I cut my teeth on Linux when red hat was trying to make things “user friendly” with control panel like guis but they consistently couldn’t do what I wanted so I had to learn the terminal anyway.

25+ years later, I’ll use a gui if it works and it’s easy, but I still have trust issues that I don’t have with a config file. You put shit in a config file, it’s going to do what you asked (right or wrong) or sigterm trying… And I appreciates that.

That said, I do mostly gui config on my daily driver these days. Servers however… No gui, no problem.

The alternative was a rocket scientist… But he was a democrat so we can’t have that can we?

At least you didn’t have to worry about Ruin manipulating it.

… Sorry, I’ve been reading the Mistborn series and just finished “The Hero of Ages”

This is exactly the comment I opened this thread to find. Thank you.

I’m old but the shortest my hair has been in the past 35 or 40 years is shoulder length. Every other spring I have the spouse chop it off to shoulder length then let it go again for two years.

I’m also in Arkansas.

But, not a kid so I guess it’s okay for me to be my filthy hippie / sasquatch self according to this proposal.

1901-01-01? Me too!

Good to meet you birthday buddy

I don’t have kids, so yeah.

Edit: now that I scroll through the comments, I see this is a common theme.

Differs by company, of course, but the one I used to work for would wipe, reimage, and sell them to employees for $50.

I’ll find something else to screw up and cause it to break, don’t worry.

You’re not my supervisor!

Makes sense; people are stupid. Me included at least half of the time.

I remember a backpacking buddy talking about a tool for puncturing the (empty) fuel cans for “jet boil” camping stoves because they couldn’t be recycled without very clearly being empty.

If you’re not abusing it, credit card companies are more than happy to do charge backs via disputes.

And, what, the shady company that scammed you is going to fight a multi billion dollar corporation?

I’ve used this a few times when I got fucked and the company doing the fucking didn’t respond or didn’t care.

I’ve pet a lot of opossums. Not been bit by one… But those teeth are scary.

Computer programming and related tech skills. Why? Because I’ve been doing as a job and for fun for over 35 years and have been teaching it for 5 so I guess it works out.

We’re a small household with minimal laundry so 5 gallons is more like a 10 year supply for us… I’m here for it : D

Yep. Haven’t used windows besides poking at other people’s machines and trying to figure out wtf is going on in about 20 years.

I’m just as clueless as you bud, but I’ve got a bootable Linux drive I can plug in. Come on, you know you wanna… It’ll be great, you’ll love it. It’s free

Hi there thermostat buddy. 19.5 here too.

I started calling it “Grandma Debian” for some reason.

… I say this as a Debian user after new versions of Mint failed to accurately detect my RAID size. I tried Ubuntu for giggles, same problem, but Grandma Debian worked perfect out of the box.

To be fair, it is a software RAID in the BIOS and those are known to be odd.

I just enjoy that I can call them “xbone”

Is there a sim card buried in there somewhere that can be removed or is it soldered in, potted, etc?

… Or your car bricks if you remove it wouldn’t surprise me, regardless.