I wonder if we will see a crash in the tech industry like we saw with the game industry.
This could be bigger since tech has a bigger consumer base than gaming. Price most people out of purchasing tech and soon it’s not Apple products to be luxury items.
I know in my household we are not buying anything new until our own products break or stop working. Even then I’ll look at the used market before walking into a store.
I sure love having a web site.
A little spot on the web that I've been tending and poking at for over 15 years now. This internet can be fucked up place, but my website is just mine and has nothing on it that I didn't put there. It's home.
A freaking home page.
Hell yeah.
People think the #Matrix was about robots. It wasn't. It was about operating systems.
#Windows is the blue pill.
You take it, and everything stays comfortable. Pretty icons. Friendly sounds. A setup wizard asking if you want to save your soul to the #cloud. Updates appear at the worst possible moment like a Marvel post-credit scene nobody asked for. Your #PC reboots. You cry. #Microsoft thanks you for improving your experience.
#Linux is the red pill.
You wake up. You see how deep the #RabbitHole goes.
At first, it is terrifying. The #terminal stares at you like Darth Vader asking if you know the power of the #CommandLine. You type one wrong character and feel like you accidentally launched nuclear missiles.
But then something changes. You realize your #computer actually belongs to you.
No ads in the Start Menu. No #AI assistant spying harder than a reality TV producer.
No mysterious background process eating half your #RAM like Pac-Man after three energy drinks.
You choose what gets installed. You choose when #updates happen. You choose what your #desktop looks like.
You are Neo.
Windows #users are still sitting in their pods, downloading the latest mandatory #update called KB-Whatever-Again, wondering why their printer suddenly speaks ancient Sumerian.
Linux is not perfect. Sometimes Wi-Fi drivers behave like a side quest in Dark Souls.
Sometimes you spend two hours fixing a problem just to feel smarter than everyone else.
But that is the point. The red pill was never about comfort. It was about #freedom.
And freedom means occasionally reading a forum post written by a Finnish guy in 2007 who solved your #problem and vanished forever like a #Jedi master.
Welcome to Linux. There is no spoon. Only #sudo.
#meme #choice #os #software #foss #floss #opensource #gnu #gpl #computer #user #nerd #just4fun #system
MegaTokyo 2033: Tokyo was left flattened as a result from a great earthquake. A new city, MegaTokyo, was then recreated due in no small part from the aid of a multi-million dollar company, Genom Corp. Genom created and mass-produced biomechanical creatures called Boomers to aid in the restoration of MegaTokyo. When the Boomers began to run out of control, the ADPolice at first tried to stop them, but they proved to be far more difficult to deal with than was first imagined. Under the ever looming Boomer threat, a group of four girls from varying degrees of society banded together. Calling themselves The Knight Sabers, they were the only ones with enough firepower and resourcefullness to defend the fledgling MegaTokyo from Genom and it's berserk Boomers.
If anyone is interested in testing it, I have forked Moshidon and added the new Collections functionality (button on the top right of your profile tab) and an optional AI Personalization feature (an LLM infers your topics of interests based on your likes and boosts and populates the Personal timeline with relevant posts). Current provider is just OpenRouter but I plan to add Ollama for local models.
@daringfireball This was a beautiful read and will miss his writing and photography.
Been watching the old GigaOm Show episodes on archive.org. Miss those days.
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