My Toxic Xennial Trait Is That I Believe Something Should Either Be Software (in Which Case After I Download

my toxic xennial trait is that i believe something should either be software (in which case after i download it i shouldn't need to be connected to use it) or a web page (which shouldn't require me to download anything to use it, however badly, in a browser). fuck your mandatory single function constant connection apps

This is... SUCH an accurate way to describe what working with programming is like

And fun fact!

We work very hard to make the computer MORE whiney.

We want it to check EXACTLY what is going on and start crying about very specific things so those errors does not end up in the release!

computer: I can't icanticanticant do it...I need CoolLibrary where's CoolLibrary I can't find it ;m;

me: uh, lemme check..

*rummages through the filesystem*

me: ...aha !! see, we got CoolLibrary right here !

computer: b-but..but it's...it's the nnneeewww CoolLibrary >:c I want the oooolllddddd one !!!!

*me, writing 'old' on a label and sticking it to CoolLibrary*

me: here you go, honey, how's this ?

computer: yippee !!! yaaayyy !!!! ^w^

*and adults

Modern marketing and algorithm content recommenders train you to NOT make choices. To just follow the algorithm.

And... it is not healthy. We have studies saying it is not healthy...

Stuff kids on tumblr better relearn

1. You are responsible for your own media experience. 

2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you - but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.

3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.

4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves - you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine - but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.

5. Do not give people on tumblr or /any/ website the responsibility for your emotional well-being. Because these people do not even know you so no, you have no right to ask them to take care of you.

These are so tricksy to realise is happening.

Because I work embedded a similar problem that happens is "Your code and build tools are perfectly fine, but the hardware is unstable"

Noise on the wires, voltage changes when things unrelated to what I am doing are running.

Loads of fun things to figure out and learn that surrounds the code skill of "programming"

My program crashed for an hour or so and I tried to fix it

I finally fixed it

Twas a fucking compiler command gone bad

My code was good

FUCKKKKKKKKKKK

Happens a lot on all of tech as more companies is doing the Enshittification thing.

I was told by a senior engineer that what I was promising my boss I could build was not possible.

I countered by oppening the datasheet for the microcontroller in question and pointing to the page that said I was correct.

Turns out he have never read the documentation for the microcontroller he have been working on for the last 10 years.

I had read the entire thing before having been there a month

All his knowledge is based on rumors and hearsay

I think the real reason most websites are janky as hell to use these days is because web developers have become so specialised that nobody really understands how anything works anymore. The other day I had to explain why hosting critical Javascript libraries on a third-party CDN is a bad idea to a "lead developer" who genuinely didn't know the difference between server-side versus client-side scripting.

Ooooh!

But Denmark have decided to switch tk the American model!

So we have cut funding of public healthcare by 20%. Then we doubled that and gave it to private healthcare!

Now we get to have a slightly worse healthcare system with longer waiting time AND pay more taxes AND not everyone can access healthcare.

AND as a main bonus, Danes now experience private healthcare having as short waiting times as as public USED to have, while the public have long wait times.

So now the Danes are in favor of MORE private healthcare so we can get to the american model!