proficiency in being used through your tech is not proficiency in tech.

teach the kid to play games. have them play games where they have to type, or games where they need to use the whole keyboard for shortcuts to stuff.

windows shits itself.

linux knowledge remains useful. the GUIs change a little, but the core concepts remain, and the UNIX philosophy means the basic tools stay. terminal stuff you learned in 1995 or earlier is probably still exactly the same 30 years later, if you use the modern versions of those same tools.

well, yeah. it would take a few days for us to get bored with the new porn.

so, from what little I know, and I’m absolutely not even remotely a car person:

car electrical systems run at really high voltage with much harder systems than you’d find inside a normal computer, because it’s an extremely noisy environment that has to survive lots of fucked up shocks

and AFAIK the standards are only kinda-sorta standards. interfacing with them is very very hard. im sure this gets easier once you get TO the network, but flashing that shit and changing what it does with the network seems like a pretty tall order. maybe try swapping out something near the cellular chip itself? that’s probably a pretty standardized part, right?

is that a challenge?

here we go: it’s because all the female characters are canonically masochists, because something something trans women are like half of all competent computer programmers, and every single trans woman in tech is a masochist, and they like to see themselves represented on screen. how often do we confirm that a video game character is cis? almost never, right? so it’s actually just trans inclusivity.

a lot of people have told me this. I just have an inherent built in resistance to sorkin because the west wing kiiiind of broke peoples brains for the end of history and I feel like played such a huge part in the current mess.

okay what’s this from? it’s glorious.

it was after it fucked them. caught all kinds of things. some we didn’t even know avians COULD catch.

almost like the things that make the world better and nourish the human spirit run directly counter to the desires of our system of resource distribution and value assignment.

hey, what’s that system called again?