Like A Rash That Never Goes Away

Content 1 work in IT, which is the reason our house has: - mechanical locks - mechanical windows - routers using OpenWRT - no smart home crap - no AlexaGoogle Assistant.. - no internet connected thermostats Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future! Programmers Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.

The Grim Reaper has already claimed Windows 7 and Windows 8, leaving bloody trails behind as it knocks on Windows 10's door. Microsoft's operating system lifecycle in one perfect image! The company's habit of killing off perfectly functional OS versions to force upgrades is like watching Death work through its corporate roadmap. Windows 7 users fought valiantly but ultimately succumbed, Windows 8 barely had time to be hated properly, and now Windows 10 users are nervously eyeing Windows 11 while Death comes knocking. The circle of software life continues—except it's less "circle" and more "forced march toward obsolescence."

Discord literally had to implement a self-destruct feature because it was eating so much RAM that it became a liability. When your app is such a memory hog that you need to add a "restart before I crash the entire system" failsafe, maybe—just maybe—wrapping a website in Chromium wasn't the best architectural decision. The fact that 4GB is the threshold tells you everything. That's more RAM than entire operating systems used to need. But hey, at least Discord is self-aware enough to restart itself. Most Electron apps just sit there, bloated and unrepentant, slowly consuming your system resources like a digital black hole until you manually kill them. Fun fact: Each Electron app bundles its own copy of Chromium. So if you're running Discord, Slack, VS Code, and Spotify simultaneously, congratulations—you're running four separate browsers just to use what could've been native apps or actual websites.

Content -push to remote needs ssh -ssh needs 1password -1password needs windows hello -windows hello needs biometrics authentication so now every time I push to remote I stare at my laptop like

That look of pure disdain when someone suggests taking the easy way out of PC building. It's like telling a chef to just order takeout or asking a developer to use no-code solutions for everything. The sacred ritual of meticulously selecting each component, obsessing over benchmark scores, cable management that would make Marie Kondo weep with joy, and the religious thermal paste application ceremony cannot be replaced by some off-the-shelf solution! The audacity! Next you'll suggest using Windows without customizing the registry.

Ah, Microsoft's "Stay signed in?" dialog. The checkbox claims it'll reduce sign-ins. The "Don't show this again" option suggests it'll disappear forever. Both are pathological liars on par with "I have read and agree to the terms of service." No matter what you click, you'll be re-authenticating again tomorrow because Microsoft authentication has the memory capacity of a goldfish with amnesia. It's the digital equivalent of your coworker asking your name for the fifth time this week.