This is Alvin, a small sub that is 60 years old, been to the Titanic wreckage many, many times. Still in active service.

This is the difference between the real engineering and the kind of "engineering" done by so-called "disruptors" that say "move fast and break things".

You're not an engineer — you're a douche that appropriates the engineering culture. You didn't make an "OS for productivity", you made a worse version of Lotus 1-2-3 from 1983. You didn't "reverse-engineer" anything — you copied and pasted funny letters and symbols put together by a language model that is as clueless as you are.

Do not cite the deep magic to me, bitch. I was there when it was written.

JS, the language that can never change because websites from 20 years ago have to work somehow, has a historic quirk: JS bad
Linux, the OS that has like 2 million distros you can use, all vastly different in their design, all unconstrained by compatibility problems, has a historic quirk: skill issue

linux rant number 23094823094

Linux is a marvel of modern engineering. Well, at least in a sense that it somehow manages to work despite its design.

Basic commands like ls, grep, rm, cp (think busybox) do work predictably. Given that some of them are older than you and me combined (grep is 51 years old), it would've been weird if they didn't.

Yet, when comes the time to configure linux itself, there is no right way to do it — there are 5 or 6 wrong ones.
The wrong way number 1 to configure linux is to use predictable commands and their combinations. You know, cat + grep some config files, then awk to change them… If you do it, you will instantly break your system to the point that you'll have to back up your data, reinstall everything and put your data back.

All the other wrong ways are wrong because each of them will break your system in their own unique way. All of them kinda-sorta do what you want, at the expense of messing up some other things that have nothing to do with what you were trying to fix. The worst way to use them is combining one wrong way with some other one, like configuring xorg directly and then using ubuntu-specific userland config tools. This will instantly break your system too.

You'll have to google/chatgpt your way through historic quirks that are somehow still there in 2025. Remember: the worse the shell command looks, the more likely it is that it's the right way (or at least the least wrong way) to do things in linux.

Some minimal distros like alpine is a notable exception, in a way that they're more predictable, but they will become useless the moment you try to get some actual work done. I've used alpine as my desktop os for quite a while. I know what I'm talking about.

If you want so much as to install a browser, you'll have to use flatpak. But flatpak will only bail you out so many times. Your colleagues, and people that write tools that your colleagues use, are using macos, windows or ubuntu. You'll have to use whatever they're using, and if it uses glibc/is not in flatpak, well, tough cookies.

sudo apt install fuse breaks ubuntu instantly — it won't boot into graphical desktop anymore until you reinstall everything, including systemd, and do initramfs. Why does it do that in 2025? who knows.

Female assets and their hornification value:
- tits: 10 points
- butt: 20 points
- face: 25 points
- brain: 200 points
- dick: 9999 points

A woman without a dick is like an angel without wings.

If you use Ubuntu, if you go into the terminal right now and enter “sudo apt install fuse”, it will delete Nautilus. Don’t be fooled though: in fact, it will delete a lot more than that, and if you reboot, you ain’t gonna see any graphical environment at all.

Tried Cursor. It's "Agent" thing have given me the whole new appreciation for my existing codebase. For how every line of code and every micro-decision I make is deliberate. Though it did it in the worst way possible — by "optimizing" my code that I didn't request to be optimized.

I feel like I delegated a surgeon's work to a lawnmower roomba. Yes, both of them do cut stuff, but are they interchangeable?

Cursor's autocomplete is stellar though. Because of how consistent my code is, it almost never fails. It baffles me that the codebase that is consistent enough for the AI autocomplete to never fail somehow causes the same AI, but acting as an agent instead, to completely shit the bed.

My code is consistent because I copy and paste a lot. But, because of how expressive it is (thanks to my zero-framework approach), I only ever need to copy and paste ten lines or so max to do what I need. When I say that I "copy and paste code", what comes to mind? I bet it's acres of boilerplate. Not here.

I'm now applying Orwellian newspeak rules to my naming. For a distinct entity, I create the shortest possible name and try to carry it everywhere I go. Yes, short names will run out, but naming entities differently to avoid conflicts is the job for future me. Premature optimization is the root of all evil, and thinking about variable names in advance is premature optimization too.

For example, if the user entity in the database has lastName field, its variable in imperative code will be the same, and the form input name will be lastName too. Why use "userLastName" and "lastNameInput" or "lastNameField", or even "userLastNameField"? YAGNI.

I'm inching closer and closer to a universal gray goo architecture that can absorb anything. Wait till I replace what I copy and paste with brand new keywords and create a new language. I've already started doing that with the way I write util functions.

Here's a task for you: design a bearing that can operate deep in saltwater/on the ocean floor under heavy load with little to no maintenance for a very long time. Durability is more important than precision.

I have the correct answer in the first comment. Compare your design to the established one and see if it's any different! Share your design in comments!

In 2027, Trump will amend the constitution to allow himself to be re-elected again in 2028.

In 2031, sex offender registry will be shut down. Every pedophile will be pardoned. Trump administration will establish "Pedo Pride WorldWide" event, which will have overwhelming success. Then, Trump will introduce the Pedo Medal of Honor that will look just like the regular Medal of Honor, with brown band instead of blue, with the outline of the Epstein island instead of stars, and the golden profile of Donald Trump instead of the medal. After one year of daily awarding, the US of A will run out of gold.

Then, Victor Orban and Olaf Scholz will migrate to the US of A using the new Pedo Green Card, talking all their friends with them.

Then, trump will re-elect himself (sic) again and lower the age of consent to twelve for girls and ten for boys.

Today, my wife switched from an Android smartphone to a Nokia 5228 she took from my phone collection. It runs Symbian, so it's as good as a dumb phone now. Yesterday she told me that her phone and the magnetizing power of infinitely scrollable feeds were sucking the life out of her. Let's see how it goes.

Kiki’s workplace

Hitchhiking as a man: Ori and the wild forest
Hitchhiking as a woman: Silent Hill
Hitchhiking as a trans person: Dark Souls

I didn’t know my dad was alive, let alone writing the rules of dating me!

There was one more plane in WTC attacks that struck a skyscraper in Newark. It didn't collapse all the way, but instead collapsed halfway while tilting sideways. It stood like this with power still on when Kim Dotcom bought it. He named it The Darthmaker. Because it was winter, he made it an extreme snowboarding course.

Many people perished there, losing their balance and falling into the rebar pit. Also, still working Commodore terminals were littered around, with their tape data storage cabinets transformed into washing machines that washed corpses.

Experiencing The Darthmaker made most of its visitors insane. This is why in 2006 it was leveled for good. A dilapidated yellow Commodore chiclet keyboard from one of the terminals is still on display in the museum in the United Paper Island.

Dotty, I’m sorry. Will never say a single bad thing to you.

roguelike counter strike

counter strike but with v.a.t.s. system from fallout

mandatory cashier competitions organized by walmart where cashiers can win unpaid time off

Here’s why I pirate music:
1. 90% of my playlist is made by dead people. I’ll never pay for anything whose creator is dead.
2. 9% of the music I listen to is very obscure — it’s not on streaming services. There is no way to contact creators, let alone pay them.
3. The remaining 1% I bought directly from creators on Bandcamp or elsewhere.

Also, when I used Apple Music, at all times many of the songs in my library were unavailable in my region. Songs pop in and out of this state based on some ongoing, never ending legal BS perpetrated by those who had no hand in creating the music itself. Miss me with that shit. I want my entire library available to me at all times.

Right now my brain tries to devour both 80s and 90s pop culture, digest them and turn them into succinct and potent… pods? Capsules with info?

The problem is that those two cultures are incompatible in my head, yet both mean a lot to me. I’m a big aesthetics geek.

It feels like when Alec Steele tried to forge tungsten. It doesn’t work. But I lost control over my thoughts, so I’m kinda bad-tripping/daydreaming without drugs as my brain drags my mind through this tunnel where words have no meaning and walls are made of broken glass and spent syringe needles.

Let it end, but also make it never end, as I’ll lose myself should I be robbed of those weird experiences. Sometimes you want your food spicy, your transmission manual, your bike fixed gear, and your sex bdsm. Just don’t strangle or drown me while playing with me, my dear brain. We need each other to survive.

Eschew clever rules.

Sex trafficking and racketeering charges DROPPED against diddy. now dig up my post that said that trump will pardon him. TOLD you.

On Instagram,~160k units of CP (pics and short videos) are shared in DMs every hour.

Plot twist: @dfox disabled comments to let us catch a break from @jestdotty’s ramblings under every single post.

we dead. save your rants while you still can.
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Welcome to devRant! Here we have:
- a manic 1.5m gremlin with bot army
- a demented antivaxxer sloth that shill for people who are worse than pedophiles
- an Indian thirsty boy with a grudge against international shipping restrictions
- an armed trans girl
- an unarmed trans girl
- a person who's too German to function according to the gremlin
- a man whose ass is a weapon of mass destruction

Erectile dystopia.

Damn girl, you’re hotter than a Nike sweatshop!

When you hear “ends justify the means”, know that in the circumstances this is usually said, ends never justify the means. For the entity that asks for terrible means and promises utopian ends is a trickster that will betray you, or twist the definition of ends like a genie.
An altruistic actor that is powerful enough to provide good ends will never ask for dirty means.

See this woman? She can take a 40 kg backpack and march 20 km with it in under three hours. Also, 49 push-ups in 2 minutes, and a lot of tests during water, swamp and desert phase of the US ranger qualification. 62 days, 3.5 hours of sleep a day, 2200 calories a day.

She was one of the first two woman to ever become a US ranger. Since opening the course for women in 2015, higher-ups made it abundantly clear that they won't change any rules because of it.

She's a cisgender AFAB woman. She'll kick your butt.

can't make a good handle for your razor? take just the razor part and call it "kamisori".
can't make a good knife blade lock mechanism? make a metal tab that people are supposed to hold with their thumb at all times and call it "higonokami".
can't make nails or screws? join pieces of wood with splinters and call it "ishitani".
can't make glue? fold paper so it just about holds its shape and call it "origami".
do you only have literal mud at your disposal? make a ball out of it and call it "dorodango".

remember kids, when a subpar thing is called a western name, it's frowned upon. but if the subpar thing is from japan, weebs will drool over it and buy it. simple as that.