I have experienced the reality behind this comment so deeply in the past year.

I have been building a lot of stuff recently, and in 2026 alone I have made several large Home Depot lumber runs.

It’s always me in my old shorts & t-shirt, loading like 2 dozen 2x4s or 4x4s or plywood into either my little mazda3 sedan or the family SUV my wife drives that has a mix of “cute” and “sassy feminist” stickers all over the back. All around me are trumpy-looking chuds in their pristine business casual work clothes carrying a single little bag or mailbox post to their also-pristine emotional support trucks.

And I’m not faulting them generally for clean clothes and nice cars. I’m a software engineer with a desk job, and I am way overdue for a fun new car that won’t even fit lumber. But I am way way way over the stupid culture in this country where having a good job makes one a valid human and having a big vroom vroom truck makes one a legit rugged big strong boy.

I’m gonna guess that most F-150 drivers don’t even know that microplastics exist and don’t give a shit about pollution.

But also, you can still make the biogas trucks worse if you make them even heavier than they already are.

The suburb where I live is closer to rural than urban, but I could totally see getting one of these for commuting and errands around town.

Just give me an upgraded $10K version that can do 50 mph instead of 50 km/h, because once I get to the end of my street I’m turning into traffic comprised of F-150s and Escalades already going faster than that (illegally).

my fellow americans: “Sounds pretty awesome, and so fancy and European. Throw it on the pile with all the other imperial units!”

Windows has had a “fast startup” thing for a while where it hibernates just some parts of the OS.

I used to always disable it because I’ve run into situations where having it off prevented issues that appeared with it on.

Fortunately I don’t have to use any Windows machines on a regular basis now, so it doesn’t matter.

If somebody actually hates all trans people, then I suggest it’s not worthwhile for decent humans to strain their sanity to analyze whether bigots’ patterns of hate and logic are internally consistent.

I have a pretty old lifetime Plex pass that I got on sale.

I’m still 100% a Jellyfin convert. Keeping my Plex server while trying out Jellyfin myself lasted even less time than my Windows partition after I had linux installed.

This image hits especially hard for me just because of the specific project. I’ve been medicated for a couple years now and thanks to the work I’ve gotten done in my hobbies I have built up a huge collection of power tools and I have bought SO much lumber.

I hear that if you super-upgrade to the enterprise plan, they will promise your legal department to be totally cool with ALL your data and prompts!

Generally speaking, that is often not the reality of it, but that is the perception that conservatives have.

Right wing propaganda media has been projecting the greed and desire for totalitarian control onto their opposition for decades.

The meme got me thinking of what modern “eco-terrorism” could look like. Assuming data centers were involved, we would be following along in the exact opposite of terrified.

But your version seems to fit this timeline better. It feels more uniquely American to imagine armed militias assaulting and razing facilities out of desperation rather than conservation.

Oh shit. This is how we get private corpo-militaries isn’t it?

I have been existing in a superposition of both of these states for a few years and really like it.

During the day I’m a senior engineer on embedded c/c++ stuff. During free time at home I dig in the dirt and build shit and do my “farm chores” like tending to my koi pond. Feels good man.

I think most people would agree that fresh air, exercise, hobbies, and personal goals are good for your body and mind. It’s still wild when I notice it actually working.

Yeah, but the countermeasures are client-side because that’s what you can control. And some kind FOSS devs out there make it easy to start somewhere decent.

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What about the slightly larger bonuses that quarter for the executives who had the outside-the-box and paradigm-shifting bright idea to eliminate the V&V department? HUH?

There’s probably a dusty old Ferrari buried in some retired rich guy’s 7th garage, and all the world had to suffer for it was a few fucked up networks here and there and losing the respect of IT people all over the place.

That makes me think of how much it annoys me when things are really messy and disorganized in our house, which is very often.

It’s like there’s no indexing. Where is thing X that somebody else used last? Time to start a fresh empty-cache brute force search of the whole space!

It’s not KDE, but I think Linux Mint Cinnamon is a no-brainer for somebody who really just wants to use ubuntu.

However, as a long time Mint fan I recently had reason to switch to Debian 13 w/ KDE Plasma and it is pretty great.

This is just as true in my non-computer hobbies that involve physical systems instead of code and configs!

If I had to just barely meet the requirements using as little budget as possible while making it easy for other people to work on, that would be called “work.” My brain needs to indulge in some over-engineering and “I need to see it for myself” kind of design decisions.

Literally just today on the drive home I was wondering to myself what would be the best way to generate a list of like 100 songs that are exactly like the handful of best ones that I never skip and that hit every time.

I didn’t know this was an ADHD thing!

What has worked best for me in the past, funny enough, was to discover music the old fashioned way. I started with songs, bands, or sub-genres that I liked, and just loaded albums and discographies rapid fire into my jellyfin server.

I’ll occasionally listen to an album, but when I’m feeling adventurous I typically just hit shuffle on the entire library. Every once in a while, a track that belongs on “the list” will light up my neurons and hopefully I have a hand free to add it. Otherwise, it may be lost to the sands of time.

In my case “the list” is comprised mostly of thrash, groove, or industrial metal that is energetic enough to occupy the music box in my head so I can calmly get some work done or enjoy a stretch of country road.

“I noticed that those other people exist and and are living their lives, so you must stop shoving them DoWn OuR ThRoAtS!!”

The same way you tell if it’s copy & pasted from Stackoverflow or some other search result!