if

whether

Apparently I still don’t have one. Haven’t had a phone number for about a decade. No SMS spam, no “survey” calls; nothing.

Signal needs a phone number.

I don’t want to give them one. Also I don’t have one.

Oh my, that seems to eliminate Signal as an option.

Next?

reboot workstations every 10 days or so people.

No.

Only reboot if needs-rebooting says so.

• nothing will take 5 minutes.
• build a queue of clean, suspended VMs if you need them that fast

All cops are bastards. Full stop.

Generalizations are a fun kind of hate.

invoke the 5th amendment.

“I Invoke the 5th!”

“Sir, in Canada we don’t call them amendments. And the 5th means you have to answer but you get immunity. So keep talking.”

literally

Yeah, that’s where I stopped. Learn another adverb!

The rich coastal states that can bail out should definitely do so. Cascadia now!

They will use this the exact same way that they would have used it if it was worded correctly.

The “de-fund the police” (but really adjust teaming to include psyche pros to ensure proper handling of at-risk people who do not warrant a response escalation) movement may show them how that’s done.

didn’t like it due to UX/UI issues

That’s my biggest beef. But I think maybe it’s “ugly like a Mazda truck”, as in, it’s plain and weird until you get to driving it and then it’s just simple and great.

That’s my hope anyway.

Refusing to hold Democrats accountable is also voting for Fascism.

As mentioned oh, so, so, so many times, voting for the least worst option doesn’t preclude holding them to account. That part comes after, once democracy is assured.

Except, people voted for cruelty and fascism to really stick it to the Dems. Now there’s worse fascism and no democracy.

Good job.

Feel proud.

Wait till

New kind of plough?

[Microsoft product] [surveils]

I wouldn’t be surprised if zoom does something similar.

Have you considered that Microsoft is just being a dick? After decades of doing so, it’d be okay to assume this time too.

Zoom could also be a dick, but let’s give them the benefit of the doubt.

Yeah. And the full root disk clone thing is honestly gonna be more trouble than value. Ensure the big-bang stuff is the same - packages, but even not perfect (as above) but just same-version where installed; and general settings - and then synch the homedir.

God help me, I’m thinking gluster between 2-3 machines, running a VM off that (big files so lock negot isn’t an issue) and having it commandeer the local vid for gaming. It’s doomed but it’ll be fun ha ha learning ha ha.

There are exciting ways to ensure some settings and configs are kept the same, too, when they’re outside that synched home space. Ansible if you like thunky 2002 tech, chef or salt for newer but overkill, or mgmtconfig if you want modern decentralized peer-to-peer reactive config management.

Been at Facebook 4 years? Not management? Get ready for the PIP.