we finally implemented UBI.”

Free antibiotics.