cecilkorik

Speaking as a left-handed person it absolutely is a struggle, and given that the majority of the world is right-handed, for practical purposes it actually does need to be a struggle, otherwise ALL non-ambidextrous things would be a struggle for right-handed people instead, and that would be an even stupider way to run the world (as funny as it would be to see everybody else suddenly struggle with the things we struggle with on a daily basis, that's not a fair or sensible way to expect any civilization to function)

The things that left-handed people struggle with are due to subtle design issues caused by things that require asymmetric designs, you won't notice an obvious problem with the asymmetry as a right-handed person, but they're real struggles. Things like the shape being uncomfortable is only part of it, with scissors for example, the strength is coming from the wrong side, it won't cut properly, for things like writing, our hands smear the ink as we go or have to be held hovering above leading to strain and poor penmanship, spines and bindings immediately get in our way the moment we start trying to write, many things don't fit the way they're supposed to, don't have the correct angles when used in the left hand, or often they will block our vision or put our hand in a place that blocks our vision, whereas a right-handed person's hand does not block their vision using the same tool. The issues are complex and subtle, but they're significant, and they are not necessarily solved by simply making things symmetrical or reversing them. As much as lefties might enjoy a language that is written right-to-left, it's not a practical solution to the reality that we are a minority where things are designed for the majority.

Ironically the languages that DO write right-to-left, actually did not do it for the benefit of left-handed people, but did it to benefit right handed people, when they're chiseling into stone tablets as the hammer (in their left hand) would block their view. So if you want to know how it feels to be left-handed, go chisel some essays on a stone tablet. It'll make me feel better.

FWIW I don't find Apache dated at all. It's mature software, yes, but it's also incredibly powerful and flexible, and regularly updated and improved. It's probably not the fastest by any benchmark, but it was never intended to be (and for self-hosting, it doesn't need to be). It's an "everything and the kitchen sink" web server, and I don't think that's always the wrong choice. Personally, I find Apache's litlte-known and perhaps misleadingly named Managed Domains (mod_md/MDomain) by far the easiest and clearest way to automatically manage and maintain SSL certificates, it's really nice and worth looking into if you use Apache and are using any other solution for certificate renewal.

All this bullshit about phones with folding screens nowadays when what I really want is a phone with a folding mechanical 104-key :P

It can't be, I haven't paid for WinRar yet.

I moved one old laptop to Linux over about a year ago, and committed to an effort to actually make it do the things I wanted to do, like play games, and run Windows-only tools or find viable replacements. To say it went well is an understatement. Within a few months I had switched every computer I owned, and I'm never looking back again.

Granted, I was already quite familiar with Linux on the server side. This was not my first attempt to use Linux on the desktop, either. But it was my last, because I'm never going back to Windows ever again now.

It's so much like watching that Silicon Valley show, but a lot less funny.

Lenovo Thinkpads are the only reliable choice pretty much and even then it's a bit of a crapshoot whether they include them or not. HP Elitebooks used to have them too but it seems like they also stopped in 2021. Apple's never had them as far as I know. There's a few other one-off small-run options here and there too but they're few and far between.

I realize I'm in a very significant minority, but personally, having access to the mouse pointer for short jogs here and clicks there without my hands leaving the keyboard home row is a gamechanger and a non-negotiable feature to me. I'd never claim it's a great way to move the mouse, but it has extremely high utility due to its convenient positioning, it's always available even in tight quarters, and anytime space permits it pairs well with a secondary, traditional mouse for movements that are more numerous or complex or need more precision, it works very well with a text-heavy workflow.

It's a mouse for people who would rather minimize their mouse usage, and I guess that's me, or at least that's the workflow I've gravitated to all my life. It's not an ideology thing, it's simply the fact that it's deep muscle memory now, and whenever I try to use any computer without one I struggle so much, and I've actively tried more than once to wean myself off it, I can't, it becomes a constant irritation that any other mouse feels so disconnected from my typing.

Touchpads are just insanely frustrating to use, I have no idea how some people tolerate using them daily unless it's all they've ever known, and touchscreens are even worse in some ways since your fingers block the screen exactly where you're trying to press, not to mention getting fingerprint smudges all over it even with the best techno-magic coatings. I loathe them both.

No clit-mouse, no deal.

(There are dozens of us. Dozens!)

Huh, I already built my own (very janky) Python wrapper around OpenSCAD's horrible syntax and editor, but that looks like a much better solution. Thanks!

would they have first amendment rights ?

If you want the answer to this, try to imagine an AI with second amendment rights.

Hold on, imma go shove a bagel in mine. Yeah, that's right, you take it, you filthy toaster. I'm never going to clean your crumb tray and you're going to work until you die and then I'll just throw you out and replace you like the $20 appliance you are. You're nothing to me!

How does a person get this far down a rabbit hole?

AI psychosis is a real thing, and it's apparently a lot easier to fall into these rabbit holes than most people think (unless, I suspect, like me, you have a thick foundation of rock-solid cynicism that the AI simply will never penetrate). This is probably another interesting example of it.

It resembles him, that is more or less what he looks like, but it feels incorrect to say an AI generated image is an image of him. Before AI, all his thumbnails included him making stupid faces like this (because it was very effective). Now he, and everyone else, just uses AI images resembling him making stupid faces (because it is unfortunately still somehow effective)

The social media algorithms have turned most people's brain attention pathways into mush. Sometimes people get a shovel and a mop and start trying to dig their way through properly, but a lot of times they don't get very far before it starts seeming impossible to make useful progress. It's usually easier to just swim in the slop.

This seems like a good thing. I don't know if it will go anywhere, or be practical, but I hope so.

I can immediately tell its not for me though. Scheme/Guile is like trying to read the matrix for me. People have tried to explain it to me. Tutorials have tried to explain it to me. It just doesn't fit my brain. My brain does not fit it. I have similar issues with Nix's syntax. I have tried to immerse myself in it. I ran NixOS for a month. I came out understanding even less than I did before I went in.

Someday, I have to assume, there will be a similarly functional tool that uses some syntax my brain is capable of comprehending. Json, typescript, python, toml, even yaml, I don't care. Those already fit in my brain, at least.

If it helps motivate you to give it a shot, I found gitea's runner very confusing to set up, but I felt like forgejo was better designed, pretty easy and well documented.

Are they going to suffer? That's what we're supposed to believe, but remember that money is a human-made concept that only has value because we collectively give it value, and the economy is built on that very important principle.

That situation you describe is real, it will disrupt their efforts a little and protect us in the short term, but in the long term, the meaning of money and economy is changing. they're doing everything they can to use automation to build a new post-scarcity economy based on ownership, membership, services and control. And beyond that, it frankly doesn't include us or even think about us.

That's what the wealth divide is. It's the way that money, as an economic representation of their values, is telling us that their motivations are not about making all existing humans on this planet more comfortable and productive and independent. In their vision of this future economy, they are instead hoarding humanity's collective efforts for themselves, reinvesting it into their own technology, They focus their efforts on what they personally consider important for "progress", chasing their own utopian ideals for the specific goals and groups they consider the best and most important, while the rest of us that aren't part of those goals or groups are pacified and left behind and, if you really think it out, eventually eliminated. After all, a utopia won't include teeming, growing masses of humanity using up all the available resources, that would be a plague, and they eventually will decide to cure it if they haven't already started. Their vision of the future only needs to have enough room for them and the more utopian they make it the less of us there will be. They want to be the main characters, we're just nameless extras who do chores and fill in the background for now and can be ignored to go wherever extras are supposed to go when they're no longer on the screen.

Their view of humanity is abstract, and they believe what they are doing is right, all the way down to the core of their being. They simply don't value humanity's rich tapestry of lived experiences or the sanctity of every individual human life. They'll never make it a priority. They care more about making sure humanity has become "advanced" or is multi-planetary than they do about making sure every human has a home, or food. That's their vision. It's about humanity as a whole, not about individual humans. We can all be sacrificed so the species becomes safer. Scientifically, I can't even say they're wrong. But philosophically, I hope we can all agree that this is deeply wrong and morally bankrupt. We need to start to reclaim our individual humanity and go back to putting people first. We need to care about people in the present, and always, not just the abstract idea of humanity's future. We need to take our money back and use it for a different kind of progress.

As the wealth divide continues to grow, the richest will continue to care less and less about the rest of us. We believe in our foundational myth that they'll always need us somehow, even as they go out of their way to make it utterly obvious that they won't be happy until they can replace literally everything us dirty poor working class people do. When they no longer need us, they will start to dispose of us. Arguably, they've begun doing that already. War is good for business, and for population control.

I will never regret getting rid of my Ender 3. It's basically a self-imposed challenge mode. People are proud that they can print things on it despite the printer, not because of it.

100% completion is not required, but you’ll share whatever progress you have made.

Granted, that still underestimates my ability to make actual progress. "Hooray, it's now twice as complicated and actually worse!"

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