LLMs ain’t gonna replace programmers any time soon (they might get us laid off, but they’re not going to do our jobs no matter how much executives want them to), but they seem to have already replaced executives, though sadly without the laying off part.

It’s becoming more and more evident that these extremely harmful idiots (including CEOs and whatnot) have completely outsourced all their decision making and what little thinking they used to do onto LLMs.

We’re being ruled by vegetables parroting hallucinating autocomplete engines.

Not sure if adulthood or chronic depression.

Not sure there’s a difference.

2000, XP, and Vista are NT too.

Personally I’m partial to replacing very x for more x¹ than a very x thing in a pot.

I’m fairly certain I got it from Blackadder, but I can’t recall the episode.

1.– Or xer, where appropriate. Eg., this list is sillier than a very silly thing in a pot.

I don’t think I’ve needed to ask anyone anything when dealing with computers (except when helping someone with a self caused issue, of course, in which case the question is usually “why did you do this?”) since I was a little kid figuring out how to use my 286… I find that usually you just need to read the fucking screen (an extremely rare talent, I’ve come to realise), and in harder cases a bit of googling or, if push comes to shove, RTFMing seems to do the trick… but OK, we’ll see, I’ve been wanting to try NixOS for a while once I have the time, and my computer is getting old… maybe this summer I’ll find some time, better this than updating to Windows 11 in any case. 🤷‍♂️

Batch files¹, powershell, visual basic if you use Office, Lisp if you used AutoCAD back when macros were written in Lisp… 🤷‍♂️

¹- And, frankly, I doubt setting up NixOS is particularly more complex than setting up an autoexec.bat boot menu back when some programs (well, games are programs) wanted extended memory and some others wanted expanded memory (couldn’t have both modes at the same time, of course), and you had to make sure the drivers loaded in the most optimal order (which could vary depending on the aforementioned memory expanders, and which drivers the specific game actually needed) to fit as many as possible of them and DOS in high memory leaving as much as possible of the 640KB of system RAM free for the program… and I’m not even getting into the whole IRQ thing for soundcards and whatnot… and we had to do it all without Internet, learning by trial and error, or word of mouth, or from magazines…

Cyberpunk 2077 could have actually been way more sexploitative if it would be true to its setting

The fact that we can’t get cyberware for our junk was quite disappointing when I first played the game.

The same thing they’ve done with lots of emulators, tell whoever is hosting the source to cease and desist or face a lawsuit.

Windows 2000 wasn’t bad.

Because Google intentionally breaks their sites when loaded on Firefox, so Mozilla have to keep reverse engineering their bullshit and implementing countermeasures, in an arms race somewhat reminiscent of duck genitals.

They mean gamers of old. That is, currently old gamers, but back when we were young, and had time, and not a lot of games to fill it with, so we appreciated a longer game.

Current young gamers have vast libraries of games to choose from, and shortened attention spans due to social media.

Daggerfall was like this, if I’m not mistaken (I got into TES with Morrowind, and I’ve never found the time to play the older games).

The map was about the size of Great Britain, and mostly empty, even if it had about fifteen thousand locations spread about it.

I don’t usually kink shame, but if you consider boobs on a male corpse presenting presumed avatar of a Forgotten Realms (ex-?)god of death “fan service” you’ve got some seriously weird kinks, dude.

They’re not celebrating “whatever”, they’re celebrating modding.

Stapling unnaturally large breasts on characters where they don’t belong is stereotypically one of the first things modders do to games, so making fun of that seems like a perfect way to celebrate modding (as long as you’ve got any sense of humour, which Larian most definitely do).

Well, hopefully this will finally get saner instances to deferate .world as the disinformation hub it’s now openly admitting to intentionally be (and has always been, see the misinformation bot debacle for a previous example), so that’s good for lemmy as a whole, I suppose, in the long term (once .world communities have moved to other instances).

Fascism.

Back when disk compressors (Stacker, DoubleSpace, and such) were a thing I was cleaning my 85MB hard drive to make space for some games, found some massive file I wasn’t using, and promptly deleted it, which did indeed free a lot of space.

Way too much, in fact.

Turns out DriveSpace or whatever Stacker clone Microsoft had built into DOS somehow exposed the file in which it stored the compressed file system within the compressed system itself, allowing the user to delete it if they were stupid enough. So, when I deleted it, hilarity ensued.

In the end I think I was somehow able to recover the drive by booting from a floppy and using undelete or something like that, but it was a learning experience to say the least.

Damn, I miss those good old times.

YouTube would have to shut down

You say that like it’d be a bad thing… YouTube died (or rather was murdered by Google) a long time ago; what Google turned its bloated corpse into needs to be destroyed so that proper alternatives have space to grow.

I for one do appreciate Denuvo. They help me blacklist anti-consumer publishers and developers.