That is certainly a good way to debug - that being said when all else fails I explain my current mess to my better 3/4 and they often come up with some really unique way of tackling the problem. Yeah, it is kind of a cheat code. They are not a programmer or interested in anything IT, but they are a really smart cookie. I try my best to be the smart wall to throw their problems at when the roles are reversed.

My better 3/4 likes to ask me for info on random stuff. I like to ask if they want short or long answer.

If Debian has to be something on four wheels it'll be a lorry. Something that does nothing fancy but absolutely essential and is doing alright thank you very much.

What I really don't get with tankies is their reverence of Russia. Their history can be summarized like so: and then everything took a change for the worse. To this day Russia is an empire where white people use colonized people to die for bits of field in parts they already starved in 1932-1933.

That's pretty much the problem. You know how to work around the issue. I know how to work around the issue. Institutional knowledge doesn't and just opens the application just like they've always done. I resolved this one by associating .csv files with Notepad++ company wide. Now this is a mandated change so they'll grumble and get on track.

The real issue I have with all this is changing data without consent. It's like the new Notepad is malware all by itself, doesn't even need remote exploits.

And hello fellow Linux user :)

As I'm in no position to demand company wide switch to a sane operating system I'm constantly in awe of new and innovative ways Microsoft has managed to make my day suck. One such thing is that they have decided that Win 11 Notepad will convert everything it touches to UTF-16. That's kind of a problem when an external system expects ISO-8859-15 and users have decades of experience in editing said config files with Notepad.

In like to go for a walk. I happen to live in a rapidly emptying part of rural Finland. Here we have freedom to roam so all the forests are open to explore. I've been in places nobody else has seen in decades. I love it.

+1 to this one. I cut my teeth writing boring in house business software, some 15 years of that. Time went on and the company started to automate, so as the in house software guy I ended up messing with various pieces of industrial automation. It has been interesting, I've learned a lot and coming from outside sometimes I can think non conventional approach to a problem.

Oh, and find a laptop with real RS-232 -port. Protect it with your life.

I know running Gentoo is labour intensive and for the most part unnecessary. Something still draws me back and every now and then there's a fresh install.

I live in the countryside and my better 3/4 has always had horses. We've had many cats at the stable and one in particular swam in bowls that the horses drunk from. One horse in particular preferred the water that tasted like cat.

Quite a few of them/we/us end up in thrift shop/second hand/army overflow.

That makes it so very frustrating when one tries to determine if somebody is a nazi or an elder goth.

If this comes to pass I'll just revert to ways of my youth. I'll spend more times with books and there is no such thing as online communication or SMS or anything.

I do what I can to not have that future.