Yeah, the language here seems to fall outside what you or I think of as a clique. To me it essentially just means a group of people but clearly there has to be some other definition.

That Edge connection could’ve been useful if every app and website weren’t loaded with six trillion tracking scripts and 10MB’ worth of JavaScript frameworks.

It isn’t here either. That’s over the course of ~2 years but I’m not wealthy by any means either. I’m lucky to not rely on it for work, so I can wait and take my time repairing it when needed.

Well the good news is that after I dumped a ton of money into it, it’s running smooth and still looks pretty new. It’s a Typ 8P A3 hatchback which are kind of rare here in the US.

The impression I got from the car history was that owner #2 drove it pretty hard and never maintained it. I’m dreaded owner #3.

Such an original, Reddit-style one liner. 😒

And all the photos look like shit because they’ve been recompressed in JPEG, and all the metadata is just gone.

.order(created_at: :desc)

I don’t have a point, but felt like typing it in Ruby. Maybe someone else will have something snarky to say.

I don’t know why but this makes me picture some dusty old-school newsroom with that one guy in all the TV shows smoking a cigar acting kind of like an asshole, and he looks up from the rough draft and while pointing at it with the cigar half-yells “have ChatGPT take a crack at it, maybe it’ll spice things up!”

I bought a 10 year Audi for $5,000 (USD) but then spent something like $10-15,000 in repairs because I’m an idiot.

But you can do all that without selling out your users to third parties.

As a web developer that blocks all this shit, that’s the line I always use. I would just use first-party analytics from the same domain the website is hosted from. The added bonus is that people like me wouldn’t even be able to block it without blocking the entire website (at least with DNS).

This is why I’m such a cunt about blocking this stuff at the DNS and/or IP level. Google Analytics is essentially everywhere including IRS web pages with your Social Security number in the DOM.

Nothing against petulant, self-serving assholes though (I’ve been listening to too much Meidas lately).

You don’t fucking know me bro. I’m not privileged in the least, the most I’ve borrowed from my parents is $20 and I worked for minimum wage all throughout my 20s.

Just because I’m not a deadbeat loser doesn’t mean I’m privileged.

It’s crazy because I’m liberal as fuck, totally understand how cursed housing is but I still can’t take this as sarcasm.

I’m fully living on my own despite a horrible public school system, no college education, etc. Hell, I moved to Los Angeles with nothing but a backpack and $800 and no high paying job experience.

At some point you have to figure out your life and move on; sitting around and blaming everyone else for your problems won’t get you anything.

You’re downvoted to hell but I mean, it’s true. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Oh right, I suppose that’s right.

I was honestly shocked it wasn’t “grilled.” That’s the one that sounds so incredibly stupid to me.

Your misspelling makes this better somehow, love it.

For that price I might as well get a used desktop or another mini PC.