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Something obvious to others may not be obvious to you - and to be fair it was a key ingredient in blogging. I find it extremely sad that blogging shifted from personal writing to a…

The problem lies with people trying to claim credit without doing the work: writing. AI is a fantastic tool that catches flow errors, grammar problems and punctuation misuse, just …

Yes. Exactly. I, for one, am following this credo: If your single player game has an “always online” clause; I am not your customer. No ifs, no buts, no “but i like this franchise”…

Nerds became an industry field - that's what it happened. Back in the 90'ies we were doing IT things because it geniunely interested us, not that it would "net us high salaries". I…

Yes, you can but then if you have any older software in your system (for company reasons) will not play ball. And it is a workaround, not a permanent solution. Because we still do …

The best thing you can do with an enterprise Onedrive is having long long file and folder names. The moment it exceeds 255 characters, the software application dies. I am ready to …

Just a small note about fastmail: Do not launch a trial with your planned username. Because I have opened up a trial account, it expired and when I decided to reactivate it (with p…

Well, I have created several assistants for writing checks, the researcher module is really good and am using it when the need is there. It is expensive but the chained search quer…

Google does not hate us... it is worse than that - it is indifferent to us. Hate requires some sort of recognition. I mean this single incident may not mean anything but overall go…

As technical people we tend to have a technical outlook to this. However, after a certain threshold - say $1M - these projects become political things rather than a simple technica…

This may be an unpopular opinion but I feel Bazzite (and immutable distros in general) is the future for the normal users. Yes I know, they take the freedom of messing with the sys…

To be honest, I do not understand this new norm. A few months ago I applied to an internal position. I was a NGO IT worker, deployed twice to emergency response operations, knew th…

Ta! Heard about them but will definitely check them out.

Agreed. Time and time again, I wished I'd knew Ruby and/or RoR. Do you know any good (and "boring" as in time-tested & practical) tutorials/learning resources?

thank you!

Holy… I still miss kuro5hin. Wonder what is rusty doing nowadays.

Preach brother. I am in the same boat but in the caring side of things. I read e-mails, I respond to them as promptly as I can. I read the tickets and contact the users to resolve …

With W11, they seem to really gung-ho about creating that achilles heel. As for myself I am tired from having an unstable OS on my devices which may or may not bork without any int…

For me, Agile is a good idea implemented badly and subverted by the "business people" to hell and back. Without going into details, I find its core methodology cool. - You meet wit…

I am super annoyed with Google and its support. The situation is like this. I have been deployed to another country last month and returned on 24th of July. I have not changed anyt…

To be honest after switching to Pop_OS! several years ago I have no regrets. The system just _works_. And curiously enough, even though it should be as same as Ubuntu, Ubuntu does …

All these might have been true for Windows 10, but with Windows 11 all the things you mentioned are my daily woes. W11 suddenly "upgrades" the video driver and explorer crashes; up…

From my experience, Microsoft wants you to move to a Microsoft 365 subscription. As an example, 6-7 months ago an update made Outlook 2016 clients fail to connect to the Outlook se…

https://poolsuite.net/ to capture those nineties feeling for a sec or two...

Maybe so, but his previous company's attitude is sticking out like a sore thumb it overshadows the focus you saw...