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This (tech) career has proven to be so disappointing, and it's all the stuff around the actual work. I love working on computers. Started my career in the decade of offshoring and …

I'm celebrating it today. No idea who is replacing her but I am ecstatic.

lol I absolutely do not want non digital goods nor pirating. Ever. It's 2025. I don't have a cdplayer, a tape player, a blue ray player, I don't even know what the most modern "blu…

I deleted my facebook account about 10 years ago. Downloaded data, deleted. Not deactivated. Nothing in my life made me ever want to go back except for when I got back into playing…

Webhosting is one of the most scammy shitty industries. I worked in it for 15 years. Do not give that industry any sort of benefit of the doubt. There are good companies but there …

You should never look up potential domain names at the big registrars. Or most registrars. Or any registrars. They'll buy it out from under you if it generates enough attention. Th…

Not that it doesn't happen but I've worked in datacenters, including our favorite clouds, and cdn/video architecture for 15 years and have never seen servers replaced on any cadenc…

I've assumed he thought it would damage the FBI/CIA/someone he's dismantling. I'm a millennial so I didn't grow up with it but I can't explain how little I care. JFK was born in 19…

I don't know the minutia and I'm thankfully nowhere near the webhosting industry any longer but Wordpress dominated my life for almost 20 years- I'm pretty sure it can be summed up…

And WordPress can thank CPanel and the tens of thousands of customer support and sysadmins that supported millions of WordPress users at $9/mo for a decade and have never once inte…

Eh, I make tooling for a living. It sucks to have nobody using your tools even if they were fun to make. You spend months/years putting something out there that you think will real…

I can't imagine getting an engineering job at an engineering company and asking them if I'd be allowed to create an opensource IDE that would never be a sold product. I can barely …

I feel bad that I feel this way but I really dislike them, but I can't believe those gamer chairs became the mainstream chair to see over the last few years. A few years ago they w…

I was 6-teens in hampton /vabeach (84), i didn't have friends IRL doing anything with computers ever as a kid. Computer stuff was considered super nerdy. Dad was army so he'd be go…

I was a kid in Virginia in the 80-90s and never got to do any of this stuff, but I was on irc and I saw people all over california and in college doing lan parties. Made me so jeal…

Paywalled but from the comments here it sounds like this is moving near your HS friends? Absolutely not. Nothing in common with them. If this is more about living in a more dense a…

This entire industry is something I feel like I understand 2% of and every time I make progress to get to 10% (3 months later) some massive change happens and all the terminology c…

My big takeaway from this is that War Thunder is only 200 employees. I know this is a massive income generating game so I'm googling around.. I found this post from Dec 2023 that h…

I have about 30 years as a linux eng, starting with openbsd and have spent a LOT of time with hardware building webhosts and CDNs until about 2020 where my last few roles have been…

I use them for a bunch of things on a bunch of different devices/OSes and one light frustration I've had is I've accidentally stored a few of them in different apps because I'll be…