I worked for nearly a decade as product support for various voice mail applications, so I feel very strongly about this.

Fuck voice mail.

Me: I have been using Linux professionally for 20 years, I can edit fstab.

Also Me five minutes later: I am glad I have live boot stick handy.

Absolute favorite is Outer Wilds. The only thing I don’t like about it is that I can’t experience it again. A true masterpiece of a game.

After that, probably Noita for sheer insanity. Deeply unfair, but getting a god-run going is that much sweeter. It took me ~100 hours to beat it the first time, now I can consistently win if I try but I’m addicted to doing stupid things to see what happens.

At one of my prior positions they outsourced all the junior engineers to this firm that only had windows desktop support experience.

Actual escalation I got:

contractor: I am trying to remove this file that is filling the drive but it won’t let me

me: show me what you are doing.

contractor (screenshot): # rm -f /dev/hdc

another one did rm -rf /var to clear a stuck log file, which at least did solve the problem he was having.

After that I sent out an email stating that I would not help anyone who used he rm command unless they consulted with a senior first. I was later reprimanded for saying I wouldn’t help people.

that is what i was thinking, you grill it, melt the cheese and sautee the onion a bit and it would be fantastic. same ingredients, not much work.

Fortunately my dad is a retired cybersecurity architect so they live as modern-day Luddites.

Oh gods, I had forgotten what a pain in the ass that setup was and how it would just randomly stop working when they changed something on their side.

I work with Teams as an admin.

1. Teams is a resource hog.
2. Under the hood it appears to be a mess.
3. The user workflow aggressively tries to prevent users from multitasking, despite many jobs requiring this.
4. Product design is a shining example of the greater Microsoft philosophy of forcing customers to adapt their business to Microsoft’s technology instead of having technology flexible enough to adapt to a customer’s business needs.
5. From an admin standpoint it has numerous questionable design decisions surrounding UC. For example, you can register non-Teams SIP phones to it, but you can’t see the IP addresses of these registered devices(?!). In general, from a telephony standpoint, Teams is good at providing dial tone and some very basic telephony features, enough to make senior leadership think that it does everything, but if you need UC functionality for more than users who sit at a desk all day it falls apart quickly.
6. My conversations with representatives from the product team at Microsoft suggests they are out of touch with how businesses use telephones.

I had an Atari 800XL as my first PC with 2 5.25’’ floppy drives and a cartridge slot for which I had only 2 games: Pengo and Galaxian. On the floppy drive I was able to play a ton of games including Ultima 4, which really got me into fantasy RPGs.

I still know my way around autoexec.bat and config.sys

A wonderful game, but I have always been fond of its spiritual predecessors: Starflight and Starflight 2: Trade Routes of the Cloud Nebula.

My network guy yesterday: "I took down one of your gateways after fat-fingering a change that assigned it’s IP to another device "

Me: “Cool. Thanks for letting me know. Nobody complained. I’ll just resolve the alarms.”

I managed to get everything moved over except some google data, man they are bastards. I am happy to be a little more extracted from their ecosystem though.

Yeah, running /e/ on the new phone, so it isn’t an option.

This isn’t so bad. I normally am more than happy to let someone else take the lead but if nobody else is going to do something I may as well take charge.

The trick is to fake confidence then everyone thinks you know what you’re doing.

Unfortunate. Competition is generally good for the consumer and I’d hate to see one of more more customer-friendly storefronts go away.

I do enjoy how GenX doesn’t appear at all. Very appropriate.

My cat pushes the bridge of her nose into the bridge of my nose, as long as I’m gentle I can push back a little and she starts purring.

Full agree. I do want some kind of policy for games that introduce anti-cheat both during early access and after release. Bricking a game you paid for should offer some sort of recourse.