kamaitachi

16 days agodiscuss

Hi Fredrik

I’m a long time Mullvad customer, likely paid Mullvad upward of 400€ in the past number of years, as well as recommended it to friends and family members.

What you seem to be missing in your comment, is that some of that money I paid, found its way to support an organisation that has extreme racist views.

I’ve reached out to support and requested a refund of my outstanding credit.

I’ll be moving on.

kamaitachi

last monthdiscuss

Oh the irony.

A YouTube video.

kamaitachi

last monthdiscuss

I think I was lucky enough to start out in the 80’s.

But seriously, didn’t really start making big money until about 25 years ago, and bailed heavily into my pension fund.

The tech industry is constant change, but the change in the last 10 years or so has been fairly shitty to be frank.

Hopefully, this AI bubble bursts and maybe there’s a few years of sanity in the tech industry.

kamaitachi

last monthdiscuss

It was being pushed hard by mgmt. Constant pushing, emails with “league tables” of most active users, “why is this taking so long?”.

Hard to not use it

kamaitachi

last monthdiscuss

You’re right - it’s me.

I used to code at home - chess engines mostly.

Maybe once the novelty of retirement wears off (and the autumn approaches), I’ll start coding again

kamaitachi

last monthdiscuss

Thanks! I’m one of the lucky ones who really loved my career. I was lucky enough to avoid roles or companies that would suck the life out of me:-)

5/5 would recommend :-)

kamaitachi

2 months agodiscuss

I just retired after 40 years writing code.

The last year or so wasn’t fun - battling with AI, trying to get it do what I wanted.

For a long time, I thought I’d do a lot of hobby or open source coding when I retired.

I haven’t even tried. I’m not burned out, but find I’ve lost the passion for coding I once had.

Is that AI? Or is it me?

Maybe as my retirement progresses, I can rekindle that passion, but as of now, I don’t miss tech.

Sorry, got to go - my garden needs me :-)

kamaitachi

5 years agodiscuss

The Economist is similar.

You can subscribe online but in order to cancel, you need to chat to a human.

It took several attempts by me to tell them I don’t want to change my subscription plan to a cheaper one - I wanted to cancel.

It’s a really bad process for a magazine that considers itself a reputable news source.

Won’t be signing up again.

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