@mos_8502 real (I live for the computer)

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"I see that the device claims to have three levels of play: Easy, Medium, and Hard," said the Master. "Yet every such device has another level of play, where the device seeks not to conquer the human, nor to be conquered by the human."

"Pray, Great Master," implored the novice, "how does one find this mysterious setting?"

The Master dropped the device to the ground and crushed it with his heel. Suddenly the novice was enlightened.

@mos_8502 it hits different when you know _why_ computers are terrible.

@mos_8502 Nobody hates computers as much as they hate printers

@mos_8502 I'm in this text and I (don't) like it. 😅

@mos_8502 familiarity breeds contempt…

@mos_8502 Same for cars.

@mos_8502 I don’t hate the computer, I hate that I don’t get it yet. Until I do.

@mos_8502 Everything humanity touches eventually fails. The law of universal cleanliness. ;)

@mos_8502 if you don't hate computers do you truly understand them?

@mos_8502 on the other hand, nobody hates printers as much as someone who loves computers.

Maybe the it's the same nobody.

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@mos_8502 Absolutely!

@mos_8502 Our IT guy was the only one who didn't laugh when I said my work desktop might accidentally fall out of a window one day.

He's the only one who knows I'm not joking.

@mos_8502 he hates and loves the computer, as he hates and loves himself. He will never be rid of his need for it.

@mos_8502 Word!

@mos_8502@studio8502.ca so true

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I don't hate computers, but many programmers.

@mos_8502 @marioguzman Nobody hates Mac OS design as much as someone who loves Mac OS design.

@mos_8502 If you love your printer, you know nothing about computers. If you hate your printer, you know a little about computers. If you fear your printer, you work in tech.

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I'm 25+ years into a very diverse IT career. If there's one thing I've figured out, it's that, like the organizations that use them, all IT technologies are broken in one way or another. It's best to look at computing tech as any other tool you might pull out of a toolbox and try to find the one that works best for your situation: there's no point in computing religion.

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But what if you are a self-hating a Computer?

@mos_8502@studio8502.ca our relationship with lovecraftian bytes of horror is... complicated

@mos_8502 Segmentation fault

@mos_8502 "We have no choice but to live among these alien powers which we create, and to try to direct them to human ends. [...] What we can do is try to find the specific ways in which these powers we have conjured up are hurting us, and use them to check each other, or deflect them into better paths." Cosma Shalizi wrote that about markets, but computers fit.

@mos_8502 much of my hatred is fueled by MS.

It didn't have to be like this, but Capitalism had other ideas. ;o)