• dejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    20 hours ago

    We’re also very good at working around, repairing, and recovering from, technology that routinely fucks up.

    After the third or fourth time of diving into the browser console, debugging whatever web form was giving my wife headaches, I started to realize how bad things really are out there. I’ve even had to hack in form values, or correct misbehaving client-side validation, using live JavaScript and/or HTML edits. IT folks really do live in a different parallel universe online.

  • fibojoly@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    21 hours ago

    We have fucked up computers, and phones, and anything tech really, because we are not afraid to experiment. Sometimes experiments are messy.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    20 hours ago

    For me, it depends a lot on what I’m doing with my computer. I’ve had phases where the tinkering with the OS was kind of the main goal and I’d often have really broken setups.
    These days, I do want to use my computer for other things too, and I do get annoyed when I can’t, so I put my Very Computerness to use for making it a pretty stable setup.

  • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    Very true.

    We may know 100s of ways things don’t work, and how to transition between most of them.

    Most people may only know dozens of ways.

    There are infinite ways things can break. So no, we can’t move the needle.

  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.todayEnglish
    301·
    2 days ago

    Gasp! Is that a naughty word!? My delicate sensibilities!

    Anyways, i probably have an AI data center’s worth of tech lying around my house because of one project or another. Some broken, some old, some saved from the trash, some held together with load bearing thermal paste… You know, a perfectly normal setup.

    • da_cow (she/her)@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      Last time I had Arch on my laptop I had a problem, where pipewire would crash if I didnt had an audio output for like 2s. So every time I wanted audio for something I had to restart it through the console.

    • Aggravationstation@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      A lot of the time if I try to make something slightly more convenient and remove a manual step it fails and I’ve added two extra steps when trying to save one but can’t be bothered to put it back to just one for like a month.

  • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    301·
    2 days ago

    I am of the opinion that it takes intelligence to be stupid. I had a friend in high school who had some undiagnosed cognitive difficulty that made him a bit slow overall. He struggled in school and was always failing one of his classes because he just couldn’t learn fast enough. However, his common sense was better than anyone else’s that I’ve ever met, and he was my most reliable friend. Sure, he didnt make many smart decisions, but he’s never made a really boneheaded decision as far as I know. I got in the habit of running my ideas past him:

    Me: “I’m thinking of doing [insert absolutely insane idea]. It should be cool.”

    Him: “That doesn’t seem safe, and it’s also illegal.”

    Me: “Huh. You’re right. I won’t do that, then.”

    I can credit my survival to adulthood to this guy. He may not able able to tell you what day of the week it is while standing in front of a calendar, but he was the least stupid man I have ever met.

      • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        12·
        2 days ago

        Last time i spoke with him almost a decade ago. He was working in the Walmart stockroom and may have single-handedly changed their dress code policy. At the time, Walmart required all employees to either wear khaki pants or a skirt. Since he was in the stockroom khaki pants would cause his enchanted forest to become unpleasantly swampy. So, he started wearing a skirt to address the problem. This worked, and he got the other guys to follow his lead since it was an obvious and effective solution to their problem.

        Management was pissed, but couldn’t penalize them for not following the dress code. This was about a year or so before Walmart began allowing their employees to wear shorts.

      • Wugmeister@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I also used to play d&d (actually, mostly other rpgs) with him back in high school, and he had a natural talent for dismantling any campaign put in front of him. I eventually got fed up and did a sandbox campaign to stop him from derailing all my stories, which he promptly derailed with no effort. He did make me a better GM in general, and we always had fun.

      • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
        34·
        2 days ago

        yeah my guess is it was done (not by me of course) intentionally to throw off optical character recognition but still be human readable

        kind of like hentai so yeah the comparison is apt lol

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      68·
      2 days ago

      eighth comment like this 🤪 (image was taken from a site that regularly censors based on OCR and i didn’t care to go to elon musks nazi website to get the og sorry; also no hate i just think the pattern is funny) can we get to ten!

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
    17·
    2 days ago

    Regular people would consider me Extremely Computer, but compared to many of the people here I feel Barely Computer for not knowing the difference between /bin and /sbin.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      20 hours ago

      The distinction is kind of pedantic. It’s “superuser binaries” (sbin) and “binaries” (bin). Since both are usually on your executable path (see $PATH) anyway, the distinction is kinda/sorta moot these days. If you need root (or run sudo) to make a binary do anything useful, it’s probably sitting in /sbin. I know not of what brought about that original distinction, or what actual utility it serves/served.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      You can type man hier into a terminal to get a description of what’s what.

    • mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      13·
      2 days ago

      You fool! /bin and /sbin have already been replaced by /usr/bin and /usr/sbin! What an buffonish mistake!

      Truly the solution is NixOS, we must all embrace the loving embrace of /nix/store.

      • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        And I’m here thinking they’re all fancy thrash bags for binary blobs. So Boomer! We should rename them to /woke/lgbtqe (the E stands for elf)

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
    1095·
    2 days ago

    It’s a good thing that little black line protected me from seeing the word “fucking” on the internet.

    Wait a minute… FUCK! 🤪