• FauxPseudo @lemmy.world
        55·
        23 days ago

        Depending on the time of year they will dodge or attack me. So they are very interactive. My wife can pet them.

        We got them because hawks were taking out chickens. After we got geese that stopped. In addition to being excellent guard animals they also mow the grass and in the spring they give us giant eggs.

        After the initial cost to buy, raise for a month until they can be outside and their housing they can live entirely on grass making them practically free to maintain. Best farm investment ever.

  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk
    57·
    23 days ago

    I was reading the Careless People book about Meta.

    One thing that stood out to me was the presentation of the tech early birds or the folk who dodged the dotcom bubble bursting - she specifically used the term “economically insensitive”. People who made their money from big tech’s initial offerings and their own shares going through the roof, being set up for life, and basically working for the love of the game.

    It’s wild. If I’d gotten to the point where I’d paid off the mortgage and had enough in the buffer to catch any unexpected bills or travel costs or whatever, then yeah maybe I’d go geese farming or otter rehoming or llama cuddling or something.

    • slaacaa@lemmy.worldOP
      21·
      23 days ago

      Great book. I wish it was being made into a movie, instead of whatever the fuck the 2nd Social Network movie will be about. Jessie Eisenberg was ready to play Mark again with Emma Stone as Sheryl Sandberg, but it never took off.

      • zikzak025@lemmy.world
        3·
        23 days ago

        I didn’t even know there was a followup movie in the works. I can understand why a sequel could be good given all that’s happened since, but I can’t understand doing so without most of the important people behind the first one. Sorkin’s a good writer, but I don’t think he was 100% responsible for what made the first one a good movie.

        • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
          1·
          22 days ago

          “Now watch as we enshittify our platform while buying out all the competition, manipulate national electoral outcomes with algorithmic profiling, and cover up our own internal studies on harmfulness in order to continue exploiting minors for profit!”

            • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
              2·
              22 days ago

              Yeah, but what’s odd is that now there’s basically a court document that reveals that’s exactly what Meta was doing, they knew it’s what they were doing, and they decided to continue doing it anyway because it was their intention to do so all along.

              And yet they got slapped on the wrist and given a nominal fine…

    • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
      3·
      22 days ago

      A friend’s boss retired to become a children’s book writer.

      Money–or lack thereof-- is what really hinders most of us to do what we want. I grew up admiring polymaths and I want to do whatever I want because I want to learn about the world. But it is in the past couple of years which I realised, that the polymaths I admired? They are rich while I’m not. Polymaths in the past were more common back then because they inherited lots of money from their parents as safety net, and don’t have to worry about specialising and finding a “secure job” but is soul sucking.

  • Zink@programming.dev
    14·
    22 days ago

    One foot in each world here!

    I still have my tech job (embedded systems) and in the next few days I am literally going to be building a chicken coop and finishing a filter upgrade on my pond.

    I’ve referred to this meme several times in the past few months to describe myself, lol.

  • abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    23 days ago

    There seems to be a lot of people who worked in tech and then went off to fucking do anything not in tech and I’m like "do you know something we don’

    • dan@upvote.au
      22·
      23 days ago

      As someone who’s worked in Silicon Valley for 13 years… A lot of senior developers that work at big tech companies can earn over $500k total compensation (salary, bonus, and stock) per year. A higher level, like L7 at Google or E7 at Meta, can earn over a million per year. You can end up with $5-10 million net worth after 10-15 years.

      Some people end up saving enough and having enough investments to retire early and mostly live off the returns. This strategy is often referred to as FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early).

      Of course, people still want something to keep them busy, so they tend to end up doing something they always wanted to do but never had the time or money to do it. They don’t need the money, so can spend time just enjoying it rather than focusing so much on working. I know someone who retired in their 40s and started doing woodworking full time.

      • abaddon@lemmy.world
        5·
        22 days ago

        Those numbers are accurate . I really don’t understand how more people I work with haven’t retired. I made sure to avoid too much lifestyle creep but I can imagine it’s addicting for some. I’m 40 and making the switch out of tech soon. I couldn’t imagine doing this another 10-20 years.

    • zane@infosec.pub
      2·
      23 days ago

      Current tech isn’t sustainable. Data centers increase the air temp for miles around, pollute massive amounts of water, and use more power then some countries. We don’t have the infrastructure to support data centers and people in a lot of places, and you fucking know which will get preferable treatment.

      Thats just a single one of the literal hundreds of depressing things in tech.

      Tired of assisting in our own exploitation.