This. If I pay the cost in frustration and anguish and soul-searching and demanding justice from an uncaring god, I want some thing for it. I want documentation. I want my lessons learned from the post incident review. I want something I can hack into mgmtConfig to make sure nothing else will do that too.

Struggling for no payoff is the absolute worst thing.

worked for several years in higher ed

softwares

/Sigh

Same.

Then I went to work for the company whose code Solaris was derived from. Back in time almost!

Comically, now, my C and Solaris experience is a marketable skill for reliable employment, albeit less fun.

Have you tried the lutris/steam options? I’d love to know there are options if people can’t avoid it.

Excellent summary.

ppl

\sigh

It’s amazing how a second or 5 at so many levels causes micro-frustration. And it builds up, too.

I admit I lose just a bit of my shit when the neu web-service web-apps get sluggish, which seems to be very often. Those of us who remember the halcyon days where things were responsive on a pentium know better than to accept the current mess.

My tolerance for the poor performance and saas-linked core services is rapidly waning.

What you get is something with an acceptable warranty and maybe some support.

What you then realize is what you DON’T have on your consumer gear.

Offspring.

And that’s why we like it.

EWS came with Exchange 2007, almost 20 years ago!

Yay! Now do Windows and Syslog, or windows and SNMP.

So difficult to sync contacts and calendar

If only there was a well-defined protocol in a series of RFCs for that, AND people could use more than one protocol in a binary.

If we strip the externally-imposed milestones and accomplishment domarisons, we’re left with basic stuff like the skills required to cope in a society with other individuals, make decisions and be responsible for those decisions, and manage (not achieve, but manage) basic needs.

It’s bullshit, but that’s close, right?

when I ask myself whether others - or me too - are achieving these intrinsic requirements, I’m not often impressed. But that’s a target to work toward, anyway.

never hear a woman use male as a noun like that

I heard ‘male’ the same place I heard ‘female’, and this wasn’t surprising. I’m jealous at your certainty that you haven’t yet and thus never will. Apparently, though, “there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy”

Incel behavior includes using “female” as a noun when talking about women.

Sure: A -> B != B -> A

You … know that, right?

Canada, here.

It’s the same in the West. There are 12 days of Christmas and none of them are in fucking November.

My wife and I like to get out of town when we can, but lately it’s a low-key night at home, no work, watching some telly or something. She likes all the classics: misfit toys and Burl Ives.

Everybody’s hoping GRRM is already on the task.

The real religion behind GoT.

all you have to do is hire one obsessed nerd and run decisions by him

If it’s Henry Cavill, you’ve got your actor AND obsessed nerd in the same package!

At the idea of customer choice and feedback, no less; like those things are somehow BAD.

I completely trust Systemd to accurately report on itself, the same as I trust American cops to police themselves.

Is this “git gud”, victim blaming, or a mix of both? Ignoring the comma splice.

You’d think if there was a janky bit of gear in there

1. Windows would tell you about it
2. Linux would suck the same.

Neither appear to be the case.