(not that the tag was ever meant to be interpreted literally)

[brin_bellway]

[mild cw: amnesia]


I looked over at my Dreamwidth sidebar and noticed that "All that will be left is the terror of dying" is the 101st post in the "101uses for infrastructureless computers" tag.

Apparently the 101st use for infrastructureless computers is "coping mechanism for the psychological pain of not having an eidetic memory". Which...honestly, fair. (Even if you're someone who interprets it in terms of not being *omniscient*, then...*looks at local copy of Wikipedia*...still pretty fair.)

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[contrarianarchon]

... yes? Computers are like half of my long-term memory at this stage.

~~literal interpretation brain wonders what the post to novel use ratio for your posts actually is but I don't have time to archive crawl and find out. ~~

[brin_bellway]

>>~~literal interpretation brain wonders what the post to novel use ratio for your posts actually is but I don't have time to archive crawl and find out. ~~

Yeah, I wondered that too, but for one thing it would be hard to draw clear boundaries between some of them. I have three Kiwix files: two drawing from the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia, Wiktionary), and one drawing from Stack Exchange (Ask Ubuntu). Is this one use, two, or three?

(I once made a "use 41: read-write social media" joke about Scuttlebutt.)

[contrarianarchon]

Yeah that's pretty non-trivial. (I'd either count it as two, merging wikipedia and wiktionary, or as an arbitrarily large number because wikipedia is of itself a highly multipurpose tool, but neither of those are helpful answers TBH)