that post would get me banned from bluesky so fast lmao

i have a lot of anger surrounding tech, a thing i used to love with all my heart

@eniko big same

@eniko Yeah me too :/

@eniko yeah pretty much

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place same

@alice @eniko

I love things about it that are being ignored for pure profit. i don’t think tech is done, but most folks rather let others tell em how to use things than be curious cause according to this system curiosity shouldn’t pay

@cyberquixote @alice @eniko very far from done, so many things can be improved, but everyone just shrugs

@SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @cyberquixote@infosec.exchange it's not done, but seems people who want to improve things are a minority now

@SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt @eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place @cyberquixote@infosec.exchange looking at how eagerly the foss world adopted slop machines, for example

@alice @eniko @cyberquixote yeag

@cyberquixote @alice @eniko When curiosity hasn't been ground out of people by school, anyway.

@alice @eniko same :(

@eniko the possibilities of tech have been answered with the miseries of the tech bro.

@eniko aye

@eniko fr 😢

@eniko where I'm at right now is I basically want this industry to die and just think it would be funny if a product we made was what did it in.

@eniko and I'd be fine in a hollowed-out ecosystem because, unlike techbros and investors, I'm not allergic to "small potatoes." (I'd also be fine doing something that's not computers). By all means, let's make it impossible to ever charge for software. My personal vendetta is against corporations that exploit artists, like Adobe. Let them turn into a brand for a photo backup service owned by Alibaba.

@eniko
anger around the destruction of something you love is valid and a sign of that love

@eniko Sigh, yeah, yeah...

@eniko Same. Usually followed by days of procrastination and a profound feeling of burnout.

@eniko Make computers dorky again

@eniko feeling the same. It sucks to have something you loved changed to an unrecognizable state out from under you.

@eniko I can relate to that very much!

@eniko Yeah, I’m pretty angry about how shitty everything to do woth tech has gotten, and the last year has just been everything racing to get worse. Wish I’d done a trade as a hobby instead of more computer.

@eniko Since retiring, I've been looking back and thinking we should have left the goddamn rocks in the ground instead of teaching them to think.

@eniko @ErickaSimone *same*.

@eniko ...with horror I realize I may in fact be turning into my father in at least one aspect

@eniko "that post would get me banned from Bluesky so fast" is a sign it's a good thing I never went back.

@eniko when you think about it from a JOB CREATION standpoint, the socially responsible thing to do is vandalize data centers until they have to employ full time on site security.