this just makes me want to cancel my subscription more

I really need to get around to doing that. It’s the one service I pay for.

I take it a step further, I don’t just make sure that I take the right weiner home, I inspect it before I put it in my mouth. and especially give it a sniff test.

that and headlights. noise is pollution, but blinding headlights are a more dangerous pollution (and also equally obnoxious as the noise)

so many people have pressed that button

if working with my hands like a peasant paid what my job does, I’d do it in a heartbeat. fuck this mental exhaustion and stress, I’d rather be working the field eight hours a day for the same pay

AI is not coming for my job, which leads me to believe it’s not coming for that many other ‘skilled’ jobs

siege was pretty cool for the first two years

there’s no chance my company stops using Windows any time soon

and until then, I need MS to stop doing their goddamn best to make it impossible for me to do my job

2/3 of the voting population didn’t vote against him, btw

doesn’t really seem like “literally one person”

I think he might be confused and think it’s February 2025 and the US just lost the tourney

yeah, I actually like it now, but that’s mostly because they made the start menu so fucked up and full of shit

I’ve adjusted to just hitting start and typing the first few characters of what I want to open and slapping enter. I’m okay with that process, I actually kind of like it. I don’t need to look at what’s going on and I don’t need to move my hand over to the mouse. The only problem, and this is kind of a big thing, is that yeah it doesn’t search just my fucking installed programs, and sometimes it just opens another program that doesn’t even match what I typed. so the 60% success rate at best is kind of a big failure

One of my bosses was screen sharing with me this week and had co-pilot up in Excel. I don’t know what he was doing with it. he started fucking around with it while he was screen sharing, just doing something unrelated to what we were talking about. I know he was just trying to bait me into asking what was going on.

fuck that, I don’t care, I know you love your AI, I don’t give a shit, it’s not useful for what I do and I don’t want to talk about how it can almost do something kind of right

Microsoft removed my quick access links to my desktop folder today

why? I don’t know. I guess they want to force me to use the OneDrive desktop folder. which I do use, for shit I want synced to OneDrive. but I also have a local desktop folder I use for temp files, and fuck you very much Microsoft left me fucking use my computer how I want to

side note, I had a little program that would export a file that a user had open to their desktop in a specific format. great program, super useful for the application we were running it in, it made a multi-step process of navigating menus into a single button click. I’ve been using it for the past few years at this company. cue my surprise when some new people inform me that the button doesn’t work for them and so they haven’t been using it - BECAUSE MICROSOFT TOOK AWAY THE LOCAL USER DESKTOP FOLDER LMFAO. it blew my mind that people had to go manually create a desktop folder, I had never thought to add checking if that folder exists to the code.

I don’t want it on

this was also my thought. I don’t care what it’s designed to do - I want a goddamn off button for my car lol

I’m really not.

so I get a temporary phone if I’m expected to be in a higher risk environment… not really a big deal

I’m not frequently in that situation, so that is an exceptional circumstance. if I break down on the way to Algonquin Park or on the north end, there’s enough traffic that I won’t die from it.

I think you’re a bit too stuck in the “immediate access to everyone” way of things

if I get lost, having cell service won’t help me, because I have GPS on my phone that can show me where to go. and if I’m lost in the backcountry… I already don’t have cell service lol

if my car breaks down, I’ll wait until somebody comes along and ask for help

if I’m on my way somewhere and somebody wants me to cancel, then I’ll get the message when I stop for a coffee or I’ll show up and then go home. if they want me to pick something up last minute… it doesn’t get picked up on my way over. not a big deal.

I have cell service. have for years. but the more time goes on, the less I find it necessary. and the more anecdotal evidence I have to support that.

important note: I do not have children or family members in vulnerable condition

duh, just remove the automatic repeatable part. this is why you should think before commenting, kids. jeepers look at me go

but yeah, while annoying for regular use, certainly doable for certain occasions. and probably could be semi-automated fairly easily

this is not my area at all, but there’s got to be some sort of ribbon design out there to randomize the travel after each keystroke

yeah, then or at any other random event that they choose or manufacture

it is inevitable