Slop.

my personal vehicle is an ancient shitbox with mechanical everything and no A/C that technically qualifies as an "antique" in most states due to its age. I take good care of it, drive infrequently, and maintain its maintenance schedule.

I had to suddenly drive a work vehicle recently and it's like this new star trek looking bullshit with more screens than a buffalo wild wings. I was to drive it from somewhere I had never been, but I just assumed among all the screens, it would have a navigation + gps thing. NOPE. it expects you to have ApplePlay, and sync it all to your phone. I don't use that shit. why am I having to fuck with my work phone and config shit on it to do the one decent thing that tech has innovated for cars in 20 years? that is literally the only screen that should be in a car: an interactive nav map.

also it played chimes when the Dash's view of my face was obstructed, because I drive with one hand at 12 o clock when I'm cruising on the interstate for a while.

also, everything is a goddamn rubix cube for park, drive, reverse now. heaven forbid some shit breaks, you are definitely not figuring out a damn thing by yourself.

new cars are extremely stupid.

Tech really is going down hill exponentially fast. It took all of 1 android update for my phone to decide that it should "serve" me random news articles, and download a jpg from the article. And put said jpg at the top of my download folder. And I'd need to root the fucker/usb debug to uninstall the shit. I'm getting to the borderline support the death penalty to the devs that decided you shouldn't own everything on your device. Creeps just want to install spyware and enforce "intellectual property". If you obfuscate runtime or uninstallation more then 2 clicks (or worse, not remove everything besides things like saves, settings, and you better let me know if that was left), you deserve to be dunked like the poor witches were.

Maps wouldn't let me use voice without enabling their shit bot (I don't usually use it but someone suggested it for notekeeping and I considered it). I just want a device that has a brick of battery, can play yt videos, has usb c, and can make calls. Oh and won't break if it gets dropped more then 3 inches. Maybe a 3.5 jack (lol remember those?), a decent camera, and ~maybe~ a thermal camera. My requirements are nothing, but if you actually want that, you're looking at 5 year old phones or 1 of like 3 new ones that cost 3x for nearly the same specs. I'd be fine with the old ones, if I knew its going to get newer updates (I don't care about """features""" but really don't want to be carrying around a security hazard).

Its incredible that usability of tech peaked in like 2017. Opening a server nowadays (that isn't tied up in some service) to the web sounds like an actual timebomb before someone ruins it for you, and javascript is unworkable for my brain/style. Google/amazon/whatever has to "abstract" data/algorithm you could have just downloaded and ran but nope, pay us a penny per call. I've literally used godot to bundle boilerplate I/O for a basic app because I was sick of figuring out the magic words to make some simple program in C/Python, and am too ADHD to maintain a proper personal toolbox.

I checked my resume because I'm having a certified moment at my job. I wrote it in Latex because everyone was doing it back in ~2019-2020. Now, the fucking editor I used wants to have its fucking "ai" editor "help" me and put the error somewhere I didn't see. I had to manually review the code and I was missing a single fucking }. Yeah guys, totally going to pay for your bot to tell me nonsense, instead of the thing that has been doable since before I was born. The thing they're steadily degrading in VS. The shit we discussed in undergrad, and professors said, yeah its solved and boring so let's just cover it in theory and not in practice (IE, make a abstract machine and not write actual code for it). The amazing tech of bracket matching.

I feel like its a matter of time at this point until something fundementally breaks and computers just stop being tractable objects for a decade or two while those of us in CS not chatgpt-brained and not brain dead from exhaustion figure out how to make printers work again.

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someone needs to teach rural people how to dismantle a data center

My job will literally fire you on the spot for taking a work call while driving or taking any call while driving a work vehicle. What pointless c-suit bullshit

I’m absolutely certain having a Teams meeting on the Q3 budget projections while doing 80 down the interstate will in no way be unsafe, distracted driving.

Look I don't want to suggest anything but how well guarded can the data centers and crypto mining operations really be?

lol imagining some rich asshole spend 80k(?) on a car that comes preloaded with bloatware is hilarious

i drive a scion. it costed 5000 dollars. it looks cool and it has toyota reliability. it doesn’t advertise to me. i just do not get how shit like this mercedes has a market. who is buying these new cars knowing they all have this bullshit preloaded into them?

i probably will never buy a car made after 2014.

The Butlerian Jihad cannot come soon enough

How come the cybertruck doesn't have discord?

Won't that be fun when someone sends you a corrupted Excel file and your car stops running

Now you can have meetings in your car!

Can we not have meetings in our car?

You cannot not have meetings in your car.

Why are you upset?! That's twice the 'not's you asked for!

At no point did anyone at Mercedes-Benz sit down and ask themselves "Is this really necessary? Is there any conceivable way in which this will actually improve someone's life?"

Because the luddies were so successful, right?

The righteous need not cower before the drumbeat of human progress. Though the song of yesterday fades into the challenge of tomorrow, God still watches and judges us. Evil lurks in the datalinks as it lurked in the streets of yesteryear. But it was never the streets that were evil.

-Sister Miriam Godwinson, "The Blessed Struggle"

Fucking love when every time my phone updates 95% of the update is a bunch of trash "games" that it installed without my permission.

Head to the nearest Walgreens and pick me up some gift cards on your way in, then call 555-6666 -- CEO

The "blue screen of death" will now be literal.

The CEO of MercBenz should just throw an Elon salute and get it over with. Including Micro$oft-Mossad software is the same thing.

I have friends with electric cars. I frequently hear things like "my car can't charge because the app won't load/is down/whatever" or "this feature keeps turning on and bugging out". I show sympathy but I don't mean it. I'm okay with electric vehicles but not okay with the bloatware that comes with it.