Arcade-Pupper-Minty👾
The Seven Voyages Of SteveComputers are a trap. You love computers right up to the point that you learn slightly too much about computers, and then you hate computers
Marijke Luttekes@sinbad It's annoying because it's true.
webhat@mahryekuh @sinbad stop reminding me 😭
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Nikita Lisitsa@sinbad Imo it's a matter of perspective. I still love computers after working with them for...about 17 years probably?
Just accept that "everything is always broken" is how things are meant to be and suddenly it's not that bad
@lisyarus ah so you’re in the Stockholm Syndrome era 😉
(I’ve worked with them for twice that long, call me the ghost of Xmas future)
JD
LR@sinbad which is practical since everything is a computer, which allows you to consolidate your hate
@lritter Although being omnidirectional it does diminish fast according to the inverse square law
mmby
Jeremiah Fieldhaven@sinbad I would like to tell AM that the feeling is mutual.
George Laskowsky@sinbad I still love computers after my first contact 35 years ago. The software industry is broken though, and there are reasons to dispair, but computer themselves still hold all of their potential.
Parker Morse@sinbad When I was in grad school - nearly 20 years ago now - I went to a colloquium talk by a theory professor who skipped the usual Powerpoint projection and instead made dry-erase marker notes on transparencies she projected on a screen. I think she sensed our shock because after a few minutes she paused and said, "I don't think you can do really good computer science unless you hate computers."
MacCruiskeen@sinbad benn through that a few times over the past 45 years. And I still have all of my analog photo kit.
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Andrew Hinton@sinbad @paulmcaleer Oh wow this is so true
Lux@sinbad please make me forget all about computers I wanna live in the woods and be happy
TheFwGuy 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇺🇸🖖
Rudimentary Pancake Assembler@sinbad If you keep going, you then discover it doesn't have to be this way, and end up wasting your life on Arch Linux and Libreboot'ed thinkpads or worse yet, ARM stuff.
Also next thing you know, you don't have a single device with google services.
Also next thing you know, you don't have a single device with google services.
sarah tonin 
@sinbad when you learn printers have a rendering engine bc that's what drivers send
Johns@sinbad As one of my teachers used to say "computer 'science' is NOT a science. You can do the same thing over and over and get different results"
Then he proceeded to explain why with computers you really never do the exact same thing what with the CPU clock, memory used, etc;
Once he made us create a program to simulate a deadlock xDD
Guy was crazy but we learned a lot
martin copyright 🙈 🙉 🙊@sinbad the more I learn about computers, the more I love them though 🤔
Kasey Strube@sinbad Love computers but hate how people use computers
Codhisattva@sinbad story of my life
And then some new type of computer comes out and it starts all over again
Andy Wootton@sinbad I must have always known too much about computers. Learning BASIC at school ruined maths too. I only studied computer science by a series of accidents.
@sinbad 40+ years as software/firmware developer, I think I used almost everything and still love to design SW/HW.
What ruin things is not the technology but everything that is around it especially everything that is done to make "more easy to develop", in order to allow people who doesn't even know WHAT a damn computer is, to create SW easily and fast.
The hundred "new" languages developed to hide and hide everything, to don't scare people and the run to improve "productivity".
These things are what ruined the profession, no more looking for quality, security but productivity.
Bean-counters (managers) counting how many lines one do, how long one stare the monitor, measuring and issuing new rules, etc. ... these things ruined the profession.
But I still love computers and design to solve real problems with them.
What ruin things is not the technology but everything that is around it especially everything that is done to make "more easy to develop", in order to allow people who doesn't even know WHAT a damn computer is, to create SW easily and fast.
The hundred "new" languages developed to hide and hide everything, to don't scare people and the run to improve "productivity".
These things are what ruined the profession, no more looking for quality, security but productivity.
Bean-counters (managers) counting how many lines one do, how long one stare the monitor, measuring and issuing new rules, etc. ... these things ruined the profession.
But I still love computers and design to solve real problems with them.
̶s̶e̶t̶h̶ ̶ ̶@sinbad really it’s not computers, it’s progress bars. Think of all the development time to engineer a machine whose purpose is to convince you to wait and do nothing.
sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞@sinbad 💯 Fact. Especially when your extended family starts treating you like IT support!
Alexander Sosedkin 
@sinbad I don't hate computers, I hate people, markets and industries who made the world compute in deeply disturbing, fatally flawed, fractally wrong ways.
Simon Dassow@sinbad How to say you haven't found your operating system, without saying you haven't found your operating system?
CavyherdTechnology is really great—when it works. (As intended.)
johnny anhedonic@sinbad i know nothing about computers but hate them in solidarity
nullagent@sinbad so accurate
Snaprails@sinbad
So they /are/ like people after all then?
So they /are/ like people after all then?
Urzl@sinbad I could happily learn everything there is to know about computers.
It's how people use them that really horrifies me.
Ben Rosengart@sinbad @nullagent And after that it’s too damn hard to give up the money.
Tisha Tiger / Neliger