I consider The Register to be the gold standard in tech journalism. When asked how I keep up with evolving tech, I told the interview panel that any tech news they see on mainstream media was likely broken by The Register 3 days previous, with original sources and quotes from top corporate officers.

Also told them I had followed several tech subs on reddit in the past, but as the site has devolved into bots talking to one another, I’ve turned to lemmy for tech community interaction and advice.

(No, I’m not using lemmy for that so much, but if I land the network admin job I will!)

I could whip up rack ears but making threaded holes confounds me. Even got a tap and die set, still can’t figure it out.

Nah, I have a NetGate (pfSense) rackmount router/firewall with multiple ports. Isn’t that pretty standard with enterprise gear now days? Only 2-port routers I’ve seen are ones I build from old PCs.

LOL, give it up. Lemmy is full of kids who have never had a physically challenging job in their fucking life.

“I saw bad things!”

Is no way comparable to:

“I’ve blown out my back and knees, can barely stand up in the morning and can’t make a fist.”

And for those bitching about the first two items, 19 of 20 of them are, and have always been, fat fucks.

Anyways, looks like GenZ is about to get hard as fuck in the next few years when they see what real suffering is.

LOL, these guys got it from the movie Bandits, which is a hilarious movie.

The Sleepover Bandits?! Seriously, Bandits came out on 2001. You gotta wonder.

And don’t sleep on that movie! Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton and Cate Blanchett knock it out the park. Like a romcom, except it’s actually funny and with soul.

It’s human to see patterns where they don’t exist and assign agency.

OK, maybe a slight twist, but Left 4 Dead absolutely sucks vs. Left 4 Dead 2. Want L4D? Fine. Play it inside L4D2 with better guns and zombies.

True Crime podcasts and YT channels

Female detected! I joke, but I don’t know any men into that content, and I’m ceaselessly amazed at the variety of women who love it. My wife will soon be home, in bed and totally absorbed in watching white trash confess (while trying to lie) to cops about their heinous acts.

That’s a bingo! I’m only taking the time and spending the money for a movie I know damned well I’ll enjoy. Guess I’m part of the problem.

Sleeping? You should see me get out of bed, stumbling around hunched over for 10 minutes until all my parts agree that, no, it’s not that painful, and, yes, we’ll all start playing nicely soon enough.

Same age and my wife and I tend to watch old movies or YouTube. When there are free channels for any well-produced fiction you care for like Omeleto, why bother with Hollywood?

I think you are wildly underestimating the people who will say fuck it and keep rolling with 10. For that matter, how about the people who don’t even realize it’s EOL? Sure, they’ll get warnings, which they’ll promptly ignore.

MS Office rules the corporate world because their standards never change.

There is no real alternative to Excel, that’s the killer app. Anyone arguing differently hasn’t got the corporate experience to argue.

Doesn’t even matter if an alternate is better, and none are, it’s about rock-solid compatibility and knowing your sheets and books will still work in 20-years.

MS fucks about with OS updates, but notice that they never break Excel? (or Word or PowerPoint for that matter)

Didn’t stop him shooting himself in the foot over illegal alien labor.

One bolt is probably find if the panel isn’t catching wind. But if that thing gets damaged it’s likely to shear off at speed. Stay away from dented cyber trucks!

Just use Ubuntu. (Surely I’ll get hate for this.)

It’s based on Debian, a major branch off the tree. It just fucking works. Millions of tutorials, groups, etc. to find troubleshooting info. Probably won’t have to do anything to get a machine running that does everything you’re doing now.

Get the swing of that and go from there, if you want to try other branches.

This realization helped me quite a bit: Windows does all sorts of arcane voodoo with the registry and DLLs and such. Weirdness Linux appeals to many because all the configuration is contained in simple text files. Got a program that reads and writes plain old text? Aight. You can configure Linux. In a way, it’s so simple it’s hard to get your head around coming from Windows.

tl;dr: Just download and install Ubuntu. Go from there with your nicely working machine.

While I’m completely agreed, the amendments came after the rest, hence the name. :)

That handles automation, but can’t freestyle questions.

“Hey Google, convert (metric) to (Imperial).”

“Hey Google, weather today?”

“Hey Google, what’s the capital of Kakistan?”

I have a ceiling-mounted mini in almost every room and just toss questions around while I work or play. Or, just ask it to play music. (Which went to shit when I cancelled Spotify.)