Anyone else read PC magazines about Windows 95 on the school bus every day? In anticipation? Normal kid stuff… right?

Best use of that image I’ve ever seen

I can only imagine John Cena music for which my son goes crazy

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The gen x punk couple across the street were holding each other watching a wisp of fog make it’s way across the wooded hill we face, as I parked this morning. After all these years, I officially feel they’re better than me

You mean my 6k Gmail drafts? 😭

I started doing paper pads everywhere and trying to log at end of day.

I spent the weekend failing to make my civ mods work, with a thousand lines of notes… 2/3 in, I think “damnit blazeknave. You spend months perfecting this stupid fucking obsidian setup, and you’ve been here in notepad+ like a fucking jabroni.”

1987. TIL.

I wasn’t saying the latter but that’s an interesting idea. Not the former per se- the cis heteronormative gender and sexuality binary is bullshit and only exists bc religion (capitalism… moar serfs in fields) and generations of fear. There’s tons of fluidity in earlier civilizations and more in nature.

I’d just like to hear some comments from all the downvoters. Odd thing to get so defensive about Lemmy

No.

Gender is a neurotypical construct

I laughed my ass off at this! So well put!

Today, my last 3 messages to Gemini were all pretty much: “cool! We’re agreed on the framework and tone etc in which you’ll communicate this thing to me. Now please, create the fucking thing already”

NYC without drivers ed

I hope so. When I’m paid well, I tip well, buy local. Hopefully they trickle the same.

I do this. If I have to hire offshore, they’re going to get paid like local royalty. Paid holidays etc. Gotta treat people like people.

eBay!

Yeah, sorry for oversimplifying. I worked in IT resellers for years and am acutely aware of all the different roles, and even specializations within that. The irony is back then (20 years) you’d get walked around the halls and introd to “the networking guy,” “procurement for paper and toner,” “Mike who needs components for the pbx; or the as400” - I had a thing for everyone from data centers to keyboards… but “oh, those are the software guys… they don’t buy stuff” - today it’s a devtools man’s world. Everything is for the software guys! (Having said that, my friends that grew into devops are finding new (old) opportunities managing actual on site data centers and co-los more often as the unit economics of AWS, gcp, azure, etc haven’t panned out as hoped)

Oh man love it. In the 80s, I used to go to my grandmother’s work after school. She was a stenographer at the neighborhood newspaper in Brooklyn. If she was alive she’d probably love this. My mom ran a copy room for a high school but I think it would go over her head.

As a non-dev (tinker for fun) observer- it sounds like your friends and family think you’re working in IT, but their assumptions thereafter are fair. Is that accurate? That the misconception is software dev does not equal IT?

fuck you. my uncle was a dot matrix.