I always hate when my own computer says I need permission. “Permission”? I own your damn ass! It should be more like, “Unable to comply due to security settings” - and even better, tell me where the settings are, and add, “Your Majesty”.
That’s because ‘users’ in the system are considered different people and there is an admin who doesn’t care about the message anyway(since they are supposed to know what they should do) but thats rarely the case in PCs
Insert that intentionally unhinged thing I like to post here, about how we should bring back victorian servant-to-master etiquette but only and exclusively for computers trying to communicate with humans.
you know on the one hand i like the idea, but on the other i would like my computer to be as unantropomorphized as possible so that i don’t start treating it like it has feelings.
i’ll take ERR 0x2038A702 UNABLE TO COMPLY; LP0 ON FIRE over oh nyo pwease don't SIGKILL me uwu any day.
Since it seems language AIs are going to become inescapable (not a fan, but if you can’t beat 'em…), make it a toggle so that users who want to can have error messages with different “personalities”, and those who don’t can just have the machinelike codes.
I always hate when my own computer says I need permission. “Permission”? I own your damn ass! It should be more like, “Unable to comply due to security settings” - and even better, tell me where the settings are, and add, “Your Majesty”.
That’s because ‘users’ in the system are considered different people and there is an admin who doesn’t care about the message anyway(since they are supposed to know what they should do) but thats rarely the case in PCs
you forget that UNIX-likes were originally made under the presumption that most users were not the admin nor owned the computer
Yeah true and this is especially infuriating on Window$ but luckily on Linux I can fix anything with sudo and terminal
Insert that intentionally unhinged thing I like to post here, about how we should bring back victorian servant-to-master etiquette but only and exclusively for computers trying to communicate with humans.
you know on the one hand i like the idea, but on the other i would like my computer to be as unantropomorphized as possible so that i don’t start treating it like it has feelings.
i’ll take
ERR 0x2038A702 UNABLE TO COMPLY; LP0 ON FIREoveroh nyo pwease don't SIGKILL me uwuany day.Since it seems language AIs are going to become inescapable (not a fan, but if you can’t beat 'em…), make it a toggle so that users who want to can have error messages with different “personalities”, and those who don’t can just have the machinelike codes.
I AM THE ADMINISTATOR!
L’administrateur, c’est moi!
Couldn’t agree more