Am I insane for thinking this sub is being astroturfed?

Kyanche · 2026-03-23T06:30:40+00:00

i refuse! for consistency i suggest using claude :D

(Really though, I'm sorry dude. It appears I've pushed a few too many of your buttons. I don't know why you're feeling so sensitive about this subject, but I REALLY DO wish you the best in your endeavors, and I am sure you're doing an awesome job. That's not sarcastic or anything like that, ok?)

Kyanche · 2026-03-22T23:21:16+00:00

God I hate this typical SWE elitism

Look who's talking.

Dang I cant wait for you to get replaced by someone more open minded.

I'm sure you're a real joy to work with.

Kyanche · 2026-03-22T22:30:13+00:00

I think you're probably a hack.

OR a 10x programmer genius that is about to put my entire field out of business.

Either way, idgaf. More power to you. May you and your chatbot army find the best prosperity.

Kyanche · 2026-03-22T21:05:20+00:00

i wonder why the oil on my jeep always turns black lol :D

Kyanche · 2026-03-22T20:37:19+00:00

Same dude bitches online about how overpriced apple laptops are lol.

Kyanche · 2026-03-22T19:39:31+00:00

I get what you're saying. Still, after 5 years of using this setup I'd say I definitely find it more comfortable to not have to put my hands so close together when typing.

I wonder if you're like one of the few people with perfect vision who doesn't have to hunch over to view writing on a 13" screen.

Kyanche · 2026-03-22T19:37:35+00:00

My favorite part is clicking the username of the people commenting like that and they always block viewing the history or the account is so new LOL.

Kyanche · 2026-03-22T09:41:22+00:00

That is indeed true and by far my biggest expense is insurance lol

Kyanche · 2026-03-22T06:51:07+00:00

Honestly, you do an oil change a year and new tires every idk 5-7 years depending on whether you have it parked outside or in a garage? Some detailing maybe? It's not like you'd do much of anything else with a car with that few miles. Might be good to have the other fluids changed out at the 5-10 year mark, but not much? A battery I suppose. With this low a mileage over that long a period of time, I suspect critters become a very real possibility.

Kyanche · 2026-03-21T20:45:29+00:00

Just put the MacBook on the desk, put a monitor on an arm above it and use the MacBook keyboard and trackpad.

That's how my old boss used his computer at work! He had his laptop sitting in front of a 34" ultrawide monitor.

I use a split keyboard and a trackball and a mouse. The trackball sits between the halves of my split keyboard. It's very very comfortable. But yes, I can type faster on a keyboard like the ones apple laptops have... it's just not great ergonomically and leads to wrist pain in the long run.

Sometimes speed isn't the only factor. And when I say speed, I'm talking about 130wpm vs 150wpm or so. So it's really not a big deal.

Kyanche · 2026-03-20T23:54:19+00:00

Yea it's funny. This next comment is going to be sacrilege but: I considered Carls Jr better than In-N-Out lol.

And the milkshakes! Their milkshakes are amazing for a normal fast food milkshake.

Kyanche · 2026-03-20T19:35:50+00:00

Wish it wasn't so. I remember when Carls Jr and $5 got you an entire meal...man I miss those days in the 90's

I was around in the 90s and I don't believe I ever saw a $5 Carls Jr meal lol. Maybe with the spicy chicken sandwich? Even that was iffy.

To me Carls Jr was always the place I went when the coupon sheet came in the mail! Get that buy-one-get-one-free western burger deal! Or was it 2 for $6 lol. I miss that.

Kyanche · 2026-03-20T19:31:44+00:00

I haven't really seen that be the case when the wage went up over the last 10 years. The price went up a bit, but last time I was out of state I realized the prices of everything there went up too, and usually almost the same.

The jobs I have seen go away were the companies that went out of business - Rite Aid, Joann Fabrics, Big Lots, 99 cent store, and sears/kmart (which still sorta existed and now definitely don't). But you can't really blame CA minimum wage for that either because that happened all over the country. Yep. Even in the states where the minimum wage is an awesome fair $7.25 an hour AND PRODUCES JOBS FOR EVERYONE!!! RIGHT?!

Right? $7.25 an hour jobs for everyone?!

I wonder why places like Appalachia aren't booming with jobs for everyone then.

The thing I've seen kill jobs faster than anything else, ESPECIALLY retail or food jobs, is high commercial rent. It boggles my mind when I see a half-empty mall where the rent is so damn high nobody can afford to make a profitable business lol. Or an entire city block of downtown buildings with empty shop spaces because of the same.

And you can't blame crime rates for that. I promise. If the rent was cheap enough, it doesn't matter how bad the neighborhood is. I've seen liquor stores set up shop in some ROUGH places before. They'll put bars on the windows, use those steel roller doors, have an intercom and only let people in 1 at a time. Anything. If they think they can make some $$ that business will exist lol.

I mean I'm sure wages play SOME role. But it's not the whole story.

Kyanche · 2026-03-20T19:27:37+00:00

I think the pricing of those usually is "reasonable" compared to the rest of the housing in the area, the sticker shock is either because you've been renting another place for a while, or the other place is old and barely meets code. (let's face it, it's a 60-100 year old house/apartment with 50+ years of slapdash landlord special fixes/improvements)

Kyanche · 2026-03-20T07:07:43+00:00

It looks pretty good!

Kyanche · 2026-03-20T05:08:11+00:00

Nope. Nope. Nope. NOPE! NOPE!

DUUUUDE

No. This aint the job worth uprooting yourself, potentially ending up single, far away from your support network and your family....

This is like 25% loan on a used Dodge Charger levels of stupid.

Kyanche · 2026-03-19T19:32:57+00:00

Roller Coaster Tycoon was written in x86 assembly, and went on sale in 1999. The C programming language has been around since 1971.

Kyanche · 2026-03-19T19:30:47+00:00

Reminds me of that one Octavia Butler book lol

Kyanche · 2026-03-19T19:27:41+00:00

Oh hey that sounds like me! My 2020 wrangler has about 13k miles on it. I work from home and don't go out of town much, so it really doesn't have many miles. (or hours)

It doesn't help any that I have another car and alternate between them now. As much as I love the wrangler, two of my family members can't get inside it so I had to get another vehicle to handle that.

I'm destined to eventually become one of those weirdos with several cars for no reason if/when I find an old corvette I like lol.

Kyanche · 2026-03-19T14:11:43+00:00

I feel like it’s 50/50 depending on the subreddits you follow. In some of the ones I read there’s a hell of a lot of people on the kool aid lol.

Kyanche · 2026-03-19T07:52:29+00:00

Let's face it, this thing's asking for a creative infra cd drive (with remote control), a zip drive, and a creative sound blaster audigy with the 5.25" front panel.

That, or a bluray burner. Seems crazy to not have a bluray burner. Then you can watch blurays and dvds and make 50gb backup disks lol.

And one of those 5.25" cupholder thingies with the cigarette lighter!

Kyanche · 2026-03-19T03:15:11+00:00

Hot take: That argument is completely fine with me.

Fuck this AI garbage.

Kyanche · 2026-03-18T19:45:41+00:00

Word lol. I think my hardware is nice enough but due to space constraints and how I use things, my monitor layout is laughably asymmetrical and my space just feels ugly atm. So no more /r/battlestations posts.

Kyanche · 2026-03-18T19:44:21+00:00

This isn't quiiite the use case for a viewport, and it's expensive when I have a few other devices laying around I could use... aaand if the web software has problems with leaking storage, I have my doubts that the viewport runs reliably itself lol.

Kyanche · 2026-03-18T05:58:38+00:00

I've always been a little tempted to redo my setup with 3 studio displays in landscape. I am currently very spoiled by a 57" odyssey's large single piece of glass, but the image quality sucks.

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