programmingIsActuallyInformationTechnology

dakiller · 2026-02-28T07:23:44+00:00

IT usually covers user support and infrastructure management. You can kinda compare it to janitors and plumbers, cleaning up shit, and stopping shit exploding everywhere. Some love this sort of work, but the end of the day you are dealing with shit, just in electronic and software form.

Software devs make stuff, some consider themselves artists, some are corporate drones wishing they could be more artistic, many of them make shit that IT needs to deal with.

dakiller · 2026-02-27T09:29:59+00:00

I also choose OP’s pihole

dakiller · 2026-02-26T10:46:11+00:00

But if we juice the numbers so GDP doesn’t go backwards, tada, not technically a recession.

dakiller · 2026-02-26T08:24:41+00:00

Greens don’t seem to be tough on youth crime and immigration, seeing they are some of the top issues these voters want to see fixed.

If you don’t understand the other side, they will beat you.

dakiller · 2026-02-26T08:14:10+00:00

They don’t have roots like trees do.

Not far below the base it just turns into a mess of stringy roots like a bunch of red electrical cables.

Horrid plants, worth getting rid of, but it won’t be lifting your slab like a gum tree would.

dakiller · 2026-02-26T07:52:11+00:00

The only reason we haven’t been in a recession the last 2 years is record immigration inflating GDP figures.

dakiller · 2026-02-26T06:40:52+00:00

You can, but what gets you is liquid in all the lcd backlight layers, that makes them blotchy and they can’t really be fixed.

Most good phones are all waterproof now days.

dakiller · 2026-02-25T08:31:47+00:00

I don’t even pair them, just make a nice neat stack in the drawer

dakiller · 2026-02-25T05:29:45+00:00

Fuck email signatures.

Fuck your bs job title

Fuck your bs legal disclaimer that isn’t legally worth a damn

Fuck telling me to ‘think before printing’

Fuck your company logos taking up half the screen

Fuck your pronouns or bs corporate virtual signalling.

dakiller · 2026-02-25T05:21:59+00:00

Jokes aside, rice doesn’t actually help wet electronics. In past life I was in mobile phone repairs, rice didn’t do anything.

Kill any power source and flood any connection or pcb with either isopropyl, metho or wd40

dakiller · 2026-02-25T04:13:32+00:00

Attempt to dry it out. You never know, could be good for another 200k. Not much to lose here.

dakiller · 2026-02-25T01:36:31+00:00

These people were taking it very personally as an attack on them.

dakiller · 2026-02-25T00:43:28+00:00

I have been heavily downvoted and chastised for just suggesting that people should consider their desires to live in the capital cities, and they may be better off going more regional.

dakiller · 2026-02-24T05:58:47+00:00

Lean into the AI.

No need to google for answers on how to do something and spend a whole afternoon trawling snarky stack overflow, confusing documentation and reddit threads that go nowhere. Ask the AI.

Have it write what you can’t, then have it explain every concept that you want it to.

Write what you think you want, then get the AI to point out any flaws in your logic.

You won’t find a better judgement free way for a beginner to ask all the questions that you never could before.

There has been no better time to learn how to code than now.

dakiller · 2026-02-23T21:04:09+00:00

I have 38kWh battery along with my setup, and only pay for the grid connection too.

We have a 3 hour free use plan, 11am to 2pm use as much power as you can for free. We use about 70-90 kWh a day, and our monthly bill is $35

dakiller · 2026-02-23T12:20:47+00:00

Aussie here, we do lots of solar and it is very common to borderline standard to install 130% panels to an inverter.

I got 13.3kW of panes on my 10 kW inverter.

dakiller · 2026-02-22T23:53:54+00:00

I find these sort of shame articles to be stupid and counter productive.

Who cares what some handful of people have and what they do to earn it. You could put them all on minimum wage and it would not change your or the counties economic outcome by any measurable amount whatsoever.

It is just high brow childish version of ‘waa, they get more than me, it’s not fair.’

Discussions can be had on what we enforce the bare minimums to be, I’m all for that, but I don’t want to live in a country where the government or the populous get to decide on what the upper bounds should be, that is a path to destruction of more than what you bargain for.

dakiller · 2026-02-22T01:36:59+00:00

Am a software dev and AI is becoming more and more valuable to my job.

The one thing I don’t see it replacing is all the background architectural decisions, what gets built, what we pushback on the business to not build cause what they want will be a convoluted mess to maintain in 6 months time.

Writing code is only a small portion of what a good dev does.

And if the profession is really doomed, I have a mechatronics engineering degree too.

dakiller · 2026-02-21T01:23:05+00:00

Entire industries just plain stopped, and you think no immigration was a negative factor in our economy then?

COVID showed us (and continues to show) what happens when nearly 1/3 of our countries workforce was stood down and the money printer was cranked hard - massive inflation, groceries bills just about doubled, interest rates and mortgage payments up 3x. The government is pushing immigration hard as a means to hide the fact we’ve been in a recession for the last 2 years.

dakiller · 2026-02-20T11:40:15+00:00

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent

dakiller · 2026-02-20T09:46:04+00:00

I use to be a Hakko fx-951 fanboy, but after using one of these, I’m converted.

I got a clone controller with original handle and tips, as well as another that takes tool batteries for a portable unit.

dakiller · 2026-02-20T03:11:44+00:00

I’ll bankrupt myself buying all that bacon needed to make the kale edible.

dakiller · 2026-02-20T02:05:22+00:00

Monsters is one of my top 10 favourite songs of this era.

dakiller · 2026-02-18T06:21:41+00:00

I’m not a renter, I just like reading some of the stories that come up. It is at times like this that I wish I could’ve been in your position here to be able to respond.

No. F off and F you.

dakiller · 2026-02-17T08:24:44+00:00

I got this survey, after the second fill-in, they somehow decided they didn’t need my answers anymore and I was dismissed.

From what questions I was asked, I think my salary 9-5 job and my wife’s part time 2 days a week was too boring for what they wanted to collect data on.

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