> if I am talking with developers/sysadmin there are some things that I would expect to be interesting The cool thing about technology is that there is progres

> if I am talking with developers/sysadmin there are some things that I would expect to be interesting The cool thing about technology is that there is progress. We can do more, we can do it faster, easier, better, etc. Twiddling with the same shoddy tools from decades past is the opposite of that. A long time ago IRC was a cool new capability that was worth putting effort into setting up and using. These days all the hacks and workarounds involved are still required, but all they get you is an inferior chat platform. So, no. The tech that excites me are the new ideas and inventions that people are coming up with today, not some chat platform that is older than I am.