khapyman

All joking aside I've just scrolled random amount on scrolling ones and just hit 'end' on dropdowns for decades.

Anything that really needs my actual birthday has a proper method of authenticating who I am.

Leave it to the Internet to be the best (and worst) of all.

I'm at best a poser punk but the diy ethos always rung true. That said one of my favourite places online is a local old school punk forum. It's niche enough that with its own problems there's still a community.

In my experience that's kind of what an online community needs to be. Not exclusive, but niche enough. I too used to be on Reddit, got there when the great Digg migration happened. Those days it was small enough to have have a community on some subreddits. Gradually it got the point that when I'd read the article or had a reasonable thought about the question there were 11000 replies and anything worthwhile was already said.

These days Lemmy feels kinda similar to the old Reddit. Maybe things stay the same or maybe they change and there'll be another place I log on.

All that said, what OP posted is profound. What you posted is too.

At work I have to use Windows, Notepad++ is my safe place. It is fast, there's plugins for years, and it handles (with some wait time) 100 000 line long documents.

Me too. To this Day our national Electric invoice standard uses ISO-8859-15. An that's just fine until somebody feels the need to have a look with Notepad, add a random space and save the file.

Notepad then helpfully changes the encoding to UTF-16 and the whole patch errors out somewhere down the chain.

It's not like Finland is a perfect country. It's just least shit one.

It's really not that hard. I'm the IT department for a medium sized bakery operation. Around 200 employees. This just means that I'm available when it really is necessary. I'm in situ or on call when orders come in and when shipments go out.

In the end I'm cheaper than outsourcing all the in house software and hardware. And I'm available at 3am when the bakers do their thing.

And yeah, I do have somebody somewhat trained in every bakery. When they're at end of their wit I'm the person they call.

In the end, I'm around 1% of the payroll. IT is not that special.