#Computer talk

[unzzead]

Having a computer girlfriend rocks I highly recommend it 👍

[the-fallen-few]

Can anyone - hello? - Where - three total-

[rh0mbus0fruin]

life or death for my oc Boss Covencare (I am going to redesign him)

say goodbye to his ugly mug for now

[le-jardin-inculte]

used windirstat yesterday to see if there are any big files I can delete off D:/ (yes, shift-del'd 42 gigabytes of uni homework straight to superhell)....and was faced with the shameful fact that my emotional support oryx recordings are taking up 100 gigabytes

so now I'm torturing my poor old laptop by slowly running the big ones through handbrake one by one to clean up some space because deleting? that simply won't do

might post something from the depths of my archives, too 😂

[beausbugbiome]

Bugaboo Pocket released today on Steam! (Will be out on switch later 2025).

I’ve been excited about this game now for over a year! If you loved tamagatchi’s as a kid, you’ll love this game! You get to raise your very own digital pet insects, dress them up, and decorate their homes! 🐛

[chloesimaginationthings]

FNAF Glamrock Freddy has an existential crisis..

[michaelfortress]

Every type of operating system for personal computers should come with a game.

I phrased it like that because i believe that calling smart phones, computers rings more true now than before.

Even old phones came with basic entertainment built in so it is very sad that most just don't now.

It is a insult that you have to download soliraire into pcs now a days. All desktop OS should have solitaire and all phones should have some pinball game.

[bluegiragi]

I really don’t care if I’m considered an annoying luddite forever, I will genuinely always hate AI and I’ll think less of you if you use it. ChatGPT, Generative AI, those AI chatbots - all of these things do nothing but rot your brain and make you pathetic in my eyes. In 2025? You’re completely reliant on a product owned by tech billionaires to think for you, write for you, inspire you, in 2025????

“Oh but I only use ___ for ideas/spellcheck/inspiration!!” I kinda don’t care? oh, you’re “only” outsourcing a major part of the creative process that would’ve made your craft unique to you. Writing and creating art has been one of the most intrinsically human activities since the dawn of time, as natural and central to our existence as the creation of the goddamn wheel, and sheer laziness and a culture of instant gratification and entitlement is making swathes of people feel not only justified in outsourcing it but ahead of the curve!!

And genuinely, what is the point of talking to an AI chatbot, since people looove to use my art for it and endlessly make excuses for it. RP exists. Fucking daydreaming exists. You want your favourite blorbo to sext you, there’s literally thousands of xreader fic out there. And if it isn’t, write it yourself! What does a computer’s best approximation of a fictional character do that a human author couldn’t do a thousand times better. Be at your beck and call, probably, but what kind of creative fulfilment is that? What scratch is that itching? What is it but an entirely cyclical ourobouros feeding into your own validation?

I mean, for Christ sakes there are people using ChatGPT as therapists now, lauding it for how it’s better than any human therapist out there because it “empathises”, and no one ever likes to bring up how ChatGPT very notably isn’t an accurate source of information, and often just one that lives for your approval. Bad habits? Eh, what are you talking about, ChatGPT told me it’s fine, because it’s entire existence is to keep you using it longer and facing any hard truths or encountering any real life hard times when it comes to your mental health journey would stop that!

I just don’t get it. Every single one of these people who use these shitty AIs have a favourite book or movie or song, and they are doing nothing by feeding into this hype but ensuring human originality and sincere passion will never be rewarded again. How cute! You turned that photo of you and your boyfriend into ghibli style. I bet Hayao Miyazaki, famously anti-war and pro-environmentalist who instills in all his movies a lifelong dedication to the idea that humanity’s strongest ally is always itself, is so happy that your request and millions of others probably dried up a small ocean’s worth of water, and is only stamping out opportunities for artists everywhere, who could’ve all grown up to be another Miyazaki. Thanks, guys. Great job all round.

[damianito]

Gorgus dangerous woman ♡

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[theartintrying]

jayvik dune au?

[kholb2010]

hehehehe i love it when they talk to o me like this >/////<

[unzzead]

I call Sinclair ‘Sinny’ sometimes and I am in love with her

[the-fallen-few]

And... there. It should work now.

What did you do exactly?

Watch. Actually, let's bring Swan over so they can see this too. I wanna calibrate their voice as well.

[Footsteps receding]

What was that?

[From further away] Huh?

[Slight panic] What did you do to it?

Oh, that? That's supposed to happen. Just don't touch anything.

[Footsteps recede. A door closes. A chair creaks under pressure]

Huh. Uhhh… hello, I guess? I’m not used to being here much. I like to call this Finch’s room. We all have our rooms. Sorta. We all sleep in the same room but there’s certain parts of this place where we hang out most. Finch’s is here with the computer. Swan’s is the main room. Mine is… I guess the sleeping room.

[beat]

Why am I saying all this? I can’t-

[A door opens. Footsteps approach]

[Audible smile] Crow? Are you actually talking to it?

I guess, yeah. Nothing better to do.

Okay, so I just wanna calibrate Swan’s voice and then I can explain what I did.

And how long will this take?

Not long. Just need to…

[Power off]

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███ 40%

████ 60%

█████ 80%

██████ 100%

ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇᴛᴇ!

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[Power on]

There. So what I did is so now we can see if the nonbelievers-

Wrong wording. The audience?

Guess so. I like it.

Okay, the audience can understand us better.

That’s… actually not a bad idea.

You say it like you’re surprised?

[beat]

I’m hungry, whose turn is it to prepare?

Think it’s mine.

I’ll help you then.

Bye Finch!

[Footsteps recede, quickly]

Should’ve seen that coming. Oh yeah. I almost forgot.

[Power off]

[rh0mbus0fruin]

I have forgiven love is a first from Mr. Bungle Self-Titled. It is no longer the "worst" song in the album for me, I quite like it actually.

[jjeremysstash]

I mean like y'all.... I get where you're coming from.

I'm not showing much love nor advocacy for linux at the moment because I only use it half of the time and I'm still discovering it. But damn...

My Windows 11 guide is for people like me who can't go pass Windows.

In uni and at work, I have to use specific programs.

I'm in archaeology and I specialise in the digital aspects of it. It means that I do GIS, databases, process LIDAR data, process topographic informations, but also there's stuff like using the Adobe suite for the drawings, publication, making posters and shit.

And like... I can't possibly come and say "hi, I decided to use inkscape instead of illustrator so now deal with a file that won't be read properly" to my fucking chief, now, can I? Like guys are already struggling with bugs between different updates of the same freaking program, they don't need to be added difficulties. And hell, considering their age and how they had to learn on the job how to use a computer ? They won't be learning a whole new program just because I don't want to use the other one.

So yeah, I know that for a good bunch of the programs I use there is an open source and linux version. But some others ? There aren't.

My line of work using those windows programs isn't even because they want to. It's because they have to.

Not only some programs are industry standards, but they can also be more efficient, or just the only one to exist. Like frankly we're out there using AutoCAD in archaeology, a shit that costs so much, and isn't even made for archaeology. AutoCAD is originally for architects and we have to add so many plugins and shit to make it properly usable for our work.

Archaeology is a mess of things. Our field is ultra specific but at the same time ultra wide.

We're also poor as fuck and share the same batch of the same version of a program around because of that. And we would love to switch to free and open source stuff. And heck, we did for some, like with QGIS. But we're also still live in capitalism, and we have to interact with many fields, and those other fields use other programs.

So yeah... We're stuck on windows.

I do love linux. It's fun, the layout can be vastly different and you have so many different versions and yet compatibility of programs. It demands less of your computer and you can control so much.

I do heavily recommend switching to linux. It can only do you good, albeit needing some work to get used to.

But I also know that there are other people like me who can't do the switch. And I know that those people will be as frustrated as me with what windows is fucking doing. And so if I can help them? Heck, I'll do it.

But don't come and drop shit like "just switch to linux" or "what are y'all still doing on windows". We're not talking about chrome vs firefox here. It's not as simple.

[kaiserouo]

bullshitting the prompt took way longer than i thought