For a while I was rebuilding PCs from e-waste piles for fun, lots of times I'd try installing stuff and need to look up a particular error on a WiFi card from 2005 and I could usually find a forum where someone had that issue at the time and I could resolve it-- that's going to be impossible soon.
Stealth, a movie about a plane that becomes evil after getting struck by lightning, contained a demo for Wipeout Pure on its UMD release where your vehicle has an exclusive livery resembling EDI, the plane so evil it downloaded every MP3 on the internet.
don't get me wrong! i love chit-chatting to people online in super hostile ways! i link the essay in my bio and yet i have a highly prolific online presence that exploits conflicts of personality to build a large personality that gets lots of attention! i am a hypocrite! but also, take it from me!
Tech support questions and open troubleshooting being almost entirely relegated to private Discord servers for a multitude of things over the last few years is terrible.
It used to be you could search for obscure answers; now with Google being busted and Discords locking things down it's difficult
i pray discord's demise will come with bluesky as a chat app, so that way we'll never have to deal with the stupid legacy username four numbers fiasco ever again
oh whoopsies there was mod drama in the discord server for a database software and now the config file someone postsed that fixes a broken default install on your hardware is suddenly lost, like tears in the rain, because someone extended the "no politics" rule to cover links to the EFF's website
can't troubleshoot my linux install without an alt cuz i got banned from the discord server that the maintainer insists on using to answer all technical support questions
love when i finally find the solution to a problem i couldn't find in docs or wiki and it's because i had to join someone's discord server to see that someone actually had written that config file before, it's just posted on a freakin discord server that you gotta join first to see anything
being on here with a bunch of other 30-40somethings has made me realize i'll be 89 years old in the nursing home and someone will be telling me about how they ousted agnes from the bingo table for the gross thing she said about male lesbians, and honestly, it's pretty funny to think about
i'm sorry but if your country is a "vital geo-strategic american ally" you cannot go around screaming at a bunch of american IDPs who earn below the poverty line that "their taxes are causing this". bitch. your taxes are causing this too. your country's military bases are part of this too.
