I take stock.

What are my personal positive achievements?

Where am I right now, is it a good place?

It doesn’t have to be my final destination, but is it good?

If I strip away all the fringe and lingering bullshit, am I safe and happy in this specific point in time?

Like right now: I am on the couch drinking coffee on a Saturday morning. I have three dogs with me. I am safe and I am loved.

What happens tomorrow is future zombie_kong’s problem. Not todays.

Edit: you got this. It’s nothing. A mere blip in this adventure we call living.

My opinion is that if you give a shit about how and where you spend your time, you will not support a platform run by and inhabited by dickheads.

Vote with your feet, or thumbs in this case.

Nope. I can stop whenever I like.

Fully in control.

Nothing to see here.

Ah, the humans.

On one hand they’re all for peace and unity but on the other hand they’re still using platforms owned by a man who had a hand in orchestrating military killings, swinging the US elections, facilitating Brexit etc and a man who, amongst other things, has been photographed partying with Maxwell, Murdoch, Trump and all the other evil fucks.

I feel this.

What is the actual point of publishing knowledge bases and documentation if nobody reads them?

If you’re not feeling 100%, take a day.

Variables being: do you like your job?

Is your employer a fair employer?

Will the business crumble if you’re not there? I mean, if it does, that’s a company problem, not a you problem.

You should be working to live, not the other way around.

They’ve really fucked that place.

Such a shame.

Anyway…

My biggest problem is figuring out what I want to do with any coding skills. I have none, by the way, and I don't even know where to start.

Some of the usual responses when I state this:

"Automate your work" - I work in Salesforce. Have you seen Salesforce? I'm not a multi faceted systems administrator constantly updating DNS records or working in Active Directory.

"Write a cool app" - What cool app? What is "cool"?

"Open dev tools and look around" - Why? Specifically, why?

Also, learning programming is BORING. Most of the courses I've tried are so so stale and they aaallll end up explaining concepts in the same way.

"This is a fleeble and it holds the sping, the sping tells the plus plus that it must do what the herbug says".

k.

Try not to injure yourselves whilst celebrating.

I'm not alone.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20255

Compute was never an issue. I had my instance hosted on Hetzner and it ran just fine.

My concern is the storage, as described above, constantly checking disk space, cronjobs, purging etc etc

And whether I host a single user or a multi user instance is neither here or there. My question still stands.

No downvotes. I use BAMO.

Block and move on.

I’m here for memes and boobs, ain’t nobody got time for dickheads.

B.A.M.O

Block and Move On.

Just go outside.

Dear god.

You really don’t.

Love it. This is an example of what decentralized means.

Everyone working together towards a common goal.

Correct, that's pretty much it.

I like that.

Life can be overwhelming. Small adjustments can go a long way.

Windows. Because I can run WSL alongside the industry standard business tools such as Outlook etc.

It’s the best of both worlds for me.

This is exactly what we’re planning.

I am done done done with the pressure, the incessant need for connection, only to reach out and find that people on the whole are just fucked up.

Where are the relatively normal people?

The measured people, the people who do not have a insane opinion about guns or politics or how people should live their lives?

Where are the people who know right from wrong? Good from evil?

It’s tiresome. I want to be friends with a donkey, stare at some landscape and see my days out in peace.

Have a nice sit down.

The EU needs to hurry up and legalise it.

There’s a cool book called The Ministry of Food or something by yer man Jamie Oliver.

Taught me a thing or two.

Tasty dishes, simple recipes.

Speaking of cool projects; build a lemmy app. It can be console app for simplicity.

Not a bad shout. I see wefwef is a webapp. That could be worth exploring.

Thanks.

Oh god no, not Salesforce. No no no.

All of our other products.

Carrot. I’m making a carrot cake today.

My job.

Sometimes I plan to eat breakfast and / or lunch but I get into my stride and forget. Coffee and adrenaline usually keeps me going.

I might grab some toast or a quick sandwich during the day but usually my largest meal is dinner and we make sure we eat as healthy as we can.

Big dinners with vegetables and minerals and all that good stuff.

Then we demolish whatever sweet thing is in the house.

Rinse and repeat.

I'm not giving up a 20+ year career in IT just because I haven't yet found a way to learn how to code.

There's more than one way to teach a subject and it would be nice to have even a basic understanding of the mess I am supposed to be supporting,

Mental. I start seeing sounds after 5-6 hours straight driving.

It’s the worst.

Trying to make friends as an adult is hard work!

All these political opinions, skewed world views, left and right biases.

I just want to hang out with some other like minded people.

Zero fucking tolerance.

None.

It’s shit like this that fucks a place up.

Get a grip.