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I tried the DevOps pivot, but wasn't real happy with it. Maybe some of it is just being located near a big tech hub right now, but I found most of the roles tied to startups that were just going to reinforce the kind of burnout I'm in.

Cyber Security is the new pivot. I figure the sysadmin background will give me a good leg up and there'll always be a call for security.

Cyber Security. It's close to the IT/Sysadmin world I know so I feel like I'll have a good start. I figure there's no such thing as job security anymore, but there'll always be a need for strong security.

Hey thanks, I sincerely appreciate the offer, but I already have plans in the works 😊

I don't wanna dox myself too much here, but I'm getting ready to return to classes after a career as a sysadmin.

More than just politics, it's the lack of regulation in the tech industry (which is also politics, yes, everything is). I don't think people realize how rapidly the tech industry is eating itself alive. There is a gigantic crash coming and it feels like it's already started, we're just trying our best to keep the tower stable for as long as possible because no one really wants this crash.

But there's no place for me anymore. No one does internal IT because it's too expensive, everything is cloud hosted and MSP provided. And those MSPs are all onboard the AI train to further cut costs and offload support tickets. What little humanity is left is just grease to keep the internet going 24/7, god forbid you can't access the skibidi toilet fandom site without 99.9% uptime (oops, wait, we say 99.999% uptime now in the cloud). The economy is crashing and no one can afford the ever increasing prices of games and services so they're going to cut hard wherever they can which is just going to result in even more layoffs.

I'm done, man. I'm cooked. I'm in my 30's and I'm burnt out as god damn hard as I've ever been and when this is all done, maybe if I'm lucky, I can be the sysadmin for a rural little bank in Lithuania making extremely modest wages but enough to feed myself and my cat and buy what little books and games and tea I need to get through existence. It's not much, but I know I won't find it here anymore.

AI is succeeding at exactly the things it's supposed to: laundering accountability and responsibility. This measure will succeed in accomplishing that. Not everyone is a true believer, a lot of them just see the possibility of using "super intelligent AI" as a smoke screen to completely hide the need for statistical deaths to drive profitability/reduce costs and the responsibility of making those decisions while shutting out the average person's ability to engage with any system beyond that AI smokescreen.

I keep screaming about how the TPM 2.0 requirements of Windows 11 are insidious due to the ability to implement remote attestation now. I don't think they'll spring the trap immediately, but it's locked and set and you'd be a fool to believe it won't happen eventually.

Remote attestation allows changes to the user's computer to be detected by authorized parties. For example, software companies can identify unauthorized changes to software, including users modifying their software to circumvent commercial digital rights restrictions. It works by having the hardware generate a certificate stating what software is currently running. The computer can then present this certificate to a remote party to show that unaltered software is currently executing.

This is exactly the kind of thing I'd expect from Newsom. Remember his podcast interviews with Bannon and Kirk? It was obviously a failed political wiggle to the right when he thought that was the way the winds were blowing, but fate has brought this new opportunity to his doorstep.

His motives should be seen as nothing more than political ambition. Now that he's found a worthy opponent in Trump, he's seeking to scramble to the top of the oppositional hill, the Democrats. That's where his ambitions end, just another unsuited Democrat for the current climate who wants to return things to the status quo. He'll be another Biden but this time with an undeniable scrap of charisma.

It still brings a smile to my face every time I play Mario Kart 8 on my Linux desktop using a PS5 controller.

I pay for games where I think money will get to the creators that deserve it, but Nintendo only gets my most sincere disdain.

Thank you for the response, I appreciate it. I have emailed the university and politsei, I am trying to pursue as many paths as possible 🙂

Isn't that part of the benefit of federating, too? If Bluesky turns heel, just cut it back off again.

I suspect handhelds are going to be the future for awhile now. It's not just out of a growing demand or simply because portable graphics processing and battery power have improved (although those factors do help) but it's another chance to:

1. Push locked hardware
2. Funnel to controlled storefronts
3. Bring down and moderate the increasingly unsustainable AAA development costs

Those first two aren't particularly surprising, they're the key elements that Nintendo has honed in on while Sony and particularly Microsoft continue to struggle. Microsoft feels like they've just left XBox to languish while they focus on Game Pass as a means to ensnare you into their economy which is why they're first down this path, but I think Sony will follow shortly. In an ideal world, I'd love to see Sony get back to hardware manufacturing with a Vita like device you could load Linux/SteamOS onto. Vita was a great little product, done so dirty. EDIT: I know the Portal exists, but that's mostly just a dumb receiver as far as I understand it. Still, they're already not too far off ... come on guys, just a little further.

But moreover it's that last point, really. It's hard to continue to push out these extraordinarily big budget, bordering on AAAA (lol) territory games that continue to flop. I know the Switch 2 is already doing stuff like Cyberpunk 2077, but that stuff can still be hell on battery life as well as requiring lower resolution and lowered visuals in portable mode.

I feel like Nintendo is making a big mistake pushing that 4K60 envelope with the Switch 2, although I see why they made that maneuver. The Switch was perpetually underpowered and they felt the need to close that gap, but they already struggle to push out big budget tentpole franchises as is illustrated by Mario Kart World being the only big release title. Also, I just want to generally point this out, Nintendo suffers from needing to up the stakes. It's what lead to Mario Galaxy being such a grand adventure, then Odyssey going even bigger than that. Now we have Kart World because ... gotta get bigger than 8 Deluxe somehow I guess.

I don't know what any of this means or where it's going, I just wanted to try and call out some of these observations. Turbulent times ahead, I don't know that anyone really knows what the next 2-3 years will look like.

Camp is when a movie maybe isn't good, but you still want to give it a gold star for trying. It's making a joke and you're laughing with it more than you're laughing at it (but you're still laughing at it). Even stuff like The Room by Tommy Wiseau which I think most people agree is a pretty bad movie; it still comes from a place of sincere vision.

This is in contrast to stuff like Epic Movie where it is trying so hard to be camp that it is just terrible instead. And this is all obviously subjective.