there are so many links that i’ve clicked expecting to be horny that turned out to be IT server stuff >:|

yo why tho, just throw a “ooooh! maybe i’ll find something in there for my friend who’s birthday is coming up/cosplay”

not here for sure, but Lemmy is not exactly a reflection of the general population

people are starting to grow numb to gen AI, and people have grown numb to worse things so it’s not exactly going to get undone easily

none of the “smart” devices are actually smart. in my experience they’re really fucking dumb

i once bought a “smart” electric kettle because i thought it’d be nice to boil my water to exact temperatures for my teas. it had a little button on a little screen to turn it on

and of course the screen stopped working, and that was the singular thing that broke. if the kettle had a physical switch i’d have only lost the ability to boil to exact temperatures instead of becoming fully useless

a similar thing happened with my Quest VR. a singular smart thing broke (the proximity sensor) and it bricked the whole thing (the proximity sensor deteced, well, proximity, and input from that decided if the screen inside was turned on. when it broke, the screen never turned on. the proximity sensor could be disabled - but only from within the settings menu that required the screen to be on in the first place. there was no other way to disable it, and that setting reset every full shut down)

never had that happen with my non smart devices, never had a non-critical feature failing bricked my “dumb” machine. oh the proper graphics card melted in my laptop? whatever i just disabled it, it might not perform as it used to but it’s still functional and perfect for just browsing the internet or watching youtube

my dumb printer never just stopped for no reason, my dumb kettle with a physical toggle has been working perfectly for 3 years now, my dumb light bulbs only stop working when they’ve reached the end of their ability to make light, my dumb devices never refuse to work even when what they can do isn’t perfect anymore

i was already annoyed by so many devices being labelled as “smart” when they’re not, and now they’re also adding “AI” to those things… i hate it here

this can easily be solved with a simple timer

thank you for giving me a great torture idea for all my IT adjacent friends, from now on i’ll be pronouncing all binary as if it were one number (up until i can’t be bothered anymore)

honestly good for them, this tells me they realised how useless the “1.x.x” format is since they do not plan on ever having it tick up to 2.x.x, and changed it to something that allows them to convey more meaningful information

with the current team of devs who’s ethos seems to be to never touch the already well established gameplay features there will never be a minecraft 2.0

the entire philosophy of development for that game would need to change for that to happen

dw it made me exhale air a bit harder :)

i did not :3 i tried being funny too T–T

toilet floors are usually unpissed on over where i live (unless it’s a petrol station, but those don’t count!)

i used to do that with my diet meth (medikinet), i ate the pill and 30min later it was sleepy time

i can assure you i’m not 20cm tall to be jumping in a toilet, i am merely european

never tried that, i might in the future but for now i’ll stick to trying to figure out how to rawdog things. i’ve been getting good at it :3

never said it was easy hah, i wish the meds worked so i could get some help in that regard, but here i am, trying my best anyway

i was on medikinet for a while, at first it made me sleepy, then it made me relaxed, and then it made me anxious, so i stopped

whenever i take brain-chemistry meds for longer than a week or two my brain defaults to having them give me anxiety which is whack (this happens with meds for anxiety as well, thanks brain! you gelatinous wanker). after multiple trials of various meds i’ve mostly given up on trying more, but hey at least cardio works as intended!

i’m still bitter about one thing - all those people who kept saying “just eat healthy and exercise and you’ll feel better :)))” were correct 💀 at least in my case

i always stop before puffing and grunting exactly because of that T–T and i try to jump as quietly as possible

ironically, stimulants make me sleepy, depressants also make me sleepy

there are only two ways i can wake up:

• psychedelics, not exactly helpful if the thing i need to wake up for requires me to have an attention span longer than 5s

• cardio, so when others are drinking coffee, i’m doing jumping jacks in the toilet

distraction is also time travel. i fell down the rabit hole of extinct species youtube videos yesterday and suddenly 3pm turned to 1am after like, 3 videos top, and they all were 20min long i think

my tech aura comes and goes

i once tried to log into a microsoft account for 10 minutes, and it only let me in once i took the laptop to my coworker and tried to show how it wasn’t working

and then one of my other coworkers tried to restart a camera multiple times, and it only worked when i pressed the button

thanks! i’m 25 so i have a life of figuring stuff out ahead of me lol

glad you’ve found some stability in your life, likewise wishing you well!