I work 100% remotely, and my day job doesn’t even have profile pics. When we meet, it’s a dozen cartoon images or memes as faces. No cams, no pics.

The side gig I’ve had for 20 years has never had a pic. These people wouldn’t recognize me if I walked in the office one day.

Why should I? We don’t see a value.

Container crutches. Ew. And if a dev can’t spell self-hosted, then I don’t trust them to do it properly.

make due

Bone apple tea!

I love when they hold it like a slice of pizza like they’re some vapid famewhore on a reality TV show. It’s a well-designed sound device held exactly wrong, so the noise-canceling and gain control are going fucking nuts.

It’s like it’s bad for you, bad for the phone, bad for the person using the phone; who looks like a moron as a bonus. Good job, chucklenuts!

It’s weird how they all have skills you’re overlooking.

No contest. Apt-rpm is superior in every way.

SuSE people can sit down too. I’ve seen inside that mess.

Of course; it uses Systemd.

Nah. Those really hurt the first joint of my thumb. I’m worried I’ll burn it out quicker.

maxxing

This is how they taught you to spell?

The luddites were early union organizers among seamstresses and weavers.

You think it was people acting against progress because the winners of that conflict rewrote history.

My nephew’s initials are b.o.m.b !

Aw, fuck cancer. Here’s hoping it’s not, but I like that you’re positioning yourself better just in case; solid strategy.

I will choose to believe any weight loss was hard work and only a little luck until we learn differently. Please keep us up to date; and keep the chin up through what must be a scary-ass time.

Ohh. Excellent point. I know I haven’t made great Choices this season. ;-)

You’ll find a system that works for you, eventually. You only have to win once.

My relatives called it ONE-derland, because all the weights start with 1.

Congrats to the OP! I hope every new resident of ONE-derland got here through healthy means and is here to stay.

It’s SJVN. That’s all you need to know.

He’s no Cringely.

will let

This implies there was a choice. I’d’ve been glad for a “must let” headline.

Even if your spouse does, it’s the same bank account.

It’s totally okay not to sweat this stuff, since there’s never any good in stressing about it.

Why would I expect my painter to give me medical advice or represent me politically?

That’d be like expecting the lead singer of the Offspring to do a Ted talk on molecular biology or the guitarist from Rage Against The Machine to debate political science.

Madness!

Dad worked. One day in the lean years he was on the books for 5 employers at the same time: no overlapping shifts, just a hairy schedule on a paper calendar and more than one job-to-job commute.

We do not castigate dad for devoting his entire life to the household.

Mom, who merely had one full-timer, did the shopping and wrapping on the side. The two of them set up a wonderful Christmas day together with very few gifts and resources, and we were all together on Christmas morn before Dad went to work.

It worked. We didn’t lack for joy.