Video games have gone this way too. Pop in disc or cartridge, go to play, forced to download updates that fix what was shipped in a broken state.

Me, looking at my Jellyfin server…

Oh. Ok.

Only do work on work devices. This is a quick way to lose a job. Always assume the company sees everything that's happening on their device. No way around it, and any attempt to get around it will raise the alarm. Just do the music/podcasts/etc... on another device. Why "need to be able to run it on their work PC"?

A couple things in the way you explained yourself lead me to believe you might benefit from improving your soft skills. Not everything in a job is specifically technical. If you work with people, you have to learn how to work with people. You don't have to enjoy it, but it makes things easier.

Yeah, I tried dual booting for a very short time ~20 years ago (oh man...) Every time Windows would obliterate my grub config/mbr and I'd have to dig up instructions to reconfigure grub from live cd. Never again.

"I already know X. I'm brilliant, so if I don't currently know Y, it's not worth knowing. I will ignore the 30 years it took me to get to where I am knowing X."

Which fallacies cover this? I suppose we can start with Dunning-Kruger?

3rd Rock from the Sun? Been a while since I rewatched that, though. Kinda not "friends" but "co-workers".

They're social engineering the 'normies'.

No lube, just dry, torque to spec. Don't know where you got the idea to lube them, that's super dangerous.

This entire post is the frog sitting in their comfortable pot of water saying “This is fine, nothing to worry about!”

This is what bugs me every time I see LTT Linus talking about Linux. He spent decades learning Windows. He immersed himself in it. Now he's older and doesn't realize the small amount of researching and "RTFM" for Linux is nothing compared to the energy he spent learning Windows stuff.

On the positive side - seeing stuff like this in others has helped me realize when I start exhibiting the same negative thoughts and behaviors.

Sloparr

/s

Because basically the only difference between a [$$$] consumer GPU and a [$$$$$] workstation/server GPU are software and a few extra memory chips (little bit hyperbole). If businesses could have been buying [$$$] GPUs and doing the same things they need to do on [$$$$$] GPUs (e.g. GPU Partitioning), Nvidia wouldn't be where they are right now.

Ah, one of those names is familiar. I never paid much attention to instances, only focusing on communities. Until I helpfully reported an obviously misinformation filled post to community on lemmy.ml. An admin copied the contents of the report into a message in that post, making fun of me. Then banned me from all lemmy.ml communities I was subscribed to (for "abusing the report system"). I've since blocked lemmy.ml and am on the lookout for the other similar instances to block, and/or yet another alternative to Reddit/Lemmy.

I want candy - bubble-gum or taffy!

The year: 2026

Me: Sent report for obvious misinformation post

lemmy.ml admin: posts contents of my report, making fun of it

Me: banned from all lemmy.ml communities

I suppose there's no real loss. Blocked the instance in my profile, but even as a multi-year lemmy user it's making me look for another alternative to reddit/lemmy.

Making people opt-out of AI in Preferences, AI Controls (and using a double negative there), instead of having people install the AI stuff as extensions.

They have to default "AI" into it, otherwise nobody would use it. e.g. Copilot. If it was good they wouldn't have to force it.

The "Leave" part is where they get a new script at a new place that follows the law.

Shows up at $3.99 for me.