#tech rants

"Great fuck you, I would like to uninstall you" "Oh I'm sorry you can't uninstall me! I'm a core system application and if you uninstall me your phone won't function correctly despite the fact that I did not exist yesterday and your phone worked fine" "....." "You can disable parts of my functionality but I will always be here and I will pop up notifications asking you to re-enable me unless you figure out how to disable those too! Then I will still show up in a different color at the top of your settings application telling you that you need to 'fix" a 'problem' with your phone, that problem being that I am disabled. Does that help?"

Like, you know what I can do on my desktop? "sudo pacman -Rdd linux" , this will just fucking remove the entire linux kernel. Fundamentally breaking my computer until I boot up a live disk and chroot in and reinstall it or whatever, and the computer will go "Are you sure (y/n)" or whatever and i'm like "y" and it will just go "Ok you got it boss"

But its mine, I get to do what I want with it. I control the computer, the computer does not control me. I refuse to cede control to my phone or anything else. The thing is a lot of people will joke that like "Oh I love just letting the machine tell me what to do, I don't know what I'm doing, it knows best" or whatever but the thing you have to realize is that when you say that you are abstracting away that "the phone" or whatever is not some value neutral logic driven robot like from sci-fi, it is a collection of the the capitalistic and fascistic desires of the tech oligarch fuckwits that are burning the world to the ground right now. You aren't submitting to the phone, you are submitting to Musk, Bezos, Nadella, Pichai, Cook and all those other evil bastards.

Despite how stupid I think the Friend AI chat necklace is I feel so sorry for this guy because he's really getting trashed on twitter.

He was only 17 in 2020 when he got sort of famous in tech circles for creating the first covid case data aggregator (it was an impressive project!) and since then he's done work with such good intentions like a project to help match Ukraine refugees with host families in neighboring countries.

Getting involved in the Silicone Vally VC reality distortion bubble is really going to mess him up.

The crazy thing is that even when this AI product is a flop and the company goes bankrupt it will actually not be bad for him, a little bootstrapped/self financed startup flopping is an embarrassment, but raising $2.5M and launching an AI hardware startup that then flops is actually (in SV) a huge success and will probably open up great opportunities for him.

Okay, Team Nice Dynamite is funny I can live with these too. But wait they're part of another team called the Lads? Ray? Who's he I don't think... oh he's funny too. Well shit okay three guys are funny.

Who the fuck is Jeff all I see is Geoff. Oooooohhh. His laugh is awesome. Jack is like his best friend? Well I have to find videos with Jack in case Geoff finds out I don't watch his friend.

Ryan? Eh seems kinda quiet. I can't watch a video without him. Add in his desk buddy Lindsay. She's not good at games but hey neither am I.

Ray is leaving? Better cry my eyes out at 3am over a man who doesn't know me.

Lindsay and Michael are married!

Who are Jeremy and Matt. I hope this isn't to replace Ray.

I love these two.

Trevor? He's not exactly the same level of crazy AH is... nevermind.

Alfredo? But he's actually good at games that's not how AH works. Protect this child I love him.

So many years have passed with my brain threatened by the idea of new people added into AH. I spent so long not watching certain games because it didn't have the usuals I watched. It was never just at Fiona. It was everyone and now I love them all.

so in this I'm going to be referring to it at "got talent" because the name of the show officially is (school)/(sister school) Got Talent. it's a huge rip-off of AGT and we all know it. I'm surprised we haven't been sued, but oh well. anyways, this is my second year teching it because previous stage managers for it had beef with me for unknown reasons. first year was mainly uneventful, i was mostly working with the sound crew and had actually scored a job because of that and another school event i teched.

but this year...

oh boy..

so to start us off, this is a talent show with 15 acts. out of those 15 acts, we have 2 bands with drum kits, on band without a drum kit but instead uses the grand fucking piano, and an act that is literally just a drum kit. usually, this is no problem, we just put the drum kit on a rug and drag it off stage once the act is done so we can fit within the 2 minute transitions. but the drummer for one of the bands, let's call them the wheels, decides "no, I don't want my kit (which while it was a nice kit, it wasn't the nicest one being used tonight) to be dragged offstage" now this is mostly logical, or it would be if he took drumming seriously. anyone with a trained ear can easily tell that he doesn't know how to count to save his life. that and he has a fuck-ton of cymbals that all have to be moved individually. so we of course went "ok, but if we have to dismantle your drum, you have to skip the interview to help us" and he goes "yeah, fair trade" except when the actual show rolls around, he walks in front of the curtain with the rest of his band mates, leaving us to deal with his drum. we were already working with a skeleton crew, so this caused us to be late on our next transition and we very nearly had to delay the next act. i could honestly rant about the wheels all day if given the opportunity.

also! we had an act that was just someone singing at a piano, which is easy enough, we get someone doing that even for assemblies sometimes. except my school is an all "girls" school (a good amount of us are either trans men or nb (like me)) so we usually have a tech team made up entirely of "girls" but then this was a co-ed event so we had some "guys" on our team. they don't know to communicate if something is wrong and they certainly don't know that you're supposed to stop when someone calls hold. so they ran a grand fucking piano over my foot. isn't that lovely? thankfully this was during the dress rehearsal, but still. i had to do the entire show with my foot wrapped and heavily limping and yet i still did more than them. at least i didn't break any bones.

Well if every recommendation post for Yugi Muto wasn’t puzzleshipping related when I simply scroll down the blogs I follow, I wouldn’t be so dang angry at it!