CarbonatedPastaSauce

The only people who would say this are people that don’t know programming.

LLMs are not going to replace software devs.

"They put more spyware in your OS but it's not turned on yet, stop complaining."

You know there are still a lot of people in North America alone that don't have good enough internet to stream movies, right?

Are they just supposed to sit and stare at the wall? Railing about DVD trash in a landfill seems... pointless, compared to all the other ways we're poisoning the planet. Weird battle to fight and especially cast stones at someone else for.

….he smugly typed on his slave labor made iPhone.

I think you got a couple downvotes because you took the quote far too literally. The person who said it did not believe in magic and was not trying to compare a nonexistent supernatural force to hyper advanced technology. If you look up the quote I'm sure you'll find some essays about what Arthur was getting at.

For a very simple example, suppose an alien showed up and had antigravity tech built into their clothing or even as a cybernetic implant, that let them hover around in the air with no discernible means of propulsion. The average modern human would probably look at that and think "fuckin magic..." because you literally can't understand or recognize what is going on or how it works.

Or another example using 'time travel' instead of aliens. Imagine putting a medieval peasant in the back seat of a fighter jet taking off from an aircraft carrier, or in a VR helmet to experience a virtual trip around the galaxy, zooming around planets and stars. In both cases there are unfathomable things right in front of their eyes everywhere they look. They would have no fucking clue what was going on in either case. To you and me those are normal, understandable things. To the medieval peasant, it's magic.

Never. It’s a malware vector.

Same way I do at work. Different accounts and passwords for each service internally. Any service exposed to the net (game and email servers mostly) is on a segregated network and each machine has unique credentials to help prevent lateral movement. Self hosted Bitwarden tracks it all.

I do it for the same reason I require outbound firewall rules for almost everything on my home network - I’m a masochist.

You shut your mouth! That song is hilarious!

That's my favorite band, too, and I'm having trouble coming up with anything else to put here, though. I would put The Crunge below Hot Dog. But I still like that song, too. :D

Interesting. I knew how coal was formed but also thought a lot of our oil came from Carboniferous forests. After reading your comment I had to go read a few papers and articles! Apparently the consensus these days is that most of our oil came from microscopic aquatic life (diatoms, plankton, algae) that died and was buried in de-oxygenated water. The sheer amount of them that had to live and die to create these vast reservoirs of oil is mind blowing.

made from dinosaurs

False, it's from trees that grew, died, and fell down into piles and got buried, for millions upon millions of years, before anything on the planet evolved to eat their corpses.

edit: Seems I was working off outdated knowledge. Apparently scientists currently believe that almost all of our oil came from microscopic aquatic life such as algae and plankton. It still ain't dinosaur juice though!

You'll never own a home or save enough for retirement. The entire planet is under incredible stress and we're literally making it uninhabitable for ourselves. Your tax dollars often go towards killing innocent people in other countries. You may have left the oven on.

If that didn't do it, I'm out of ideas.

This is it, although I just put the water in my mouth and bend over then swallow. Swallowing water while upside down = 100% cure.