I misread that as “self-loathing” and the answer was obvious.

That’s … Pretty depressing.

I was going to post a note about typewriters, allegedly from Tom Hanks, which I saw years and years ago; but I can’t find it.

Turns out there’s a lot of Tom Hanks typewriter content out there.

I tried to buy an external 20TB drive from Amazon twice. First one that came, I bought refurbished; the drive had been shucked and replaced with a 146GB drive.

Second one I bought was 20TB, but was clicking and grinding from the moment I turned it on. When I tried to initiate a return saying “drive is clicking and grinding, indicating that it’s failing,” their support bot helpful informed me that a clicking and grinding drive usually indicated drive failure.

They did accept the return for the latter. They also accepted a return for the former, but it took literal months and several support interactions where the (seemingly real) agents actively lied to me.

I’ve had okay luck with smaller Amazon drives in the past, but will have trouble recommending them for this kind of purchase in the future.

AKA a WAR, which is an unnecessarily aggressive acronym for “weekly action report.”

Would have been more fun, if less accurate, to call them pinecones.

You know, I’m not sure whether to be insulted or flattered … But I don’t disagree.

All of my skills are devops or sysadmin related.

It’s been a while, but I used to regularly get emails inviting me to apply to be a Wendy’s manager. I doubt I would have been good at that.

With all respect, the first paragraph seems self contradictory.

From context, I assume Mobile Device Management, though I’ve never heard it it being used other than by an employer.