• theangryseal@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I would love it so much. I’d feel right at home. I miss sitting in my room and learning everything I could about DOS. That was the best time I ever had with computers.

    I once built, setup, and maintained about 20 computers for a Christian school for free just because I loved doing it so much.

    I wish I still had that enthusiasm for tech.

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      10 months ago

      Me too.

      In high school, there was a kid who was always trying to make money. Like even then, he wanted his own business. In fact he had a couple small ones back then.

      One of his endeavours was massive LAN parties. He had the capital to rent spaces, hardware, and was even able to get sponsorships.

      He did not have the tech chops to do it though.

      Myself, and one circle of friends were THE computer nerds of the school, but it wasn’t really seen as a negative for us - then again we did orchestrate a “free day” and got away with it by taking down the schools network from inside and one person had a loud fucking mouth, but we covered our tracks.

      Anyways, we got in free to these LAN parties as long as we set up and maintained shit. Surprisingly very few problems, about once a LAN party we had to fix something. And it was useful experience.

      That shit was fucking amazing. I loved it.

      I got home from work. Wife works from home. She has had an ongoing tech issue I can’t really touch because it’s that companies property. But I just don’t want to hear it. At all. I’m dead inside in that regard.

      It’s gotten so bad that I had an issue with my gaming rig.

      I needed to reseat the RAM. Not hard, except the case is mounted on the wall as a display piece that would require moving a bunch of shit before getting a ladder and yada yada.

      I just didn’t game for three days. Just could not muster the energy to care about that. I hate it.