I'm sitting at my desk at work, haven't received a single ticket since I got in. Despite what I said a few posts ago, work really isn't all that bad. A third of the time I'm left to my own devices. My relationship with my coworker has improved, turns out he was broken up with out of the blue after five years of a relationship and it really kicked him. He just had a lot of pent of frustration and I don't think he truly dislikes me. Chatting with him has been pretty fun.
We switched over to Macs for our work computers over the Summer. As much as I hate Windows, I can't understand how people genuinely enjoy MacOS. I'm constantly losing where I put windows, the dock never behaves how I would expect it to, and it seems to be totally adverse to just letting you interact with files. Since almost everything for work is web-based I pretty much live in Chrome while I'm at work.
Unfortunately all the classroom PCs are still running Windows. Every patch Tuesday I have to go around and manually update each one. How is it that the start menu takes seconds to open? I'm not even running a search, simply pressing on the Windows icon in the bottom left requires 3-5 seconds for the menu to appear, if it appears at all. I've found that if you right click it to get the abbreviated menu, it loads slightly faster, but still, what could possibly be so resource intensive that basic UI features lag.
Being on Linux for eight years now, I didn't realize how spoiled we are. Sure, software sometimes is a bit more buggy, but you can at least find solutions to fix it or work around it. We don't have to deal with desktop environments lagging when doing basic tasks. We don't have to deal with ads being baked into the operating system. We don't have to deal with Apple's obtuse design decisions (just Gnome's hehehe). I didn't realize how little basic documentation there is on Windows and MacOS targeted software. Everything requires you to contact the software vendor, or if there is documentation, it's because it's an open source project. It's made me realize that I'm not actually that good at troubleshooting software issues on other platforms, I'm just so used to things being open and transparent.
School has had me swamped, it was midterms this week and it felt like each night I was going to bed dreading the next day. I still have one major assignment looming over my head due next week, but I'm taking tonight for myself. I just need to recharge. I'm only really engaged with one class this semester and it kinda aches. Normally I get really interested in the subjects I'm learning, but none of my professors are all that engaging. I've learned I really do not enjoy relational databases. I'll be signing up for next semester's classes soon and I hope it's going to be more interesting for me.
I've been binging through my second watching of Better Call Saul. I can't put into words the pure beauty of that show, the story-telling is second to none and the cinematography has me drooling. At least once every episode I have to pause and just stare in amazement at the beauty of a shot. Something about the overall tone of the show is really resonating with me, that sort of passive discomfort and tension as I come to find a new balance in my life. Some days are easier than others, but I just find myself stressed more than I was before.
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