Wow. Every word of that is frightening.

I left my union job when a toxic manager started becoming … toxic. The new dot-com job was a really great fit.

So I quit, hopped a plane, flew about 6 hours, found a hotel overnight, stayed at a really shitty AirB&B for a day because the first apartment was rented out from underneath me, found ANOTHER apartment, and thankfully close to work because, yes, it was a foot commute in December at -40c/-40f until the wife sold our place, paid movers, gathered the two cats and flew out.

Started work day one. They’d changed the job description while I was on a fucking plane. Those fuckers. But there I was, 4,000 km from home, no job, and while this was before the house sold, the job market back home was absolute shite. No going back.

for me:

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You’re represented by your words. It can cost you opportunities.

snaps aren’t the end of the world

System engineers all collectively shuddered at that thought. Then OS security nerds.

This is the “I tried heroin and it was good” story but for OSes

I’ve worked on suse as part of Unitedlinux.

No, I’d say it’s not forgotten. Just repressed.

Even if you ARE irreplaceable and crucial to success, the company will only realize it a month after you’re gone.

I get this like 6 times a year.

Wait. Are you my alt account?

I did non-profit work. If you wanna see absolute abuse of employees, go do non-profit. “You have to stay late (for free). Think of the children!”

They’re chronically understaffed while sometimes overstaffed with volunteers who don’t add to the expertise and still require experienced training every shift; but you can’t ignore their attempt to contribute because “the children” need them. So your day is trying to get routine things done amid relentless interruption for the same thing you told an unskilled empty-nester yesterday.

It makes one say things that sound really bad in the reading of, like the bit above. I promise it’s just experience and, while all effort is good, the least beneficial ones do stand out.

aided

Didn’t prevent

I can’t think of any case where a routine update caused trouble for me.

I second this.

Since about 2002, I’ve had a growing number of machines (ent Linux, similar to fedora) who simply patch nightly via cron. I get mail on the changes. In 24 years of yum-cron I’ve seen one error (busted deps on cobbler) and caused one error (too-old smb.conf during an update) and that’s it.

So, my fuck-up aside, the only issue I’ve seen with a yum-cron patching setup (in dev/test and homelab) in ~25 years is exactly one issue on boxes running a mainstream but not prevalent piece of software due to a packaging glitch. That’s it.

We have a LOT of work to do because our healthcare has been severely damaged by COVID antivaxers dying and then politicians trying to cheap out in the rebuild, and our infrastructure is frail as well, and we have a Serious problem with faux-ristocrats in the flatlands just wrecking everything they can…

But it’s not bad. I won’t go bankrupt from a bad car accident, I can walk to the metro or for most of my groceries, I work from home and love it, etc.

Yeah, it’s not perfect but we can fix it once we’re done confirming girls and boys can kiss one another, that education is valuable, non-white people are cool, immigrants aren’t the cause of a housing shortage, and all that which I’m sure many other countries have a subset of. But we’ll get there.

I just hope we continue to make least-worse choices at the polls. The longer Trump is in power and dribbling into a microphone to remind us what conservatism brings, the better we are.

Often the rj-12 handset cabling would not plug directly into the rj-11 jacks. If they did, I’d be surprised to learn they’d work on the wire as-is.

natural gas

We can start just saying ‘methane’ now. We don’t need to ‘green-wash’ it like it’s not killing our air.

Tax: ongoing payment to offset recurring operating expenses (OpEx) like staffing and maintenance in schools, courts, recreational sites and infrastructure, in a defined region of resource consolidation (village, town, city, county, riding, province, country) and recurring payments to service and reduce debt from bonds and loans. If it needs cleaning, trimming, painting, replenishing, or ongoing care, it’ll be paid-for through ongoing taxation as a recurring payment for a recurring cost.

Bond: a loan from the citizenry to fund capital expenses (CapEx) and projects; like infrastructure replacement or expansion, area clean-up and remediation/restoration. These are paid back with interest, using tax proceeds. If it’s adding or replacing something with a set lifespan, and its scope is large enough to warrant a project or cost large enough not to be absorbed in regular maintenance, then its lump cost will be offset with bonds.

It becomes easier to see how, for instance, building out rail transit or growing a charging network with gasoline taxes instead of bonds, is weird. It’s easier to spot when recurring costs get bonded out instead of offset by taxes. It’s obvious when a regional government sells an asset and rents it back that it’s going to be a bad idea.

I love how the rebuttal is “yes people do sound like that; and worse” and you’re asserting the respondent missed the point by directly addressing your earlier statement fully.

Indeed. It’s more like metastatic cancer, though.

a piece

apiece

Stool bus.

Mr Trump’s FEMA is gonna get a lot of business this year.

He …does have a FEMA still, right? Right?

hold up

And a bone apple tea to you!