bluestarultor

Programmer by day; writer, pixel artist, and also programmer by night. Free-time indie dev w/ no free time. I do my own music and voice anyway. Gray ace SINK. 30+. Roman Catholic who understands Jesus was a Communist. Seriously, have you READ the Bible? Personally a socialist because I know pitting corporations against the government will keep them more honest. Neither are Jesus. Fedizen since Aug. '18. All views I state are my own. My tags: #TootFic #BagelAdventure #BluesReviews #RantOfTheMoment #GameDev #BlueStarCreationsUpdates (#nobot #noai)

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2026-01-31 20:39:54 UTC

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When it comes to files, folders, installation, I agree with you. Those are basic operating skills for a PC. The problem is that Millennials are the only generation who got any education in that and kids have iPads for school rather than a computer lab now. It's been that way for like a decade. They are operating on *phones* their whole lives.
We take files and folders for granted. We also take doorknobs for granted, but without knowing what it was, would you think to twist it? That's where they are.
That's not your problem *or* their fault, but what are their options? Who's going to teach them? Going back to cars, if they've done nothing but hop a train their whole life and now they need to drive a car, who's going to do Driver's Ed? Because the schools said, "welp, cars exist now, so all the kids will grow up knowing how to drive them!" And then proceeded to give them all train vouchers.
It doesn't have to be you, but someone has to teach them.

2026-01-31 19:58:03 UTC

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You have a fundamental misunderstanding. Devops is *building.* Nobody is asking the average driver to *build* a car. They are asking them to *drive* it.
But when it breaks and can't be driven, that's *fixing* it.
Building, driving, and fixing are three different things.
If an OS is a car, then people can drive it all day long without knowing anything beyond how to manipulate the steering wheel, pedals, shift, and, ideally, turn signal. Maintenance means filling up the gas and other fluids. Most people don't do more than the gas themselves.
People get trained to use an OS the same way.
You're saying every driver should also be a mechanic.
And no, it's NOT your job to do it for free. But Microsoft does it for pay. And people are willing to pay.
What people are NOT willing to do is go to what looks like a mechanic and be handed a manual and told RTFM.
Someone has to do the work. It doesn't have to be *you,* but it does have to be *someone.*
That's what this thread is about.

2026-01-31 19:35:56 UTC

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I am a child of the DOS era. I was also part of the small window when schools taught computer use. You are talking to the *wrong person* about knowing how to use a computer. :J
[Welcome to 1994](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCLeWx2CV0c ). The average person has *never* understood how their devices worked. Because prior to those things being "simplified away," computers were... *drum roll* limited to enthusiasts, specialists, or designated operators.
Like, by your logic, everyone should know how a car works. We use them every day. But the only one in my family who ever did was my grandpa, who cut his teeth on the *Model A,* and they later passed him by. We have mechanics now.
That's all people are asking for: a mechanic when things are broken. The same way they want a farmer for their food, or a doctor for their sick kid, because all of these things are simply too big for the average person to bear the load of. It's not *stupidity,* it's being *overwhelmed.*
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2026-01-31 18:19:30 UTC

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See, the problem with that and:
> People get upset and frustrated because they have to invest a little time in figuring out how things work differently, and get mad because they don't get the answer in a "follow these simple step" fashioned, served instantly.
...is that Windows has this and the average Linux user drastically over-estimates the computer knowledge of the average user of literally anything else.
If I have an issue, I can Google it and quickly find step-by-step instructions I don't have to understand to execute. I mean I personally will, but the average person thinks turning your monitor off is turning your computer off, like *heck* will they take anything away from it.
You have to understand just how fundamentally, irreparably Microsoft has currently fucked Windows 11 for that kind of person to think Linux might be a better idea. That is "triangular wheels on your car" bad. In comparison, "square wheels and the mechanic screams at you" is better.

2025-08-20 23:23:11 UTC

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The actual answer is they're already seeding quantum hype.
Which is hilarious because unless you engineer a win, quantum can currently reliably do something as complex as...
Factorialize 15.
Whee.
It's ridiculously early for quantum, but it's already making its way into marketing and peppering itself across Google's services.
Thing is, Trump basically gave slop generators 4 years to choose when to pop their own bubble, when the bubble was already effectively popped by China. If you actually read the article, it's a puff piece driving people to silos. The "too big to fail" companies.

2025-07-11 20:08:22 UTC

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Here's a cute idea:
Tell them to type a word in quotes. If they fail to do it, they can't read. If they use *curly* quotes, it's an LLM. Absolutely nobody knows how to type a curly quote, but LLMs love them.

2025-03-27 13:44:25 UTC

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The creator of GIF said it was a soft "G," exactly like the letter is pronounced. People are just religiously wrong about it.

2024-12-10 18:14:38 UTC

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Deer actually prefer the forest edge, because that's where juicy new shoots grow. Roads greatly increase the surface area of what they would normally find in clearings. So roads are actually actively attractive to deer.

2024-12-05 15:39:40 UTC

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The purple tones come from particulates, often smoke. Assuming it's not color shifted, there was probably either a very large fire or else something industrial belching it out upwind.

2024-09-04 13:15:42 UTC

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GiB is what we traditionally know, and every OS on Earth still lists, as GB. It's just been loosed onto the world as a "well, actually" to help justify drive manufacturers giving us base 10 GB on their products. It can, AFAIK, be traced to one guy.
So when you buy a "10 GB" drive, the OS will list it as "9.whatever GB" because no one actually uses "GiB" and no one ever has. But somehow that's the OS's fault.

2024-09-04 12:50:26 UTC

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Everyone else is getting technical, but GiB are basically just an excuse to sell smaller storage sizes for the same price by abusing the average person's lack of knowledge of binary by rounding down to the nearest 1000, which makes exactly none of them happy a soon as they plug it in and see it reporting less than advertised.
It is essentially a made-up construction that goes against 50 years of computing history and current OS practice to lick the boot of corporate America.

2024-08-18 21:54:52 UTC

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I'm going to respectfully disagree. Any logo you can *type* is not a logo. It's not made with a font you own. It's not in any way a core part of your identity. There's nothing transformative. And a black box behind it doesn't fix that. You can define a background color to a span tag easily.
You could argue the same about the Capcom logo, but they at least made strides to throw some outlines around their Jeopardy! font, usually try to make it a bit 3D, etc.
Google owns their logo because there is very specific kerning to it measured in pixels that they custom defined.
*Final Fantasy* always has art behind their serif font. That is essential to the logo.
Mozilla did not have a logo. They just had a workaround for installing a font on your machine.

2024-08-18 21:44:43 UTC

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Let's be real here: how much did they pay for it in a generic serif font and a black rectangle? Because apparently the artist couldn't even afford a Shift key. XD

2023-08-14 15:51:56 UTC

Randomly remembered this was a thing.
The Eye of Judgment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eye_of_Judgment?wprov=sfla1
Basically "what if we combined the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime with the Triple Triad minigame" in game form.
I feel like AR never got a fair shake, really, drowned out by VR along with 3D and motion controls. I think all of them have their own specific applications. It feels too much like VR is treated like a replacement for all 3and it's true that AR+3D+motion could be seen as "poor man's VR," only it's not, because there are reasons you still might want to be in your living room. Things like SimulView can be mixed with 3D scenes. That's even before Second Screen. A lot of flexibility was unrealized.