Avatars aren’t info. They just clutter the screen. They very, very rarely are interesting. At worst, they show something inappropriate. They require moderation. They don’t match any aesthetic of the site.

I literally didn’t know they were supported and never see them anyway.

I have a 4k monitor, and some sites I still have to zoom out. I’ve gone through and set all my settings to small text, no UI scaling. But shit is fucking huge.

I think part of it is tablets and phones. Big areas for people’s fingers to touch.

I firmly want the computer to do what I tell it to do. Not assume what I want.

The standard was if you wanted to do something with the text, you’d right click. Don’t arbitrarily change the UX in a non-standard way.

It’s kind of screwed to say. But a lot of people entering the work force grew up with phones and tablets as their main computer. It’s the mind set they have that everything uses touch interfaces.

I’m not saying everyone or even most, but for a good portion it’s their default computer experience.

End user management.

Essentially, accounts and passwords are not my problem.

Setting up a server? Pretty darn easy.

Teaching all your friends and relatives to figure out what app to use and login with your dyndns random entry or IP address. Or even more difficult, using VPN.

It’s not the hosting that’s hard. It’s the watching for non-tech people.

I personally think a lot of it starts with search.

A search engine that discards the SEO generated stuff by default. That discards web stores unless you are specifically looking for products to buy.

It’s terrible to say, but most internet is curated now by search engines and social media.

Then realize most internet content does not require engagement. We don’t need comment sections on everything. We don’t need a button to share (because you can always just copy the URL)

Then social media needs massive regulation, but for most people that’s going to be like getting someone off crack. They’ve made it addictive. Social media should be private by default but that almost defeats the purpose.

I still use one whenever I drive my father’s car. It’s Bluetooth connected now, which does mean I have to charge it, but since phones removed the headphone jacks… /Shrug

Algebra came easy to me. I came to realize even in elementary school we were doing algebra even if they didn’t use that name. Simple arithmetic like 2 + 5 = ? Is algebra if you think of the ? As X.

Then it’s 2 + ? = 7.

After that, at least to me, it’s order of operations and just moving things around.

That’s the “new math”? That’s just how I always have done it. I’ve kicked ass at math because things were a logical progression and order of operations. I could always transform something down to simpler to calculate pieces.

It’s put me at odds with some managers, until I got high enough where it became a target and I could determine the path to get there.

I hated managers who wouldn’t tell me the why, because I’d inevitably hit something that doesn’t line up with my training and I’d have to apply the why’s to determine what to do.

I weirdly love reading code and figuring out what it’s doing. Debugging is cathartic.

It might take a while and I might be cussing up a storm saying, wtf is this shit? Why the fuck would you do it this way? Why the fuck did you make this convoluted for no reason?

Right now it’s unfucking some vibe coded bs where instead of just fixing an API to get the info we needed accurately, it’s trying to infer it from other data. Like, there is a super direct and simple route, but instead there are hundreds of lines to work around hitting the wrong endpoint and getting data missing the details we need.

Plus letting the vibe add so much that is literally never used, was never needed, and on top of that returns incorrect information.

ADHD, my hobby is collecting hobbies.

I grew being told I was smart. And to be fair, I am. I always grasped things quick and got through school without much effort.

But what it really ended up being was undiagnosed ADHD.

But when I had to really focus and stick with something for an extended period of time I always struggled. Especially when I lost the structure of being forced to go to school every day.

Im 35 this year and I never expected to be able to hold down a relationship, I had flings but nothing stuck. It wasn’t until other things in life going that I rekindled a missed connection from years past. It was only 2 years ago and now she and her daughter live with me.

As for hobbies, I really wish there was a better way to do it than owning all my own stuff. Communal woodshops and auto shops that were more easily accessible. Then hacker spaces for the more niche things. But I know that’s a resource that’s more accessible around cities.

In half of them it’s just “seek direction from my supervisor” or “follow company policy or procedure.”

Basically it’s never “think for yourself” for anything below manager.

Yea. Looks like they created a S trap. It’s just gonna siphon and then let gasses back into the washed clothes.

Best PE teacher I had actually made it a class where we had to learn the rules of the games and were given tests on them. Then we spent a couple weeks playing the games and she had the kids acting as referees enforcing the rules we learned. We played basketball, baseball, football, bowling. She taught us different dances like line dancing and square dancing. When it was winter and there was enough snow. We even learned cross country skiing.

Then I moved to a different school and my PE curriculum became "run a mile.’ I have exercised induced asthma. Running was a literal hell for me.

A virus that replaces the normal space with a random one of similar space characters that all look normal to the end user but would fuck up programming.

One that replaces tab with 4 spaces.

I’d work on cars. And my house. It feels like I’m fighting entropy, I fix one thing and find 2 more problems in the process. But I know some of that is just the previous home owner doing a bunch of diy.

Learn to wood work and build furniture. I have a deep, deep loathing for flat pack furniture.

Garden. I’d love to have a proper garden.

Honestly. I’d just like to be rid of my anxiety over finances.

I believe that blue states should activate and build their state guards.