I’ve been using Windows since 3.11. I’ve been supporting it for a career since 1998 (although almost entirely servers not desktops for the last 23 years). I’m tired of Microsoft’s bullshit.
On the other hand, my expertise at resolving their (server) bullshit over the last couple decades sure did pay well. So I guess it wasn’t all bad. But these days they can kiss my ass.
Yeah I haven’t completely gotten rid of Windows. I have it installed on another SSD but in the last 8 months since I switched, I’ve only needed it for Dyson Sphere Project (needed AutoHotKey), Deadlock (crashes too often in Linux and they ban you for 2 hours every time you leave a game), and whenever I feel like playing C&C Generals which for some reason runs like absolute dogshit on my Linux box despite everything else working fine.
But that Windows SSD has nothing, NOTHING on it but Steam games and Winamp. Microsoft isn’t getting access to a damn thing anymore when it comes to personal data. I’m tired of protecting myself against them, and FFS I’ve been a Microsoft backoffice sysadmin for over 25 years so I know how, but I’m still sick of it! I don’t even surf the web on that install. I play my game and when I’m done I boot back to Tumbleweed!
Gonna have to look into Lutris, I really like the idea of that sandboxing!
Worked on me, I finally switched (like, REALLY switched) on my primary PC this year after using Linux only for servers and hobby projects for a long time. My only regret is that I may not live long enough to have used Linux longer than I used Windows. I’d have to make it to my mid 80’s just to break even.
Valve gets all the credit. Gaming was the main thing holding me back all this time.
Wow, as someone who says howdy to people all the time, I’m surprised you get any kind of reaction at all other than “hi” back.
Uhhh… I pay less than that per YEAR for insurance on two motorcycles. Fuck cars, indeed.
What a tease!
Cosmopolitan magazine.
Infamous for being filled with garbage sex articles to further screw up women’s self esteem.
Wrong group of people to try to get a Cosmo article out of.
If I was in your shoes I’d probably build my own hypervisor box and rent colo space for it. Strictly because your requirement to migrate VMs to your own system later is more trouble than it’s worth.
I don’t know for sure but I’d guess you would pay less for colo than renting someone’s server for a year or two. Renting bare metal is stupid expensive.
You’re going against your programming.
This can’t be a real product.
Driving down a stretch of desert road near Tucson, pickup truck in front of me, and we’re cruising through the wasteland at about 60. We’re coming up to a T intersection where the incoming road has a stop sign and we don’t. It’s the only intersection on this road for at least a mile in either direction. There’s a lone car waiting at the stop sign as we approach. It takes us a good 15-20 seconds to get to the T junction, and in all that time the waiting car never moves despite having no traffic in either direction preventing them from turning out onto the road.
As soon as the pickup truck in front of me is past the point of no return, the driver of the car pulls right out in front of him to turn left. He swerves but can’t avoid hitting the front of her car. Fortunately I was closely watching the whole thing unfold so I’m immediately hard on the brakes, but pickup truck driver just had no time to react. The right half of the pickup hits the whole front side of the car and it’s probably doing 50-55 when it hits, because the driver only had a fraction of a second to brake.
After impact the pickup goes careening left across the road and into a ditch, and the car spins like a top, doing a 360+ in-place from the impact force. By the time the car stops spinning I’ve pulled over on the right, and I jump out of my car to help (after making sure the people behind me had stopped!)
I check the car first since it’s closest, and I find the female teenage driver sitting in her seat crying her eyes out. She won’t/can’t answer questions but she’s breathing and sobbing and and there’s no apparent carnage I can see. I move on to the pickup in the ditch which I find has two occupants. I ask “are you guys ok?” and almost immediately feel kinda dumb for asking. The driver has removed a large piece of the dashboard with his forehead, which is now bleeding profusely. But he is able to look at me and snark out a reply, “Do I look like I’m ok?”. Well he’s alive and sarcastic so he’s probably not dying, and the passenger is conscious, so it’s time to call 911 and then try to find pickup truck driver a bandage.
I hang out to give a report to the cops, and they tell me the girl said she just wasn’t paying attention. No idea what could have made her just pause there for half a minute and then decide to go without even looking; this was the mid 90’s so cell phones weren’t really a thing yet. I would have sworn she was trying to murder the people in the pickup truck based on her perfect timing.
Far as I know everybody came out ok, and nobody had to leave in an ambulance, but that was the gnarliest car wreck I ever had front seat tickets to without being involved.
I self host Bitwarden and it’s free to self host. You only have to pay for a license if you need multiple users or want to use their cloud services, I believe. My instance is 100% self hosted and completely isolated from the internet, and it works fine.
I self host it because I self host everything, but for credential managers I would never trust any 3rd party closed source utility or cloud service. Before I used a password manager I tracked them all manually with a text file and a TrueCrypt volume. I think giving unrelated credentials to 3rd parties is asking for trouble - they definitely don’t care as much about them as you do!
If you’re going to self host any credential manager, make sure you have an appropriate backup strategy, and make sure you have at least one client synced regularly so that you can still access passwords if the server itself dies for some reason.
Terminator Zero was great.
Station Eleven is the best tv show ever made.
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Honestly I’d probably do the same. He’s at home, and I don’t need that drama in my work life.
Help desk guy caught jerking off at his desk by a female employee, which he had apparently been doing for a while without a whole lot of cleanup, further investigation uncovered.
His keyboard, mouse, desk, floor mat, and chair were disposed of as hazmat. Monitor and PC were e-cycled.
Russian national anthem, just to shit in their cheerios.
It’s dangerous to be blackout drunk no matter what you’re doing. 11 shots of tequila will certainly put the majority of people there.
Usually not very long but one time there were THREE cars in front of me at the drive through ballot drop box. That was a good 20 to 30 seconds of my life I’ll never get back. Bunch of slackers waiting til the last day!
Yesterday I went to vote in person for the first time in a really long time, because I moved to a different county and didn’t re-register soon enough to get a mail-in ballot. It was super smooth, didn’t wait longer than a minute or two while they did their admin stuff and then I was voting.
Colorado, USA.