It’s called the universal operating system for a reason.

If they call themselves that, it really doesn’t count. It’s like how trump ended like 10 wars to get his FIFA peace medal.

Canada rejoices when our gas is only at us$5/gal.

Canada V3L. Transit is amazing, but only when it’s train-based.

I loved the MTA and PATH when I was there.

If my rough calculations are correct, we’d love to have gas prices that are only 50% higher than that. 🇨🇦

Well that’s absolutely made up, but I bet it goes viral.

The NorTel remembers.

At least the banks are figuring out what we knew long ago.

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.

So many pockets.

I miss my combat pants. They were comfy by the time I had to give them back, and they had so many pockets.

That’s what the fanboys use. It’s “slopping” for the rest of us.

monthslong

That’s a slong a month long. Is it missing a hyphen?

OS’s

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

Edit: downvotes don’t change the fact that while we do not applaud a tenor for clearing his throat, we do not pay the one who cannot.

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

If only there was a standard time to stay with. What did the experts say?

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.