This is exactly the kind of job I’m looking for. The software industry is full of the vilest exploiters. I don’t care if I don’t get paid a bunch, I just don’t wanna fuck up our planet or our people.

It’s just unfortunate that most tech companies are full of the worst people to walk the planet. (I am being a little hyperbolic here, but honestly I’m so sick of all the experiences ive had)

Worse yet are the brits who think we're better than the US and think theyre crazy. and like, sure. But, we literally colonised the states and started half this shit. Not to mention that we'd do exactly the same given half the chance, influence and resources.

When America coughs we catch the cold.

Edit: To be clear: i'm very well aware we colonised practically half the world too, and left unwavering damage in our wake. Even more recently too. My point is just, I feel like the UK has successfully whitewashed ourselves from the conversation about colonialism sometimes and it really frustrates me.

why not just have an AI play the whole game for you? sounds great /s

Not surprised.

In my last job, my boss used more and more AI. As a senior dev, I was very used to his coding patterns. I knew the code that he wrote and could generally follow what he made. The more he used AI? The less understandable, confusing and buggy the code became.

Eventually, the CEO of the company abused the "gains" of the AI "productivity" to push for more features with tighter deadlines. This meant the technical debt kept growing, and I got assigned to fixing the messes the AI was shitting all over the code base with.

In the end? We had several critical security vulnerabilities and a code base that even I couldn't understand. It was dogshit. AI will only ever be used to "increase productivity" and profit while ignoring the chilling effects: lower quality code, buggy software and dogshit working conditions.

Enduring 3 months of this severely burnt me out, I had to quit. The rabid profit incentive needs to go to fucking hell. God I despise of tech bros.

But... Do we need laptops any lighter than this? Like, I'm not moving around my 13 inch Macbook and thinking: "oh god this is a beast". My biggest issue with laptops now days is battery life and performance, both of which my Macbook meets perfectly. Not that I like the OS or the company tbh, especially as a FOSS enthusiast.

Can’t speak for your situation, but I honestly think it’s because of burnout. No one I know in the coding industry is doing well right now… everyone is burnt out as fuck, stessed and overworked as hell.

It was so bad for me that it worsened my disabilities in October and I’ve not gotten back to work since. Though tbf, I have been working in my FOSS project. Making that a part of my portfolio so I can move on to employment rather than bargain basement freelancing that’s killing me.

I feel like I’m missing out on the mint hype train tbh. I’ve never tried it before but there’s an ignorant part of me that’s like “how much better could it possibly be than Ubuntu with Cinnamon?”. I know it must be because so many people default to it and rave about it, even after using Ubuntu.

My default ol reliable used to be Solus Linux. God I loved that distro. I had an install that lasted 4 years straight, no issues whatsoever.

But in recent years I’ve taken a major liking to Bazzite. Oh my god it’s incredible: immutable OSs are fucking amazing. I shouldn’t be trusted with accessing system files, it never ends well. So this really helps. 

What do these evening jobs normally entail? They sound awesome lol.