I was finally at a job where I could use Linux at work. Things were great for about a year and then BOOM we get acquired and the new company forces MacBooks on everyone.

I. Friggin. Hate. MacOS. The biggest pain point is the keyboard shortcuts, 15 years of Linux muscle memory…

My point is I can very much relate to having to use unproductive shit for work and the daily reminder of why it’s not on my personal devices

Oh wow, you’re right.

+1000. one of my coworkers keeps thinking he’s saving time with AI-generated code but what he’s really doing is pushing the thinking downstream when we have to pick apart the absolute garbage that gets generated.

PR feedback gets turned into AI prompts and the cycle continues. It’s exhausting

Yep, I’ve seen MS flight simulator fans basically create entire cockpits in their house with a crap tonne of screens for 180-degree vision and hook up all the 3rd party peripherals.

There’s just no way this will ever work seamlessly on Linux

I went to Derry and Giants Causeway after watching the Derry Girls TV show (“foreigners fookin’ love the Giants Causeway!”)

It wasn’t wrong, I greatly enjoyed my 3 days in Northern Ireland

I’d go to France again but Paris: never again

What are you going to do, send them money? That information isn’t private, people have to give it up all the time to receive money…

Arguably OpenAI has actual influence unlike anyone calling themselves “influencer”, but yes

I used to dislike tacos because I was brought up thinking these were tacos

“Don’t touch working code” stems from “last person who touched it, owns it” and there’s some shit that it’s just not worth your pay grade to own.

Particularly if you’re a contractor employed to work on something specific

The internet memes will have me believe that Germans are super anal about making sure that trash is correctly sorted.

Is there a bin for ewaste next to the glass, cans and plastic bins?

You must be a fellow data engineer

I thought I’d love a job like this, and it was fine, for a while.

But you can feel yourself stagnating and you know that when they eventually make you redundant you’d struggle to get another job because you spent too long coasting.

I left it for a job at a startup, much more engaging but also much more work

I will forever recognize the Baar Sophia font from the fansubs of Naruto which got me into anime in the first place

Ahh good ol’ Aegisub. I have great memories of subtitling anime in my late teens before I got a girlfriend and the fansub scene died when Crunchyroll took over.

I was also one of the people helping test Aegisub on Linux (2009-ish), I wasn’t a programmer at the time but I remember a dude called ‘verm’ in the IRC channel who did a bunch of work to make Aegisub stable on Linux. He taught me the difference between little endian and big endian, I guess he was bored that day

No, it’s garbage because of its approach to case sensitivity.

It’s case insensitive by default (which is a WTF in itself and encourages the same laziness Windows users thrive on with NTFS) but it also has a case sensitive mode.

Except the case sensitive mode is almost entirely useless because of the amount of apps it breaks that assume the default case-insensitive mode. It also means that you as a programmer have to add extra crap to your file handling code for case insensitive string comparisons if you want to support both modes

Yeah I still don’t get why people use Discord, it’s so shitty and knowledge just gets locked up there to die

Managers love yes-men so the more biased the better

Wouldn’t all my consumer grade switches need to support vlan tagging? I’m pretty sure a bunch of them dont

My proxmox “cluster” is a bunch of old laptops with a single consumer grade NIC in each. I wanted to isolate the VM network from my main home network (have it on a different range) while still allowing all the VM’s to transparently talk to each other regardless of which physical host they happen to be on.

Could I have achieved this with normal vlans? I wanted an overlay network on the VM side but they still need to use my main home network to get internet and I only have a single physical interface on each host which is plugged into my main home network (addresses assigned via my home router).

The OPNsense VM routes between the two networks (the virtual vxlan within Proxmox + my physical home network) and does DHCP / DNS for the VM network