[–] 16 points 1 week ago

RIP King

I believe you had a strong role in helping my dad and I find common ground in my teenage years (1990s) with Next Gen.

I will try and share the same with my now teenage kids.

He deserves a true British royal funeral and monument!

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  • [–] 52 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    This is just the answer for me because I’ve had to think about this a ton since Covid.

    I’m sad and depressed with work. It should not be the case. I’m a Data Architect and make decent money. I have family, house, and essentially everything else.

    I realized that my main problem with tech work is how useless it is. I got into this because I like to make things. That first time your code works and does most of what you want is a high I still remember.

    Nowadays, I’m in meetings 60% of my time and the rest of the time I’m working with on-shore/off-shore contractors. Even our own company junior and senior staff has a decent amount of people that got into Tech because it pays well. So we have a lot of people that are chasing down someone to help do their job for them. So the other 40% of my time is spent pointing or even giving people the answer.

    I can’t point at something at work over the last 5 years and say “I had a hand in that” while believing it.

    So I’m working for people in middle management that mainly care about padding their resume. They work for people that could not give a single damn about me. On top of this, it’s all pretend work to make people happy. So I stopped pretending any of this is satisfying

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Is there a place a person could go to find a list of reliably cracked games we can use? Didn’t realize this was possible if I’m being honest and now I’m worried about getting real cracks versus the reposts with a bunch of malware

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    Sorry if this is a repeat but I was just about to go to bed.

    I suspect I’ve saved this image to use as a joke to my family multiple times over the years and never remembered to use it or that it exists until the next time someone posts it here

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Man. I know you are joking. But you are also saying the quiet part out loud that a lot of us are thinking.

    Who would notice if a few compatible with Trump immigrants disappeared at the border? Would you believe their friends? Or would you just assume the cartels got to them?

    That’s always my fear as a minority in the USA post 9/11. Due process seems somewhat gone now too. They could send me to Uganda and people around me (friends and neighbors) would probably assume I did something to deserve it or… not even notice.

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