33 years with Linux (kernel 1.2.13, slackware). Worked at a distro. Worked in OS security – Unix and enterprise Linux. I helped build United Linux out of the dismembered corpse suse kicked over the fence as ‘collaboration’.

Because of the validation issue in the .deb package format and others, I’m on a mixture of Rocky and Nobara.

I’m subscribed to cloudLinux’s tuxcare enterprise updates for some older stuff, and I can’t recommend it enough. It’s excellent; and if almalinux releases their sLTS distro release and actually covers it for 25 years, that will be such a coup.

I’m worried at the direction Linux has been taken by IBM and I hope it can be unfucked one day. I miss the reliable, fast boots and uncomplicated tooling before this systemd shitshow.

Let’s hope!

A dear friend of mine claimed my actual advice is always beneficial, and that he likes having me in his life to talk him through his struggles as a parent, as a provider, as a husband; all that junk. And he promises he wasn’t taking the piss. And here I am just faking my way through being a human in this existence that I was at an actual loss for words. I now hope to one day fulfill that role. It’s not just quips and spelling corrections, guys!!

I boggle at how my distaste for cops could be this misunderstood.

Emergency response is emergency response. Tell us how you hate ambulances upsetting the commute.

Yay! Mitted ragdoll! Ours is gonna be 2 soon. Our bicolor ragdoll is 15 and is currently begging for some egg morsels as tax.

Once USA becomes safe to visit

But that’s 2045. I’m not camping at 70! I’ll be making my own pilgrimage to hanauma bay to remember my uncle and, by then, my mum; and probably that’s it for travel at that age.

Ansible using SSH

The moment you discover anything else, you’re gonna be so pleased. It’ll seem so modern! So fast!

Check out gatus.

It doesn’t do SNMP. That’s … bold.

Iso27002 says I can’t run this.

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Long-term support and distro-branched tool chains are a boon to the workstation too. And all of lennarts cancer has been in support of dynamic networking changes and wifi devices; no overlap with a server, but they include that shit at every turn. So obviously they’re primarily geared for laptops and servers are a target of opportunity – and their decline in stability over 3-4 distro versions just backs that up.

So old code is now suddenly bad?

Yes. It must go stale without some kind of needless churn; right?

I loved solving a problem that redhat cant fix (because the smart people left) on their theForeman clone with a workaround that I learned from the days of NIS+. A 30-year-old workaround for last year’s shitty install.

But fear of established, known-good code will certainly change that in the long run: ifconfig, netstat, ifup, fstab, xinet, service; the more we can churn out the working tools for neu dreck coded by dunning-kruger lost-boys kids who had no mentoring to prevent dumb patterns, the less the working solutions for known-good tools will work. And that’s, some how, “progress”.

You won’t find as many of them on a text-focused medium like here.

Search for these strings and let’s talk.

• incase
• aswell
• literally
• (his|her|their|the) emails
• the ask
• the spend

aswell

Not a word, my dude.

Edit: downvotes don’t make it a word either.

Get Systemd to stand near the window. We remember better options.

Ah. The Steve Miller effect.

jute box

Bone apple tea!

No no, keep that one. They wrote it about us bombing the living hell out of their stuff. It would be better if it mentioned the arson.

A little bit of Monica in my life…