Microsoft and Apple are both privacy-disregarding monopolistic megacorporations. The difference is Microsoft is slowly degrading in competence and their PR machine is no longer able to compensate

Where you’re at now sounds particularly bad, but having worked fully remotely for a few years myself, it definitely isn’t guaranteed to be better for your work-life balance. It’s difficult to separate the two spheres for one thing, and you can still end up in a situation where you may get requests, messages and pings come through at any time, constantly.

I’ve worked for roughly half a dozen employers so far. In my experience an employer may SAY they value employee work-life balance, that’s no guarantee they actually will. They may also genuinely believe they prioritise it, but still fall hugely short of what other employers can offer.

Fuck burnout culture though. Also fuck teams that celebrate “heroes”

Yes and in fact I do. Unfortunately it doesn’t help with the sense of “rigidity” of the schedule and how draining it is

Yep, my experience exactly. It’s mostly because I can define my own hours when working for myself. But also - When I’m working for someone else there’s also a nagging feeling that I’m pissing away my life force if I go as much as a single hour over.

Praise the sunaurus!

Working “full time”. I love what I actually do at work (generally) but like… doing it 9-6 five days a week is so fucking draining. It feels like working defined hours for the sake of working in those hours. Obviously for most jobs the hours spent working do matter, but for software development it may actually be counterproductive as being tired fucks up your productivity hard

How much content do you have? It can only do so much when the options are few lol

It’s not just wealth that “success” refers to, it also includes social expectations (both from within and from others). At least that’s how I see it

3 days of intensive treatment. That’ll sort ya

But… where does the cabbage come from o_o

To DVD!

Device? All instances of torrent clients I use run in Kubernetes pods. I then access my Linux ISOs over NFS shares hooked up as PersistentVolume mounts

Loooool I love it

synthetic ass 🤤

For 2024 especially it’s pretty fucking bad yeah. I’m really not a handheld guy but in 2016 it didn’t seem as terrible. Only ever used mine out of its dock for a total of a couple hours

SPAWN MORE OVERLORDS!!!

My most recent dream was super abstract… which isn’t uncommon, but this one was really out there.

I was trying to draw some weird oval glyph things with an e pencil or something. The stroke of the pencil was super thin and the colour was like medium blue on black background.

At some point I realised that these glyph things represented a set of HTTP requests and I was trying to set up a Postman collection with them…

Then I had the sensation of feeling really cold, and also like I was in space or something

Yeah I dunno either lol

Damn I wanna see Hephaestus in a dream!

DDC… Dead Dragon Carcass?

> VPN

> by Google

> Gets shut down

You literally can’t make this stuff up folks