I had three potential career paths I wanted when I was a kid: Masseuse, Meteorologist, or IT

After reading about each career, I decided being a Masseuse would destroy my body and give me carpel tunnel and Meteorologist is too restrictive of a career due to the few number of openings.

I settled on IT and I’m a Network Engineer. I hate it. Pays OK, though.

Turns out a lot of things you enjoy that you have to then do as a job for 18 years, rather than a hobby, makes you grow to no longer enjoy it.

My wife appreciates my personal massage skills, though.

Do their switches still stop forwarding traffic when you make changes for 10-30 seconds?

I upgraded all of my devices to 16gb or 32gb of RAM just as all this crap started happening, before prices spiked, and made sure I have enough storage.

Now I’m just praying that all of the hardware holds out for 2-3 years to weather this storm. Please keep on chugging, my 5800X in a B550 mobo…I literally can’t afford to replace you anytime soon.

I’m 36 and I wear a CPAP because my body tries to stop breathing otherwise.

Banning groups like that only amplifies their “persecuted” persona. It’s best to spend on education and destroying their credibility, which is how we dealt with fucking idiots before we got complacent.

It’s Copilot all the way down.

Renaming it to CoPilot Browser in 3…2…

Neon is great, but don’t use it for mission critical stuff. I’ve had updates brick my system before because it’s bleeding edge for KDE.

Mint is my go-to for when I want something to get work done and don’t want to fuck with it. Biggest gripe is the networking menu in Cinnamon kind of sucks for VLANs and it’s still on X11 until they finish making Wayland stable.

Which is ironic because AI unpredictably makes errors.

TIL you can add IMAP and POP3 to Gmail to import your email.

Why would anyone with another email service WANT that? Do you like giving Google even more data than they already have on you?

Green? As in Green Party? The environmentalist Republicans? That Green Party?

Pokemon Daycare…because we all know what happens in the daycare and how those eggs are made

I know I’m old because I saw 56k and immediately wondered why they were doing this over dialup.

Glad they optimized it. Last time I tried it the RAM usage was atrocious.

I mean GNOME is…fine. I don’t use it, because if I wanted something that chewed up 3-5GB of RAM I’d just run Windows, but if you like GNOME, you do you.

This is Linux. It’s all about choice. Run what you like. It’s your goddamn computer. And that’s what we all love together.

They only need to open source the kernel. They can build whatever proprietary stuff they want on top of the Linux kernel.

What’s that? More AI? -Microsoft-

Or just Linux. Why even bother with BSD?

The first two…I’ll graciously call them “sentences”… I got the context of…once I got to the third one, my brain was like “I haven’t partaken in enough brain rot to understand this new form of damaged English language”.