I dont use Spotify or Netflix either but I also dont walk around naked. Some things are just bad for us.

Im also 50 and working out, definently worth it. It not even difficult to lift some weights 3 times per week.

Ive been doing it for a year and im happy with the dumbbell chest press. Got up to 32 kilo per hand and will try to get that higher this year.

Ive experienced that too :) These companies that make training videos for employees, seems like anyone could succeed there. Literally no quality, but thats fine, the manager gets his checkbox checked, all employees trained.

But I went to use OpenOffice, not watch it do its thing in the background…

I like reading those actually. Its always interesting to see people leave and why they do it. And many of the reasons can be summed up with how its not worth it anymore.

Since i left tech myself after 25 years also. :)

Techno fascism is a thing. But thats not why I left. I just didnt like AI being forced into the culture. Changed the entire profession from creating solutions to asking for solutions.

They have nothing consumers want.

Yeah it is but I guess there is nothing anyone can do about it now. People wont admit it but they know thats how most or all programmers will work in the future.

Yeah but foss has its own problems. Mainly financing. People are expected to work for free on most open source projects, and some do because they enjoy it. I do that myself too. Its fun.

But foss doesnt create products that require a lot of funding to get off the ground.

Its nice with chat bots like chat gpt but companies who bet on their own Ai… Or who believe they will be the next billion dollar Ai startup… I dont believe in any of that.

I think we pretty much have seen what is going to come from Ai. Chat bots. People will pay for those, specially programmers. But also other people. Outside of that… I cant see much value to pay for. Nothing in fact.

I stopped enjoying writing code completely, but its been interesting to watch everyone else who started to enjoy it MORE with Ai.

It seems to be a certain group of programmers who always were more motivated by getting the result out the door than the experience of putting code together in a certain way.

I suspect the era of high salaries as a programmer is over, since companies now feel they can replace people even easier.

To me, I dont care if my friends remember my birthday. I care if they are genuine friends and I have good conversations and laughs around them.

Someone remembering your birthday is just them putting a reminder in the calendar. Doesnt mean much, not to me at least.

So you have an actual human connection to these people? Friends could have a laugh over forgetting someones birthday, because its built on a real connection that doesnt go away over missing the small things.

“they required you”

Have you never thought that you can actually NOT do these things?

I mean, sure, maybe you had a good reason and you felt it was fine. But I wonder how many people just do what the screen tells them without realizing they can actually say no and be ok with the consequences.

Are they the police?

Would never upload picture to American big tech service and im surprised people think thats something they agree to. I guess the addiction is too strong, to these shitty services.

Thanks copie.

Copilot created this patch with pride.

Winter is beautiful. I take daily walks near the forest and it can be better looking than in summer.

The complexity of everything is just ridiculous now.

And its a moving target with constant new things to try and learn, as quickly as possible, while doing your already full time job.

I dont know. I think working in tech is definently mostly for 20-30 year olds now. When you have that desire to prove how smart you are, and the energy to learn everything.

The endless meetings and the return to office has also really killed a lot of good things about the job.

Doesnt really work in practice. If a community exists on Lemmy world, you are not going to have success running the same community somewhere else.

Its just the nature of things. Even Lemmy is mostly centralized to large instances, despite its federated technology.

Yeah im currently on a sabbatical and I dont think I will go back to working in tech.

But ive been working with it for 25 years in different roles. Im just tired of seeing the same thing being reinvented again and again under different names.

I dont feel excited about micro services or AI or blockchain. Its just more and more complexity all the time and its exhausting, not interesting.

Also the culture has changed. It used to be a fun profession for figuring out how to write the code to solve something. Now its telling agents what to do, and pressure to always work hard.

It wasnt like that before. The company needed your skills and they couldnt push or replace people very easily. Which meant they treated you well and didnt stress you.

Yeah stuff like that. Or “where is bennet? He is letting off some steam”. :)