Simply badass. Where’s the mid-century furniture from? Hand made? Restored? It looks purpose built for, uh, this purpose.

Too complex for someone that isn’t already interested. Hell, the vast majority of users couldn’t reinstall Windows if they lost the restore partition.

Maybe school them on a live USB “install”? That’s how I started oh so many years back. No risk, easy way to get comfy with a test drive. And if they like it, there’s always (?) an install button.

OTOH, dumb as it sounds, seems like most people don’t have a handy USB drive these days. At my last job, a software dev, I don’t think I talked to a single end user that had a USB available for a Windows reinstall. Weird.

I’d recommend a Debian distro. Whatever one’s preference, Debian just works and seems to have the most documentation, especially for noobs.

I know why they do this. The last guy’s core job was Ask Jeeves, but he was involved in and at least touched all those other technologies. HR looks at last guy’s resume, figures those are the skills needed, posts a mess.

SOURCE: Been the last guy, seen my replacement posting.

Always assumed this fiasco was started by high electric bills:

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article293084614.html

AI can be a fine tool to get writing inspiration, as with programming. It’s not fine as used in this article’s example.

20-years earlier.

Those things were in production from 2002-2013. Imagine the changes the internet and tech in general went through. That really speaks to the quality of that animal.

Solid answer! Guess I’m a cow patty for even asking, but you came to the rescue.

Why was the US funding FOSS projects? That strikes me as weird, inappropriate and suspicious.

This is how my tech interview went this week. For every question the panel had I returned a battle story. They were laughing and serious at the same time. Bagged it!

But… HR stuck their nose in and wants their guy interviewed. So now I have to wait a week for them to (hopefully) say, “Thanks but we’re going with Shalafi71.”

Things like that are called “jargon” and are perfectly normal and acceptable in a given field, always been that way.

If you don’t know how to pronounce, or even spell, NGINX, you probably have no use for it.

Sounds like you’re having a hard time keeping up with our ever changing technology. Win11 wasn’t much of a jump from Win10.

Had dozens of people ask me at my last job if they should punch the upgrade button. Only had one person complain they “couldn’t use it”, and he was a moron.

You can still take it from Harvard I think?

Comments like this are valuable. I would not have read that but for your well written praise.

Jacked up the first SSD I ever bought. Windows 7 (I think?), NTFS. Defragged it out of habit, even though I knew better. Yep, ran much slower, and it was obvious.

The guy that runs Rufus.

LOL, you’re vastly overestimating company’s IT abilities, funding and give-a-shit motivation. As to money, now you gotta hire people to watch people. No matter how automated, there’s a cost and additional personnel need.

And if the corporation is technically competent enough to manage all that mess, that’s probably a company with skilled workers who will leave under such conditions.

Saving this one for next time I’m on call for weekend monitoring.

A firewall blocks in and outbound ports. Windows Advanced Firewall already does this.

If you want more fine-grained control, look to your router. I use a Netgate pfSense rackmount appliance. You can do the same with an OpenSense or pfSense router running on a toaster.

Be glad to help if you have questions!

News Flash!

“Linux is still a pain in the ass, even for experienced IT professionals.” More at 11…

I’ve run Linux for a great many things over the years. Running 2 AWS LightSail instances for my own use. Running dozens of Ubuntu Server instances at work. Shit just works.

But Linux is a hard fail for a daily driver. Maybe not for you, but for most of us it sucks.

I’ve tried and tried and tried, for 20+ years. Of course I can make it work, but it’s a pain in the ass. I got work to do on my daily driver, and fucking around as well. I need a desktop that just works. With everything.