I’ve been told by my peers throughout my life that I was a bad person. I can’t say I disagree. I sometimes do nice or selfless acts but in the end I do things that hurt people around me and I prioritize my needs above others. Sometimes i don’t even think about other peoples needs.

I constantly need to remind myself that other people are real people just like me and must have their own emotions and their own motivations. That doesn’t come naturally to me. Was raised by a successful narcissist so I ended up seeing and viewing the world like he did.

Came to terms that I’ll never actually be a good person but I can be a little less evil than he was. I’ll never kill people or rob disabled people like he did though. Even if it is easy.

I’ve factory reset every Google home of mine multiple times over the years. Never had any effect.

Google Home. Bought them for $40 CAD and back then they were great. Responsive, did quick google searches, played my music all over the house.

Over the years they’ve lost functionality. Mine no longer accurately respond to voice queries and no longer complete google searches. I can still play music on them manually from my phone but when I ask it something, it responds back in French or does something completely different than what I had originally asked.

Worst part is that I ask it something, it does something different, and then when I say “hey Google stop” it just keeps going and going. Have to manually pull the plug for it to stop.

Excellent.

Impressive

Dude genuinely thinks he needs to spread his DNA round because he believes he’s a divine being.

I drive a 2018 Prius. I’m convinced it’s the only Prius in my very rural corner of Canada. I don’t like driving it on highways cause I get subjected to road rage by all the pickup trucks. People pass me on double solid lines even when I’m 20km/h over the speed limit just because of the type of car it is.

Considering this reaction happens almost every time, I conclude my car is very rare.

This is basically a modified Surron. Instead of a 60v system this ones 72v. Bigger battery by a little bit, motor may as well be the same as the Surron stock motor can pull 15kW max and this does 13.

To someone from my culture and to me when I was there, I hated it. It felt the absolute opposite of friendly. It felt predatory. I didn’t feel safe, I felt uncomfortable, I felt I was a freak and an oddity and it made me embarrassed to go anywhere. And this was with Indian-American guides who were familiar with which places to go to and which to avoid for tourists.

I say this to you with no disrespect to you as a person. I’m just trying to state things without sugarcoating them. I appreciate you explaining the cultural perception.

It was the loudest and smelliest country I’ve ever been to.

I’ve never seen a country where the cross-country sleeper train bathrooms had literal holes on the floor to shit and piss out of. You saw the tracks wizz below you from the toilets. No plumbing, just excrete onto the tracks.

Chennai train station had the strongest most overwhelming diarrhea smell I ever experienced in my entire life.

Dudes were creepy as hell. They see you’re white and then you’re swarmed everywhere you go. People trying to scam, trying to appoint themselves as your tour guide and won’t stop following you and trying to guide you to “the mall”. Calling you Harry Potter because you wear glasses. I couldn’t imagine what would happen if I was a woman there. I shudder to think.

Crossing the street means walking into oncoming traffic and hoping and trusting everyone to just drive around you. Absolute fucking chaos. The people are not warm or friendly. They stare and get too close and touch you all the time. I kept having people touch my shoulders and try and touch my face when I was in public or queuing.

I never ever want to return to India ever again. I don’t recommend any of my friends go there. There were very few positives about that trip other than it being an eye opening experience as to how over 1 billion humans on the planet live.

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This is unfortunate. More replacements will pop up though no matter what though so all is not lost :)

I was written up due to having tasteful stripes on my otherwise business casual shoes. Two stripes. I’m a non client facing computer monkey. Everything in the office is a weird game of house that everyone has just forgotten that they’re playing.

Locked apps! All the porn, and all the incriminating evidence of my affair. Thank u Tim Apple! Very cool.

I’ve got an AMD Framework 13. I love it. I don’t like how most linux distros don’t upscale well to its hidpi screen but as long as you stick with x11 everything is clear and sharp. I don’t like how the usb c modules are so flush that it’s impossible for me to pull them out. Not that I have any need for it but maybe one day…

If you work in an office job you will find that it’s all a scam. You must work very slow. Otherwise, you get rewarded with MORE WORK.

This is excellent. But I want some real innovation. Forget buttonless, I want screenless! I want no screen at all. I just want it to play random notes at different intervals to relay me information. Now that’s innovation.

That’s absolutely fucking bonkers. I’m hoping that this didn’t cause you any lasting consequences at work.

Nielsen and Norman group know what’s up. I learned this at my first office job. Everyone thought I was a wizard hacker when I showed them inspect element. I got in trouble with my director who flagged IT Security when I showed my team lead an inspect element on some intranet page. I had changed a title to something else as a proposal and they had thought I had hacked their intranet and changed it myself. Triggered a whole security incident.

I thought everyone with a computer knew about this. I was wrong.

My sex toy lives in Canada!