Yep, now we have the 2038 year coming for Linux. It already got me, I didnt want to renew my home NAS certificate every year, so I thought I'd do a 30 year cert. Well after 2038 it rolled the date to the 1960s...

I have been telling people this for 26 years now to no avail. I wish I hadn't busted my ass now so all the motherfuckers since then who claimed IT is useless could eat the giant dick of downtime.

As it always goes, they only acknowledge you when your actually fixing problems. The work you did that made everything work as it should was never acknowledged the way it should have been.

And it's tough to remember just how fast computing was changing in the '90s, improving by leaps and bounds all the time with seemingly no ceiling in sight. Consumer computing power was doubling every one and a half years. And in, say, 1994 it wasn't unreasonable at all to assume that all of that crusty old tech from the '80s and even early '90s surely would have been replaced by the year 2000 anyway without anyone having to do anything special about it. Probably more than once... right?

The crucial disconnect there was that tech people are not necessarily business people and I think a lot of folks grossly underestimated management's recalcitrance in spending money until it was more than clear they were facing a crisis.

A lot of stupid businesses and government entities waited until the last fucking second to fix a problem they knew about for half a century.

The overtime should have been exponential for them kicking the can down the road for literal generations.