ENOTIME
right now, have to tend to my PC. Seems its
OS is having a laugh at me again, broke or retarded
after a self-inflicted or imposed update. Luckily its built-in
AI-enhanced featurements probably made
unsolicited backups of all my personal computings in 🙌 the clouds.
Kidding! 🥁 My OS never laughed at me, never had an urge to force an update upon me, never
mind to mind my business, and has never broken itself by an update, save
the literal one time, way back then, probably well before 2010, when something was
off in, of all the places, /usr/sbin, or something, on
Debian
sid. Mist of time.
Nowadays I use Arch, btw.
After some initial "distro-hopping" in the early '00s, Debian had served me well for well
over a decade, and likely would have continued to do so, had not
systemd caused such a rift.
A new PC's install at the time (2014? it may have been)
had to be the more pragmatic less-principled Arch, which has stuck, especially since the
hop, skip and jump
archinstall came to
be.
Oh Linux though. In earnest, ever since I first beheld my entire PC being
apt-get upgraded.. A truly baffling turning point! However had I been content
with fishing for loose .exe's on Windows, or fingers-crossed nose-held
GB-downloading point-upgrading black box Macs. No longer a
hapless luser, I had before me the highly versatile tool a PC can be, devoted to
being the best best it could be.
This embarras becomes a veritable horrible kerfuffle. Already just..
..for a vexing, pertinent case in point. Not like the LLMs helped curb the misery. Au contraire, quoi!
Mayhaps this page had better taken off as IT., or computers.
or PCs.html.. But then what with the internet..
How to convey the way all those things have totally, extremely transformed us
and our daily lives, as well as they have brought us Linux, say, and f* Facebook,
Whatsapp, Instagram, and shabby AI?
But what had me come type this wistful, "grumpy old man"-vibed, and, though of course by no means new or unique, fairly profound thunk? 🤔 Foggy mind must have had a.. ah! I just was about to open me a fancy beverage, and noticed anno 202x, tucked away in some corner of its label, it has a QR code suggesting me to “scan for serving suggestions”.
Were I to have to explain these facts and my actions and deeds.. not even to a medieval knight (280 CO₂ ppm) or Goethe (284), just my humble 20-year old self (368) with his not as fancy beverage would do. Do what? Why, make for quite an interesting, long conversation. :l
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