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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Congratulations. Your a system admin. For real.

I've interviewed candidates for system admin jobs who had less exposure to managing Linux then this story.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Not dissimilar - my three steps.

  1. Ran away from vista.
  2. Get a job at Microsoft and figured I should learn how to use a core product again (Windows 10).
  3. Dual boot for years (you never know when you will need to wake up the windows for some random task), until Win 11 and recall...
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

See you think that - but excel finds a way. We have what are lovingly called the "spreadsheets of doom" which accounting uses to manage all forecasts, and the bits that involve money flows. Did you know you can hook excel into Salesforce and pull all the sales records? A person who thinks her monitor is her computer (she has a Dell laptop) somehow found a way...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

And even then your neighbors need to be sure they have removed every roach. And their neighbors...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

They do customs after the Bellingham (going north) stop while the train is rolling.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Worst case. Inflation eats the mortgage until it's just chump change.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

IMO. Bicyclists have liberal disregard for traffic laws here. But so do the following groups: pedestrians, motorcyclist, big rigs, cars.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can we just say anyone with a pulse?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (7 children)

The problem is not everyone who wants to can move. Picking up everything and moving to New England or the West Coast is not viable for people making minimum wage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No one ever invades Poland. Ever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

They randomly started turning up in my music recommendations (I mostly listen to metal). I was so confused and so happy about it...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That makes me wonder. Can you escape it with a non-us keyboard?

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