You buy such a thing with Club Z points?

That’s the one you buy then if that’s what matters to you.

Yeah. But where can I find a phone with Qi, reverse-Qi, and a 3.5mm jack? Other than the old one I have now, that is.

I’m thinking they’ll disagree, and choose a generation of fury. And I support that.

sysadmin work for an public institution or so where people are only bullshitting their jobs.

About half my career and part of my current contract load is to a public organization of one type or another. But I’ve been half and half anyway.

Dotcom is a wasteland of gunners/pluggers and wageslaves, none of them afforded enough time to get anything complete and good. Public orgs with union contracts employ people with a good life balance and the freedom to do a great job about 95% of the time, after the layers of regulations are met.

I found slackers at both types of org: the public slacker is a hapless clod whose tasks all get reassigned and he really doesn’t do much. He’s about 3% of the workforce. The dotcom slacker is a harried guy muddling through something he’s not trained for, with no help since his peers have their own KPIs, hoping like fuck he can get Project Grapefruit done by next Town Hall meeting lest he be voted off the island. Again, 3%.

The public org is great people who’ve done this work effectively their entire career. They’re astoundingly good at it, and are still energized by the work and the educational programmes. Dotcoms have no training and the few people who make it past 2 years are likely PIPped by year 4 because of the “fresh talent” policy

I envy the public org people. I miss my non-work life sometimes.

If he doesn’t start a sentence with “Well, Jesus, fuck, buddy,” then he’s not one of us.

OS’s

I don’t need to read further. If you can’t pluralize OS, I don’t trust you to speak on it.

it looks like that is not gonna happen.

It is if we avoid products and people associated with this. Warn the people.

But I don’t live in California and my people are petty as fuck. Try to buy a coke in Newfoundland for the last 40 years.

No jack? Send it back.

I kinda think I want it to try. I make little effort to hide my location or identity, and I think I’d like to see the results.

…just without saying who I am before I get those results. And my desire to stay anonymous-ish and not give it a chance to cheat means I can’t satisfy I have the right to the identify of myself if it finds who I am.

Quite seriously, I cannot prove I have the right to make it search for me, for myself, without giving it too much information or without risking the leak of private info to a so-far unidentified stranger if it finds anything.

Catch-22

More gear into the second market. Nice.

Ha!

My work laptop is mandated win11.

I have working headphones.

I have working headphones set that go through a dock and through a KVM and through 20 feet of USB and three chained hubs between said laptop and my earballs.

They also switch beautifully over to the Nobara (fedora) I’ve installed, and even back to this ancient ring-fenced win7 physical I have.

Hell; I only had issues last year because I got a janky USB extension and the Dell cube dock is a piece of actual shit and the two couldn’t cope.

What do I win with a ugreen usb3 sound dev and an apple 3.5mm earpods headphones plugged in? I mean, aside from a working comms rig.

Sometimes the Lennart Poetterings fuck up

Dude. That guy has single-handedly ruined two decades of bulletproof, fast, reliable booting. I can’t wait until we all wise up and it’s more than PCLinuxOS that avoids this mess. It’s a metastatic kudzu/poison-ivy hybrid with a taste for flesh.

2 weeks to set everything up (lamp stack, K3S, crowdsec, openappsec, wireguard, etc)

If you’re pushing kubes onto a normie or a noob, the fault’s partially yours. Single-box apache, maybe samba xor git, depending on the workflow, and some audio hints in /etc/profile.d to remind them how to restart various pieces if they can putty in.

echo 'yum clean ; yum upgrade --skip-broken --no-best ; needs-rebooting && reboot||:' > /etc/cron.weekly/do-eet

… and walk away.

(--no-best and --skip-broken because RH can’t even do releng now. ‘You had one job’ meets ‘Dead Sea Effect’)

If you only knew how fortified an AWS DC would be in that area. It’s gonna fail-secure, and getting in will require leverage.

Workweek

Two words, my dude.

two containers

Good luck, but I’m out.

BSD isn’t Unix. It’s fairest to say it is a Unix. Unix was built in Murray Hill and maintained by a succession of corporations and now sits locked in a safe at a company where they will never have the clue or interest to maintain or distribute it, thanks to IBM. Everything else is just sparkling multics.

(Source: was on the periphery, know the people who know where the bodies are)

And it’s neat to see how well IBM killed the competition who dared to cry code-rape.

There are so many comma splices in there.

What’s the big deal? For 20 years in the enterprise space it’s been yum upgrade -y && reboot into cron and no issues. At the day job I even had satellite (5 and that shitball 6) cronned up to do my promotion automatically (even when 6 had shit for scheduling and I had to cron-parallel-xargs a better one). All cron.

Hell, I barely pay attention to the email reports now. It’s been that long. Okay, prod updates on Friday night only; but that’s our only nod to risk. Because even after the metastatic fatberg that is Systemd, it’s still barely reliable.

What’s the added risk for Debian packages? Imperfect replacement? No signed manifest to compare against? What?

I wish it was only double. You saw where I said it was 4x? 4x is really close to 5x ; 80% of the way, you know.