“…y’know what? Let’s just say I’m homeless!”

Kinda’ looks like how a psychotic break feels:-?

Jeesus, I would have immediately exited the call/room/building without saying a thing.

Well, that would be nice, but it’s still not all of them. Unfortunately, I own a Zenfone 10 as my main driver, and Asus have not released the unlock tools they promised since Zenfone 9. And, afaik, this is applicable to a lot of the top producers, with a few exceptions.

I can’t wait for the new regulations to properly settle in, hopefully we’ll start seeing full unlocks with the upcoming generations…

Jesus, yeah, I have a lot of friends in that position… I was lucky enough to be able to quit before things became outright quicksand and am looking into completely different professions at this point. I don’t want to touch a computer for anything other than fucking about in my free time. Maybe some data entry, but that’s it. At least the diversity somewhat negates the impact of just how dire things are, I guess.

I honestly don’t know how we’ll get ourselves out of this one if things keep going the way they have.

Dammit, I really need to rewatch that one, I think my brain always misses the point because, again, fast cars go vroom…

Need to rewatch the third as well, now that you mentioned it.

Ooh, well, thank you kindly for clarifying the first one, at least! I was always under the impression that, although oil (or lack thereof) caused that apocalypse, the nutsos were just driving around on diesel all day long, and it kinda’ didn’t make much sense to me:)) But, hey, fast cars go boom, brain happy!

It’s like we’ve taken it upon ourselves to turn reality into THE stupidest version of any dystopia ever imagined by a human brain…

You want Terminator? Sure, but Skynet will be crap and people will die en masse due to infrastructure fuck-ups.

You want 40k? Sure, but the Men of Iron will be LLMs. Good luck figuring out those STCs once you develop beyond bonking pieces of wood together. Again.

You want 1984? Ok, but Big Brother is a Blackbox algorithm which has no idea what a human being is and just corrupts your feeds until it’s nothing but inaccuracies and YouTube Poop and is selling your actual waist size and toilet paper preferences to random online advertisers.

You want Waterworld? Well, here! Have all the water you need! Good luck with your ocean based society once your flesh will start slow-roasting in about 30-40 years of living like this!

You want Mad Max? Well, better make it happen fast, because there won’t be enough oil for it! Maybe solarpunk? Also, we’re doing Waterworld first, let’s see how you make it through that.

There are more, I’m sure, but I’m pissed off now.

At this point, bricking a smartphone by flashing dodgy ROMs is a rite of passage.

Edit: at least it was before everyone started bootlocking like assholes…

Very true…

I would pay for this.

Especially when you don’t have any form of weekend support. But, hey! Bad news can’t reach you if the Support page’s just a placeholder!

Noooo, I could’ve used this during my Last Week of Fun! Our boss REALLY loved inane, smart-sounding quotes, I wonder if he would have figured this one out.

“Y’know, I’ve been thinking… The app is missing a couple of things, like This, and That, and it should also do This after That, but not That after This, and maybe even navigate to The Other Thing after 3 Launch events, while also not doing that if the user is under a Pisces moon in the 4th Year of Wilting…”

“So… you want a Rate the App pop-up with specific trigger conditions?”

“What?! No! I want one of those prompts with the stars and the redirect to the Store which lets people post reviews of the app, what are you even talking about?!”

AI Junior Dev: short-circuits

Which snap apart the instant you try to carry more than a laptop and some chocolate wrappers with’em…

Oh, I didn’t mean the content, I meant the purpose of it. In my experience, it wasn’t just about testing the interviewees, it implies having to ‘sell’ the company as well, to give the interviewees reasons to want to be hired. That’s the bit which generated the guilt.

Having to hold interviews was the worst part of the job, by far… Brings about a certain kind of guilt, to sit there and try to sell battery acid as ice-cold lemonade.