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Well, it's driven me to Debian.

I don't want any sort of device or appliance in my home that requires an internet connection that doesn't get a long time of security updates. My old printer died and they're so bad now I just don't have one. I'm going back to a dumb flip phone because this one's battery s dying. I use everything I can without spending money because I've never had a lot to spend to try and maintain my privacy. I keep spam email for the random site that wants you to enter one. The IoT is cancerous, it creates huge security holes because these appliance manufacturers don't care about security one iota. I have worked in IT for 15 years professionally with over that personal experience. I hate what the internet has become, I want something more akin to the 2000s back or at least the scrubbing of corporate mandates cut out. It's actually more dangerous to be on it because of advertisements. I would still have internet and gaming PCs regardless, but I want tech that's basic and functional.

Worked in tech for 18 years, now I fix rust old cars and try not to touch computers beyond looking up wiring diagrams and replacement parts.

I can confirm. I learned real quick in college working a part-time help desk job for the University that I attended that I under no circumstances want to work in IT at any level or program because they are both thankless and stressful career paths -- when tech works, then why do we need you and when it breaks, why do we have you is all the "leaders" ask in many companies because they do not have a basic understanding how any of the IT systems function, hardware lifecycles, etc.

Agree with the sentiment. Solar and print farms might be part of the picture though.

The tech worker pipeline:

help desk > sysadmin > CISO > goat farmer

I disagree. 20 plus years in tech. Never wanted a farm, and I still love tech.

Confirmed, although I've been looking at 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)

I think most people feel like Ron at the end of office space.

Can confirm 100.42%

I'm retiring from an IT position with a public college at the end of the month. I sure AF don't plan on doing any programming for shits 'n' giggles.

Yeah. But I think most of us would only last 2 days on a farm, and then come screaming back to comfortable office life.

A tech job to fund a pivot into ranching sounds like a fun plan

Stardew Valley in a nutshell

Nah. I can understand why someone would think that way, but the more I work with tech the more I want to mod or jailbreak my own stuff so it doesn't suck

There's different types of people in tech.
Some of my colleagues have elaborate home labs built from hardware discarded at work, and when there's kitty litter on the floor, their cleaning robot sends an email to the fridge to buy a new pack.
I have one laptop running Slackware, a vegetable garden, and I've actually considered buying a goat.

Especially when having to deal with Microsoft.

Can confirm, though it's mostly because tech workers are so de-politicized that they don't realize they would have the power to change things if they acted collectively -- so they do the "next best" thing, remove themselves from the equation.

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.

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.

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.

I work I tech and have a small nature sanctuary. Why not both? We get high speed internet out here now 🤣

Weird choice of pic for this post. That's a mountain lake. Terrible place for a farm, even if one was for sale and you could afford it.

Nope.

Grew up having a huge garden (~1 acre) to help feed us all. Last thing I want to do is farm later in life, fuck that.

I'll keep a small garden, but keeping any animals is right the fuck out. I know first hand how much effort it all is.

Tech is fine - in the end it's like any other work... You're a salesman for your field, regardless of what it is. Plumbers have to educate every customer, because most people know fuck all about plumbing.

I dream of quitting my job owning a game every day. Been in tech for 20 years. Would likely still have a gaming rig, but if I could never work on software again, and could sustain myself and my family, I would take that in a heart beat.

Not really. But the more you understand tech, the less you like the high tech market solutions and have the urge to have the same but in opensource.

I kinda dream that one day setups for mid-power home AI racks would be affordable enough to drop all the proprietary AIs and start automating my daily routines with agents & helping me build my local knowledge vector database with AI embeddings. No way in hell I'm exposing anything like that to thirdparties.

I work in automotive.

My livelihood depends on people crashing their cars because they are idiots.

People not servicing their cars is also a great money spinner because parts sales lost to missed services are made up by parts sales from breakdowns due to lack or servicing.

I wish people would service their cars regularly, drive safely and not be idiots.

ADAS is also zero-sum because drivers with ADAS are more complainant and just as likely to crash. ADAS just creates more idiotic idiots. (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems).

I work in Automotive because I didn’t want to work in Tech anymore.

It’s sad how integrated with tech that farming has become.

Sort of

I still love open source software and tinkering and building my own software

Anything closed source can go pound a bag of dicks

Fuck no.

Nah, not really. I just want to spend more time working on my own projects.

The Stardew Valley pipeline is real.

Harboured a lifelong passion for computers. Having it as my job for 13 years made me lose much of that passion. To the young'uns: if you love something, consider whether you want to separate between what you do to pay for food and bills, and what makes you heart shine.