I hate the injection of personality into technological instances or common hiccups in modern Internet culture. My heart monitor watch shows me a smiley face while booting up, Github buttons spam "Buy me a coffee!", Reddit says shit like, "Don't panic" when a webpage doesn't load. Shut the fuck up and leave me alone. I am so tired of being surrounded by these pale imitations of reality, like I need to be pacified with pseudo-emotions or meme culture every step of my day.

  • GrouchoMarxist [comrade/them,use name]
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    4 years ago

    Modern technology has become a huge component of everyone's day to day lives but at the same time people have been taught it's completely okay to throw their hands up whenever they hit a mild snag. As an IT grunt I'm awfully tired of helping people plug in HDMI cables, it's incredibly fuckin basic

    I like to compare it to getting a 'low fuel' light and just abandoning your car on the highway cause 'you can't figure it out'. I'm so tired of it, but hey, job security

      • GrouchoMarxist [comrade/them,use name]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah, I get the brunt of it cause it's my job but even if I wasn't the one fixing things I'd still be annoyed by the learned helplessness...

          • GrouchoMarxist [comrade/them,use name]
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            4 years ago

            Why would they have shame? They've been conditioned to believe that giving up is an acceptable first step, and they never have to learn on their own with people like me around, so the possibility of being ashamed isn't even in the picture

      • grillpilled [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I'm the same as you, but not even at an adequate level. I just Google the problem every time. Everyone who asks for my help could just Google the problem and get the same answer as I do.

    • GhostOfChuck [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I'm so fucking glad that I had a gigantic stubborn nerd as a father who would always rope me into trying to fix shit that broke around the house instead of paying someone else to do it or simply throwing it away. Taught me a lot about trying to fix stuff instead of just tossing it the second it didn't work properly anymore.