I believe if there is a heaven and I end up there, I'll be surrounded by computers I can play with on end without anyone bothering me. If there's a hell and I end up there, I'll be surrounded by people who need help with their computer.

[–] jorge@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Fake nerd. Real nerds enjoy fixing computer problems.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Have you not had friends or family come to you to solve their computer problems? Their problems are almost always some tedious, boring, “How do I make program X do thing Y?” It’s just a technical literacy skill check (how well can you navigate modern apps) not an actual “do you know how computers work” problem. Tedious as fuck. God save me from that shit.

If my girlfriend was a programmer bringing me some interesting technical problem, maybe. But even then, I spend 8 hours dealing with that shit, the chances that I want to deal with more of it after work are slim.

[–] imjustmsk@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

lol, my friends think I'm some kind of hacker or some shit. All I do is, cry about my hyprland configs breaking after an update.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I’ve had more than my fair share of people thinking I’m a wizard because I’m good at hunting down information and applying it. At my last job it got to the point where people either thought I was IT or that I was the magic computer wizard of Ox or something. “Hey, is Jira down?” “IDK, I’m not IT…” “Can you restart it?” “No, because I’m not IT…” But then I’d tell them who could actually help them so they’d always come back to me the next time they had a problem.

[–] jorge@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You are the Wizard of Oz? Weak. I am the wizard of 0x.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

I’d much rather be a wizard living in a dark, forbidding tower that people only approach in times of great need and when they do they bring a sacrificial offering of homemade baklava to placate me

[–] jorge@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, I generally enjoy fixing interesting GNU/Linux problems, but fixing lay people problems is often boring. But even lay people problems can be interesting when I can pick which problem to solve.

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

I used to like that. But then I graduated college and got a job and I don’t have the energy to deal with that crap. I just want my computer to work. The only time I fuck around with things is when something isn’t working the way I think it should work and the frustration reaches critical mass. Dicking around with a non-critical system can be fun, since if I break something on it my main PC is still fine. But I’d pretty much always prefer spending my free time on other hobby projects like programming or resin casting.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There's no dead person out there complaining that they spent too much time in a computer...

[–] Yosmonkol@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

They're usually too busy asking for us to 'return the slab' to talk about computers.

[–] RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 weeks ago

i just set up tail scale in the cloud

[–] pewpew@feddit.it 8 points 3 weeks ago

Who knows, maybe in heaven they have a rig with top specs

[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Certainly not one of the top 3 regrets at the deathbed

[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

I almost thought to myself "I can't be bothered to watch a YouTube short", but then I thought "I can't be bothered to press Back to get out of it, either".

I am so glad that I didn't miss that, it gets better and better.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Unless heaven and hell turn out to be real. One you get to have fun on the computer for eternity, the other you get stuck doing IT for old people for eternity.

[–] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago

Going to tell Aristóteles that his monitor is unplugged for the billionth time must be tiring.