siege was pretty cool for the first two years

I will try that (if I remember). good proposal

copilot keeps making a “copilat chat files” folder in my documents folder without my consent and I keep deleting it, and that’s enough for me to never ever want to deal with it

there’s no chance my company stops using Windows any time soon

and until then, I need MS to stop doing their goddamn best to make it impossible for me to do my job

2/3 of the voting population didn’t vote against him, btw

doesn’t really seem like “literally one person”

lightweight low speed small electric cars in cities are an absolute win

heavy high speed (= more tire wear) electric cars is just more consumerist slop

yeah, I actually like it now, but that’s mostly because they made the start menu so fucked up and full of shit

I’ve adjusted to just hitting start and typing the first few characters of what I want to open and slapping enter. I’m okay with that process, I actually kind of like it. I don’t need to look at what’s going on and I don’t need to move my hand over to the mouse. The only problem, and this is kind of a big thing, is that yeah it doesn’t search just my fucking installed programs, and sometimes it just opens another program that doesn’t even match what I typed. so the 60% success rate at best is kind of a big failure

One of my bosses was screen sharing with me this week and had co-pilot up in Excel. I don’t know what he was doing with it. he started fucking around with it while he was screen sharing, just doing something unrelated to what we were talking about. I know he was just trying to bait me into asking what was going on.

fuck that, I don’t care, I know you love your AI, I don’t give a shit, it’s not useful for what I do and I don’t want to talk about how it can almost do something kind of right

Microsoft removed my quick access links to my desktop folder today

why? I don’t know. I guess they want to force me to use the OneDrive desktop folder. which I do use, for shit I want synced to OneDrive. but I also have a local desktop folder I use for temp files, and fuck you very much Microsoft left me fucking use my computer how I want to

side note, I had a little program that would export a file that a user had open to their desktop in a specific format. great program, super useful for the application we were running it in, it made a multi-step process of navigating menus into a single button click. I’ve been using it for the past few years at this company. cue my surprise when some new people inform me that the button doesn’t work for them and so they haven’t been using it - BECAUSE MICROSOFT TOOK AWAY THE LOCAL USER DESKTOP FOLDER LMFAO. it blew my mind that people had to go manually create a desktop folder, I had never thought to add checking if that folder exists to the code.

those numbers are inflated to fuck, or else the people studied for it are just wasteful as fuck

I take long showers often multiple times a day, wash a lot of stuff by hand, do a lot of garden watering, fill a kiddie pool when it’s hot, and wash my hands very often. I still only reach a max of 60 gallons a day on average in the summer. typically half that in the winter. and I wfh so all my shitting is done at home, too.

who the fuck is flushing 15 gallons a day just by themself? and who the fuck is doing multiple loads of laundry every single day?

the incredibly low quality of that blog post pisses me off. garbage like that makes the world a worse place, and whoever published that should be ashamed of their work

that costs more money

I don’t want it on

the people who annoy me at work are the ones who don’t learn, though

like how many times can you reforward the same chat messages explaining exactly what they’re asking you, and the question is “where do I find ____” lol

this was also my thought. I don’t care what it’s designed to do - I want a goddamn off button for my car lol

Hell I’m sick of fixing slop work from actual people

I am now semiconvinced that half of my co-workers are AI bots due to some of the dumb shit that they say

like literally AI hallucinations and reversals, coming from real people

I’m really not.

so I get a temporary phone if I’m expected to be in a higher risk environment… not really a big deal

I’m not frequently in that situation, so that is an exceptional circumstance. if I break down on the way to Algonquin Park or on the north end, there’s enough traffic that I won’t die from it.

I think you’re a bit too stuck in the “immediate access to everyone” way of things

if I get lost, having cell service won’t help me, because I have GPS on my phone that can show me where to go. and if I’m lost in the backcountry… I already don’t have cell service lol

if my car breaks down, I’ll wait until somebody comes along and ask for help

if I’m on my way somewhere and somebody wants me to cancel, then I’ll get the message when I stop for a coffee or I’ll show up and then go home. if they want me to pick something up last minute… it doesn’t get picked up on my way over. not a big deal.

I have cell service. have for years. but the more time goes on, the less I find it necessary. and the more anecdotal evidence I have to support that.

important note: I do not have children or family members in vulnerable condition

okay but that’s just an issue with your narrow definition of workout lmao