Seriously, I popped in just to say this. How fucking hard is it for people to understand the Streisand effect?

I’m in business operations, downstream from you guys. Reading posts like these are helping me understand better what you all are going through.

We had several of our systems “upgraded” and broke a lot of our tools. The dev team vanished off to work on the next shiny bullshit “upgrade” and turned my 15 minute tickets into 3-4 hour tickets.

My manager was telling me to ping someone and let them know. After nothing happened there, I started opening tickets. After about 140 in 2 weeks, I finally got someone’s attention and we’re grudgingly getting a couple devs assigned to start repairing the automation that broke.

I am sorry to have to do that, but our entire team was drowning and pinging someone on teams with API errors wasn’t getting anything done.

Spends 45 minutes creating a vlan when he could have turned on the guest wifi and walled that off from the main network in about 3 minutes.

The blocking ports and QoS move was just funny as hell though.

I’ve been here a while, but I might need some help here. Everyone left of Biden is a tankie? Am I understanding you correctly?

Doing things the “wrong” way is overwhelmingly about service issues, not money issues. I came across the same issues where I live, and decided to take up “sailing” instead.

It’s really hard to accept help sometimes.

Our family went through the ringer the first half of this year and we had an outpouring of people offering support and help. It’s not that I didn’t need it, I just didn’t think I needed it at the time. Looking back on even 6 months ago, I was pretty dumb for not delegating some things that would have taken a lot off my plate that I didn’t need to deal with at all.

If you’re in a new place around new people, one way I’ve found that works sometimes is just asking someone for help with something really trivial, but not something that could easily be done yourself. Something that could just use another set of hands. It’s kind of an ice breaker and the other person might feel more inclined to be able to ask for some help next time.

Anyway, you seem like good people, I wish you were my neighbor. Don’t let people stop you from continuing to be a good person.

You (externally): I already implemented that last year for you…

Except what? That was exactly my point.

If you’re in Europe, you can cross multiple countries in 3 hours. A 3 hour drive in any direction barely gets me out of my own state.

So I can understand why OP’s asking Americans. We’re pretty much secluded over here on our own plot with Canada and Mexico. Madrid to Moscow is about 4000 km as I understand it. Or 800 km less than it is from NYC to LA.

I’ve been to 44 States, Canada, Mexico and two other continents. Bad shit can happen anywhere. I will say that the best times I’ve had were hanging out with complete strangers from completely different backgrounds than mine and trading stories with them about home.

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I fire roast my tomatillos and serranos before making my salsa, that’s why it’s green and hot as hell, and also doesn’t taste anything like raw veggies.

Thanks! It’s not even a hardware issue for me, I pretty much overbuilt this rig. It’s way more than capable of running 11. For me, it’s more of a “I’m done with MS’ BS” at this point.

I would certainly rather take extra steps to ensure I don’t lose something I need later. Thanks for the reply, I’ll end up doing this.

Perfect, thank you!

I’ll reformat the drives to the suggested ext4, that part’s fine. I was worried about whether or not I’d have to somehow convert all of the files going from the NTFS windows backup to the ext4 drives, but the other comment here said just copying them over would work.

Thank you for the reply!

I had one of these in front of my house, and every spring I wondered why I smelled crusty underwear in my living room. The day I finally had it removed was one of the happiest of my life.

What’s the reason arborists hate them?

Oh, we need to raise our prices because of inflation and then inflation goes down but the prices don’t.

I mean, this is literally how inflation works. Inflation rates go down, but things don’t magically become cheaper again. It just doesn’t get more expensive as quickly. If they raise prices over what you’re willing to pay, then don’t buy it. That’s how prices drop.

Is it bullshit? Absolutely, no argument there. That’s just how things work unfortunately.

What’s American rail?

Our side of town has zero rail, and it would take about two hours on a bus to get home from downtown, 7 miles away. Oh, and the Amtrak train 7 miles away shows up once a day at 2am. And I could probably hitchhike to where I’m going faster than that shit train would get me there.

COBOL: You’re a fucking dinosaur

That HMS article is wild. As someone with moderate hearing loss and raging tinnitus, this would be a dream come true if it ever happens.