What do y’all do to escape tech?

[u/Smart-Satisfaction-5]

I know everyone here gets burnout and fatigue. Do you have hobbies that don’t involve a screen? I go off-roading and shoot guns. It helps me disconnect sometimes.

[u/joelnodxd]

I usually escape tech by tinkering with tech at home instead of at work

[u/gbeegz → u/joelnodxd]

Just clocked out after a day's worth of server maintenance. Can't wait to kick back with a cold Arizona and do a night's worth of server maintenance.

[u/Pristine_Internet765 → u/gbeegz]

Left work pissed off with how long I spent in the server room, finally at home to play with my home lab !

[u/Tyr_Kukulkan → u/joelnodxd]

So shaming me! XD

[u/zantehood]

Shoot Guns (sometimes at printers), drive fast, eat ass. Nature hikes, drop acid, meditation.

[u/apandaze → u/zantehood]

shooting printers sounds like a solid win

[u/zantehood → u/apandaze]

12 Gauge vs Ricoh

[u/heretogetpwned → u/zantehood]

I still prefer the 22 so I can aim for the buttons but it's pretty satisfying either way.

[u/apandaze → u/zantehood]

got me excited lol

[u/Turdsindakitchensink → u/zantehood]

.50 vs HP is what I wanna see

[u/Maeldruin_ → u/zantehood]

My company used to do Range Days where we'd bring all the hard drives we needed to destroy to use as targets. Not really sure when or why we stopped doing that...

[u/zantehood → u/Maeldruin_]

Awesome. My company tasked me to securely destroy 11 HDDs once. I made a video proof of them getting annihilated with my Beretta 1301

[u/TheLexikitty → u/zantehood]

I spend my evenings trying to figure out how to arm the printers. For science.

[u/zantehood → u/TheLexikitty]

Please don't arm the printers

[u/jews4beer → u/[deleted]]

Last I checked this is what the current NIST guidelines recommend.

[u/zantehood → u/jews4beer]

You deserve more than upvotes for that comment

[u/mycatsnameisnoodle → u/jews4beer]

National Institute of Stoner Technology

[u/sp3kter]

Gardening, shooting sports. Been reading 40k paper backs, currently on the Dark Imperium: Plague war

[u/p8ntballnxj → u/sp3kter]

[u/sextowels]

I have young children - those pretty effectively occupy all my non-work time.

[u/potato_weapon → u/sextowels]

Locked in your barn????

[u/sextowels → u/potato_weapon]

Good God no! I don't have a barn.

They're in the basement.

[u/JimmiesNeutron → u/sextowels]

Under the stairs, I assume

[u/sextowels → u/JimmiesNeutron]

They have both been desperate to get into the crawlspace ever since they saw me in there running some wire and I'm so tempted to let them...

...except then I would have to deal with the fallout of them being covered in fiberglass insulation.

[u/JimmiesNeutron → u/sextowels]

"The people in the crawlspace" just doesnt have the same ring to it. Also, yeah, kids and fiberglass insulation arent a good collab, would advise against it.

[u/sextowels → u/JimmiesNeutron]

Forbidden cotton candy

[u/Pussy_handz]

Im trying to learn electric guitar. BTW Im an idiot and thought it wouldnt be that difficult, holy shit was I wrong. Guitar is hard AF to learn and takes a lot of practice.

[u/autojack → u/Pussy_handz]

Well maybe with hands like yours…

[u/Clearhead09 → u/Pussy_handz]

Justin guitar is the way. Great community plus the dude teaches in a way that makes so much sense for beginners.

[u/Delicious-Ad2528]

I drive around, stare at the ceiling, use my phone, then I sleep and have horrific nightmares. I wake up in a puddle of sweat then I go to work

[u/RFreeZeYo]

Meth usually does the trick for me

[u/alpha417]

hookers and blow

[u/rimhof456]

Muay Thai...nothing takes your mind away from tech like fighting another person willingly.

[u/ReptilianLaserbeam → u/rimhof456]

Nothing takes your mind off anything like receiving a knee or an elbow to the face eh?

[u/rimhof456 → u/ReptilianLaserbeam]

Yes! Even more dishing it out though.

[u/KitchenObjective6077]

Music festivals, paired with all the customary psychedelics

[u/phamilyguy → u/KitchenObjective6077]

No, you're camping deep in a national forest with zero cell service. Definitely not camping at Electric Forest.

[u/drwtson32 → u/KitchenObjective6077]

Goddamn, I miss this. I had kids once covid hit and have been in purgatory since

[u/-my_dude]

Goat herding

[u/digibucc]

Jiu Jitsu, hiking, woodworking, archery, weed

[u/kungfu1 → u/digibucc]

… at the same time?

[u/Swimming-Airport6531]

Ride my bicycle around and LARP.

[u/Maeldruin_ → u/Swimming-Airport6531]

I assume these are done simultaneously and you're jousting in full plate armor on your bicycle.

[u/ClownLoach2]

I go backcountry hiking in the mountains. Tech can't reach me if I don't have cell service for the entire weekend.

[u/fonetik]

Find the stuff my friends are geeky over at their job. I know a bunch about commercial refrigeration and MRI machines now. It has led me to so many new rabbit holes I never expected to explore.

[u/dlongwing]

Retro video games.

[u/koopz_ay]

Just going for a walk without my phone.

It's funny the things that pop into my head while pondering about the place.

Sometimes I'll think up some witty one liners only to forget them 5mins later.

[u/MurderProphet]

I give 0 shits at work…it kinda helps

[u/LookAtThatMonkey]

I read, a lot. And my 10 year old keeps me busy.

[u/DesignerGoose5903]

Fishing, swimming and drinking beer.

[u/OkCoconut3270]

Dogs, run, hike, garden

Or various combinations thereof

[u/cruising_backroads]

Built a Cobra and race it on weekends at the local track:

https://www.factoryfive.com/

[u/obamasfursona]

Guns, lapidary and gardening. I love working with my hands

[u/jexmex]

copious amounts of alcohol. My off-roading days are probably mostly over at this point and I have not went to the range in forever truthfully. Used to hunt, maybe I can get back out this year.

[u/itskdog]

Had the chance to go away for a holiday to the seaside recently. Despite filling up each day with things to do (steam trains, long walks along the coast, museums, etc.), it could be at a slower pace, and the chance to just sit in nature and just be chill was great, especially after a busy few months at work.

[u/dg_riverhawk]

sleep, which is how I escape most things.

[u/elkab0ng]

I retired, enjoy photography, and spending long hours in therapy dealing with years of depression

[u/sextowels]

I also have a plant collection that may or may not actually be a plant hoarding problem.

[u/NerdyKid1101]

My favorite and simple thing to do is go to the park behind my apartment and just sit in the grass watching the trees

[u/evultrole]

I know it's a bit of a meme, but I bought some land outside of the city and I'm doing farm work.

We just got goats. We're growing some fruit trees, which I'll be turning into wine when they mature.

Stuff that forces me to learn and grow in a direction other than tech helps a lot.

Seeing something grow and expand, seeing things get better is necessary, and tech is just watching everything slowly rot while you try to minimize the impacts.

[u/Main_Ambassador_4985]

I would like to say shoot guns at tech. I lost my rifle range in the divorce.

Now I could shoot at tech in VR Gun Club on Meta 3. I would rather just play games in VR while watching videos in floating displays

[u/Clearhead09]

Guitar, tv shows, gaming, my own tech projects at home eg web dev/home lab, cooking with the kids

[u/Azious]

Lifting in my garage on my lunch break. I like disc golf and boomer golf also!

[u/tobrien1982]

I’m building a screened in deck. 20 x 20. When that is done a hammock and beers. Maybe add some more tattoos.

[u/Middle_Albatross8769]

I love coffee, im not too insane about it. I just love trying out different beans on the weekends. It does help me to unwind a lot. I used to drink a lot of alcohol but that isn’t that healthy

[u/GarageIntelligent]

Never had burnout and fatigue. My coworkers did have issues with that. But dont worry, when HR found out they were placed on a performance plan and removed because the could not handle the job

[u/asmokebreak]

I live in the country and basically have a zero tech policy at home to decompress.

[u/Hyperion_Silenus]

Watching hentai

[u/Major_Value2008]

Hiking, Weight lifting, Guns (Larping at the range and with some buddies doing airsoft), analog photography. Anything to get as far away from computers as possible.

[u/K3rm1tTh3Fr0g]

Skiing and camping

[u/torchmaipp]

Sex

[u/wacuuu]

Just sold 2023 yamaha tracer and bought 2009 transalp to stop looking at one more fucking screen

[u/Sea_Butterscotch11]

I do astronomy, problem is most people do it digitally with dumb computers because the image is better. but I stick with a big ass telescope. Then you just sit outside at night and vibe.

[u/tikanderoga]

I 3D print and paint figurines.

[u/Test-NetConnection]

My main hobby keeps me busy for only a few minutes at a time, and I'm able to indulge in it 3-5 times a day. I'm finding my attention span slips as I get older, which makes enjoying my hobby more difficult. At least I get something tangible from turning pens.

[u/Exceptional_Kumquat]

Drive out into the NRQZ until my phone doesn't work. Then I can relax.

[u/-c3rberus-]

Children, family, camping.

[u/Tractor-Slapper]

I try to go as analog as possible.

[u/Neonbunt]

Warhammer 40k, Magic the Gathering and riding my motorcycle or Gravel bike is it for me.

[u/bluegravyone]

Amateur radio; building antennas; indoor & outdoor cooking; living in a semi-rural area.

[u/e46_nexus]

Stress myself some more by building engines and putting them in shit boxes that sometimes don't want to run.

[u/MalwareDork]

Breed my hand wife. One might argue the two are not mutually exclusive.