Jo Miran

What I see is the developer who’s left after multiple rounds of cost cutting layoffs and subsequent exodus of anyone qualified, that knows they are only there because they are willing to work for the least amount of money, and are willing to endure abuse from their sadistic manager, not knowing how to systematically debug the mountain of accumulated issues, and keeps trying random stuff hoping that anything will somehow work.

Christ almighty, this is perfect. Literally my life for the past twenty years, except the I start by assuming they did something dumb, so I would have checked the lid first. Then promptly they spill it unto their lap and I have to clean it.

Ops is like Hotel California.

Oh, I know. I meant that we had to take courses on older languages as part of the curriculum. That was a funky little college program. The oddest experience for me was taking Python back in the day as the “new thing” then not seeing it again until it absolutely exploded ~10 years ago. That program is also why I ended up playing with Linux so early on. The professors truly seemed to have a passion for emerging technologies while not wanting anyone to forget what came before. Thankfully, no punch cards.

In college back in 1991. Also had to do PASCAL and FORTRAN but thankfully those two were in a single course.

Oh no. The no gifting rule is also in effect. It was his own political campaign.

This basically the premise to Richard Pryor’s movie “Brewster’s Millions” except that one of the rules was that you cannot buy or own anything. At the end of the month you must have spent the money and have nothing to show for it.

The answer is politics. Spend it all on a political campaign.

My first choice is Pop!_OS because my graphics cards are NVidia, but you said that you don’t like their DE. My second choice is LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition). It is boring and stable and gets out of your way.

Preaching to the choir. They hire use to performance tune their app but then their IT staff manges to not notice the most basic things.

We do Grafana + Prometheus for most of our clients but I think that adding Loki into the mix might be necessary. The amount of clients that are missing basic events like “you’ve run out of disk space…two days ago”, is too damn high.

What’s wrong with Plexamp?

I use to run RasPlex on a PiZero with a Bluetooth gamepad as a Plex client. There has to be a jellyfin equivalent. For some time, I have just used older game consoles as media clients instead.

I’d start with a 13 month/28 day calendar and planetary time (all clocks set to UTC).

EDIT: And set the date format to YYYY.MM.DD for the entire world. Americans and Europeans can stop arguing. The Japanese got it right.

Sounds like sexual harassment.

A UPS should always be your first or second purchase if only for power conditioning and brown-out protection.

Me: “Ok. What’s the big deal.”

Also me: “Less than a million affected. That’s nothing.”

Still me: “Rule 1: Never let pesky details get in the way of a funny meme.”

Ultimately me: 😱😂 “That guy is in for a rough Monday!”

Interested in this too.

Remember the net neutrality regulations that douchebag scrapped then opted to make a shitty YouTube video about? I do.

I second Standard Notes. My focus is very geared towards privacy and security and Standard Notes excels at that as well.