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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 12:04:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   in the future, everyone will be a GUI program designer for 15 minutes

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 12:04:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     does anyone make a laptop which has USB-device support and an HDMI capture port? I could just put my laptop down in front of the computer I'm supposed to use, and it could click on things for me and look at the screen for me

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 12:04:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     This clearly has been misinterpreted by everyone suggesting this is AI or virtualization because frankly I have been feeling like this since 1995 when none of that was on the radar yet

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 12:14:10 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Computers are great at waiting! They can just sit there in a loop waiting for a response, periodically trying again if needed.

     Computers are great at waiting, but I, a (presumed) human with ADHD, am very shit at it. That's why I write software to wait for me, so I can do other stuff while the cloud is being slow

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 12:14:11 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     it's also not "the cloud" either because one of the major problems I want my metasoftware to work around is HAVING TO WAIT ON CLOUD SERVERS.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 12:14:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     also, the root cause is that I'm having to use software that doesn't act in predictable user-friendly ways, right? so I want a meta layer that insulates me from that.

     AI is not the solution to this problem. AI is one of the types of problems this is trying to solve!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 12:16:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • I’m Tired And Everything Hurts

     @guffo I'm only one very dexterous robot arm away from doing that with my current job

   • I’m Tired And Everything Hurts (guffo@topspicy.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 12:16:23 JST I’m Tired And Everything Hurts

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     @foone I’ve been saying for years that I’d love to write a sufficiently complex series of scripts and utilities to do an entire day’s work for me automatically and have it fired off each morning by me pressing a huge button with JOB written on it while I eat breakfast

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 12:24:18 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • sadie🏳️‍⚧️

     @zulc22 nice!

   • sadie🏳️‍⚧️ (zulc22@lethallava.land)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 12:24:24 JST sadie🏳️‍⚧️

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     @foone@digipres.club i remember i kinda did that with an old Win7 laptop to make Papa's Pizzeria Bad Apple because I don't know a reasonable way to directly make Flash think that I'm using the mouse a certain way, so I just fudged it with AHK and ran it on that machine for, a few weeks or something, however long it took to do every frame

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 12:27:30 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     To be clear, the context here is that I am a professional computer automation engineer: my last two jobs have primarily focused on controlling GUI applications for testing or performance reasons. I've been releasing software to do this very thing for like 20 years: this is not just someone complaining that software is "too hard" and needing to be told about AutoHotkey.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 12:30:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • FrostyFoxTeals!

     @FrostyFoxTeals I've written video games in car trips before! my ability to get bored is EXCEPTIONAL

   • FrostyFoxTeals! (frostyfoxteals@grimgreenfo.rest)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 12:31:01 JST FrostyFoxTeals!

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     @foone@digipres.club when you're bored so you make an entire video game to pass the time

   • abrasive (abrasive@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 12:37:27 JST abrasive

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     @foone I reckon you could fit an MS2130 HDMI-USB3 chip and a little OTG micro into a Framework expansion card? might have to use micro-HDMI but

     obviously the logical conclusion of this is to have a camera and a keyboard-poking arm on the back of the laptop screen

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 12:39:18 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Ziggy the Hamster :whyfox:🐹🌻

     @ZiggyTheHamster right

   • Ziggy the Hamster :whyfox:🐹🌻 (ziggythehamster@ruby.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 12:39:19 JST Ziggy the Hamster :whyfox:🐹🌻

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     @foone so kinda like if you could use AppleScript on every computing system that has ever existed and could perform every function possible through the UI?