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Big Tech is turning you into a digital tenant, but there is a way to evict them (www.neowin.net)
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The shift to SaaS and Windows 11 updates means you no longer own your software. Here is how free software tools can help you reclaim control.

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[–] 15 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Same boat here, minus the "still in tech" that I left over 10 yrs ago. Picked up my last pc end of last year and packed up my previous rig for future use. With the old tech around my apt: Laptops, old pc's, and raspberry pi's, I should be able to last til I die. I will never use cloud gaming, only use for that I see is linux users that want to play certain "competitive" games, next phone will most likely be dumb as well. I started my journey on a Commodore Vic 20, never thought this would manifest

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    How do you get out?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I got burnt out and took a job that is not tech.

    It used to be fun to trouble shoot issues, help people understand, on their terms, what the pc was doing and why. Then it got old cause everything started turning to crap, starting with vista (spent a week regressing ~30 laptops from vista to XP cause I didn't want the headache of dealing with that brand new operating system). I used to build and wire, by hand, networks. I could whip out a cable in about 2 mins, from cut to crimp, and then set the Dell and/or Cisco routers/switches. I just couldn't keep doing it and keep my sanity

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Makes sense, I feel the same unfortunately. What are you doing now to keep your sanity?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Brainless job, for me anyway, hehe. Security supervisor, just directing people to where they need to go, making sure the company doesn't try to take advantage of my guards. Also just play vr/stream and play other pc and retro games and hope no issues come up

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