Sysadmin

My first experiences with computers started when I was in Junior High around '79. It was a total nerd hobby, almost "underground ". Now I see it for what it is. Gadgets become necessities and we become enslaved to them. We have to stop chasing our tails

My enthusiasm after I got my new (at the time) GPU: damn, this raytracing stuff looks cool

Me after upgrading my GPU: damn, this 2013 game runs at a billion fps

It's the small things for me now, phones though, that shit gets me depressed (apart from some new ZTE models I would never buy and a trend of repairable stuff, bring back motorized front cameras and audio jacks you cowards)

I've felt much of the same things. It's depressing. The Internet used to be cool. Tech used to be cool.

Fortunately, I've been doing more things in the real world. I've been fixing up an old car. It's fun to drive it even though it's slow and noisy and hilariously unsafe. I've been practicing archery with my kid. We are both getting decent. I've been writing more. I have been raising chickens, I now have 14 lovely girls who give me and my neighbors free eggs, and one bigass hateful rooster that keeps them safe. Lastly I've been teaching myself drone photography. I've been building a meshtastic network on my area.

So the Internet used to be cool but... I've decided that I'm going to just have to be cool instead.

Oh do I feel you. I've been into IT most of my life and using Linux for about 15 years now. Professional Sysadmin for ~10 years.

I loathed crypto but AI is really the Band oft my existance. While everyone around me (not in technical fields) has been toying/working with ChatGPT and the like I've never actually touched an LLM (except for automatically through Gemini and the like) but it's getting impossible to ignore.

My hope is that the AI bubble will eventually burst and while LLMs as tools (like assistant for writing documents/mails etc.) will probably be here to stay the "Now with AI" buzzword bingo will hopefully end?

As for keeping the Joy I am so lucky as to work in a Field where we still do most things manually and Provisioning Laptops or the Occasional server still is done free from any AI. For my own projects I also focus on what I need and can provide on my on infrastructure. I self host a Nextcloud and have a little Jellyfin Server which always are an opportunity for some improvements/maintenance which is after still a hobby of mine. But in the end they simply fulfill a function.

I'm still cool with tech, but only if there is a radical shift in how it's being used and integrated into society as a whole. In my view, people are using tech as a crutch or substitute to supplement the limitations of biology. IMHO that is the wrong way to go about it.

The disgusting weaknesses of the flesh should not be supported by technology, but should instead be supplanted by it. The purity of the machine is not a stepping stone to some higher enlightened state, it IS the enlightened state. At the same time, we must shun the heresy of the Abominable Intelligence and instead wed the purity of true thought and knowledge to a vessel that is capable of fully encompassing its divinity.

The crude biomass which is generally held to be a temple is nothing more than the result of random trial and error. Inevitably it will fail. In that moment, only those who aspire to the perfection of the machine and the blessed strength of steel will receive salvation.

I serve the Omnissiah.

Mine has been helpdesk>sysengineer>network engineer>hgv driver. I still tinker for fun but I hate working with computers now

Tech is fun only when it's on your side.

Same here. Specifically, I do still love technology and all sorts of STEM subjects, but I have no excitement for tech products.

I'm 31, been a sysadmin for over 10 years and I've been enjoying work more than ever. I hate AI but it is very exciting at the same time.

All the frontend frameworks like RoR and hearing how the startups were built on them was awesome. It just seemed more creative since schools were still teaching java etc. the good times ended and capitalism does it's thing again.