https://xkcd.com/323/

i bought too many board games

if a woman used this line on me my response would be “wait here a few minutes i need to pop into the nearest jewelry store”

i mean i recently did a contract gig updating a 6 year old legacy codebase in a language I’ve never used

oh also I’ve barely coded anything in my life

you guessed it, i used an LLM (as the contracter requested, but still…) ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

so i keep waffling between “my (then) undiagnosed ADHD would have stunted my CS learning hard enough that I’d barely be any more knowledgeable than I am now anyway” and “despite it being a terrible fucking idea companies are going to try their damnedest to replace all software engineering with vibe coding”

so i end up back at “at least i have a degree in pipetting and can go get a $20/hr job moving small volumes of liquid back and forth until pipetting robots become cheaper than me”

*sigh* why the fuck didn’t I major in CS!?

your paycheck is $5000 because you know COBOL

genuinely (and also ulterior-motive-ly) thank you 🥹🫡

TIL:

1. someone coined a name for my extremely specific kink
2. it’s not even the text editor or IDE i like >:(

you’d think this kink would make my dating life easy but I’m a lesbian and there’s still a giant gender gap in coding
(╯°□°）╯︵┻━┻

NYC has Henrietta Hudson, Cubbyhole, and Ginger’s

technically only Henrietta is an official lesbian bar, but Cubbyhole and Ginger’s crowds are usually ≥80% lesbians and other queer femmes in my experience

i live in the only city in my county with three lesbian bars i have negative excuses lol

well aside from being really broke i guess

🙏

my girlfriend is a (fashion) model: 😀
my girlfriend is a (fashion) model: ☹️ (on top of being constantly stressed out about her livelihood being tied to her physical appearance, now AI image gen threatens her entire industry)

[disclaimer i do not actually have a gf. i’m a mentally ill lemmy nerd fuckin pray for me bros]

holy shit the fucking madlad

yes, with a usb drive containing Linux installation media

oh boy i can’t wait to never hear about this again just like with every other eco-conscious plastic innovation

oh no i understand this one 💀

I had the perfect phone. Sony XZ2 Compact. released in 2018 so not even that old

5" screen. No headphone jack, but I was honestly just glad to have a screen that small. Ran LineageOS like a dream.

Then came the 3G tower shutdown. Now, the XZ2c is capable of 4G LTE calling. Lineage even had the settings option for it unlocked (as opposed to stock). So I call up my carrier and ask them to please enable 4G LTE calling for my phone so that it’ll receive calls again.

Turns out, the major carriers in the US decided not to support 4G LTE calling for the XZ2c. There’s a line of code sitting somewhere that could be flipped to “true” and my perfect phone would work again. But no, fuck me for wanting to resist CONSOOM NOO FONE EVERY SIX MONTH.

Fuck capitalism I’ll never forget what they took from me

bonus: