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New comment by wegwerf17377382 in "AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems"

wegwerf17377382 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:12:22 +0000

So how do you build competence in a world where AI is preached to be the most reasonable way to solve problems because it's supposed to be faster than humans?

New comment by wegwerf17377382 in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

wegwerf17377382 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:05:32 +0000

I'm calling the return of personal websites with link lists.

Not everyone will run them but we will find them and bookmark them.

Not because it's better but because we'll have to.

Try looking for help about pets. The internet is a cesspool of slop, not even trying to hide it. The domain names sound absolutely convincing but it's all stuffed with takeaway lists and checplay generated imagery.

Whenever I find a good page, I will make sure I remember the site.

New comment by wegwerf17377382 in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

wegwerf17377382 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:02:10 +0000

This will of course never be underminded by aggressive marketing

New comment by wegwerf17377382 in "Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account"

wegwerf17377382 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:08:50 +0000

That attitude is exactly what got you into that mess.

There's no reason to believe the mess couldn't get any deeper, so backing out now doesn't have to be useless.

New comment by wegwerf17377382 in "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux"

wegwerf17377382 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:27:38 +0000

I had Edubuntu with XFCE and Chicago95 theme on one of those until I gave it away last year.

It ran Octoprint for me :)

New comment by wegwerf17377382 in "Regressive JPEGs"

wegwerf17377382 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:25:47 +0000

Me too, thanks for reminding me of that

New comment by wegwerf17377382 in "I'm a USB-C Maximalist"

wegwerf17377382 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:57:58 +0000

I've always been a thinkpad fan but their docks were clunky huge uncomfortable things for me.

I had a hp nc2400 that had a very nice little dock where you'd set the laptop on top of two guide poles an then slide the dock connector in from the side. A very compact design.

The thinkpad docks just always used so much space on my desk.