Working in IT for 18 years it was a somewhat natural progression, what got me interested was companies were paying 3x my salary for the same work with the new buzz word titles.
I get that, I am making the comparison for how it could work today. Since i am assuming there was david coffee mugs, tshirts, key chains, etc. Art could also be advertising for the establishment that currently holds the piece as well.
To be fair I was going 70mph at the time. It could be a small nudge but at 70mph feels worse. I also had only owned the crosstrek for about 5 minutes at that point and I couldn’t figure out how to turn it off as well, didn’t realize buttons were placed on the ceiling.
It was actually my first experience with the car, it happened on my way from the dealership to the office. It also didn’t help that I owneed the vehicle for 5 minutes at that point and could not find the button to disable it. I have since gotten rid of the car.
Vw golf r 2016 the sensor was low to the ground and it would randomly brake for stuff it thought was a threat like a cardboard box.
Subaru crosstrek 2018 - would brake for no reason, cars turning up ahead of me, etc.
VW atlas 2019 - brake for no reason would also scream at me and show a red symbol on the hud when nothing was in the road in front of me.
Subaru impreza 2023 - brakes for turning vehicles up the road, had it brake in a car wash.
On my vw vehicles i bought a can bus programmer so i could turn off as much if the safety stuff as possible because it made the car less safe to drive. In the impreza (current car) turning off the eyesight features is part of the pre-drive ritual.
I also had the lane assist on the crosstrek almost cause an accident on the highway at speed. Roads here are inconsistent and it was violently jerking the wheel trying to stay between lines.
Making hundreds of thousands of dollars a year doesn’t make you rich, history shows that people who make more than average amounts of money have a hard time retaining meaningful amounts of it. Making a lot of money doesn’t automatically make you good with money.
It should also not allow you to leave the page using the back button on the browser, it should intercept that and redirect you to the homepage and as you scroll it adds more to your browser history.
I use to operate like this as well, but I bit the bullet and moved my apps to containers when upgraded my server hardware. Using portainer, mapping my container data to volumes on the file system. It was all incredibly easy to do and it gives me a web interface that I can manage my lab from my iPad. I rebuild my containers periodically through the gui by clicking the rebuild button and telling it to pull latest. It is so much easier to me at this point that installing a ton of packages that may or may not conflict into the operating system. Its all cleanly separated into isolated packages and management of versions and dependencies is much nicer as well.
My setup is portainer for container management on top of docker-ce, running on debian.
The problem with this notion is the idea that I want to socialize with people I work with, when you hang out with co-workers all you do is talk about work.
I want to go to work get what I need to get done, stop working, then go off and do social things I want to do. Work is merely a means of cash flowing those things.
I disconnect all networking to my work laptop and remove it from the dock to make sure using it again is something I have to actually need to do and nothing pops up randomly.
I get up from my desk at work everyday, disconnect and the thought of going back to my computer that same day makes me feel ill.
I will play video games on my switch, or I may use an xbox controller with steam big picture so its like a console.
I don’t use most social media,
I don’t run any OS I can’t control,
I have a plex server but I made it as low maintenance as possible
No smart tech
I have a cell phone that dies occasionally because I use it so infrequently and forget to charge it.
I use an iPad for reading, creating digital art and watching videos, I keep all work related stuff far away from it.
Going for walks, creating art, watching movies, spending time with my family are all things I would rather do that sit at a computer.
Outside of some casual gaming, I really hate computers.
I also really hate that my job involves spending 8 hours interacting with things that don’t actually exist, and that there is always some new thing popping up to replace other things that work really well for a very minuscule return on investment.
I hate how the internet has evolved into a giant meme, torrent of ads, and being hounded to agree to cookie usage.
Working in IT for 17 years has just completely soured me on computers.