i was gonna say source mage! so i guess it’s not that obscure, if two of us thought to mention it.

your kid goes for a walk? believe it or not, straight to jail.

i thought they looked cool, until i saw one in person. i honestly expected them to be about 30% smaller. they’re stupidly gigantic in real life.

just cause you recognize that you gotta use steam if you wanna make a living, doesn’t mean you can’t hate steam and wish they didn’t have such a monopoly. lots of people use things they hate, just cause that’s the meta, y’know?

imagine if they had waited to invent lemmy until after reddit had shat the bed with the whole API fiasco. it’s better to have a backup ready to go.

i like my laptop cause i already have it, and have gotten to know it quite well over the past 16 years, but i wouldn’t recommend it. it would be nice to have more than 4gb of memory these days, cause i can’t have too many tabs open on firefox without it bogging down.

just a historical factoid that a lot of people don’t realize: the luddites weren’t anti technology without reason. they were apprehensive about new technology that threatened their livelihoods, technology that threatened them with starvation and destitution in the pursuit of profit. i think the comparison with opposition to AI is pretty apt, in many cases, honestly.