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  • well if just watched Johnny Pneumonic, you’d know that a dolphin is the best animal for navigating files.
    (seriously, watch it).
    “explorer” is the name for the windows file MANAGER… but still, whatever name they choose could reflect the thing it does a little better.
    while we’re on it, the name “Lemmy” is terrible for this app. Sure, the musician is cool… but has nothing to do with it, and i think a big thing holding it back. (as far as social animals go, Lemmings have a terrible fake legend about running off cliffs together… they don’t do that, but it’s what most people think about).

    e.g. Mastodon has been around for years, is actually really federated, not owned by a corporation, and a lot more features than BlueSky… but bluesky already has more users and i think largely because: marketing… how are people going to talk about “Mastodon” when they’ve probably never even heard the word before? (also named after a cool band, but not suitable for the masses).
    GIMP is an awful name…
    these things usually start as one person’s pet project, and they name it what they want… which is fine but once it starts to gain traction, they should rebrand it.













  • my dad told me like 5 dos commands, gave me permission to do whatever or break whatever on the home computer his work provided, told me there was some games on there but he didn’t know where… and i figured out the rest pretty much… whenever i broke it he’d just take it to work and bring it back fixed.
    this was back in the wild wild west, where the hospital IT had one master hard drive image, and people threw random games and programs on there…
    i was always surprised how ok he was with me breaking it weekly, but looking back on it i think he was proud…
    i was really lucky in that i had free reign on yearly updated computers, starting on dos when i had just learned how to read, and growing up with that through all the versions of windows…
    i mean, i hate microsoft and all, but i just think it’s crazy all of these people have super computers in their pockets and are afraid of the terminal….
    it’d be hard to start a kid on the terminal first now, when they can use a touch screen in the crib….
    my first computer didn’t even have pictures, but the next one did…




  • they’re not bots, everyone is sick of AI slop everywhere, and it’s especially distasteful to use it for activism messaging, an extremely human endeavor.

    if there’s any shill-bots involved, they’re creating and promoting these while downvoting human made art because the ai argument is inevitable.

    in fact, the amount and ratio of upvotes compared to people actually writing out complaints proves that i’m right.

    appropriate username, btw…