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  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mltoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldFear
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    13 hours ago

    Gen-X here. We are going to call and leave voicemails until you talk to us. Just pickup and get it over with or the nightmare will never end. If we do text first, you better acknowledge fairly quickly or the calls will start.

    We grew up in the era of landlines and no voicemail (occasional answering machine). Stalker level amounts of calls is just nostalgia for us. We are nightmare fuel.











  • I just arrived at my destination after a 16 hour hellish drive (normally 6 1/2). My house is directly in this beast’s path though thankfully not at risk of storm surge. My friends in Sarasota are expecting 15’ of water. My aunt and uncle are going to ride it out on St. Pete Beach, so I expect I might not see them again. The bird and turtle nesting grounds in Ana Maria island are guaranteed to cease to exist. The peacocks of Longboat Key are dead, they just don’t know it yet. The list goes on. But hey, Jimmy just bought a PowerStroke diesel dually with the money he made off crypto, and Saheel just pushed code generated by ChatGPT into production, so I guess it all balances out.

    PS: The last bit is half made up. Saheel is the name of a colleague of mine, so that’s not true. What is true is that an engineer at one of my clients literally pushed generated code into production.






  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlOPtoguitars@lemmy.worldGuitars that are WAY overpriced now
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    4 days ago

    I am old enough to have played and guitar shopped in the early 80’s and 90’s. So much of what was sold was what I consider trash quality and doesn’t hold a candle to the precision CNC stuff being cranked out on the cheap now. I doubt that age would have magically made those old stock guitars better.

    I do agree with your general sentiment, if I understood it correctly. I have been a watch collector and a classic car collector, so I do understand the concept of owning history or owning a product of craftsmanship rarely found now. Not all old stuff has memorable history or quality craftsmanship. Sometimes old stuff is just old.