lydia

best i can do is opinions by some guy with a $3k camera and a copy of da vinci resolve

i swear to god social media feeds are destroying how we relate to and our capacity for thought about media we engage with and it drives me up the fucking wall i just want to be able to talk to people about our shared interests not hear regurgitated ragebait from youtube or whatever

i'm seriously considering going to my local computer store and picking up a 4tb NVME as a just in case, even if i don't do a whole new build

i'm not qualified to speak on the knock on effects but at minimum a bunch of hardware companies now have investors expecting much higher profit margins than they were 3 years ago and the investor class does not like thinking of a smaller number after a bigger one.

all the hardware news over the last month has me seriously considering replacing every piece of compute in my home now before things get worse

i hate living like this

this being in official msft documentation is despair inducing wtf are we doing here

maybe kim stanley robinson is right and the entirety of LA is just going to flood one year

three days without sunlight and the thoughts are getting grim

two BSODs in a week on a 5 year old computer while parts are insanely expensive is absolutely 100% not anxiety inducing at all

man why do i feel like this thing i've been working on so hard has stagnated

*looks at my own posts about not working being helpful*

oh hey maybe i should take a break after doing a thing every day for 30 days even if it's a hobby

these are *not* the kinds of vampires i think fondly of ftr

test run with an unfinished kit

we need to go back to the tech sector thinking they would be more productive by taking LSD at work, it was funnier and i think pissed off bosses more

wow the discover feed browser replies have not improved at all in the last year and change

i think one of the reasons 80% of the most effective engineers i have worked with have been gay is because they prioritize doing gay shit outside of work instead of working more.

it’s good for you. it’s also good for your productivity. we have mountains of evidence for this. ai bros won’t listen

are the computerphobes forced to touch the computer, i wonder…

(this is not about xrd y'all are mostly great)

i used to think software engineers were unique in their tendency to arrogantly speak about topics they have no expertise in

then i started interacting with modern online gamers and i'm convinced that it's the computer that does this to us

i’m such a good ally for watching insanely fit women play a game i like for hours at a time

very bad latte art that might look like a caduceus staff if you have cataracts

here have my shitty caduceus staff

i kinda see a palm tree

also if she gets stuck behind my pc it's "oh poor thing." and not "you stupid idiot" but i might've pack bonded with an inanimate object during lockdown while living alone.

i say "sorry" when i get in her way and "thanks!" when my robovac finishes, not because it's sentient but because it's a part of my home and i would rather love my home.

AAA video game dev: "here's a woman with alluring cleavage"

me, an absolute pervert: "clavicle 👀"

oh noooooooooo T_T

just like whole art styles that have been associated with plagiarism

it's probably really bad that any time i see ANY image or render with tons of baroque detailing and maximal space infill i start looking for AI generated imagery tells

another evening, another game of "is the world fucked or am i just hungry"

my shoulders are going to be jacked by the time we’re through this spat of horrors.