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[–] [email protected] 164 points 4 months ago (10 children)

I don't know why inanimate objects treated like this makes me feel sad. It reminds me of the Mars rover comic where he's left asking if he did a good job after the radio goes silent.

[–] [email protected] 140 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Quit making me feel bad for machines damn you!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Thanks for sharing, though it did make me sad.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 months ago

Empathy and anthropomorphization. It's a good quality to have as a person, but it does cause these false positive triggers.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is my go-to antidote for that one

https://xkcd.com/1504/

Especially the alt-text.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Never checked in alt-text. You made my day (:

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Here's this again. I get to bring it out every time this sort of thing comes up. It never ceases to be a masterpiece.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Empathy ia possibly the beat quality a person can have.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

maybe you watched toy story as a kid

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Or the brave little toaster 😭

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Adult. Have to go back to Herbie the Love Bug for my childhood versions. Or plenty of children books that animated things, my first being a vivid one about a lighthouse tugboat lost in a storm. With a companion 45 rpm record that read and sung the book.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel really bad about my old MacBook. It was my trusty companion for 10 years, but now it's kind of forgotten and useless.

I tried to revive it a while ago, but it's too slow/hot to be useful for anything worthwhile and it's a real shame. It's still working fine, otherwise!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Old macbooks make great Linux machines!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Not that old, unfortunately.

Linux runs fine, but even when underclocked, it turns into a space heater by just using a browser.