Sup Forums confession thread

let it out boys. you don't really work 8 whole hours a day to compete with anjeet or the numales/chads of society. you don't actually use gentoo. you don't actually support FOSS except in situations that directly benefit you. you don't actually own a home server. you haven't done anything in your life to actually warrant being an authority in a field/industry.

we tell ourselves lies everyday so that we can feel better about ourselves and hide from the truth. but to truly empower ourselves, we must accept the truth and actively work against it, not constantly nurture it in secrecy.

just let it out boys. let it all out. what good is anonymity if we cannot use it to its fullest extent?

my turn: i shitpost on Sup Forums and reddit for at least 3 hours a day. i try to populate my github but im not the type of developer that just jumps from one idea to the next like a dirty stripper like you see on jsfiddle where someone makes a loading icon or some project that takes 4 hours and can be easily shown off. so i feel like shit seeing my tiny little github with projects that must be installed/configured to be tested and i feel like this kinda hurts me in the long run compared to the easy bullshit that people churn out.

i spend too much time doing random shit. i'll read about one thing and just jump to some other topic. i still don't have a job but i've been developing for like 2 years now and the past year i've been going in overdrive, spending more time developing than going to class + other leisure activities. but this has burnt me out recently.

i am a web dev but i fucking hate design but devs can hardly survive out in the web dev world without being a front end designer + back end developer. i can do full stack but i fucking hate design and really prefer not to spend time looking at color palletes and finding which colors match well. i practically burned all my bridges taking this route cause my GPA is fucking ass since i did the bare minimum while focusing on web dev. if this doesnt work out im basically fucked.

I use oh-my-zsh. I want to junk it, but I've been too lazy to manually set all the features I like from it.

and to be honest, i wouldn't survive in another industry/remain sane. i like everything about web dev but the lack of jobs is really burning right now. i don't live in shemale paradise so tech jobs are pretty limited to mostly design work or im on upwork competing with literal anjeets who work for $2 an hour. i can't fucking survive on $2 an hour and the white numales who insist on supporting equality are perfectly fine hiring people for $2 an hour.

i just graduated and my parents aren't willing to keep me afloat for long. i'm gonna have to work at fucking mcdonalds or some shit to pay my bills while i try to land a dev job but i don't want to work at fucking mcdonalds and i don't want to tell a future employer that i'm currently working at mcdonalds because i didn't get a job in my major and i didn't get a job in my preferred field. feels fucking bad man.

i'm trying to beef up my portfolio but i've been working hard for the past few months and i am a little burned out on just creating new projects that never see the light of day. and like i said earlier, they're not just something you fire up and test out in 5 minutes, you have to configure them for your system, install them, etc. so i doubt many employers give a fuck about actually testing them when i link my github account even though my projects are usually involving full stack technologies with lots of features.

I don't use gentoo.
That's the only thing in your list that applied.
Although I do have a shirt that has 'install gentoo' on it.

I'm old and wasted too much time. I am just now studying for CNNA and trying to go back to school at 26. I feel like I'm not gonna make it bros, I'll be 28 before I'm done but all we can do is try, right?

Well honestly if you need the full 8 hrs to do something you estimated for 8 hrs you’re doing something wrong

Politicians use their power to steal and corrupt , we use it to charge people 160 hrs of work for something that takes us 20

>you don't really work 8 whole hours a day
very inconsistently do i have so much work available
>you don't actually use gentoo
never have, probably should play with it to learn more
>you don't actually support FOSS except in situations that directly benefit you
i just bought sandboxie today
>you don't actually own a home server
i don't see the need for a full rack, i have a couple pis that do various things like provide irc bouncers and vpns for myself
>you haven't done anything in your life to actually warrant being an authority in a field/industry
i have enough knowledge to be able to train, but it's true that i'm the one calling my peers for advice instead of the other way around

how the fuck do you convince someone it would take 8x the amount of time to do something?

>you don't actually support FOSS except in situations that directly benefit you
Isn't that the whole idea? I support FOSS because FOSS offers benefits to myself and others.

It’s not about that

Let’s say you’re making chat app in iOS for costumers , at some point creating from scratch it will take you a full month or even more

If your boss keeps asking for those , you won’t be a sucker that says “hey boss, I can make it on 1 week now because I already know the process and my abstraction allows me to spin a new chat app based on the previous on in 20 hrs “

Same things with unit testing or libraries you create for your projects

Eventually they’re paying you full time for something it takes 20 hrs to do

I've applied to ~110 full time jobs in the past 2 months. I've gotten about 5-6 interviews and all of them have failed. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. My professor says I have a good resume, and every single HR department has a "we don't share interview feedback" policy. How am I supposed to improve if I don't know where I'm failing? I know I'm worrying about this stuff early as in months before graduation, but I want security in knowing I'll be able to support myself after college.

I believe in you user!

I install nonfree software on my laptop because it's convenient
I have a google account
I use spotify
I use android

Are you a white male? You may want to consider that.

It’s 100% you

You probably aren’t dressing good enough

You probably are way to autistic you don’t even realize

You probably are creepy as fuck


Try to be a human for once , shower , get good clothes , shut up and let the interviewer make the questions

You should answer what you know , and say what you don’t

I work 8 hours a day and use Gentoo. I wish I was a normie sometimes. I'm contemplating the purchase of a GNU/hat.

I have never cared about Foss

I sometimes lie about being a neet on Sup Forums

I do software at work when they need help, but I am too ADHD to sit in a chair all day so I opt for fabrication and manual labor. I would kill myself if I had to do it full time.

I haven't played a video game In 2 years

I keep windows installed just so I can use Adobe Acrobat.

I switch distros about every 3 months, which means my PC is almost never useable because I haven't set things up yet.

I phone post exclusively even if I'm sitting at the computer. Clover is just too easy.

I have a folder labeled projects with about 22 folders. I have never come close to finishing any of them.

I have no idea how crypto currency works

The first language I learned was C++, however I learned python shortly after and haven't used C++ since. I probably couldn't even fizz buzz without Google.

>26
>old
You still have plenty of time to study and practice and become really good at something. Once you hit 30, you're going to feel like you were still a wide-eyed innocent youth at 26.

im a normie in contrast to the rest of Sup Forums
lines of code are as good chinese but i do like spg and other generals

>you don't actually use gentoo
All my computers have Gentoo on them
>you don't actually support FOSS
I always use FOSS unless the proprietary alternative has an extremely crucial feature and I non-intrusively encourage people to use FOSS.
>you don't actually own a home server
I have a Raspberry Pi running Gentoo and I can use my gaymen desktop as a home server as well (including wake on lan from the Pi if required), it's also running Gentoo.
>you haven't done anything ...
Does successfully installing Gentoo on a Raspberry Pi, a desktop, 4 laptops, 2 of those not mine, on a phone and in a prefix env on a vserver where I don't have root access count?
Am I cool yet, Sup Forums?

The only reason I still use Windows on a semi-regular basis is because Stepmania has a broken PKGBUILD on arch.

Sometimes when I see the code of other people on Sup Forums I often times can't understand a fucking thing and it really fucking bothers me. There are times when I think most of Sup Forums consists of actual geniuses when seeing their code.

I love Python, especially doing backend web dev with Flask.

I used to love Java but Sup Forums has conviced me to hate it. It worked.

I want to switch from Windows to some Linux distro so bad but I still want to be able to play video games. Could setup dual boot but I want to have everything on one OS and not switch to Windows exclusively for games.

I think the FOSS movement is a joke.

I despise Stallman and Torvalds because they are douchebags.

i still use winrar

I contribute to the Linux kernel for my job, but it's basic bitch shit and my company blows. All my friends make more money than I do, and I have a feeling my coworkers don't respect me at all. My family and friends tell me I should leave. For some reason I stay. I've been doing it for nearly 5 years, and I'm still retarded about most things. I've been working on the same 2-3 drivers for 3 years and don't have much to show for it. I'm too lazy to spend enough time updating my skills and too socially awkward to succeed in interviews. I also don't adequately prepare for them. I'm finally seeing the results of my slacker ways and trying to undo them, but its so hard. Maybe I'll go to graduate school, but I ultimately am starting to wonder if programming was a passion or just something I thought was cool and didn't know anything about when choosing a path in life. I always wanted to be a operating systems engineer, and the greatest opportunity fell into my lap, but my immaturity has fucked it up. Also nearly 27, khv, and no friends.

I'm going to be 31 next month
Just now starting community college for an actual real education instead of the Tech school I went to when I was 18 which I could wipe my ass with.
Now that I value education after being a manual labor whore I'm pursuing computer science because technology isn't going anywhere and even if I am too old to make any real advancements I would rather be working with tech than a bull shit graveyard shift all my life.
I feel old as fuck when classmates say their in highschool taking college credits, but I try and tell myself I have life experience and these little fucks will trip and fall somewhere in the 10yr gap between our ages.

You mean you'll have a college degree at 28? If so you are above average.
The average college graduate started at 20 and university took them 10 years.

Even though I really know better, I'm using mac osx on my laptop and ios on my phone. I can't let go of windows on desktop, but OS is not the issue hardware is. It pains me to know I literally got assfucked by applel but they literally just work dude. they make my life way, way way simpler.

tech and electronics literally consumed my life and monies until this point, and no matter what im not upgrading my skylake desktop, my early 2015 macbook and iphone 7 unless they explode. i recently sold off all the extra hardware and shit i had and i feel much better living a less electronically bloated life.

You should go on biz and make money out of mining/shitcoin.

It could be worse, I'm a 24yo webdev and I absolutely despise my job, I just hate it.
Now being 25yo and working 8 full hours, I will attempt to do a short course in the field of electronics/telecommunications, and if I'm lucky enough to get a job (where I'll get paid little more than minimum wage for 44 weekly hours or more for sure) I will attempt to start a 5 year tertiary career at 26, that will at least take me 10 years with a lot of struggle because working it is impossible to do the whole thing at night while tired of long hours of work.
With some luck at the age of 36 with a decent degree and some experience as a technician, I might get a well paid job in what I actually want to do.
If I fail I will kill myself, but not without having tried first.

I can't program. I've been jobless since graduation. I'm now 26.
t. Math major

i want to fuck a pony

make friends with retards, then youll be #1

>fake job
>do use gentoo
>transitioning to FOSS
>no home server but soon, with email
>expecting everyone to be an authority figure is retarded

everyone should be an authority of some field/industry otherwise you are probably destined to a life of working at mcdonalds. i'm not saying you have to be the top dog, but someone who is an authority figure in an industry/field is someone who actually has strong knowledge of that field and can advise others about that field/industry.

everyone should be good at something. if youre not good at anything, youre honestly just a failure in life

What do you even do with a math major?

Some people just work to make a living and are happy because of other things (hobbies, family, love, friends, etc).
Sadly I'm not one of those people, so I need to be good at something to not be a complete failure.

perhaps, but that shit takes time

Beats me, all the people I knew became software engineers or went to grad school.

FOSSfags have a naivety similar to high-schoolers that believe in communism.

You are supposed to do that to either become a teacher (like most math majors do) or with some luck get into research (just the very few that are the very best in the field and also got contacts).
It can also be useful if you double-major in something else in the STEM field, including Computer Science, but doing a Math major to work as a software engineer is pretty retarded and the degree for itself isn't worth much for most people.

I've only ever used Windows. I know nothing about coding, I only come to Sup Forums for the you/cpu/phone threads. I'm posting from my chinkphone.

It's kinda too late for me to do that. What are some projects I can do to get noticed by a potential employer in a big city? What type of companies should I go to for experience? Any resources and advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

> let it out boys. you don't really work 8 whole hours a day to compete with anjeet or the numales/chads of society. you don't actually use gentoo. you don't actually support FOSS except in situations that directly benefit you. you don't actually own a home server. you haven't done anything in your life to actually warrant being an authority in a field/industry.

> we tell ourselves lies everyday so that we can feel better about ourselves and hide from the truth. but to truly empower ourselves, we must accept the truth and actively work against it, not constantly nurture it in secrecy.

> just let it out boys. let it all out. what good is anonymity if we cannot use it to its fullest extent?

But I actually do work more than 8 hours a day, though I'm kind of a chad myself, I run hardened gentoo on my home server, and I'm a board certified specialist physician in my field and I've been published in journals, so I actually am an authority in my field. The only one of those that I lie about is FOSS. I hate rms and his obnoxious paranoia, but I use it as an excuse to my friends for why I quit using Facebook. The real reason is that I almost got caught by the two women I'm fucking at the same time that both think we're exclusive so I deleted my Facebook so one of them wouldn't see the other leaving suggestive comments on my gym selfies.

t. Normie that doesn't like anime but was a Sup Forumstard in his 20s and came to Sup Forums in his 30s for more mature conversation (the fuck was i thinking?)

I put on a facade of being an expert in everything but i'm actually terrified of people thinking i'm stupid

What is that you want to do? Programming?

Yes, after realizing I can't do anything. I think programming is the next best option.

Hey good job user. I’m proud of you. Keep on going :)

Haha how did you guess. What really stung was when this girl I know and tutored got an offer from a company I've applied to for a few years and never got any response from.

>wanted to program to make games
>first used python...well that was shit
>tried to get into C# didnt work out, not enough tutorials
>used Unity..meh text based stuff wanted 2D...not 100%free
>used Unreal for VS got bored droped it
>now on Godot I like it we will see ...found good tutorials has its own script language

in colleage need to learn fucking C an Assembly.....

Entry level web dev job, possibly you'll have to settle for a half tech support/programmer job at first (I got one with just a high school diploma)
Work for 2 years, then apply for something better.

Only thing I actually do there is work 9 hours a day as a software engineer. I don't give a fuck about free software and I don't even use Linux at work and definitely not at home

You must actually be on the spectrum and be really rude or be extremely smelly. There's no way you couldn't get a job after that many fucking applications and interviews.

Was she one of these with a 120k+ job?

I have no delusions and only browse boards for funny stuff

I burned out at work now im unemployable. Studying for a microsoft exam but I only ever got an netry level projeet job so ill have to get my foot in the door all over again. 24 no friends, local community workshop thinks im an anxious wierdo. tech was a misteak.

Fuck you, cunt. I do run Gentoo. I also go to music festivals (the ones that are actually good), meet bitches, and go on camping trips with them later.

Kill yourself.

You forgot to say that you're dad works at Nintendo.

lol

Do you really need all those meters, your uptime, clockspeed, network activity, ect... Seems pretty bloat to me.

Nice random picture from Pinterest, I can do that too.

>2880x1800
Nice macbook bro xDDD

congrats user!

Anything you want

learn matlab, attend some classes about cad/construction and technical mechanics or do some statistic shit with excel. companies will hire you immediately.

You're not wrong. Your work ethic, existing work experience and understanding of the real world will probably give you an edge over the others. Also be sure to do internships/coop.

> 24
> Graduated in CS
> Have a calculator app on App Store
> Apple's marketing team of my country contacted me saying my App is cool etc, and they want me to improve it by using their technology (3D touch, Haptic feedback, etc)
> Currently improving the calculator and developing a 2D SpriteKit iOS game
> No job
> Also studying for public CS jobs

Will I be ok Sup Forums? I'm kinda worried

I use gnome because the devs taking away useful features turns me on

Which companies or industries should I be looking at? I've filled out a ton of applications with very little response.

My job, which I got last year when I was 29, has put me on a CCNA course and I'm really struggling with the motivation. I will never be an expert at any of this. I'm intelligent enough compared to other people, but I have no passion whatsoever for this as a career. I do first-line IT support and probably won't progress on to anything better before I'm 40. I spend all my time telling myself I should be studying for my CCNA, but never actually doing any work towards it.

Ignore the other posters here. Your experience is common. And it sounds like you aren't even out of university yet; you really have no right to complain about anything until you are at least 25. Get some fucking nuts and keep doing what you're doing. Eventually you will get lucky, just like everyone before you did.

I regularly false flag threads about x86 alternatives from PA-RISC and SPARC systems.

It feels like there used to be a lot more people who were just into alternative hardware because it was novel and interesting, now it's more like a bunch of brainless pseudo-anticorporate hipsters grasping at straws for an "x86 killer" to power their next trendy fashion accessory and destroy Intel.

Associates, no point in getting a bachelors when the program is just core classes and bachelors would add 2 years of GE garbage on top of it. Associates in IT/Networking, CCNA, Sec+,LFSA should be qualified candidate for something in 30-40k range.

But I do know Lisp, read most of SICP, installed gentoo several times, am using GNU/Linux right now, and strongly support free software.

Add READMEs to your project with screen shots of them in use. That's what I do.

If you want feedback, try ending interviews with "Based on what we've discussed, is there any reason why I wouldn't be a good fit for this position?"

I installed windows 10 because of the exploit and being that my hardware is new. I kinda like windows 10. I had to change some things but eh.

>I despise Stallman and Torvalds because they are douchebags.
The irony.

Sounds good, I have no options to do any exclusively networking/IT careers here, I have to either go full systems which is 80% software engineering and math, or full telecommunications with 80% physics, math and electronics.

I absolutely hate technology. It's becoming more and more a burden every year. I hate how it's murdered communities in real life as well but that's beside my point.

im a handheldless virgin soyboy who really doesnt know shit about programming but does enough to get by, i also jerk off to ladyboys from thailand

The only Desktop I owned is a P4. Used macbook for years, just recently switched to chinkpad+GNU.

Only enrolled in CS because I needed an excuse why I studied physics for so long. Programming is literary the only thing I can do but I'm never doing anything for muh github portfolio (not for the lack of ideas/skill)

Have never started an assignment/homework/exam prep more than 48h before deadline if ever.
My GPA is probably really bad if I ever manage to graduate.
>>Now for the full r9k
Shutin, virgin, developed a tick where I shout phrases like "Ich bin ein Berliner"/" Penishead"/"I'm gay"(actually not gay), not that close to my friends

>>On the plusside
Once I figure out my mental heath issues I can become a teacher (here they actually get paid well but not too high)
Will dedicate life to FOSS one I stop wasting my time
Stopped smoking (incl. weed) years ago
Will get 2x2 xeon servers for compiling gentoo from a friend soon
Started going indoor climbing with girl
Not dead