(not (not a-tech-person))
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I’m (not (not a-tech-person)), but that doesn’t make me (a-tech-person). Like, objectively, I’m pretty techy: I daily drove Gentoo on my laptop in high school, I wrote a neural net from scratch, I had a tech startup with some friends in college, I built a home server running Debian plus samba to share a huge zfs volume plus some containerized services and vms, etc. But I never got really into it like some people do. I just didn’t quite latch onto it like my friend who was a cybersecurity consultant or so many others.
Does this resonate with anyone else here?
🌻 bouteloua
May 20 · 2 days ago
🐝 pirkka · May 20 at 23:06:
Imagine a grammar where (not (not a-tech-person)) would not be equal to '(a-tech-person). That would be complicated and fun. Also kinda close to how things are in real life
🐙 norayr · May 21 at 00:02:
for me, me running gentoo is not about being techy or non-techy.
just like certain way of designing an apartment isn't about being a craftsman. it's about some values and taste.
to me running gentoo is first of all running floss, secondly running it in a way it more or less corresponds to my taste. or doesn't cause disgust.
to me updating my gentoos is like cleaning the house. something one can enjoy, given that someone enjoys not living in a dirty apartment.
same with code. i feel very motivated to improve the code, but that has nothing to do with being techy.
it has to do with not liking trash here and there.
🚀 lars_the_bear · May 21 at 08:09:
@bouteloua : you sound more like a "tech person" than me, and I spent my whole working life in science and technology.
😎 flipperzero · 23 hours ago:
this is just a slacker tech person, you doof !!
🌻 bouteloua [OP] · 18 hours ago:
@pirkka -- I bet you could do some sort of nonsense macro to like count so like (not (not (not 'symbol))) -> (not 'symbol) and (not (not 'symbol)) -> ('symbol)...
@norayr -- gentoo was very fun to run. I had jumped to it frum Ubuntu because the latter changed something and auto-compiled in a kernel feature my laptop's CPU couldn't boot (I dont remember exactly what -- that was like 15 years ago). But OMG, constantly compiling on a laptop that had, at best, utterly garbage thermals and would idle at 60C? I did love how smooth everything was.
@lars_the_bear lol, I get that -- I just never quite glommed onto it like some
@flipperzero :p
👻 darkghost · 5 hours ago:
I'm a tech person who doesn't program, doesn't run the latest hardware, and doesn't put it in every aspect of my life. Trying hard to stay in that 2008 mindset where the stack is advanced enough to do anything you can think of but before it became rather abusive to individual liberties.