I bought a 21 inch 1080p Viewsonic monitor from a thrift store just the other day for $6. I got it just for this use case.

I had a spare for this purpose up until about a month ago when the backlight went out on one of my daily drivers.

Also, a couple of days ago I got a pretty nice steelcase apex 3 keyboard with RGB lights for $5.

I’m a cool grandpa with old hardware.

I’m using servicenow. First time and it’s pretty bad. But I hear that it is actually worse than normal because they customized the hell out of it trying to make it match the previous solution.

When I started working at NI they were still using Lotus Notes. 🤮

Drifter in the dark by Ween

One of my favorite snacks lately is tamari almonds and a slice of smoked provolone cheese.

That’s what we assume.

Princess consuella floofy pants

I moved my personal email domain to fastmail. I’ve been very happy with it. I am using the Standard plan at $50 per year.

It’s nice being the customer instead of the product.

They can also host static web sites for no additional cost on this plan. So I canceled my web hosting plan too.

wth. really?

That’s not a thing.

Every distro.

Samba file shares should use regular user credentials and not have separate samba usernames and passwords.

Every distro with gnome.

Make RDP work as well as it does on Windows.

I’m talking about remoting into the Linux system.

Everytime the system is restarted you have to physically login to the system to unlock the keyring so that your RDP password is accessible or you won’t be able to get in. Or you have to remove your keyring password all together. Why is this different than the regular user password?

Also it’s weird that it works like VNC where you are controlling the system remotely but anyone local can see what you are doing on the screen. It is also cool to have that option but it shouldn’t be the default.

Reading this hurt so bad, I almost downvoted.

Smash the office, build more housing

And the RTO demands are about intentionally lowering headcount without paying unemployment or severance so they can boost their numbers.

Stuff keeps breaking in my house. I hate fixing the stuff, but I always feel super proud when it’s done.

In the last month I replaced an electrical outlet that released its magic smoke when the electric griddle cord short circuited. I replaced the igniter in our gas oven. And just today I replaced the insinkerator garbage disposal that started leaking water under the sink.

Poor slinky.

I’m a Linux admin at work and I use Linux for my main system.

I do need to administer some Windows only things too. I got them to give me an older desktop system running windows that I leave running in my cube.

Anytime I need to do Windows stuff I remote into that machine.

How did that exchange go?

They try to tell you that you can’t use your last name?

Yup