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Comment by botfriendsarent

6 days ago

This "home lab" stuff is kind of nice hobbyist talk. I wish we had fancy words like that back in the 80s.

Technology has come along way. But I think that in tech we should be careful to not fall prey to monkey see monkey do.

We should not be deploying technology in our homes to "mimick our employers"

Remember they are miserable for a reason.

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itomato  6 days ago

We did. We just didn’t classify it with a hashtag.

Frankenstein couldn’t build a monster without influence. Same thing here.

“CCNA? I’ll show you CCNA…”

aboardRat4  5 days ago

What do you mean my "mimick our employers"?

  • botfriendsarent  4 days ago

    The simple version is, when typing was a job, people put IBM selectrics in their homes to signal they were economically viable.

    Then Bill G said you wont have a job if you dont learn MS word so people put PCs in their homes.

    All we have ever done in tech is imitate our employers so that we can signal to the world we are employable deploying tech at home.

    At his point I not anti, but with the onslaught of AI imitating your employer now looks pretty gross. Maybe we hit the wall. Looking back on it it looks pretty silly. Plus RAM costs. Get a pet turtle.