See you think that - but excel finds a way. We have what are lovingly called the “spreadsheets of doom” which accounting uses to manage all forecasts, and the bits that involve money flows. Did you know you can hook excel into Salesforce and pull all the sales records? A person who thinks her monitor is her computer (she has a Dell laptop) somehow found a way…

Can we just say anyone with a pulse?

That makes me wonder. Can you escape it with a non-us keyboard?

Can we take a moment to ask ourselves - how the hell did piping to shell become ok? We have all kinds of method’s for deploying stuff - from the age old tarball to the new shinny flat pack. But somehow we also became ok with

Curl foo | sh

Oftentimes as root.

If you don’t know about it, I recommend you take a gander at The rat utopia from the 60s.

Also flatten (sometimes used conjunction with “pave”) it to denote the systems is getting reimagined.

So my wife and I are one of them. I’ll call it as it is, we got lucky, and both work in tech.

Now that said, I “rent” (rent in quotes because the amount is almost exactly what the increase in food costs was) out a room to a good friend because she was struggling, and just last week got another friend couch surfing for who knows how long until she can get her feet under her.

As someone who manages multiple identity systems - tell your IT to get their act together. Most of my environments we force reaith once a week (and that just a quick enter your password/TOTP code). Otherwise if you can log into your computer we trust you are who you say you are (note: we have some downright scary and invasive stuff on the network so we know if you start accessing stuff you should not). The sensitive/scary stuff is a lot faster (activity timers), but the teams involved know why it’s set this way (and where involved in setting the maximum durations).

If you feel like poking a bear. NIST 800-63B is the US Federal guidance on passwords. In the past this guidance said to have long passwords and rotate them. Now they say 8 characters and never change (along with using MFA).

Linux: fine. The mac’s in my house don’t get to print. Windows: painless.

God no. You never want to have radarr fetch an entire movie and dump it into jellyfin/Plex by the time your popcorn is done. No sir.

I think I’m the same way? I know I much rather build my feed into something I want to read as opposed to what the algorithm thinks I want to read.

Which is interesting because you and I both on social media interacting. Are we here because of the lack of algorithms/corporate bullshit?

So I own a framework and use it as a personal device. I love it.

That said I will not be advocating my department replaces our dells with them until they have next day replacement devices (we are entirely remote so there is no “swing by the help desk to have someone fiddle with your computer”).

The only thing better is if Disney’s legal department thinks there is a risk…

The cheap money is gone. Now suddenly companies need to find profit to satisfy investors.