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Well then you need to phrase yourself a lot better because that is not how you came off, clearly.

I don’t think anyone welters in it when they re-listen to angsty music of their youth. For me it’s just a matter of nostalgia and reminiscing.

Yeah I was also an elite™️ 14-year old, all the normal girls were into LMFAO and LOL and their Flo-Ridas and BBM (what is that? Big boob messenger? Stupid thots. I was so much smarter than them. Humph! Looks are for the shallow!) and I was into far more intellectual things, like karaokeing to ‘Somewhat Damaged’, crying at least once to every single song on Still and speeding up the virgin power walk when the guitars come in on ‘Beside You In Time’.

But then I turned 16, and I was into cloud rap, and a tad later, doom metal. I came to realize that people had varied, changing tastes that didn’t necessarily give you the right to assume so much about them if they liked something I did not, it’s not as if one cannot be objective about media at all, but moreso that using tastes to attack a person, or to assume personal traits about them, especially a group of people, seldom yields to accurate outcomes.

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It is a lesson I had to learn again when my CompSci colleagues at university didn’t cruise through classes like I did, it wasn’t because they weren’t ‘real’ ‘geeks’ like I was, and it wasn’t because they didn’t use Linux, and once more, and again and again with many different things, undoing the brainwashing of a consumption society to see the wonderful complexity of people.

I make music now, and I’ve learned to see the wonderous complexity in it too, even in stuff that’s ‘not my cup of tea’.

I can critique it, but I no longer assume so much about people, and perhaps I am taking all this far too seriously, and that’s fine, but if that applies to you, I hope you can grow up too.

^ Millennial who got bullied when they were 13 for liking Linkin Park and made it their whole personality and their life’s mission to make sure no one thinks they like it again. 🙄🥱

Unironically grow up. Those people were dicks. They’re well produced songs that are noteworthy for how well they portray teenage angst (a valid part of the human experience like any other) and connect with teenagers worldwide.

Honestly with how the world is today if I saw this in a headline I wouldn’t even flinch smh

Multiculturalism and it’s consequences (good ones).

That’s it, close the thread.

Congrats on using Linux so young. A winrar is you.

How the genuine hell though? Wouldn’t that make you 8? Is this a trick? Are you a fellow third worlder? No interest in computers? Or actual child?

How can you write already omg y’all grow up so fast 😭

Crash Bandicoot was my first game.

Did you know that it released closer to the moon landing than to today?

Unreal

I wanted to work for NASA one day. I realized I was a dumb motherfucker, could barely pass HS maths, so now I’m a cybersec drone.

But my job is extremely chill WFH, so i get to explore my other interests so much more. It was never meant to be, that’s okay.

Now I just want to get good at something and use that to do stuff that I can be proud of, that I can show to other people and they can be impressed by.

I feel like all my life people just do things so much more easily than what comes to me and I don’t have any talent, so that doesn’t help, I don’t want to be some schmuck that just watches TV or scrolls social media poisoning herself with alcohol all her life.

Just don’t use corporate software products

AI is a good thing as long as it’s open-source non-commercial used by normal people (not govcorp), nothing wrong with proompting some images in the same way there’s nothing wrong with pirating some plugins and throwing a fun track in FL together or even a remix or forking a GitHub project and changing it etc etc. Corpos and/or closed source can fuck off though. Information wants to be free.

It’s certainly not comparable to “extended bureaucracy” (read: regulations that protect people from predatory big tech corpos and far-right leaders of that industry like Musk) and surveillance, which you just kinda threw in there to fill out the buzzwords. Like that one is obviously a bad thing but has no rhyme or reason to be with the rest.

Have to say this wouldn’t affect me, not because I don’t have any empathy but only cold, logical political solidarity, but also because I wouldn’t really class myself as particularly intelligent. I’m just walking here

Well I have a simple formula just for this:

If they believe things I believe, like things I like and go to the web pages I do: they’re a productive, well-socialized chad ubermensch patrician. No online issues there, even if they spend 24/7 online they must need it.

If they don’t believe things I believe, don’t like the things I like, and go to websites I avoid: they’re too online, probably an incel too and likely a terrorist in the making and sorely need to touch grass and should have their internet connection stopped.

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Yeah I noticed that too. If you don’t use Jerboa you’re too online smh

I used Linux for work. It was fine until we migrated to O365 from workspace. I’ve found enough workarounds that no one complains.

Same bestie. Steam Deck OLED is genuinely an awesome gadget. I don’t really buy things much, especially not something so expensive and new, but the steam deck is just so worth it.

You’re welcome! Sorry I couldn’t help more. I actually have a script like this but for gradual redshift