I'm migrating millons of encrypted credit cards from one platform to another (it's all in the same company, but different teams, different infra, etc).

I'm the one responsible for decrypting each card, preparing the data in a CSV, and encrypting that CSV for transit. Other guy is responsible for decrypting it, and loading it into the importer tool. The guy's technical lead wanted me to generate the pair of keys and send him the private key, since that way I didn't have to wait for the guy and "besides, it's all in the same company, we're like a family here".

Of course I didn't generate the key pair and told them that I didn't want to ever have access to the private key, but wow. That made me lose a lot of respect for that tech lead.

I was working in my (poor third world) government job, and our keyboard broke. Replacements took months, since they only bought mouse and keyboards in bulk once per year or so, and they ran out of.

I had a second job working as a contractor for a private company, where we were contracted for a public hospital providing system administration and technical support. We had some old PS2 keyboards that were to be decommissioned, but since they didn't have inventory number, I got hold of them and brought some to my other job.

So I donated some equipment from one area of government to another, but it was kinda illegal, lol 😆.

Sennheiser headphones that I bought for about $20 about 10 years ago. The cable is indestructible. I once had to resolder it to the speakers because it my cat pulled it out, but the cable itself has endured all kinds of abuse without breaking. And the sound is fantastic.

I don't have a story, but I have a setting that's been really underutilized.

We, as a species, were nomadic for hundreds of thousands of years. We had tens of thousands of years of cohabitation with other hominids, intermingling, making important and powerful discoveries, exploring, etc.

And there's no one using that for a story?

The only stories about that time that I see are about dumb cavemen or ice age migration.

These people had the same mental capacity that we have now. They had culture, rituals, trade, interesting things.

So yeah, a story set in the prehistoric times.

Covert racists too

Tomb of the Necrodancer is a rythm rogue like which is very unique, imo.

I'm from South America and work for a global company with headquarters in the Netherlands and important offices in Sweden and France.

They talk about Latin America as a "focus region" and wanting to develop the company here, but their only interest is how much money they can extract and take to Europe. They don't give a shit about the employees here.

And they're sooo racist about it, but they would never admit it. When one of the products was repurposed for use in Latin America, the European people working on it all desperately transferred teams because no one wanted to work with us. If we ask for anything they just stall and make us wait for weeks or months for it.
They say that they want us to have "ownership" of our processes and tools, but we have to ask for permission for any project, no matter how small.
If we do things our way, they block us with bureaucracy and red tape and make us jump through hoops for every little thing.

I could continue all day...

I just think that lemmy.world tries really really hard to be reddit.

That sounds very extreme. I like humor, but not the trolling type. In my time we used to say "don't feed the trolls". When ignored they mostly go away. Nowadays there's always someone arguing with them. It's so stupid...

I think it would be auctioned and sold to the highest bidder.

If it's eternal you wouldn't wake up, would you?

As you age, soft skills become way more important IMO. It's almost impossible to keep up with the changing technology landscape, and while you could theoretically become an expert in some tech that never goes away (hello Cobol), eventually it will become obsolete and you're left with no marketable skills.
And while some people are lifelong learners (I am), learning new programming languages over and over again gets old at some point. So transitioning into more of a people's role (like management) it's a good move when you get older.
And if AI keeps getting better at coding, some programming jobs could be in danger of automation, so it's also a safety net for that scenario.