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Seth Galitzer@nixCraft 27 years in IT. Can confirm this is true.
Samuelrod
AndroidDreamer@nixCraft An old meme. Never not true 💯
kwayk42
DustinEvery. Single. Day.
OGJester has moved@nixCraft I’m not even in tech, and I’m developing this urge.
Maria “indigoviolet” Ivy@nixCraft Isn't that what the neofetch guy did
Lilith Ashley Nyx Arson 
Admiral SnackbärIf I had the money to do so, I'd absolutely live on a self sufficient farm somewhere near my home town.
I want fully automated greenhouses and everything solar powered.
embix@nixCraft @Binder Yeah, a certain GitHub comment also comes to mind. Wanting to leave IT is certainly a strong trope.
https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149477
Joseph Dickson@nixCraft yeah, I went back to communications work. 😂
Martin Rust@nixCraft Linux. Wikipedia. The Fediverse. Openstreetmap. So many other results of nonprofit digital work. That all make the best conceivable use of digital tools. That all make the world better. I will use them and help improving some of them as long as I can.
Brendan Thompson@nixCraft @neilgmacy I have this discussion with myself at least once a week
MacCruiskeen@nixCraft 40 years ago I dropped out of engineering school and got an English degree, and wrote all my papers on an old Selectric. It has always been thus.
StarkRG@nixCraft If I could make everything in my house run on clockwork and steam I absolutely would.
Andreas vom Zwenkauer See@nixCraft True, so true ....
doganursus@nixCraft hm no. Just want to throw out everyone of the Internet or take away the persons computer, who is not able to use it. Or is a mean person.
levampyre@nixCraft Geez, this! (I already bought the land, btw. Farm-building in progress.)
Universal Basic Friend@nixCraft the longer you spend in farming, the more people you meet who are planning 'retire' into an office job.
Kurt@coolandnormal @nixCraft farming is in big parts office job and messing around with computers.
Ian Turton@ianturton @Kurt @nixCraft speaking from experience, there is absolutely nothing bad about working with goats.
Sometimes people say there is, but it always turns out to be a problem with human expectations. Goats are fantastic.
𐑮𐑨𐑛𐑦𐑒𐑩 ·𐑦𐑒𐑕𐑡𐑱@nixCraft is that what having a stock portfolio and savings is like?? 
Marcus "MajorLinux" Summers
FDev@nixCraft thats true, full time job in IT can be physically and mentally draining. It takes time to teach yourself balance with real life, hobby and not trying earning all money on earth...
Peter40 years, and, oh boy! Couldn't be more true.
François @Jura@nixCraft so true... I just bought some land in the countryside
Linda Sgoluppi Artist@nixCraft I think you'll find there's a lot of computers involved in Farms. Sigh.
SiliconFarmer@nixCraft
Having been a farmer and also worked in upper levels of tech...
I can tell you that you probably don't really want to choose farming over tech.
But if you can find a niche in "art", making even a modest income, that can really be a good life.
CarlosR@nixCraft I would in a heartbeat.
hetoug@nixCraft true until you try it. I've been in It over 50 years and at one point switched to farming. That is just backbreaking hard work every day all year. So I switched back to IT and try to relax. And now enjoy my 6 weeks of holiday each year.
Aedius Filmania ⚙️🎮🖊️I work in tech and the farmer industry... And I don't want to have a farm anymore 😂
Licho@nixCraft there's no such thing as "burn out". There's only growth in wisdom.
Julien
Stefan Rower🏴☠️🦊 🇺🇳🐧 🏳️🌈🤝@nixCraft But the people don't care... If you see a member of a bombsquad running, you natrually try t keep up.
But when Tech-Workers visible leaving Big-Tech ... nothing happens.
Same with "There is no cloud, there a computers of other people!"
But when Tech-Workers visible leaving Big-Tech ... nothing happens.
Same with "There is no cloud, there a computers of other people!"
sarpau@nixCraft
You have no idea how right you are I moved to a small town in what we call the snowy mountains bliss
You have no idea how right you are I moved to a small town in what we call the snowy mountains bliss
Daniela Pagenstecher 🇺🇦 🚴♂️ 📚@nixCraft The longer you spend in tech the more money you have to buy a farm...
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE@nixCraft Whoever wrote that should listen to The Archers. They're forever moaning about all the paperwork they have to do on their computers.
Walrus 🏴It's silly. A seven day working week, dawn to well past dusk, judging from the tractor lights in the fields round here. If it's a livestock farm, everything smells of shit, all the time.
I love my nice computers. They sit and wait until I'm ready.
chrisgerhard
Kailas Idavanmuzhi@nixCraft why is this so true lol
Yora@nixCraft The longer you spend in capitalism, the stronger the urge to move to subsistence farming.
The medicine really feels like the only meaningful advantage of modern society.
Manuel Tejera@nixCraft *ConcernedApe approves*
Wilfried KlaebeProblem is, where I live you need a computer to run a farm to do all the necessary paperwork.
David W. Jones@nixCraft Well, those moisture vaporators won't program themselves...
HermitCyclopMy grandparents were farmers, some of my closest family members did agronomical studies/work and I lived in a rural area surrounded by farms for the majority of my life. All that convinced me to never ever try farming as a job at any point in my life, no matter how much working in tech would suck lol.
#I-know-the-suicide-rates #the-illnesses-and-deaths-caused-by-pesticides #the-instabilities-of-a-weather-dependant-work #especially-now-that-global-warming-is-accelerating #rural-ppl-tend-to-be-super-bigoted-too #also-ain't-no-way-I-wake-up-at-6-am-every-day-to-milk-some-cows
Psyhackological@nixCraft Mental Outlaw did this
JoJaSciPoLong ago I learned the hard way to appreciate problems solvable with pencil and paper, compared to needing a computer! Anyway...
"A computer is all well and good. But to do any real work you need a kitchen table".
Also, I haven't owned a printer for 20 years. I hated them as a commercial programmer before I even owned my first, because files to be printed are more complex than any other type of file.
Denny
Florentine Pogen
Tradeless Earth@nixCraft To live in a farm you don't need to buy one, just volunteer at one.
Ask us. 🌿☮️
Ask us. 🌿☮️
Frederic Thevenet@nixCraft I have a different take: the longer you spend in tech, the further away you want to get from the tech industry. Computers play only a purely anecdotal part in this.
Bernd Herd@nixCraft I'm an independent software developer for 33 years now and I love doing this. There is nothing else I'd prefer.
The longer I work in tech, the more the thought of the unevitable retirement due to old age comes to mind...
At least it has the advantage that nobody can force me to do what I don't like like using Microsoft Teams.
Aphrodite (recharging)as someone currently on a farm and attempting to build up their personal library this is so damnably true