Normies don’t do change

Hey so, like the others said, you don’t express yourself like someone with intellectual limits, so I’d really consider retaking those IQ tests with a specialist in neurodivergent issues. TBH tho, the reason why everybody’s discounting your IQ results, is that it’s a kinda bullshit number, the older you get the better you realize that.

But aside from that, let me tell you that when I was your age, I was in a similar situation, maybe even worse: no education, as I had issues in school with bullying and I hated it since a young age, plus I had the usual “smart, but doesn’t put enough effort” evaluation, I couldn’t make heads or tails of maths, my parents filled me with more debt than I had any hope to repay and the state was taking anything I managed to save or buy with great effort.

I never attempted suicide, but let’s say that I took some mortal risks without caring for the outcome. But I held on, I did my best to help myself, worked hard and learned many skills, found a wonderful person who’s been at my side for over a decade now, went back to school (which isn’t very useful for someone who’s already developing a career, but with a better teacher I learned that math isn’t that hard, it can even be fun!), and now I live a comfortable life, make good money, and have people I love who love me back.

I won’t say that the ghosts of the past never visit me, or that I’m 100% of what I could have been, truth is what doesn’t kill you doesn’t necessarily make you stronger, it can also leave you maimed… I have many regrets, sometimes they keep me up at night. But all in all, I’ve been to hell and back and I’ve survived, if someone told me I’d be living like this when I was your age, I wouldn’t have imagined how that was possible… And I didn’t do anything particularly special, I just kept keeping on, put in the effort, and seized luck when it presented itself… most of the time.

Some days you’ll do great, some days you’ll feel like you’re wasting your potential or going nowhere, just keep at it, and you’ll see it’s not so bad, and it’s not your fault.

Afaik the fingerprint is stored on dedicated hardware on your device, it never leaves your phone and cannot be “read”

I mean if they help children grow when they have no real parents…

Well, when I leave it open for a while it tends to have issues

Nothing says product quality like overworked employees

The other day my laptop was sluggish as hell, checked top and turns out Discord and Orca Slicer were maxing out my cores

It’s funny how, somehow, somewhere along the way displaying PDFs became the web browser’s job

I’ve been using FF since Opera went to shit, I can absolutely imagine not using FF, what I can’t imagine is using a WebKit bloatfest

I remember making circles of cars and “hood” surfing (sliding) non-stop while cops tried to catch me (GTA1)

I mean he’s aging quite well given his position… Many people burn out way earlier.

That and leading an open source project for 30 years.

THE open source project.

I know nothing about anything, but I unfoundedly believe we’re still very far away from the computing power required for that. I think we still underestimate the power of biological brains.

TSMC’s allegedly calling Sam Altman a ‘podcast bro’ is spot on, and I’d add “manipulative vampire” to that.

What’s the source for that? It sounds hilarious

Propaganda goes both ways

It’s an Amarok fork, so yes

You want to learn… Suffering?

I started out on a Commodore 64. I remember when I encountered my first 3d accelerated game, I think it was Microsoft Motocross Madness, at a friend’s house, IIRC he had a 400mhz pentium with a Matrox card, I want to say G400, but who knows, it was so long ago… Anyway 3D games were common, but not with accelerated graphics… It was mind-blowing.

I was a kid then, but I remember that I had to push so hard my fingers hurt… I used a multimeter.

Now if only I could find a use for it…