A readme file for Dylan Araps from 3 days ago saying “have taken up farming” and the github page for neofetch has also been archived.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.
I mean, you could get a 70s-80s model American tractor, too.
And then you call the vendor and they say there is nothing they can do after you sat on hold for several hours
Or wood 2.2 has an unpatched zero day and now some dude in Russia owns your barn until you repaint every surface (wipe and reload)
Goat: breaks into your house, shits all over your living room
You: “oh fuck it’s Steve”
No need to deal with aggressively incompetent management when planting potatoes.
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’ve basically done that minus the lighting stuff on fire part. Moved out to the country, still making a living with the whole computer stuff but I own some forest, I’m a volunteer firefighter and I’ve got a huge, wild garden.
It’s good for my mental health.
Hey me. Nice to see me out in the wild.
I chucked most of my computer stuff, but kept a laptop for work, and a somewhat aging desktop to game on rainy nights, and moved to a piece of forest far from others.
When we first got out here there wasn’t even enough space to park our truck. I cleared enough Forest to park our travel trailer and live in while we built a tiny 12 ftx30 ft house.
Now I spend my mornings feeding birds and doing minimal tending on a very wild (by design) garden.
Strongly suggest others who can do so to give it a try.
Especially people who are in any type of job where systems, thinking and infrastructure was part of your daily thought process.
Life out here is very hard at first as we set up the infrastructure but everyday it gets a little bit easier and eventually the workload should be smaller here than it is at a normal job. That’s when I’ll quit my normal job.
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
Can confirm, am currently at the country. Still not at the point I want or can permanently move, but it’s so good for the mind.
There was this math guy in the 90s, he wrote a manifesto. Did not end well for him.
Joke’s on you. I’m still a sysadmin and doing things with my hands for years.
I grew up on a farm, any programmer that thinks farming or ranching is better is gonna have a rude awakening as to why there are very few farmers anymore.
So no not every computer guy dreams of the farm, repairing 10miles of fence every April for the entire month all day every day isn’t what I would consider an improvement over programming. And that’s the easy part wait till you gotta help an animal struggling to give birth.
I get programmers have this idea that farming or ranching is more pure somehow but it is murder on your body and soul in ways you wont understand. programming and computer stuff is a cakewalk in comparison. more politics but learn to play the game of thrones and its not too bad.
I’m getting really close to that point tbh. Machining and metalworking looks like a ton of fun.
Yeah, I’ve learnt over the years that having non-computer based creative hobbies is really important. I did a bit of leather working for a bit - tools are cheap on AliExpress and it doesn’t take up a ton of space unless you go really deep. Spend a few hours on a weekend in the garage making a thing that is tangible and I can hold and doesn’t require maintenance
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 0exit 0🥹
So he went out to touch grass literally
Ugh another developer lost to the outside.
One of us… One of us… One of us!
Man got tired of working for JojaMart
Join us. Thrive
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?
Yeah fastfetch is great, much faster than neofetch of that matters at all to you
Personally I use macchina
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.
Goat herding.
If you’ve seen the memes on Reddit you’ll know what I mean
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
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.
I can’t think of a single piece of software that’s “done.” Even TEX is only at version 3.141592653, not π.
I know at least one pr that wasn’t (still hasn’t been?) merged for years; Proper 8-bit color sequence support.
Hello, fellow Lemmy.zip user
Hello.
He became friends with mental outlaw, didn’t he?
That guy has some great projects
Had*
Well, farming is a cool project but I don’t think that’s what you’re referring to.
