do you not realize that the existing car infrastructure requires constant maintenance

Urumqi (the capital of Xinjiang) is literally the city furthest from the sea. This makes no sense!

Also, what kind of Uyghur separatist calls it Xinjiang, the Chinese name for the region?

Also, the Linux desktop has never been better.

We have reached the point where you can pick any laptop off the shelf and have it work out of the box with Linux. This used to not be possible!

Linux gaming has never been better, now that we have Proton. Games that used to be Windows exclusives now run perfectly on Linux. Linux is now fully viable for video gamers.

GUI tools are now so good that you can use Linux without ever touching the command line.

While Windows may have become worse, Linux has never been better.

I'm the millennial version of a tech illiterate, I have very basic coding skills in Java and that's it

Being able to code at all already places you in the 90th percentile for tech literacy. Many people don't even know what a file is.

When I was young I actually didn't know what the BSOD was because I literally never experienced it. My first BSOD was in 2017 on Windows 8, even though I've been computing since 1998

You've never gotten a BSOD on old versions of Windows?? My personal experience is that old versions of Windows (XP, 7) were much more unstable than new versions of Windows (10, 11).

The golden age for "normie" consumer computing definitely feels like it took place in the 2000s, and ended somewhere around 2014

Why would the golden age of "normie" consumer computing have taken place in the 2000s, when there were pop-up ads that gave you malware and adware toolbars?

The 25th percentile user today has literally never interacted with a hierarchical filesystem. They do not even know what a file is. The Apple mobile ecosystem is so locked down that it's actually impossible to accidentally install malware. I say that now is the golden age of "normie" consumer computing, because tech has never been easier.

I say that for normies, tech has never been better.

That's true. I'm reminded of how the "new car smell" (a smell adults actively seek out as it is considered pleasant) actually consists of toxic chemicals like formaldehyde, benzene, and volatile organic compounds.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2023/04/15/that-new-car-smell-could-bring-cancer-risk-study-says/

People often misinterpret privilege as a sense that the privileged person's life is amazing. To me, it is the absence of certain adversities or obstacles faced by other groups of people.

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There is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke; even brief exposure can cause serious health problems and be deadly.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/secondhand-smoke/about.html

"JS is bad" is hardly even a lukewarm take.

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