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Pretty nice, but only supports one server.

Been a while since I knew anybody that worked at McDonald's... But while I was a lifeguard in college, one girl quit the lifeguarding to get more hours at McDonald's. They were muc…

Syncthing can work. You don't get the centralized server though. Well you can run it on an always on system. I'd like this to be a VPS, but the files sit on the VPS in clear text. …

Gnome has been really pissing me off lately. Simple things, like adding app that start on login need a "Tweak" tool? How silly is that. With the upgrade to Fedora 29 I thought I'd …

Say I’m forced to use Ubuntu. But my favourite distro is Fedora, should I use the supported Fedora kernel on Ubuntu. ;)

I currently have Fedora 28 installed on a T470 and a T480s and it’s pretty flawless. Not the sexiest laptops out there, but they seem pretty good for Linux.

I hope you appreciate the fact that you have a door :)

Any ereaders out there but than others for technical books, in particular programming books?

What is the root of all the Microsoft distrust? I’m older, and left Windows for Linux back in 1997 and haven’t really paid attention since. I wonder if this mistrust is valid? Are …

No. The hack that is better at advertising himself will get the higher paid consulting gigs.

I’m a full time paid open source developer. About 40% of my time is reviewing pull requests these days. Most of these are meaningful contributions. And while it can be a pain in th…

Probably silly, but I pretty much only use Chrome for the custom/compact title bar on Linux. On smaller screens it gives me more vertical on the content.

Unless you need to spin up OpenBSD and FreeBSD instances with an almost like Docker workflow. That’s where I use Vagrant still.

This is unfortunate. I chose Crashplan initially due to great family pricing, but more importantly as it had a Linux client. Given I backup Linux home server, a Linux desktop and a…

2 things keep me on Chrome. First, the overly large titlebar on Linux. I've tried some addons to make it more like Chrome but they all look like shit. And second, the dev tools. I …

So I'm an independent contractor in Canada and I think my wife and I have fallen in love with California. Without dealing with cost of living adjustments I'm curious how independen…

One thing I do way less in my 40s is over engineer a solution, or worry about all possible someday maybe use cases of a class many Java developers seem to like to design for.

Sure. But it means I can write device drivers up to a single page application UI.

I miss it. Planes are also getting rid of their screens. Yeah, I should have known when we went on our last family vacation. So my wife and I watched movies are on our phones over …

I also use a ScanSnap. An S300 I got back in 2009. Completely worth it if you scan then shred all your documents. Ever few months I'd pull out some old files and put a podcast or s…

Your not. I'm 42, I still love to code and am in the very early stages of planning a startup or something like it and am just excited about it as when I did a startup when I was 29…

Kinda related to some of the discussion. Is there anywhere within 2-3 hours of the Bay Area where one could start a company yet have a normal house with a normal yard for a family?…

I've suffered called hands, fingers and wrists which in turn has made them sore, right up my forearms. I tried gloves and stuff - part of it might be that my home office is in the …

Developer here and just about to turn 42. It helps if you can find a niche where you are a subject matter expert, hopefully a subject matter that is going to be relevant for some t…