Yeah, honestly. My PC is 10 years old (with the exception of my GPU) and still runs the games I play perfectly fine for the most part. If I didn’t want to run them smoother at higher graphics settings, or especially if I didn’t play games much at all, I’d have no reason to upgrade my PC. And yet I literally can’t upgrade my current one to Windows 11 because it doesn’t support TPM 2.0.

I think it’ll die down on its own over time. I remember when I first joined Mastodon back in November, it felt like my entire feed was full of people who were migrating from Twitter but were still talking about Twitter this and Elon that, and eventually those people either left or found something else to talk about.

No interest; I won’t be using anything by Meta. If the servers I’m on don’t defederate from them, I’ll just block the domain.

In turn, it’ll push other manufacturers to up their game and make the best AR/VR headsets they can.

That’s definitely what I’m hoping to see! The competition can only be a good thing.

Definitely not on board with the $3499 price tag, so I won’t be a first-gen adopter, but this is the first AR/VR headset that’s actually made me want one, so I’m looking forward to seeing what the whole landscape looks like in a few years once (hopefully/maybe) prices have come down a bit.

I work from home (since the pandemic), and it’s mostly ok. I don’t miss the commute — from my old house and old job it was a 1h15m commute each way, and from my current house and current job it’s 1h30m. I absolutely could not do that every day, not anymore. So I definitely appreciate that.

Another positive is that my ergonomic setup is way better at home than it would be at the office, which is really important since I’ve been battling ongoing wrist pain.

Also at home no one can hear me swear at my computer all day except my partner in the other room 🙂

On the other hand, I really do miss the social aspect of the office. Which was surprising for me to realize as an introvert when the pandemic hit. But lunch chats, coffee breaks, Friday afternoon beers, even just overhearing people on different teams talking about what they’re up to, etc. are something I miss, and added a little fun to the day even when work itself was a slog.

I go into the office once every couple of weeks now, and it really makes me appreciate seeing people in person. Even just not having the small but ever-present Zoom lag makes such a big difference for me in reading body language, being able to jump in without talking over someone, actually staying somewhat focused, etc. Of course in person meetings are exhausting in their own way, but Zoom meetings can be like a special level of hell to me.

I feel like I wrote a novel, hah. Last thing I’ll say is that an extended break from software development is something that’s sounded quite appealing to me for a little while now, I just have no idea what I’d do instead 😅

Same! I know some people prefer to keep work separate and not make friends there, and people can obviously do what works best for them, etc. But I like work friends! I spend so much of my time there, if the people are cool then why wouldn’t I want to be friends? To me it’s like if I’d gone through my schooling years with the mindset that I was only there for school and not making friends.

He looks like such a sweetie! His face and ears kinda makes him look like a fruit bat, I love him 😛❤️

Massachusetts, USA!

Yeah, that was how I found Beehaw. I created an account on here and on lemmy.ml, but I like that downvotes are disabled here, and the local feed is more interesting to me so far. I also honestly kind of like Beehaw’s approach to communities, too (broader and fewer of them).

Definitely agree. I read a lot on Reddit, but don’t comment much (and post almost never; that part may not change here, but who knows). I also have so many times when I’ve written out half a comment and then deleted it because there are already so many comments and someone’s likely already said what I’m about to say anyway.

Also, being able to hide scores on here is nice! I don’t even want to know if I’ve gotten upvotes or downvotes (and I like that downvotes are disabled on Beehaw) – I tend towards shyness, and seeing a score next to what I’ve written just makes it sooo much harder for me to want to contribute.

Microblogging feels like the comment section to an article that was never posted.

Hah, I can agree with this. And unless I’m replying to someone else, microblogging just feels like I’m flinging random thoughts out into the void, which is definitely something I did more of when I was younger but isn’t appealing anymore.

I also find that I greatly prefer forums with topic/community-based follows over sites with user/hashtag-based follows. If I follow a user on Twitter or Mastodon, I’m seeing everything they post, even the posts about topics I don’t care about; if I follow a hashtag, I’m seeing every post with that hashtag, including the threads I don’t care about. Also, just the way threading and replies are shown on sites like Twitter or Mastodon is much harder for me to follow, personally.

Echoing other comments in saying thanks for all your (collectively) hard work! I’m one of the new joiners, and grateful for the welcoming vibe here even despite the scramble we’re causing.