Victory!

I recently built a computer, something I haven't done in eight years.

It was made out of boycotts, a team red build, my first since the Athlon I built circa 2000. For the last twenty years I've been loyal to Intel, Nvidia+EVGA, and Gigabyte, but all their recent failures and blaming of customers and corporate bullshit has rendered them dead to me.

So I went with an MSI motherboard, the hot new 9800X3D, and an RX 7900 XT, ostensibly to experiment with machine learning before the AI bros make me unemployable, but I discovered that Cyberpunk 2077 runs beautifully on Linux with Proton and Steam, so Microsoft is getting fucked, too!

But that's not why I'm here, writing this today, for I discovered in my new computer installation reverie that the file manager in Ubuntu is no longer riding the short bus. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we are victorious over prissy opinionated software dumbfuckery, Nautilus has a sane and rational date format again!

In trying to find information about the fix, I discovered a dialogue that occurred three months after my experience with the regression, and hole-ee shee-it, to paraphrase Tim Minchin, pigeons had their holes filled. I hope he had a private tantrum when the fix was finally forced through.

And speaking of being right about everything all along, I sure did nail the mechanism of the reverse dog whistle. I drove by a Deplorean yesterday and had to resist the urge to sieg heil the driver, worried it would not be perceived as ridicule, thus putting me in the same category.