A readme file for Dylan Araps from 3 days ago saying "have taken up farming" and the github page for neofetch has also been archived. Good for him I guess.
At some point every professional computer person - programmer, sysadmin, whatever - will seriously consider piling all their computers into a big pile, lighting them on fire, and moving to the country to start a new life making things with their hands
Plants and animals don't file tickets.
Things made out of wood don't suddenly stop working cos you looked away for 15 seconds and Wood v2.1.4 is incompatible with Nails v4.0, but if you upgrade Nails you also have to upgrade Paint to v2.2 and they completely changed their API because the old API wasn't sufficiently cool anymore
Woodworking is very popular among techies for a reason. As are playing music and climbing (bouldering)
I'm an avid hiker personally
Especially in the local wilderness where I don't get cell reception
It's nice knowing that literally no matter how important somebody thinks their problem is they can't reach me no matter how hard they try AND no matter how much my reflex is to check my email for "important" things that need taken care of I literally can't check it.
I am also an IT nerd that hikes as much as I can, when the weather permits. Too many of my local trails have decent reception so I have to just forget my phone exists for a while.
This past weekend, I picked up a little wooden craft kit. All the pieces were pre-cut and I just had to glue and fit things together. I put it together yesterday and I can confirm, it was the most satisfying thing I've built in ages.
You thought
In fact, your farm equipment is made not to be repaired by you. Your tractors and what have you are very anti repair
It's probably cheaper to import a Zetor or MTZ from Europe, the 70s-80s models are still very much in use.
Damn there must be so many farms opening in Stardew Valley.
If you pay attention, you start noticing that a lot of DIY/maker Youtubers are former software developers.
Make tons of money as a software dev and get a big collection of tools and retire early to Spend the rest of your days as far away from software as you can
I'm more of the "Van by the River" or "Hermit in a Log Cabin" type.
I’m still working in tech (remotely), but otherwise living the “hermit in a cabin” lifestyle. It’s nice.
When does it happen? I'm 53, and still obsessed with software development and technology in general. Moving to the country sound like it's nice and quiet, but too far away from urban things I enjoy.
Oh don't get me wrong, 99% of the time I love my career and 15 years in I still get a kick out of crafting code to make the stupid little machines do what I want.
The other 1% of the time - a couple of days a year - I get home at the end of the day with a profound sense that these machines are driving me slowly mad
It's all fun and games until you realize modern farm equipment has more shitty tech in it than the datacenters you're running away from
You make a good point but I think farmers get to see this thing called the sun. I hear it's pretty neat but I wouldn't know myself.
So it's something nice to see eh? How much for a month's subscription?
SaaS (Sun as a Service)
There is a lot more to be offered aaS than what we usually use these acronyms for.
I hear SaaS (Sex as a Service) is the oldest business.
You didn't pay monthly sun subscribtion
Don't buy into their lies! The sun is evil, 100% of people that have gone out into the sun are dead or dying, it is constantly screaming at us and spitting burning rays of hellfire at us. It could destroy us all with with one little sneeze! That monster needs to be stopped!
There's a reason I farm with old relics, they aren't "optimized" like the new stuff but they're cheap and reliable to keep running.
Most of my implements don't even have an electrical connection and some of the tractors have literally a starter motor, alternator, battery. Maybe lights if you're lucky!
Fair point, and I can't not think of Louis Rossmann after reading this. Still, I'm not sure how much it affects small scale farming (assuming that's what the neofetch dev is doing).
Dylan is a genius of the profound variety. I was concerned when he seemed to disappear; I’m delighted it looks like a happier ending.
Thank you for making the world make better sense, Dylan!
exit 0
So he went out to touch grass literally
Ugh another developer lost to the outside.
Man got tired of working for JojaMart
Sometimes I feel like farming would be better than DevOps.
Whats a good alternative?
Get a remote job and do both until you know enough to quit tech?
I meant for neofetch lol
Lol that makes more sense now that you clarify. I've heard great things about farm simulator too though. It's certainly cheaper than a ranch.
For your actual question apparently fastfetch?
Farming is a very full-time job, although I suppose you could get part-time work as a farmhand.
Wood cutting might have a similar appeal.
The sheeps seem to compile themselves.
as a relative outsider looking into this this is a profoundly bittersweet/wholesome story lol. almost akin to bill watterson. glad fans of his can know he’s okay 💙
RIP neofetch, good luck to Dylan.
Using Linux is just the first step to leaving tech and becoming a farmer. And we all want it one day
Is this the plot from "mongodb is webscale" . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
I've been using fastfetch for a long while.
It was abandoned for years
Tbf what else would you want that to do? It was done
I mean, had it been rewritten in Rust yet?
There are always issues, new distros, detection improvements, etc etc. Neofetch has 11 PRs open this year alone.
He became friends with mental outlaw, didn't he?
That guy has some great projects
I use Arch btw
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