I could use this going the other way: Put one of these near an information radiator to kick it out of doze mode.
USB jiggler is designed for this use case.
Daytripper
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
For sure. But that is working. I'm talking about all these stories of trying to prevent their boss from catching them playing games or surfing the web etc. If I did that I would fall way behind the work that needs to get done. That's why I wonder if maybe I'm missing something about other people's work days. Because, not only is it kind of sad, it also seems like actual criminal fraud to lie to people about what you…
Assuming you are salaried, you are paid to solve problems, not run out the clock. Personally, I often have what I suppose you could think of as a "priority queue" of things going on in my head. Some of those may not be work related. If I have something "high priority" that I cannot get my mind off of, it is to everyone's benefit that I take care of that item so I can get on to work-related tasks. I think being distra…
> It is just incredibly difficult to be actively providing value for a full work day.
Then go home? Otherwise you are just lying to your employer and perpetuating a false pretense that their employees are being productive for a full day.
If I'm not being productive and I can't finish any more work, I just go home. I don't sit there and lie about what I'm doing and pretend to be doing something I'm not.
I should clarify that my issue is about faking it. Needing a boss button to hide what you were actually doing.
Also, we all know that software developers are not really salaried employees. It was a loophole created after IBM lost a lawsuit. After some lobbying we were made explicitly exempt. So we really are just paid to "run out the clock". We are not managers or administrative people. We just do labor like any other tradesperson.
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#73If you are able to slack off at work like this, is there something that you would rather be doing with your time? I am not judging. I've worked at places where I spent 75% of my day slacking off because the management and bureaucracy was terrible. After months of doing that, I started hating the job. I can only check facebook/reddit/pick your poison, for so long before I want to throw my computer out a window out of…
There’s an entire book written about this phenomenon, called Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you don't mind me asking, how do get all of your work done? Are you standing by on-call in case something goes wrong? Are you waiting on someone to deliver assets required for your next task? Do you lie about how long it takes to complete tasks? Honestly curious as I cannot remember a time where I had the free time to just screw around for any meaningful portion of my day.
A lot of jobs (even as developers) in large companies have a positive correlation between butt in seat time and the perception of getting work done, but there usually isn’t enough work to do to fill the entire time. Most people work jobs that they aren’t truly passionate about.
But again, why lie about it?
Re: Daytripper
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Assuming you are salaried, you are paid to solve problems, not run out the clock. Personally, I often have what I suppose you could think of as a "priority queue" of things going on in my head. Some of those may not be work related. If I have something "high priority" that I cannot get my mind off of, it is to everyone's benefit that I take care of that item so I can get on to work-related tasks. I think being distra…
> It is just incredibly difficult to be actively providing value for a full work day. Then go home? Otherwise you are just lying to your employer and perpetuating a false pretense that their employees are being productive for a full day. If I'm not being productive and I can't finish any more work, I just go home. I don't sit there and lie about what I'm doing and pretend to be doing something I'm not. I should clari…
You have an interesting view of the world. We must work under very different circumstances.
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#77If you are able to slack off at work like this, is there something that you would rather be doing with your time? I am not judging. I've worked at places where I spent 75% of my day slacking off because the management and bureaucracy was terrible. After months of doing that, I started hating the job. I can only check facebook/reddit/pick your poison, for so long before I want to throw my computer out a window out of…
Why do nothing, when you could instead get a second (remote) job and then make 200% salary by doing your second job during your first job's working hours?
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
> * Execute a custom script rm -rf /*
Reading this written on a screen stresses me out a little bit. Just knowing that you likely typed those letters on your keyboard...
I read somewhere this doesn't really work anymore on common distros for reasons I don't remember. Not that I'm gonna test it.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have always been curious.. is there a better way of accomplishing this?
Start by not relying on Full Disk Encryption, which you should absolutely have enabled but should probably, from an OPSEC perspective, pretend does not exist. On modern operating systems you can generally mount and unmount virtual encrypted volumes that are open (ideally) only when you're actually using them to do work with their contents. There used to be a great macOS tool, called Knox, that did this graphically.
> On modern operating systems you can generally mount and unmount virtual encrypted volumes that are open (ideally) only when you're actually using them to do work with their contents. There used to be a great macOS tool, called Knox, that did this graphically.
Cryptomator [1], cross-platform as well.