TSS#58 – Getting Old

I’m starting to get old. 

My tutors are starting to use programs I’ve never heard about like Zoom and Rocketchat and while I’m able to use Zoom right now… I’m completely failing at Rocketchat and have no clue what I’m supposed to do. Signing in doesn’t seem to work and using the link and the password for my classes leads me to a paywall that isn’t supposed to be required. Or rather I don’t want to pay for something that is done by Discord and Zoom already but better! 

So I messaged my tutor about the fact that discord is a lot better and more popular amongst us math students compared to Rocketchat – an app nobody has heard about, despite it being “the leading open source team chat software solution”. It doesn’t even have a wikipedia.page, which is stupid since any of its employees could have created one. 

Meanwhile, Discord has this here come up as their first google-result:

“Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text. Chat, hang out, and stay close with your friends and communities.”

Isn’t that nice? And they even have their own Wikipedia-page. That makes them relevant, doesn’t it? (That’s more of a joke but you get my point, right?)

So, naturally, I asked my tutor if he could consider using Discord, Zoom or even Moodle as they all work better than Rocketchat and as they are as “secure” and I promised the tutor that I’d create a server with working roles for every tutorial and every class as well as a help-desk of sorts and voice channels, etc. so that we could try that out instead of having to use yet another program that doesn’t seem to work for me (or any of my friends). 

But let’s get back on track: I’m getting older. Or rather – I’m starting to get old. My eyesight is getting worse, my memory is fading, my body is aching every now and then without any reason to do so, my technological understanding doesn’t seem to be enough right now and – if all of that is not enough – I’m starting to get grey hairs in my beard… at 21. I’m getting old. I can see the light shining in the distance. My time is up. I’ll die soon, probably. 

And uhm,… jokes aside, I’m getting worried about the grey hair situation and hope that it’s at least symmetric and that it looks as cool as Triggerfinger’s beard… cause if not, I’ll have to shave again and I don’t want to shave daily as I’ll look at least three to five years younger without my beard. 

So, that’s essentially what this post was about: Me getting grey hairs in my beard (probably stress or something) and me joking about dying. Hope you enjoyed this post. Have you ever heard of Rocketchat?

Cheers!