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   ??? 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving: (nyx@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 16:19:54 JST ??? 妛彁 :xf_nyxsigil: :xf_nyxdisapproving:

   • mia
   @mia sysadmin is kinda nice because unlike with programming there's no bullshit pretense that you're making some super important innovative software. it's basically just being a janitor
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 16:21:50 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • mia
     @nyx @mia Well there can be the bullshit pretense that you're managing important shit.
     (And for me a sysadmin job would be an instant trip to something like being a alt.sysadmin.recovery poster)
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 16:33:04 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • mia
     @nyx @mia For me it's more that I'd seriously end up being an angry shit that hates people, I'd rather be a hermit.
     
     Software being crap is a normal one, although that's a bit why I'm a dev as an occupation (rather than like employment which I rarely have…). So make them a bit less shit, at least for myself.
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     • mia
     @lanodan @mia I think I can deal with it more easily because I already think that the unix-like paradigm is complete garbage anyways. it is possible for programming languages to be good and to write good software, but there are no good operating systems aside from very niche dead ones
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     @untyped @lanodan @mia tbf it's not just that but there was a period where I was doing some full-stack (Java backend + React frontend) contract work and holy shit I never want to do modern webdev shit again. I never thought I'd say that Java was comparatively actually not that bad
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     ∀α. ⊥ → α (untyped@insufferable.tools)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 17:26:35 JST ∀α. ⊥ → α

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     • mia
     @nyx @lanodan @mia
     >doing programming for work made me actually suicidal
     
     Wait it's working as a coder that's causing that?
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     • mia
     @lanodan @mia working in tech in general is best avoided tbf but I can deal with it more easily for sysadmin. doing programming for work made me actually suicidal
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     wlo (wizard@xyzzy.link)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 19:00:30 JST wlo

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     • mia
     @lanodan @nyx @mia sysadmin here. i'd imagine as a programmer you don't get calls right before bed to fix the servers because the company is losing $400k/hr, all because the ceo of your company emailed his password to john bitcoin expecting to get free money.
     
     your network is a constantly mutating ship of theseus that nobody knows how hard you work to keep it floating. and it always has to be floating.
     
     im too tired to write this rn but basically sysadmining has deleted all of my respect for anyone who works within 10 feet of a computer that isn't technically literate. and programmers of proprietary enterprise software.
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     • mia
     @wizard @nyx @mia Yup, this is exactly why I don't.
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     • mia
     @wizard @lanodan @mia being on call and dealing with end users are definitely the shitty things about having to do sysadmin. something about programming just is intolerable to me because it's like I'm being forced into being complicit with the sorts of problems that sysadmins end up having to deal with, because no companies write good software
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