Boomer Humor Doomergod

An ONT failure has me fiddling with my network this weekend and I might do this. Pihole is okay but having more power would be great.

Yeah, it’s barely doing anything except shifting packets and doing DNS. Load is around 0.08 on a four core processor.

I got a spiffy little fanless micro PC with five Ethernet ports, installed Ubuntu, and wrote my own iptables rules and installed pihole.

It’s giving Johnny Mnemonic. Very nice.

We are very lucky they are so fucking stupid.

Really highlights how it’s rough and gets everywhere

My job is doing sales engineering for an open source DB company and just last week I encountered a prospect running on Arch.

They also did backups to an external drive they kept in a safe.

Real glad I may have allegedly acquired a printer at some point in the last six years.

Allegedly.

He will be remembered for that reaction and his contribution to pig husbandry

Klitoris would be an add on for KDE for folks who use Thinkpad nubs

I assume Hannah Montana Linux is off the chart to the right

And a nightmare for an application developer told to make some app with a spreadsheet for a database scale

I’ve never had problem finding a WFH gig. The last five jobs I’ve had since 2011 have been at least partially WFH. And I’m a very schmoey Joe

The hardest part is really having a separate room for work, especially if other people live with you.

What sucks is that was the starting wage when I got into the tech industry back in the early ‘00s

Counter offer: Rent an apartment in Bumfuck, Flyover and work for a tech company.

It’s the only way I’ve been able to afford a house.

Some plex audiobook clients like Prologue for iOS have this built in

As someone whose had to analyze probably a billion lines of log files in my career, having an AI to do at least some sifting would be pretty great.

Or one that watches a Grafana dashboard and figures out some obscure, long term pattern I can’t see that’s causing an annoying problem.

Keeping the electrical grid balanced with varying loads is so hard I’m amazed it works at all.

Yeah, I can’t imagine a medium sized town all using Starlink at once without issues.