jcarax

@jcarax@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be because DSM-V was released in 2013.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk is trying to silence Microsoft employees who criticize Charlie Kirk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve come to think of myself as trying to be outside of the social constructs that America is currently shedding.

  I see society as layered. A social fabric that we weave by acting our beliefs within our communities, which layers atop nature. Upon that we build a structure of law, order, and an artificial economy that we see as beneficial in maintaining a healthy society. It’s important that these three layers closely conform to each other, and that the structures at the top remain minimalistic and efficient in their alignment to the fabric itself, which is more organic.

  But the structure has become unwieldly, and is being used against us. It confines us. It enslaves us. The vast majority of people are acting out against this, and their actions are colored by their upbringings and beliefs combined with propaganda. Our diversity is being amplified through anger at our situation, the hate of the propaganda, and the greed that has become systemic.

  Then there are the people who seek to rule us. To some degree they recognize that they can manipulate a failing system to take absolute control. They’ve figured out that they can control us by our anger, and turn it into hate and greed.

  Right, left… it doesn’t matter. The whole system is coming down. There’s a lot more to that, but as it stands… there’s a reason a lot of us feel driven to go live on a mountain top or the depths of the forest. It’s a withdrawal from an unjust system. But we still need the social fabric, it’s our substrate that makes us who we are. We need to embrace our communities, locally, and focus on making the lives we want everyone to be able to have as we eventually pull through this period of authoritarian fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now if only I could get a meaningful reply to a bug preventing complete account deletion, either on github or from support. It seems they modeled their support structure on Google’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lenovo is removing the iconic Trackpoint with its new ThinkPad X9⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using Thinkpads since the X61s, and used the trackpoint extensively back in the day. Hell, I had the X61s that didn’t even have a trackpoint, and I rarely used a mouse with it.

  But I really don’t understand how anyone still uses the thing extensively. Once in awhile I’ll use it for some bit of specific precision work when I don’t have a mouse handy. I feel like the Trackpoint quality has gone down significantly over the years, and stuff like anti-drift seems to have been neglected.

  If not for the horrible arrow keys that I already hate on my Macbook Air, I was all for this transition. I’d much rather have a great trackpad at this point. I want something more compact than a Framework, and I’m comfortable with Lenovo’s Linux support at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wish I had a choice, at work. Technically I can run Linux or MacOS, but I’d need to run a Windows VM for a few things anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Half-Life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  TLoU scratched a lot of the same itches, for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play a game. How would you reboot The Jetsons if you were tasked with doing so.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the difference is, Star Trek has always been very detached from our own lives. It’s not placing the average day in modern times into a futuristic setting, like The Jetsons is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play a game. How would you reboot The Jetsons if you were tasked with doing so.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right. I don’t think it can be successfully made, today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play a game. How would you reboot The Jetsons if you were tasked with doing so.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like I’d be compelled to go fairly dark with it. When The Jetsons was made, it was largely a period of optimism and prosperity in the US. That is most certainly no longer the case, with the middle class pretty much having evaporated, and so many people struggling to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table.

  I think I’d probably focus on the company store construct, that has become the foundation of capitalist society. Where everything you earn is due to the good will of those you’re obligated to give it back to. In a world with all sorts of wonderful technology, for most, it exists solely to make your toils for the sake of others more efficient.

  I don’t see how the optimism of The Jetsons can exist today, at least not without mocking the hell out of it.