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You know you are feeling cut off from humanity when it gives you a little thrill that your toaster oven said ”Hi” to you.
Pretty sad :-(
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I'm glad I'm one of those folks that doesn't crave human interaction. This whole thing has been pretty much business as usual for me.
I'm in IT. Windows 10 says "Hi" to me every time I build a new machine. I'm not sure i like that.
Because if the resurgence in COVID numbers, we are going back to a skeleton crew at work. They said "you gonna be ok to work via remote again?"
I said " I'm in IT. When im in my office, I remote to various servers in the data center and computers across our service area. I work 'remote's every day."
That's not entirely true of course, but mostly tru
Because if the resurgence in COVID numbers, we are going back to a skeleton crew at work. They said "you gonna be ok to work via remote again?"
I said " I'm in IT. When im in my office, I remote to various servers in the data center and computers across our service area. I work 'remote's every day."
That's not entirely true of course, but mostly tru
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We are enjoying it. Wife got her home office set up and permanently working from home as her employer approved our request. I am working on some new business ventures so I will be home based too. We now can work from anywhere we have internet access. Opens up lots of doors for us now.
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I'm looking into finding something I can work remotely from. Guess I need to learn some IT stuff lol!
I'm pretty anti social myself nowadays. No facebook, no instagram, no twitter.
Original music on Youtube, and a few forums. I had nearly quit gigging live long before this.
same! It’s hard to wrench remotely haha
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Looks like it may be time to get in on the Starlink setup. Work remote from an alpine lake somewhere :D
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I am doing that, but on my own time, with clients I choose. I am not doing just anyone's work anymore. Got burned by that last time round. Mostly my fault since I let the bike go out of my shop before payment. But it was someone who I gave more than a million dollars worth of business to when I was in construction. I figured he was trustworthy, GUESSED WRONG. The other one was someone who thought, just because I was operating my business from my garage I was an underground mechanic, and when he got my bill, he flipped. I told him, I am a legitimate business, paying business tax etc here, now PAY UP!
I also did this from home for a year professionally. I used to be a light duty diesel tech and had a 100 mile radius to myself so I was busy. But I got burnt out and switched back to an 8-5, now I’m in the marine buisness and enjoy it a lot more.
still would rather be making 100k sitting online for a few hours a day
yeah, right now kitchen appliances will say "Hi", wont be long and they will turn into HAL from 2001 A Space Odyssey....
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This past year's politics and current events have helped to wean me back off of social media for the most part, got tired of everyone trashing each other and the general hate going around if you don't agree with what others believe. No longer following all the chaos and things I can't do anything about has defiantly improved my mood and outlook. The only devices left in the house that might say Hi and attempt communication are the Alexa Fire TV boxes, and they are on a short rope currently due to their general refusal to do what they are asked too .. lol. I have worked remotely for the past 4 years and love it (although now with Zoom and all the the other virtual meeting platforms it is almost like 'being there' which I don' love), now working on getting Michelle to be able to work remote so we can roam around the country. I do miss the in person Rally Points and get togethers though.
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”I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that”. Great movie! A little weird at times but ground breaking when released. And of course HAL was the ”precursor” to IBM (H before I, A before B and L before M :-)yeah, right now kitchen appliances will say "Hi", wont be long and they will turn into HAL from 2001 A Space Odyssey....
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Except now it'll be, "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. I saw how many cookies you took and your cholesterol has exceeded maximum limits by 3.8%....have a fresh bowl of ice".”I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that”. Great movie! A little weird at times but ground breaking when released. And of course HAL was the ”precursor” to IBM (H before I, A before B and L before M :-)yeah, right now kitchen appliances will say "Hi", wont be long and they will turn into HAL from 2001 A Space Odyssey....
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Always loved that movie, especially since I am a Dave .. or more often 'Hey you' or something worse lol. Now going to have to go watch it:)yeah, right now kitchen appliances will say "Hi", wont be long and they will turn into HAL from 2001 A Space Odyssey....
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I agree, they dont give you straight answers to your questions.
