I watched Star Trek, Pokemon, Gargoyles and Dino Adventure Jurassic Tripper - all of those ran on TV here, which was awesome.
Apart from that, I probably read four to five books every week and I even won a reading contest at the local library one time. They loved me so much there, they just gave me books sometimes to keep for myself. (That's how I discovered "The Day of the Triffids", and it's glorious.)
I was extremely into that whole "Native American" thing and read all kinds of fiction about it. I loved the Winnetou movies to death and I must've read the whole works of Karl May. That was definitely cringe and a lot of people made fun of me because of that. I still think they're pretty well written books, but not unproblematic, of course.
Apart from that, I tinkered a lot with electronics and got pretty good at soldering and semi-good at fixing circuits. When I was seven years old, my dad bought a computer and I learned how to work with DOS, Win95 and Linux. I definitely was a weird kid and I didn't have many friends (still don't), but I enjoyed my childhood regardless of that, because my parents supported all of my endeavours.
I listened to rave and techno music, which was very unusual here in North Germany. None of the radio stations played it, but we had cable radio so I was able to listen to it and fall in love with it. Needless to say, a young teenager listening to Scooter screaming "HOW MUCH IS THE FISH?" just increased the level of teasing from my classmates. But fuck them, it was great music to dance to!
Nowadays I work as a coder in a small advertising agency, so I guess my childhood prepared me pretty well for my adulthood. Overcoming social anxiety was hard, though. I only achieved that in my late 20s. Turns out that growing up as an only child in a small village messes with your head a little bit.
Edit: Oh, and I was hardcore against alcohol, for some stupid reason. I never drank anything and when my friends went to a party and had a good time, I was an ass about it afterwards. For some reason I wanted everyone to be as abstinent as me, lol. Nowadays I drink occasionally and I enjoy it, I don't know what was up with me back then.
I still remember the good old IBM Thinkpads, most of them were indestructible tanks. But with Lenovo, those times are long over. My last machine was a TP L390 Yoga. It overheated frequently, the cooling system was inadequate for the 4.6GHz Intel CPU, one day the logo sticker came off because the glue turned into sticky liquid, the passive Micro-Ethernet dongle cost 50โฌ and the cable turned into glue after a few months...god, what a shit machine this was.
I was able to work with it for a while by limiting and undervolting the CPU, but one day a Windows update came out that disabled the functionality and it worked like crap on Linux for a long time due to bad drivers.
I switched to GPD now. Never going back, although I miss the Trackpoint a little bit.
I have a GPD Win Max 2 2024 and it's such an amazing device. Everything works ootb on Fedora, except the FP reader (but that's already being worked on). Raytracing on a 10" device, what a time to be alive.
It's also very easy to disassemble, clean and repair.
So GPD definitely wins in my book.
Web development in North Germany, for a small agency. We mainly work with WordPress and Typo3, which is used by the government, clinics and other "bigger" institutions a lot here.
I actually like PHP (most people seem to hate it :D), so it's a good job.
The scene where all of those underdeveloped people come on board the Enterprise with their animals and one woman is shouting throughout the whole deck. Patrick Stewart lost it at this point, turns away from the camera and starts to laugh uncontrollably. But they kept the camera rolling and the scene turned out great!
Going with Fedora KDE is a really solid choice, been rocking this for two years and it's stable as fuck and quite similar to Windows, so the incompetentelderly stubborn people in the government might be able to work with it, too.
One thousand years ago, superstition and the sword ruled. It was a time of darkness, it was a world of fear, it was the age of gargoyles. Stone by day, warriors by night. We were betrayed by the humans we had sworn to protect, frozen in stone by a magic spell for a thousand years. Now, here in Manhattan, the spell is broken and we live again!
"This is the best time of your life, it will never be as easy."
I wasted more time at school than at work and I didn't have Fridays off, so that was a lie.
One of the first things my new boss did was to cancel the daily standup meetings that were enforced by the previous management. God, what a great decision. I'm finally getting shit done instead of having to talk and endure bullshit every day.
And does it get easier to manage as you start to get used to it and make a routine?
European here. I worked many years for 40h/week and I never got used to it, really. There was not enough spare time in my life to enjoy it (especially, since commuting to work took off even more useful time). I neglected cleaning my room, postponed important appointments as much as possible and I was often too tired to do the things I love.
Since 2024, I now work 30h/week, completely from home. I have every Friday off and Thursday is a short day. My life has improved drastically. I am no longer tired all the time, I'm more motivated at work and I am actually capable of going to concerts, parties, cinema. It's amazing.
Every human is built different. I realized I absolutely cannot function having a 9to5 job from Monday to Friday.
I watched Star Trek, Pokemon, Gargoyles and Dino Adventure Jurassic Tripper - all of those ran on TV here, which was awesome.
Apart from that, I probably read four to five books every week and I even won a reading contest at the local library one time. They loved me so much there, they just gave me books sometimes to keep for myself. (That's how I discovered "The Day of the Triffids", and it's glorious.)
I was extremely into that whole "Native American" thing and read all kinds of fiction about it. I loved the Winnetou movies to death and I must've read the whole works of Karl May. That was definitely cringe and a lot of people made fun of me because of that. I still think they're pretty well written books, but not unproblematic, of course.
Apart from that, I tinkered a lot with electronics and got pretty good at soldering and semi-good at fixing circuits. When I was seven years old, my dad bought a computer and I learned how to work with DOS, Win95 and Linux. I definitely was a weird kid and I didn't have many friends (still don't), but I enjoyed my childhood regardless of that, because my parents supported all of my endeavours.
I listened to rave and techno music, which was very unusual here in North Germany. None of the radio stations played it, but we had cable radio so I was able to listen to it and fall in love with it. Needless to say, a young teenager listening to Scooter screaming "HOW MUCH IS THE FISH?" just increased the level of teasing from my classmates. But fuck them, it was great music to dance to!
Nowadays I work as a coder in a small advertising agency, so I guess my childhood prepared me pretty well for my adulthood. Overcoming social anxiety was hard, though. I only achieved that in my late 20s. Turns out that growing up as an only child in a small village messes with your head a little bit.
Edit: Oh, and I was hardcore against alcohol, for some stupid reason. I never drank anything and when my friends went to a party and had a good time, I was an ass about it afterwards. For some reason I wanted everyone to be as abstinent as me, lol. Nowadays I drink occasionally and I enjoy it, I don't know what was up with me back then.