Gentoo taught me a lot. I ran hardened gentoo with grsec, pax, and selinux ~20 years ago. That was really a nag. I’m glad for the experience though, I’m never afraid to compile my own kernel now. I just prefer the convenience of debian or fedora based distros now.

When I do a hardware refresh on my self hosted machines(typically over 5 years) I usually wait for a bleeding edge brand new socket, and have to compile the latest kernel for reasonable performance and stability until maintainers backport or the distro moves forward.

Get a peaceful night of sleep.

Using any tool that vibrate much like a string trimmer will irritate where my spine is pinched and I’ll regret it for months. It makes me feel useless. Fusing 4 discs in my upper back or neck would almost guaranteed make me feel more useless.

I definitely can’t pretend I’m young anymore. It isn’t just pain, and when it is pain it’s not the worst pain. It makes me unable to feel my arm. I had to get an epidural of steroids to get the inflammation down to get feeling back, and I seem to be at least mildly allergic to that .

A synthwave-inspired full-torso bust composition featuring Sappho, Athena, and Medusa. The sculptures should maintain their classical elegance but be illuminated with neon lighting in shades of pink, purple, and blue. Their marble-like surfaces should subtly reflect the vibrant neon hues. Sappho should have a serene expression, Athena should appear regal with a Corinthian helmet and armor, and Medusa should have striking, snake-like hair. The background should feature a retro-futuristic synthwave aesthetic with grid lines, a neon sun, and a cyberpunk cityscape in the distance. The composition should be balanced and artistic in a 16:9 aspect ratio, blending classical art with 80s cyberpunk energy.

A classical-style full-torso bust composition featuring Sappho, Athena, and Medusa in a refined and elegant style. Each sculpture should depict finely detailed features, intricate hairstyles, and draped clothing authentic to their respective Greek representations. Sappho should have a serene and contemplative expression, wearing a flowing Greek chiton. Athena should appear regal with a warrior’s composure, possibly wearing a Corinthian helmet and armor. Medusa should have a striking yet dignified presence, with wavy, snake-like hair that appears frozen in marble. The material should resemble smooth, white marble with subtle aging for authenticity. The busts should extend down to the waist, capturing full torso details, and be arranged harmoniously in a 16:9 composition, creating a balanced and artistic display.

Give the sore muscles a break until they’re not really sore anymore, it will save you future joint pain. A specific amount of time isn’t what is best, it’s the amount of time it takes to recover, however long that takes.

Don’t push past form failure either, once you can’t do the movement properly its time to go down to smaller weight or move on.

I get it.

There are quite a few areas on the linux desktop that show obvious signs of too many choices and loose integration making it an unpolished experience.

Outside of niches like online forums, people seem to think GUIs and marketing are what make something professional.

In reality outside of individual use you really want to avoid GUIs in configuration so that you can be consistent. You shouldnt have to dig down into menus and click through lots of screens to do comparisons or set something up. Thats really where Microsoft’s ecosystem is weakest right now. WinRM and powershell remoting lack polish in the same way wifi or bluetooth management in the linux desktop does

You cant fully setup winrm with gpo, for example listener addresses get bound the first time its enabled with gpo and then its just stuck at that. If the system has it’s ip changed you have to disable the gpo to make any changes and when you get it fixed it reverts when the policy is applied again

Microsoft only seems to care about how things will be managed in their cloud now and all products for managing things locally are showing some rot. Sccm -> mecm -> mem is terrible, theyve even ending all training for tools for on premises management. All they do is azure training and certs now.

You can absolutely go as nuts or more nuts with this on linux. You can do all kinds of hardening steps, and centrally deploy the policies with push or pull. Microsoft has even moved towards dsc (desired state configuration).

I learned them and basically never use vim.

I use sed if i need to change things with a pattern, cat the file if i need to see the contents, use head or tail if its too much to fit on the screen.

If I am writing code, I use a code editor. Emacs and vim can do a lot, but they can also fuck off.

Other languages behind reverse proxies from apache httpd or nginx do not have the same memory hit. You can still blame php. Not my fault they tied their language to the webserver in a way that uses tons of extra memory.

Easy example. Have they fixed file upload behavior yet? Do they store the entire file in memory by default instead of chunking it and storing it as it comes in?

If not it’s like the worst memory usage of any language possible.

If you have to go change the php.ini to adjust file upload sizes, it’s not really moving forward and is decades behind other languages.

In congested cities if you don’t enter the intersection when its not completely clear then you’ll have to wait ~40 minutes for a chance to go across. Waymo’s riders have that as one of the biggest frustrations. Then theres a gridlock behind them.

There’s no winning with cars.

I am on a cycle right now where I can’t sleep without ambien and 300mcg melatonin. I’ve struggled with falling and/or staying asleep my whole life. My brain will calm down some and ill taper off of the ambien again at some point.

Besides the long term health, i am just not a pleasure to be around if i run on no sleep.

I still have some triptans, a couple different ones in the medicine cabinet. I can go a year without thinking i might need one. They make me feel like my brain is starved for oxygen or something like that.

They do work, but if hydration, tylenol, or ibuprofen will help I’d rather use them.

Yeah I think it went away at the start of my 30s. Definitely glad it’s not a worry anymore.

I can still get stress or dehydration headaches, but no constant small one that breaks through to eye stabbing with my heartbeat.

I have heard it is common for them to go away by 30s.

For a decent chunk of my early 20s i had to take amitriptyline a couple of hours before bedtime to prevent migraines. It also makes you sleep on cloud 9. I was on call at nights and there was no snapping out of the sleep pull, thats the only scenario I can think that it may not help.

Talk to a doctor about it. I have had a couple of brain scans and don’t have anything up there that looks bad. It just happens to some people.

I read your name as stoned morman

Ok

For a single new problem that hasn’t yet been automated I use CLI utilities to collect information to use to write code for a new automation.

I use web UIs to monitor metrics (grafana) and write custom exporters to collect metrics that can show performance or potential issues and logs.

Emulate a block device and reference it to the cloud api, unless im missing something.

The goal is to mitigate attacks, it costs a lot of money to purpose build world spanning networks than can absorb large amounts of traffic. P2P type options are not a good fit.