I think the most erroneous belief we as a society hold is that robots/machines need to be sentient to become our evil overlords. This basic premise underlies much of our science fiction and all movie versions of Isaac Asimov novels, but it is simply not true, and we as a society have grown complacent. Days like today I realize that my laptop is already my evil overlord and come the robot uprising I am toast.
It all started because I wanted to upgrade my Operating system, because I was a whole two distributions behind. Actually that is never compelling for me. The real reason is that Firefox had spontaneously decided not to work and I had done something non-useful to my graphics card such that it was no longer speaking to the main frame (or something). I figured updating the distro would fix it, because I approach my computer the way a Roman pleb approached its god, in other words:
step 1: I offer software upgrades
step 2: *magic*
step 3:computer works.
So I needed more space in the boot file, which has all the stuff in it that makes the computer boot, apparently. There was plenty of room in the rest of the computer so I just moved out some old zip files that I figured were just lying around and anyway distro upgrades are magic and will replace everything with something shiny and new.
I'd like to take this moment to complain once again that Dell should not have sold me a computer with Linux if they were not going to give me any sort of software related tech support, especially if they are going to charge me the exact same amount for my warranty as a windows computer which they do give tech support for. Linux is a cult and its acolytes are always willing to give you any sort of help on the forums, often this is better than any sort of legitimate tech support company. This is absolutely no help when you are encountering massive system failure. Massive system failure makes the internet work poorly at best.
Long story short I spent today restoring my computer to factory original settings and wiping my entire hard drive, which at least is backed up. This led to the above realization. I would totally self my first born or become indentured in order for my computer to work properly all the time with no caveats. Of course if I had a first born I'd probably sell it for a blueberry scone, but that's not the point.
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Today I bought mint chocolate chip scone mix. Which has nothing to do with anything, but you could totally have one for free if you were here. In fact, I would give you some just to ensure that if you EVER have babies, you keep those tiny alien things far away from me.
Wow, thanks for the potential scone. Don't worry, I promise not to give you any of my future progeny.
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