• viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
    hexbear
    75
    27 days ago

    My head canon is someone in the tech industry hates computers and is purposefully self sabotaging to get us off of them

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
        hexbear
        26
        27 days ago

        i spent like 6 hours yesterday reinstalling my os because a power outage rawdogged my filesystem in an unrecoverable way. the love hate relationship is inevitable.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
          hexbear
          14
          26 days ago

          I spent most of the evening trying to figure out how to covert a .dds format imagine to a .xbm format imagine, which is exactly the same format except cpdr changed something and redengine can't read .dds

          What was wrong? Why didn't it work the first time? Well i put the wrong right .dll in the plugins folder instead of the identical right right .dll

          Like, idk, four hours of my life right there, and the solution was buried in some discord thread about how to make your character's cyberdick glow in the dark.

      • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
        hexbear
        2
        edit-2
        25 days ago

        I'm not a programmer, but I've been in tech most of my life and i fucking hate computers and i wish i had any other skill whatsoever to utilize to get the fuck out of this hellish industry

    • SoyViking [he/him]
      hexbear
      17
      26 days ago

      I think it is more boring and stupid. The tech industry has engineers and scientists who builds stuff but the executive controlling it, the public using it and politicians regulating it insists to believe that a magic genie lives inside the computer.

      Sometimes the genie is benevolent and can fix the economy, answer all your questions with absolute certainty, fix every social problem and rid you of the burden of having to enploy people to do stuff. Other times the genie is evil and he will tell the evil SeeSeePee everything about you and let Russia decide the outcome of the election.

      But in any case the computer is magic and has unlimited abilities.

      • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
        hexbear
        5
        26 days ago

        Yeah I think that’s the case in reality but it’s funny to imagine some guy sitting in Google going “e-NOUGH!”