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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Infosec have no authority over my personal hardware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why would you regularly need to pass the time when you're not on the clock?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Don't most people have access to personal hardware while at work?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

Lemmy/PieFed.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

while I'm procrastinating? wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Geoguessr, it is an amazing way to clear the mind after one task and context switch to the next.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

None, I work when I'm at work. My hourly is laughable, I gotta sell if I wanna get paid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Internet is mostly dead, everything is big social media or shops, with a few blogs scattered around that I don't feel like reading. The other day I realised that I barely use the web browser on my pc anymore.

And porn, but that goes without saying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You guys have time at work to use your phone at all?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

No, but I do so anyway because I'm underpaid.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah it's always interesting to me when I come across memes and conversations about having nothing to do at work or just pretending to work. I've had different jobs throughout my life and I don't think I've ever really had one where I wasn't constantly working all day. I don't work a blue collar job, but I currently work in healthcare.

I guess it's the classic "office job" scenario where people just sit there not having stuff to do for large stretches of time? I always wondered how that worked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

As someone working with systems development (IT, programming), it's not so much that we don't have stuff to do, it's just that it's easy to get away with slacking off.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Redfin or Zillow

It makes me realize I'll never afford anything ಥ⁠_⁠ಥ

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

As someone who felt the same for many years and finally got the house I never thought I would, keep moving forward! Eventually the hard word does payoff!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

You say it’s your cake day, its my cake day too, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I love It because its design never changed in a million years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It feels like the old internet. Fuck I miss those times. I also miss my friend Tom.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I agree. Clear, simple design. No annoying popups and no reliance on JavaScript. It's the definition of a good website. All web developers should learn from them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Tom's still around, he's just a photographer now: https://www.instagram.com/myspacetom

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

No fucking way!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

allthatsinteresting.com

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

On my work computer? None.

On my Surface? YouTube, solitaire, random incremental games, Spotify.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

mostly reddit and lemmy, and some other sites like for scientific papers. i only browse reddit due to thier insane shadowbannings.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Pretty much just Youtube or random sites I've googled for whatever reason. I got banned from reddit and some lemmy instances hit the IT blacklist for being named like common malware so I don't even bother (plus it can get stale if you view it too often). I used to browse Facebook for the dopamine fill, but since the election that place has gotten quite insane even compared to how insane it was before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Youtube, chatgpt, spotify.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

News websites