irongeek

Agreed, anything Edward Snowden says right now is just propaganda.

Due to all the recent BSD posts I have spent the past month exploring NetBSD and OpenBSD. Really enjoying the journey and finding that I can do everything I am currently doing easily on both.

Syncthing for the win. Has worked fantastic for me for many years across just about an OS you want to use.

I actually have it on my Apple watch and use it with some of my international friends.

I gave up after three attempts. Ends too fast for me to find where I am on the screen. I might checkout again if I have time.

Yeah, I left the page 10 seconds in.

I still listen to a lot of prog rock as well as classical, more than I did when I was a teenager or in my 20s. But I also occasionally listen to current popular music with my teenage daughters. Some of it I like, some I do not, but myself and my daughters all agree that they would like to hear some big change in popular music. Not saying it should be a return to something like grunge, but it would be interesting to hear something different like that style was.

From what I can tell there is no actual code with this ebook. It is just posts from Reddit with coding ideas. This post should be removed.

that whole page looks very sketchy. Charging for it no less, I see a take down by Microsoft coming.

There was a period of time where I thought I was the only one who remembered this show. I had the toy spacecraft as a kid and loved it.

If you have anxiety and cannot sleep, of course caffeine is probably not going to help. Unless I missed it, he never addresses his bowel issue.

Yep, why would an expert, writing a book on fraud give a caller any information?

What's a matter, CIA got you pushing too many pencils.

Very much agree with you and my first thought was, who has that much drama at work? If you do, the employer or the type of the job is the problem.

I left Chrome 10 years ago and have been a happy Firefox user. I think this article is clickbait. I know more and more people using Firefox.

I setup several folks over the years with Linux on their laptops. Usually after they ended up with malware or other oddities on their Windows computers multiple times. I would always ask them what they do on their computers, usually it was 99% web. I would never hear from these people until they wanted to buy a new computer. Prior to that I felt like I was looking at some issue every 6 months or so. All the Linux desktops are pretty nice now, and actually have been for a quite a while if all the person is doing is web stuff. Firefox or Chrome looks the same to the average person no matter what operating system they are using.

The other thing worth mentioning is well, the computers will almost always perform better with a Linux distribution over a bloated Windows install.

how would an egg and bacon burrito be considered toxic? Maybe not good for a dog, but toxic?

I work for a hospital and we just phased out our pagers this past year for some staff. Honestly, I am glad they are gone. I hated carrying the extra device. But I see the advantage for physicians. Pagers absolutely work everywhere.

I have had been WFH since 2008 and I recommend adding a treadmill to whatever standing desk you choose. I also agree with keeping it cheap, unless you have a reason you cannot stand or walk I would skip the expensive chair. I have a cheap drafting chair I maybe sit in an hour a day, usually later afternoon. Otherwise I am churning 4-6 hours on the treadmill, walking feels loads better than standing. You can find a reasonably priced standing desk on Amazon for less than $200 and there are numerous options for treadmills now that can easily be moved from under the desk if you want. Just read the reviews, many of the desks on there are very sturdy. Also agree with putting your workspace away from where you mostly live. If you do not do this, you will end up working more than you should. The whole bro thing of hustling and putting work above having a life will just burn you out.

Use the tools that work for you and that you enjoy. I am rocking a Model M from 1987 and a Logitech trackball. I just use my airpods for meetings and like others said, test out how you sound. So many people come into meetings and their volume is either very high or very low.

The site does not look fancy but it delivers. Everyone complaining about someone using that page, why? I have adblock on so maybe it looks far worse for others. But I just see straight up headlines for each topic and it looks current. I did not know this page still existed either, but honestly I like the simple look.

Have banks not been bailed out?

Debian 12 at home. RHEL at work.

The exact same thing happened on an old blog of mine. They mirrored the content and changed all the links to ad links. I asked them once to take it down but received no response. I just ignored it and eventually they let the domain expire.

Oh, it is not ready for you so we should all just sit on our hands until this person blesses it.

So go work for a hospital and clean up their IT. I see shit like this and wonder what you consider USEFUL. Because working for healthcare would be useful, but it is not the same as saying that you work for some hot startup.

It is very interesting to me that Linux desktop is beating ChromeOS. Not sure what the stats were 10 years ago, but I do not think MacOS or Linux were that high.

Sure the article is suspect, but I have to kind of believe Windows market share has dropped considerably in homes. When I visit my son at college I see way more Macs and the only tablets I see are iPads. Yes Windows has the business world locked up for now, but the youth are exposed to mostly iPads and Macs. My daughters have never used Windows because I have Macs and Linux computers in our home and at school they have iPads. I realize my home is not typical, but with more exposure to Chromebooks, iPads, and Apple dominating the phone market, at least in the US, I think a lot more people consider Apple computers or a Chromebook if they even need a computer at home.

Currently refreshing some of my programming knowledge. Also reviewing my math skills. I tend to do each of these things periodically to refresh some of the knowledge I might not use so much anymore. Currently thinking of some side projects to work on as well.

On my radar for the Fall is learning a second language and beginning to learn woodworking. Speaking of that, any advice on the first tools a beginning woodworker should add to their shop?

Good for you mate.

I was remote with HP for years, doing SysAdmin work. Then I changed job, went back to the office and slowly went a few days a week remote, then went fully remote during the pandemic. The company learned they could save a bucket ton of money not having to pay for an office and just told us all to stay at home. Honestly, for about a year and a half I put in 10 hours a day or more, just recently I learned to to back off some and put a hard end to the day. I can easily put more hours into my job than ever before remotely than I could going into the office. It is up to companies to learn how to work with their employees. Honestly, it takes creative workers and employers to benefit, the companies that are the future and that are building the future will learn to best utilize their remote workforce.