I remember in ~2000 someone was in the parking lot of my office at a picnic table on their laptop and people commented how “cool” that was.

I’ve noticed since then that IT people qualify anything that drives work into personal spaces as “cool”.

2012: Wow, you can hot spot to your blackberry and connect your laptop to the Internet from the ferry, when you used to just let the wind ruffle your hair during your commute? “Cool.”

2026: Wow AI can write 78% of your code so you can produce twice as much shitty code while you spend even more time at your desk then you used to, for less money? “Cool.”

That might be useful.

It’s more like, you buy a pair of boots online.

FB and Chrome for the next week and a half BOOTS!! BOOTS HERE!!

What are the odds that a Viking raider wore this ring ironically?

Those mosquitoes just wanted to live another hour to taste that sweet 'globin

The not too distant future:

“Facial recognition confirms this person posts opinions that are partially out of line with source code directives. Approve drone strike?”

Sealing wax, wow sick burn…

That was a monkey fighting disgrace

Yes

Interpretation of reality is individual

Reality itself is relative

But if it didn’t exist we wouldn’t be chatting about it right now

That’s my reality anyway

What’s yours?

I started on Reddit in 2012, realized quickly that I was getting too invested in karma, so decided to never have an account for more than one calendar year.

That worked very well, but by the end I was still spending an inordinate amount of time dicking around. I spend maybe an hour a week on sync for Lemmy. perfect!

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