• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    12 hours ago

    The longer I work in tech, the more I want to move to a farm 50km from neighbours with just me, my partner, a couple dogs, chickens, and cows.

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      5 hours ago

      are you sure you don’t want spyware in your house? Are you sure you don’t want new shinies?! daddy oligarchs told me that was the most important thing in life.

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      9 hours ago

      “The more I work in tech, the more I wish I was independently wealthy.”

      I love how people use the word “just” when making statements about the simple life.

      Simple ain’t always cheap…

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      12 hours ago

      The longer I work in tech exist, the more I want to move to a farm 50km from neighbours with just me, my partner, a couple dogs, chickens, and cows.

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      10 hours ago

      you should look at open land out in deep rural areas.

      you’re more likely to kill yourself than get a farm these days.

      not since the corporations bought up all the farm land.

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      Around COVID times, I had a coworker who bought a 100+ year old farmhouse out in Minnesota and we could see over time how he was fixing it up. Then he quit and started his homestead. Enviable man.

      but yeah, I’ve heard of a lot of people in tech quitting at 20 years, which seems high? but at around 13+ years, I get it. I just don’t really know what I’d go to