Noah Caldwell-Gervais. Thank me later.

I feel like they’ve gotten better over time. And some settings you’re really only supposed to be changing if you know what you’re doing.

You know you’re going to be suffering the FOMO until you do it.

Dialogues that don’t require clicking OK to apply my selection. What if I change my mind or click the wrong thing?

Here’s a past annoyance: help text for BIOS settings that was like

Tronic memory catalyst conversion ratio: Sets the ratio of tronic memory catalyst conversion.

O RLY? 🤔

Blue LEDs are eye piercing, especially when they are always on and you are trying to sleep in the same room.

Users are lazy AF and hate to read. No matter how instructive the error message, some people would rather open a helpdesk ticket because “the computer isn’t working again”.

It says right there your USB drive is full and suggests deleting some files to free up space, Karen! 🤨

Cries in 4K monitor

Seriously, I love the concept of NewPipe but the low resolution bugs me too much. I’m holding out with Firefox and uBlock as long as I can.

And guess what, if it gave me an ad free experience at an affordable price I actually wouldn’t mind paying for YT Premium.

Let’s not forget the grand daddy of them all: The Lord works in mysterious ways.

Somewhat apropos I recommend watching Adam Curtis’ take on what he calls Oh Dearism:

https://thoughtmaybe.com/oh-dearism/

My favorite NES “soundtrack” is Dark Side of the Moon, Brad Smith’s fantastic adaptation of the Pink Floyd classic for the NES console.

Some people just can’t handle being released from Plato’s cave.

For some people it is. Hell, there’s even a character in the actual movie who thinks so.

In fairness, you’re right. I just spent a few minutes looking at higher resolution images of the box and it does not make that claim.

That said, the meme captures the spirit of an era pretty perfectly. I still think it hits the nail on the head.

Maybe that’s how it’s spelt in British English.

“Bathroom stalls with conveniently placed holes available on site. Come one, come all.”

Gaming and laundry cat here.

If we’re going with an Aliens vibe, why not choose Newt? Small, disheveled, survivor type…?

Can you hear it?

Bei so einer Größe wäre irgendwann sogar die genetische, ähem, Homogenität der Saarländer in Gefahr. 😜

(meine Großmutter kommt aus dem Saarland)

“We the People” is how you got plantation-owning slaveholders to write the constitution (and be senators) so they could control U.S. policy despite being way fewer in number than their northern buddies. Kind of the same thing, all told.

Oligarchy masquerading as democracy.

Eh, that was just a rebranding of “We the People”. Same bunch of rich white dudes with an aversion to taxes.