are you insecure and want to boost your ego online? try learning something very difficult and then loudly telling everyone how easy it is. shoehorn it into every conversation. make sure that everyone knows how superior it is to all of the alternatives

people will either tell you that it’s too difficult, in which case you can condescend to them and stroke your own ego in the process

or they’ll agree with you that it’s easy, and you can stroke each other’s egos about it

there is certainly nothing mentally unhealthy about doing this. this should be where most of your self-worth comes from

okay so y’all know how platforms like reddit tend to favor extremely low-attention-span content? specifically the posts tend to optimize for the minimum length of stimulus required to get a user to hit the upvote button and move on

I was thinking that an interesting experiment might be to create a reddit-like interface where you have to hold the vote buttons in order to vote. like you have to hold it for a full second, which gives you enough time to process whether or not it’s really worth upvoting

it might help counter knee-jerk downvoting too. you know like the whole “the first 6 words of your post sounds like it’s disagreeing with me so I’ll downvote and move on” kind of stuff

in general I think that adding friction to potentially-addictive/mindless feedboxes like reddit might be a good way to make them less addictive and overall healthier, by forcing people to use them more intentionally

if you’re a Gamer™ out there who thinks they’re tough for beating Elden Ring or Dark Souls on Windows, you’re still a fucking casual in my book. try beating that shit on Arch Linux: the Dark Souls of operating systems. if you can even get to the main menu I’ll be impressed. I bet you won’t even be able to partition your disks right. casuals today disgust me

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the Linux command line really needs a way to proactively warn the user that something is wrong, or something is about to go wrong

instead of suddenly getting I/O errors because the disk is full, or wondering why your service is down (because it crashed), you could get a little red (1) or (2) in your terminal prompt and type notifs to get a warning that “your disk usage is at 90%” or “systemd had to restart this service and here is the error log” or even just “this cron job ran and exited with code 12 and here’s the terminal output”

it also needs some equivalent of tray icons. typing ps aux will deluge you with a fuckton of random system services that I’ve never heard of before, and somewhere buried under all that are the services that I’m interested in. I’d really like a way to ask Linux “hey what non-system-critical software is running right now?”

it also needs a way to ask “hey what non-system-critical software is currently installed?” and “what user-facing software is installed?” so that you can figure out what you installed on that system without getting deluged with a list of ten million C libraries

basically I just think that the Linux command line needs better ways to understand what the state of the system is, once it gets more complex than a Unix mainframe was in the 1980’s. at the moment it feels like you have to proactively check for problems and gotchas before they happen, and that’s just unworkable

aw - there’s no way to play Apex Legends solo without getting matched up with at least one random :/ I probably wouldn’t have liked the game anyway but it’s a shame that I didn’t get to try it

also I tried The Finals today and it was a very hyper turbo shoot shoot run faster gogogo kill man shoot run type of game. I barely had enough time to process what was happening before I was doing something completely different instead. extremely not fun IMO. why does every PvP shooter have to go at 300 miles per hour?