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3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!! @lina@vt.socialThinking of giving up technology entirely. Everything sucks and nobody cares and nothing is getting better.
3D Yuri Wedding 2026!!! @linaProbably not giving up on everything but I think I've realized my priorities have been wrong for a long time. There's no point in caring about things that don't care back.
Even if some people say they care, if nobody has the power to make anything better, it's all pointless.
The people who care lost to those who don't.
@lina I feel with you!
@lina I really feel it. Everything sucks and it's not going to get better and even the little things we do are not enough to steer the boat.
For the last few months I've felt guilt because in my free time I was not working on open source and "improving the world", whatever it means, feeling like it was my duty for trying to help improving the situation but I felt burned out and demotivated. Everything sucks and alone I can't fight the suckness. I'm still feeling the same today.
I need to accept that I need to let go, at least a bit. From one side I understand that this will not improve the situation we have in technology, but at the same time it's not like beating your head on (several) walls will change anything. I like computers and thinkering with them so I doubt I will never touched them, but I should probably give it a less important space as hobby. Programming should be just a skill for me when I need to do something during my thinkering projects, not something to use for some grandious goals. When I was younger I thought that since computers are on everyone lives, and I know how they works, it was my responsability to makes them better. I need to stop thinking it, I guess.
Sorry if I can't be helpful to you and for the wall of text, but your post certanely helped me putting on words a feeling I'm having so I'm thanking you.
@lina If it does not make you happy, and it sounds like that is the case, focusing on other things that will is sensible. We're all here for a short time, might as well make it an enjoyable one.
@lina We have let "everything" be defined in a global fashion that allows those with global influence to dominate our local environments.
I don't know what changing the rules of the game looks like, but I do know that the present state of things is unwinnable. I also know that the present state of things is far from inevitable. I hope that the present battlefield (which others constructed as a battlefield) will fade into irrelevance if we leave it alone, and behind us, intensely enough.
time to spend more offline and build something else that is more worthy such as social framework perhaps.
@lina hold on, isn't it just first April joke?
@lina Sad truth. I had the same feeling some time ago but thought about you, whom I look up to in technology.
@lina I think it's funny - in a tragic kind of way - that a lot of people that got heavily into tech during the periods where it was just starting to become accessible but still not the streamlined experience it is today are also the people that increasingly are like "I want to live in the woods and not touch technology ever again". Saying this as someone that has definitely romanticized living in the woods.
There's this general trend to removing all the friction in our lives with tech of some sort that feels like it's gone past the point of accessibility and instead misses the point that learning and understanding is worthwhile in of itself, which wouldn't be half as bad if they weren't also treating people as commodities and products.
@lina software is like the rest of the world. One person can rarely make the entire world better. All that any one person can do is make the world around themselves, better and hope that everyone else will do the same. And together we make things better. Doesn't always work out, but we can still make our corner of the world better.
@lina or, we can just take up gardening and be done with it. That's what I'll probably do.
@lina Don’t! It will result in one less person who cares!
@lina I often say computers were a mistake and I should have become a butcher or a monk.
@Leminski @lina Relatable, been having similar feelings as of late, yeah
Aside from work - which is, uh, *awkwardly gestures at tummy* - and one or two passion works - in which I'm doing it anyways, trends or other people be damned - I've pretty much been disconnected from most tech communities and "techy" people at large 
@jay@mastodon.gamedev.place@lina Don't look for the light. Be the light 
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@lina Thank you for your work. It's inspiring to see and read through projects where the author really cares about what they're doing. Certainly helps me care more myself 
@lina understandable 