I used to have a lot more patience and wonder in the technology of computers, and now it just drives me crazy how little it has advanced in 38 years.
I just have higher priorities than dumb shit the way too many options for simply sending audio to bluetooth speakers that are a little too far from my desk to function properly.
MPD. VNC. RDP. SSH. Pipewire. Pulseaudio. Icecast.
How to say you are old without saying you are old.
All my energies are now directed towards not having to deal with such low priority things in favour of higher priorities.
This might be a consequence of the fact that figuring out badly designed shit is my work now, I just don't want to have this when I'm relaxing. I just want to reprogram my programmable keyboard, and needed some music.
I'm solving this problem tomorrow. I just want it to be a simple audio stream, and I want it to be in the loungeroom, where it will drown out the workaday screeching children who seem to communicate entirely with screams and who seem to spend more time in the playground than in the classroom, and it seems like wrestling with each other is the main activity being taught.
So, I was looking at some various options for potato chips this evening, and specifically to determine if there was anything that didn't have maltodextrin in it.
I don't remember seeing this one sugar in everything before 2020. I also don't remember when Palm Oil stopped being the main oil.
Turns out that Maltodextrtin is like instant week long pain for my exposed dental nerves. I used to like potato chips. And corn chips.
I can't eat any of them anymore. It's really a big disruption in my comfort level.
I'm sure it's secretly intended to hurt people but those who ask questions and do their own differential diagnosis figure it out and just get even more determined.
If they keep this up, pretty soon the only things I can eat from a supermarket are some of the fruit and the non-processed meats, and maybe some of the seeds and nuts.
They are contaminating everything else with things that I can't help feeling is deliberate to fuck with a specific set of genetics that I am one of the inheritors of, and that the whole purpose of the PCR test hoax was to gather DNA to refine this strategic irritation.
Normies don't even realise what's happening, which tells you that "normy" means a specific pool of genetics, because it's about proteins and immune responses.
I have this windows installation on my pc, and yet I spend like 30 minutes playing games every day, at best, and this is the only thing I do with it.
Thanks to their presumptuous and aggressive policies, however, I think I can say I spend more than twice that amount of time, on top, on most days, working around the bullcrap that they impose on my hardware.
My bluetooth devices, thank you sony, don't like to bind to my linux system and windows at the same time. They preemptively, and nonconfigurably attempt to bind to my device not only by its MAC address, but also by the OS, so every time, I literally have to unpair, and repair it for each time I want to go play 30 minutes of tomb raider.
The contortions of the filesystem are another time sink as well.
I am starting to realise it's not worth the effort anymore, since I only seem to want to play a bunch of games that I can run just fine on Linux anyway. I just got a little tired of the constant procession of hardware support problems, so I just put my games installation on windows.
But Shuttleworth, and Torvalds, with their respective projects, don't make life easier either. Constantly Ubuntu is updating kernels, breaking my system's support of the video and/or power subsystems. One only turns around for 12 months and blink, oh, new, same old problem again.
I'm of the opinion, and probably have always been of this opinion, that this is deliberate disruption to slow down the development of competitors for the establishment picks for who gets the cheap money first to build this stuff.
It has nothing to do with merit or virtue. It's actually the opposite. Apple and Microsoft stuff is the most retrogressive, slow to advance, and least accessible to new developers.
Even as I am writing this, it is obvious what a waste of time it all is.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Technology is the enemy of power.