this is getting ridiculous

the best example of lake-seeking hardware I've seen in quite some time

I think the last time that happened was Nvidia's shitty mid-2000s linux drivers. they broke when my kernel updated and I was stuck trying to fix it on a 19" CRT on a too-small desk running text mode linux at 60 hertz. It was like looking into a fucking strobe light, and it took over half an hour to do the command line stuff I'd need to do to fix the kernel modules. I didn't make it, I had to get away from the computer or immediately begin vomiting

normally computers just ruin my mental health, but this machine not only did that at an extreme rate, it screwed my physical health too!

I was stuck on this laptop for like six months and it was fractally infuriating. I was bedridden and it made my physical illness worse in multiple ways.

Now that I've escaped it, I think I'm going to mail this laptop back to Dell with a note saying "this one was a mistake. please turn it back into sand"

this stupid USB drive doesn't work if you jam it into the ethernet port on accident

yet. note to self: make a flash drive that you plug into the ethernet port.

SOME OF US DON'T HAVE WORKING SHORT TERM MEMORY, INTERNET

so many fucking social media sites are now adding alt-text functionality and designing their UI so that the textbox you enter the alt text into COVERS UP THE IMAGE

I've been bedridden for the last 9 months, unable to work as I try to get a surgeon and insurance lined up for my operation to let me work again.
If you could send a couple dollars, it'd really help. Time isn't on my side here, and waiting is very expensive.

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing/

someone needs to hurry up and figure out a way to pair metadata with images.
when I save an image off bluesky or mastodon or something, it should save the alt text too