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Dealing with garbage tech is what brings me down. Completely broken, unusable garbage software is everywhere, backed by egos, emotions, power plays, and entrenc

Dealing with garbage tech is what brings me down. Completely broken, unusable garbage software is everywhere, backed by egos, emotions, power plays, and entrenchment. That's the part I don't want to deal with. The only thing worse than having to deal with a bunch of idiots is having to deal with a bunch of things made by them. It pisses me off how broken everything is and how few people seem to take issue with it. Everything is like this. Sturgeon's law is everywhere. Once I can somehow push those things out of my life, I'm good.

myself248 6y ago
This is why I save my vacation days up and take a big chunk once or twice a year, instead of frittering away fridays and mondays to have little "long weekends" throughout the year, as I did in the past. I discovered that, after 4 or 5 days of staycation, I've handled most of the crap that was hanging over my head. I've caught up on laundry, done whatever administrative stuff I had been procrastinating about, and I can finally start to relax. Which is to say, pursue leisure activities without feeling like there's something else I should be doing. Being able to unplug from the day-job allows me to disconnect from a lot of that garbage tech and its frustration factors, and dedicate long periods of concentration to in-depth tasks that might not yield immediate payback. When I only have a few hours in the evening to put towards a task, I tend towards things with short-term payback, so I don't feel like I wasted the evening. That keeps me from really hacking on stuff in my spare time.
- blaser-waffle 6y ago
  I'm super into the 3-day weekends, but I also agree with the extra long vacation-staycation thing, where you can just "be" for a while. Like 4 days of nothin & puttering around, followed by 2 days of cleaning & finally attending to {X,Y,Z}.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
Oh man do I know the feeling. I said to my boss not that long ago something along the lines of "modern software has taught me to hate technology". I day dream about leaving my career for something else. I'd even take a significant pay cut for it.
anthk 6y ago
Get OpenBSD/Slackware, set XFCE as your main DE. With that and a bunch of tools you won't come back.

myself248 6y ago

This is why I save my vacation days up and take a big chunk once or twice a year, instead of frittering away fridays and mondays to have little "long weekends" throughout the year, as I did in the past. I discovered that, after 4 or 5 days of staycation, I've handled most of the crap that was hanging over my head. I've caught up on laundry, done whatever administrative stuff I had been procrastinating about, and I can finally start to relax. Which is to say, pursue leisure activities without feeling like there's something else I should be doing. Being able to unplug from the day-job allows me to disconnect from a lot of that garbage tech and its frustration factors, and dedicate long periods of concentration to in-depth tasks that might not yield immediate payback. When I only have a few hours in the evening to put towards a task, I tend towards things with short-term payback, so I don't feel like I wasted the evening. That keeps me from really hacking on stuff in my spare time.

blaser-waffle 6y ago
I'm super into the 3-day weekends, but I also agree with the extra long vacation-staycation thing, where you can just "be" for a while. Like 4 days of nothin & puttering around, followed by 2 days of cleaning & finally attending to {X,Y,Z}.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago

Oh man do I know the feeling. I said to my boss not that long ago something along the lines of "modern software has taught me to hate technology". I day dream about leaving my career for something else. I'd even take a significant pay cut for it.

anthk 6y ago

Get OpenBSD/Slackware, set XFCE as your main DE. With that and a bunch of tools you won't come back.