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Oh yeah I totally get it! The only reason I'm in the "know" is because I work in IT. I used to love computers growing up but uh... Now that I do it for a career, I don't have much interest in computers as a hobby. I used to lie at work in entry level positions saying stupid shit like "computers are my life!" Because I thought that's what I needed to do to "fit in". But, these days I'm just honest. When I get off work I don't fire up my gaming pc (don't even have one), I fire up my grill!
Glad you like it here! I'm pretty new myself. My only issue is there's not much traffic sometimes but what makes it so "real" is how empty it feels sometimes. You know people read your comments instead of getting buried in thousands of bot comments.
Haha, well you made it farther than I did, I too liked computers growing up but even though I went and got my A+, Network+, MCSA and all that years and years ago, and then went back to school and got an associates in web development, and then didn't do anything with that either. OOF. Well good news is now I know why I wasn't allowing myself to succeed back then, bad news is it's way too late now for any of that with AI poising to take over everything. I'm kind of glad I didn't now, kind of, if it wasn't for the fact I'd actually be financially stable now if I did lol. But life is a journey. I'm actually a bit of a luddite now despite my very early adoption of computers, internet, etc haha. Funny how that works out. Grill sounds great, I love cooking out doors as well, it's just invigorating :)
AH yeah, I had an older account but I deleted it because I couldn't resist the urge to make negative comments about the state of things all the time and I'm trying to be more positive so I made a new one. Yeah it's a bit slow at times but that is kind of refreshing not have to keep up with an endless barrage of stuff ya know.