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Get rid of fireworks, replace with drone shows. Sick of fireworks and the resulting pollution that comes with them.

I'm not even on step 0 for that. Dating is f*ked for ordinary young men in 2026

Yes, you are absolutely right in the sense that I did not actively consider human connection to be a priority in my early years. I'm working on that now. And I as well know a lot of people who's lives got better after COVID. But I guess what I'm trying to say is that even if I wasn't that type of person, it was still easy to make friends across places, but the general trend nowadays is that there a lot more barriers to break into social circles, and a lot of social circles are not as easily accessible. And maybe it's also because I live in Seattle.

I do feel this trend in my life. I have a job which I'm grateful for but nothing feels satisfying anymore, and I feel like it is much harder to connect to people or form deep relationships, especially in this field, unless you already have a clique in your workplace.

On top of that, AI is generally a demotivating entity to the majority of people. Despite all the hype of Altman and whonots, I feel like people just don't have a positive view of the future of their careers due to AI. And once you lose hope it's just downhill from there.

Also I feel like society still hasn't recovered fully from COVID, so many third places gone, restraunts closed, etc. It's getting there but people are isolating more and more. I'm in my late 20s and I just haven't felt like my social life is even half of what it used to be before COVID.

The tech bro shoe really living up to it's name

Social media has just gotten way worse across the board. X is just a reflection of trend.

Wow. Politically charged much?

It's sarcasm

This site has really gone downhill lately with drivel like this being upvoted. Any real developers on this site anymore?

Is there really much of an anti-immigrant narrative here?

I need to move back to the Bay

Rice at 53 is interesting

Honestly for the limited projects I've had to work with... I can attest to that. It's the over engineered abstractions that get me. Traditional Java EE users use WAY too many abstractions and interfaces, it's absolutely horrible to debug.

I guess it's just a given that everyone uses IntelliJ Ultimate. If you don't, I guess you're right, the tooling is lacking outside of that. But it's so worth it...

Spring Boot

How are we defining small message volumes?

That's sad. Dishonored 2 is one of the greatest games of all time and there's truly nothing like that on the market anymore.

Fedora Silverblue has been rock solid for my parents. Just a an amazing idea to have immutable os builds when upgrading.

Hallelujah but the damage to society has already been done. Instagram next maybe?

HDMI 2.1 is useless already, how many monitors halve the bandwidth of their 2.1 connector? Standards need enforcing, none of this fake HDMI 2.x bullshit.

Not buying anything Lenovo made ever again. T14 G1 was the worst computer I've ever had the displeasure of using. Extremely spotty USB C connection, throttling to 0.2 Ghz for no reason with no fix, and just terribly slow all around. Shame since I loved the T450s dearly.

Why is this site so unbearably political now? Some of these takes are almost as bad as the stuff you find on the front page of Reddit...

They already went too far with the UWP transition. Now the app takes forever to launch, compared to the old version.

LNL is a great paper launch but I have yet to see a reasonably priced LNL laptop so far. Nowadays I can find 16GB Airs and X Elite laptops for 700-900 bucks, and once you get into 1400 territory just pay a bit more for M4 MBPs which are far superior machines.

And also, they compete in the same price bracket as Zen 5, which are more performant with not that much worse battery life.

LNL is too little too late.

No racial violence? Tell me... Does anyone even begin to acknowledge the atrocities done to the indigenous population over there?

This is incredible, thanks for sharing

Didn't they basically confirm that they're discontinuing the mini series? The 15 is still your best bet.

Terrible prices, rather get a iPhone 15 at this point

Intel and Boeing. Sad to see greats turn into this.

Cable and mobile plans first and foremost. Those are the worst offenders by far.