otacon239 @ otacon239 @lemmy.world

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Yeah, even if it’s a big brand attachment or whatever, I’m never going to complain about a big charity donation. (as long as it’s not a bogus charity, of course)

Haha. Was showing in another comment what the first version of Blender I used looked like. These days I mostly make music.

I don’t think the person surrendering $120,000 actually cares about the console so much as they’re donating to charity.

tl;dr working with your hands can be better than working with a keyboard at times

Aside from the physical labor involved (there's really no way around it), the actual things to keep in mind are very similar to the troubleshooting process on a computer. It's ultimately about identifying there's a problem and digging until you remove it. You'll have to learn how to get better at filtering parts, debugging machine code (reading machine code is easy if you're a programmer, and you have a good CAD programmer above you), maintaining the machine itself, keeping track of tools and orders...

And if you have an IT skillset, you'll likely be one of the few that knows how to work a desktop well and can be the helping hand around the shop for that sort of thing, if you want. There's lots of flexibility because there's a lot less concern about public image. That being said, you might have to look around, because a lot of these places can get lax with safety and quality.

The machines are generally pleasant to work with as well. Instead of software made by companies that actively hate their customers, you get to work with massive machines that have hundreds of millions of dollars poured into development and another few hundred thousand in manufacturing. On top of that, most well-run shops will have you stick to your task. They won't expect you to randomly cross-train on things because it can actually be really dangerous if you're not well trained.

If you had to work Helpdesk, you no longer have to work with customer directly at all. You get to talk to other machinists, many of which have been doing it since they were teenagers or younger. It's also a job where you get to constantly hone your craft and see the physical result. There's something really satisfying about holding a finishing part in your hand.

I got lucky with a job offer, but you can often take a few-month fast-track course through a community college. It will run a few thousand dollars, but the course that my job offered taught me a ton.

I've since moved to screen printing due to poor management at the shop I previously worked, but the principles are all still there. If you're good at working with your hands and enjoy seeing a finished product, try some local manufacturing places. A lot of them do offer training to get you in since skilled tradespeople are getting harder and harder to find these days.

I'm honest in saying that anyone who doesn't want to do a decent amount of manual labor on top of having to use their full talent set (i.e. not tedious/mindless labor) is not a good fit and more importantly, it will probably pay less getting started than the IT industry, but if you get into something like programming or inspection, you can quickly be making double entry level rates in a couple of years. Just depends on where your skillset lies.

Hope my rambling gives you a decent idea of why I enjoy it compared to working at a desk all day. I get to interact with the world a lot more and when I look at the finished result, I know I played a significant part in that.

I’ve literally only ever seen Political Compasses used as memes.

I ditched the IT world for production and manufacturing. CNC machining has a surprising amount of skill crossover and even more so in inspection. If you’re physically capable and have programming experience, it’s worth looking into.

Expertly done, thank you

Could be an album cover

I think that’s just a typo

realistic surgery

lifelike patient

I wonder how doctors could compare this simulation to a real surgery. I’m willing to bet it’s “realistic and lifelike” in the way a 4D movie is.

Biological creatures don’t follow perfect patterns you have all sorts of unexpected things happen. I was just reading an article about someone whose entire organs are mirrored from the average person.

Nothing about humans is “standard”.

Or just don’t finance any non-essential purchase. The idea of financing anything smaller than a couple thousand dollars is just wild to me.

That’s why you’re only supposed to invest in successful ideas, duh.

Don’t say that part out loud!

Having used these mice, you can get through the day with like a 2-minute charge, then leave it overnight to cover the next few months.

I’m so glad I didn’t participate in any of these trends when I was that age. So many regrets avoided.

I’m kind of surprised considering there’s a massive mod scene. Not even with a custom difficulty mode?

There might be a Linux userbase someday where no one other than developers actually knows how to use the terminal, because users can run everything they want without a command line

Ideally, all the essential terminal commands could be replicated in a user-friendly GUI-applicable manner. Don’t ever have to remove the terminal for those that enjoy it, but if we could have a magic world where even the failure states could be navigated with little to no prior knowledge required and it gets everyone away from Windows and Mac for good, I’m all for it.

I worked in one of these companies. Within months, we went from a company I would be proud to recommend to friends to a service I would never use myself, just due to the horrendous route they took to hire overseas support.

The line of tech work I was in required about a month of training after passing the interview process, and even then you had to take a test at the end to prove you’d absorbed the material before you ever speak to a customer.

When they outsourced, they just bought a company of like 30 people in an adjacent industry and gave them a week of training. Our call queues were never worse and every customer was angry with everyone by the time they talked to someone who had training.

I don’t blame the overseas agents. I blame all the companies that treat them like cattle.

That’s why I always liked approaches that use a physical machine that has to stay in one place for an extended period of time. Quantum Break’s hard sci-fi approach to this was fascinating and kept making me reconsider how the time loop worked. Highly recommended for time loop nerds like me.

I’ve definitely had the internal thoughts “leak” like you’re describing. I tend to think in almost another space outside of myself where sometimes I will forget my senses and have to actively return to them. Like I’m walking away briefly from the drivers seat to go take care of something in the back of the truck. I tend not to do this with others around as it can be rude. With others, I’m much more stream of consciousness.