It can be. I often find it “bursty.” I’ve had months at a time when I had stand-ups and then “do whatever you want” for the rest of the day. I generally did do useful work, but there were plently of days when I was just chilling out.

Ive also had months where I ran from fire to fire while on fire, spreading even more fire. Also, there was fire.

It juat depends. If some org treats you as disposable, pays like shit and lights your hair on fire as you walk in, y’all should walk back out. The next org will probally treat you better, because there are good orgs out there. Even the good places get busy for a bit though. Just make sure that busy comes with money and that it ends at some point.

Ehh. Depending on the industry and issue, thats wholley justified, not only from a “least privilege” sense, but from a regulatory one.

Step over into cybersecurity and you end up spending all day clamping down on usability because the company has legal requirements to meet to continue to exist. Many of the things we are compelled to do are overeager and overly pedantic, but it’s either “do it, pay up, or shut down.” The execs tend to prefer “do it” in my experience, which makes everyone’s day a bit more tiresome.

So its entirely possible that was out of their hands.

“Please god come throw your body in the pile we use to fill up the holes. We are very nearly out of unwitting flesh here.”

How much profit is Redis or Hashicorp kicking back to the people the contributed to it when it was FOSS? It’s just “Fair code” now to allow its “creators” to profit, right?

Rust is wildly fast. Learning that it is being used for a program is good to know if you care about speed. If you read the article, it even addresses your exact critiques:

Moreover, Rust has demonstrated superior performance compared to JavaScript add-ons, resulting in a quicker and more responsive Thunderbird. Furthermore, the integration of Rust into Thunderbird will be facilitated by the fact that it is already utilized in Firefox, enabling Thunderbird to leverage existing infrastructure for testing and continuous integration.

So not only with thunderbird be faster because Rust is faster than JavaScript, but it eliminates 3rd party addons by being native which also further increases speed. Lastly, development time for new features and improvements is faster because they can now use using the mature tooling that Mozilla has for Rust.

So yeah, good to know its using Rust now.

Hopefully using tmux resurrect so that they just have persistent sessions at hand.

I can see it as a way to know that “17” is htop to high importance server X, 23 is pinging Server Y, etc.

Immensely. Its extremely versatile and robust at this point.

If youre just using it as a media center computer go with libreelec, which is an OS that boots directly into kodi. The intergration is deep and excellent.

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I prefer some POP in my ubuntu, but green is flavorful.

I was Haskalling for that one. I need to Go and shake off the Rust, maybe work on my Lisp to make sure people React well.

Node what I’m saying?

Maybe part of a gaming curriculum?

Like, “learn some code so that when the devs are crying you can make small talk?”

$300 is a really difficult price point for what youre asking for new. At the price, youre in the chromebook range, where even the windows machines are going to be as barebones as possible.

You want to step into the used market if you want customizable for $300. Getting something good thats a few years old like an lenovo carbon x1 looks possible, and they are a dream to update. The above supports linux with no issues.

Libreelec is a great htpc, meant to give you that same “10ft computing” experience as any other media center. Its requirements for 1080p aren’t that intense, as it runs well on a raspi 4/5. They do recommend keeping the resolution set to 1080p in kodi and letting your tv upscale to 4k if youre playing 4k content, so that is a good metric to target.

You can run it as a VM, but running 3 off the same machine loses a lot of the “media center that controls one tv” utility, unless you have 3 hdmi ports on that computer that are wired to those 3 TV and can pass through 3 IR blasters or bluetooth connections for physical remotes. If you can, it should work fine.

If you are routing IR blasters, flirc has a USB blaster and a remote called the Skip that should work out. Ive used the usb blaster with kodi and it integrated seamlessly, but haven’t used the remote yet.

So you could get 3 of the remotes, 3 usb IR blastere and whether length of usb cable you need for each to connect to the host and pass those through to the VMs.

I worked with a guy who had 5 sets of the same work clothes. Wore the same outfit everyday, and yes it was all black head to toe.

I never did verify if he actually had 5 sets of clothes or just liked washing one pair everyday, but he never stank so whichever it was worked out.

He’s probably interested in blocking these kinds of PR’s.

He is now that people are spamming the high profile projects he used as examples in his “get paid” cryptobro scam videos and it’s pissing people off in the FOSS communities hes trying to worm the project into.

Hilariously, he stated that he would be really unhappy if people were doing this to his actual FOSS projects, which makes me wonder why he didn’t use them in his examples instead of the completely unrealted Node.js and ghost projects.

Its almost like he made himself getting rich someone else’s problem. Totally unlike crypt bro behaviour, of course.

Self hosting and syncing data to a 3rd party would give you total control of your data and data resiliency.

Sounds like a good combo that’s lacking now.

Simple to use NAS software. Has a unique raid model that allows adding as few or as many discs as you like of whatever size. You can start with 3 and add 1, 2 or more to the array, no issues. The parity model also lets you add as many parity discs as you like, as long as they are the same size as the largest disk.

Had early docker support as well, so it’s easy to spin up and integrate docker apps on the same server.

Lastly, they used to sell an excellent 8 bay standalone case. Think its been some years since they did.

Like most complex things in life, if you devout time to it and engage with it deeply you gain an advantage over a simplier version of the same thing. The question we all have to ask ourselves is “is this worth it?”

I’d say in your specific “docker centric while using debain” use case, sure. Most people who use linux as a daily driver? Maybe not.

I appreciate the breakdown, but you’ve basically made my point for me.

The above, with its many advantages, versus:

Sudo apt install X Y Z G F P -y

Simple, clean, gets it done for near anyone.

Inate complexity that keeps moving as they introduce things like flakes.

Its a declarative configuration management system as package manager. Thats a lot more to handle off the bat than normal linux + flatpak.