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The issue isn’t the tech itsefl but the corporate world and its effects throughout society.
There is a lot of cool tech, but used for the most asinine products. 2015-2016 was especially terrible with the accessibility of IoT. Everyone and their mother had a Kickstarter with a common everyday item with wireless capability tacked into it.
No, my bottle doesn’t need Bluetooth.
The longer I work in tech the less I’m impressed by new tech. I don’t want the latest and greatest phone. I don’t need a crazy gaming PC. I don’t need or want a bunch of smart devices. I want a few useful things that I can manage myself, and the freedom to wake up to no alarm except the livestock.
Because tech should be boring. Just like politics.
But companies shove tech in our face with fancy bells and whistles to make us buy more.
I mean, just look at PC where RGB is everywhere. I want a silent PC that I don’t see.
Sometimes I wonder if it’s me getting old or if it’s tech being more and more about solutions in search of a problem. I feel like we had reached a “good enough” point for a while, but I can’t tell if the “good enough” judgement is just me getting old and stubborn.
Both can be true. You’re getting older and lots of products are a solution in search of a problem to solve
Nah, not really. I just want to spend moee time working on my own projects.
Same, either that or become a beach bum if my wife passes away too soon.
Well, it’s driven me to Debian.
I read somewhere that Debian was never supposed to be used as a daily driver.
If you want to use Debian it’s only worth using within QubesOS as far as security is concerned
Debian is a great foundation for any distribution.
That said, Debian is perfectly fine to use as a daily driver. Besides RedHat, it has had the most stable longevity of any distribution.
stable? I guess, I don’t use it, I’ll take your word for it
secure? what kind of whitelisting application can you get for it? if you can’t get one for it then it’s not secure
I suppose “mature” would be a different word, but still not 100% accurate.
I meant Stable and Secure as in “consistent over time”.
The fact that it is also Stable as an operating system and Secure as in production workflow.
They are Conservative without being regressive.
so how do you keep malware from running on it?
And don’t say “be careful about what you click on” the days of having to be tricked into clicking on things to get infected are long gone. Yes, linux machines CAN and do get malware
The heck are you talking about? The baseline security config in Debian is far better than most distros out there, and QubesOS is really only realistic for folks with the threat models of those in C-suites or targets of nation state hackers. Seriously what makes your threat model so severe that you need better isolation and security than what Debian provides (which is already far above average) yet you’ll still post about it on forums?
Source for any of this? I ask as someone who has been daily driving it for about 12 years now.
Please try to find where you read that, cause that sounds ridiculous.
It tends to be more “I want a thing that just works.” rather than no technology, but yes.
Self-hosting services that are reliable and don’t get in my way, not using cloud-connected smart devices, running Linux instead of Windows, etc.
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i just want away from tech bro leadership and want star treck instead
It’s sad that self-hosting is apparently the path to having a solution that “just works”. You’d think that paying for a product would be more effective, but alas…
I’m starting to realise that a big part of why self hosting works is the customisability of it. There’s no financial incentive for Google or whomever to make sure process A has an interface to talk to process B because it’s a minority use case in their clientbase.
Self hosting - either someone has already had the same issue and made a plugin or I can create a shim of some description to make the two things talk to each other that wouldn’t be practical at scale.
I plan to open a bar when I stop working in tech. The farm life is not for me, but I love the atmosphere of a good bar.
Can confirm , bought farm. No sewage , no water. (But fibre internet)
I regret to inform you that salaries in tech are not as glorious as I thought they’d be. I’d be surprised to have enough to own a farm any time soon.
Would be nice to be able to afford a house, though.
ngl, i thought about becoming a farmer, but i value living in a society above living on a farm, though both are actually important to me.
the thing is to be a farmer in today’s economy is close to impossible, and also i lack experience and equipment.
I don’t even work in tech but I want this more and more each, I blame it on society getter consistently worse each year.
Can confirm. I’ve been working in tech for 16 years. I now own a house in the forest.
Joke’s on me, I will never earn enough money to afford a house in the forest.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Soul of a New Machine, chronicling the development of Data General’s Eagle computer in the 1970s, one of the characters is a microcode developer, responsible for hardwired logic that runs the CPU.
Part of his job is managing electrical impulses that last for microseconds or nanoseconds. One day, the team comes in to find his workstation abandoned, with a note on the monitor saying that he is going to join a commune in Vermont, and never dealing with a unit of time smaller than a season again.
The tech may be ancient for us, but it’s a superb book.
Reminiscent of how Brian Eno spoke on creating the startup sound for Windows 95:
The thing from the agency said, “We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional,” this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said “and it must be 3¼ seconds long.”
I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It’s like making a tiny little jewel.
In fact, I made eighty-four pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I’d finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time.
Nah, I just want to retire not live on a farm. The last place I’d ever want to live on this earth is a rural community, I’ve tried. It is terrible.
For what, to manage a company (a farm is a company) and accounting, deal with Mecha-IT and vendor lock-in?
I’ll only want to keep a computer around to play some games, but I really wouldn’t mind ditching that for boardgames with actual people.
Confirmed, although I’ve been looking a a live-aboard yacht instead of a micro farm. (not rich, but the housing market is so crazy that these things are in the realm of being cheaper than my house)
