CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@GossiTheDog Well, well. The ideal "productivity booster" for any business-related activity using a Windows PC, which Microslop has been pushing desperately and obsessively onto every Windows user on the planet, in fact even onto hardware, demanding a new key on keyboards from laptop-manufacturing partners, now turns out to be "for entertainment purposes only." Well, well, well, you don't say...

New Microslop motto to expect next ought to be therefore something like: "Entertainment, the new key to business productivity"

@liw I don't really think it was like that. Maybe way before that, when computers were still mostly analog, digital computers emerged together with prog languages, those made the older analog computers and their operators quite quickly obsolete. But after that there had been no strong claim by anything that would make programmers and developers obsolete (until now with AI, that is.) I'd say it was rather the opposite for long. Everyone was rather strongly encouraged to learn some coding skills, because that was supposed to be a necessity in most future jobs. Specially younger generations and educational programs leaned that way for long. I'd say from way before 2010, and till after covid, at least right up till the AI hype exploded couple of years ago with chatgpt passing some "high level knowledge" exams, formerly out of league for any computer programs.

@Natasha_Jay My guess would have been some packaging foam material got imprinted from an actual keyboard, and had falled on the fresh cement with something heavy on it, which had pushed it down to make the imprint. Was not expecting an intentional imprinting of a keyboard mold done by an art student

@ska @ariadne Ive thouht of something related, not chatbots but imagine a GPS driving assistant voice in your car giving you directions and feedback, but in the most toxic way possible. An angry swearing voice saying things like: "Your exit comes in half a mile, try not to miss that one, you fucking moron." I've thought that ought to be a funny option to toggle on once in a while.

@sjvn 3x5 monitor setup. Guaranteed neck injury in 3, 2, ...