I bought a 21 inch 1080p Viewsonic monitor from a thrift store just the other day for $6. I got it just for this use case.

I had a spare for this purpose up until about a month ago when the backlight went out on one of my daily drivers.

Also, a couple of days ago I got a pretty nice steelcase apex 3 keyboard with RGB lights for $5.

I was a poor kid living in Hawaii in the mid 90’s.

Wendy’s in Hawaii had a salad bar. If you ordered the “dine in” salad bar, they gave you a fairly small plate and you were allowed one trip.

If you ordered it to go, you still had the one trip restriction, but they would give you a big plastic clamshell to go container. They assumed you would put food in the bottom of the container and close it up and leave.

Not me. I would order to go, but fill both halves of the container and eat it all at one of the tables. Usually one of the halves was mostly Chocolate pudding and cheezy crackers.

I moved my personal email domain to fastmail. I’ve been very happy with it. I am using the Standard plan at $50 per year.

It’s nice being the customer instead of the product.

They can also host static web sites for no additional cost on this plan. So I canceled my web hosting plan too.

I use the terminal so much that I frequently accidentally use Ctrl-Shift-C and V outside of the terminal.

Ctrl-Shift-V usually works pretty well as it does a paste without formatting in a lot of places.

Accidentally hitting Ctrl-Shift-C though in a MS Team’s chat though, starts a voice call with all chat participants. 😑 hate it

Every distro.

Samba file shares should use regular user credentials and not have separate samba usernames and passwords.

Every distro with gnome.

Make RDP work as well as it does on Windows.

I’m talking about remoting into the Linux system.

Everytime the system is restarted you have to physically login to the system to unlock the keyring so that your RDP password is accessible or you won’t be able to get in. Or you have to remove your keyring password all together. Why is this different than the regular user password?

Also it’s weird that it works like VNC where you are controlling the system remotely but anyone local can see what you are doing on the screen. It is also cool to have that option but it shouldn’t be the default.

The sandwich fillings

(Sandwich fillings are generally in bread)

I’ll just leave this graffiti here.

fartdog ❤️s munki

Smash the office, build more housing

And the RTO demands are about intentionally lowering headcount without paying unemployment or severance so they can boost their numbers.

Working in the office vs working from home.

I have a script that does an unencrypted backup to my true truenas machine.

Truenas has built in functionality to upload encrypted or unencrypted backups to various cloud providers. It is using rclone on the back end but it also handles the connection to your cloud storage really nicely too.

Yeah, a lot of people leave their phone out of the EDC because they use it to take the picture.

The case is a good stand-in.

The drive is LUKS encrypted. It is an option when formatting the drive using Gnome Disks in Linux.

Whenever you plug it in, it asks for the password.

On the drive I have a bash script that syncs my home directory to a folder on the drive using rsync.

I don’t create new files personal files very often and they are backed up in other ways too (to a NAS and also encrypted and uploaded to cloud storage) so I tend to only run the sync script about every other week or so.

I have a separate script and folder to backup my work laptop as well. for the work laptop I back my home directory and the /etc directory, because I have some customized configurations in etc. I run this every week.

Because the drives are USB C I can plug them into my phone for transferring files. The encrypted drive can be mounted using an app called ZUGate.

In my previous role I was in IT for a small organization. We issued cell phones to all employees.

I had one of those paperclip containers with the magnetic rim on my desk full of sim card removal tools.

I have been using this pair since 2020, I lost them for a couple of months and picked up a pair of Tozo t8s. I didn’t like them as much and the case was too big.

When I found them again, I gave the t8s to my son.

BTW, They still sell the t6s on Amazon.

You and my dad would argue over who’s tools those are.

He did the same thing with the color orange.

I’m a Linux admin at work and I use Linux for my main system.

I do need to administer some Windows only things too. I got them to give me an older desktop system running windows that I leave running in my cube.

Anytime I need to do Windows stuff I remote into that machine.

How did that exchange go?

They try to tell you that you can’t use your last name?

Yup