Same thing for mechanics. My dad has wrenched for 45 years and you should see what he drives lol

I have a windows install for bf6 sadly

Goya

It used to run on this arm chip though. They killed 32 bit support is the problem.

Lol l4d ran natively until recently. Should have brought my steam deck.

Didn’t really see any this year.

But when I was 15 my mom woke me up on April fools bright and early. Said there are important looking men in suits at the front door asking for you. Something about what you have been downloading

I’ve never been so scared in my entire fucking life. Glorious prank

Gaming on Mac is infuriating. I brought my MacBook air to my parents last time thinking I could use it to play left 4 dead with mom. Which used to run at 120 fps. Now it doesn’t run at all. Lol

As a lifelong datacenter tech it really sucks seeing what monster this has all become. And I don’t know what else I would do to pay the bills.

I was thinking about this while I was on my hike yesterday. Weird. I was picturing a mushroom cloud emerging somewhere over the puget sound and thinking about what I would do.

Yeah the last time I tried manjaro years ago it kept breaking but I thought that was just the linux experience at the time haha

What happened?

Weird, I was looking at my dusty xbox one on the shelf yesterday and I looked up if it was hackable yet. It would make such a good TV PC.

Some of the bands I like are comprised of literal murderers

They have a rack in my datacenter and it’s the exact same servers haha

People like me are required to keep this AI empire going. There doesn’t seem to be a huge pool of people who are both computer people and good at physical labour/using tools.

I just meant that AI isn’t going to make me unemployed

I do a lot of system administration too. It depends on the system and who owns it. I do a pretty wide variety of work which is why I love it

We had facilities monkeys like you describe but after a reorg they gave those responsibilities to whichever sysadmins showed the most interest, which is how I got the job. I’d rather play with toys than stare at a screen all day so the jump was a no brainer to me

Uh yeah this is kind of the human experience

If you ever figure out what the path is let me know cuz any employable skills I have are going to be jobs affected by AI

It ain’t trades because literally everyone is going to do that when AI kills all the other jobs

My datacenter doesn’t host AI. Most of my servers process data coming from the square kilometer array in Australia. We’re looking for aliens

Problem is, cost of living is so extremely high where I live and I don’t know what else I would do to make enough money to stay here. I’m really good at this job, and I don’t have very many other talents

It could be a lot worse too. Our cooling system is a closed loop so we aren’t using fuck tons of water like newer datacenters. In the winter we can mostly get away with air cooling from outside air. And the power in my city is all from hydro dams

I work in a datacenter. I rack servers, I look after the cooling system, the generators, the ups’s, etc. I won’t ever be replaced by AI. Without me there is no AI. And I barely interact with it. I play with toys all day.

The environmental impacts still bother me. But IT has always been wasteful, even before AI. I hate recycling days when I see exactly how much plastics, styrofoam and metals are going to the dump.

The fact that you can filter by height but not weight says it all