The Seamstresses’ Guild of Ankh Morpork does not look favorably upon your judgement of their recent endeavors into digitalization and working from home.

Then they set their desk on fire and go on strike for the rest of the day.

Ah, that explains why I was cast into this existence last week after chilling in the void for eons, which I was actually pretty fine with, but here we are now, toast crumbs, income tax and all that. Thanks I guess.

I think there’s even an editor in there, at least one of the old greybeards at work said something to that effect.

Which is bullshit tbh, which in turn is why I don’t like LPIC. Even RedHat exams give you VMs with full manpages. Know concepts and know what to expect from which tool, everything else is wasted resources.

History is documentation enough.

I’m using my companies’ mediawiki personal user page to keep snippets and one liners that took me some time to cobble together. I export that regularly to a personal device, so, yes. I’ve found that I never look at it because once I’ve hammered something together I usually got the concept so next time it takes me a fraction of the time.

For home? Yes. For professional use where you have to deploy and support tens to hundreds of desktops? Immutable + a proper build tool chain is the best thing since sliced bread. And when you already have that, a copy of that for home makes it good for home use too.

Change shop, my man. My work desktop consists of a tiling wm, usually has one or two instances of my favourite IDE running, of course has various shells open and the only time I’ve got LibreOffice Writer open is when I’m crafting a report for a customer. Although a few of our young developers are currently building a tool chain that would make some sort of enhanced markdown the default format for human readable stuff and that would fit a lot better into our “a project is managed in gitlab” workflow.

I am not a developer, mind you, I am just creating architectural concepts and I implement them. How do you even do that without automation, automated testing, redeployability and all of that? Hell, even when a project requires talking to bare metal, the first thing I’ll think about is “how do we get out virtualization layer onto that automatically within the constraints of the customer’s network?”.

…wat? In what kind of shop are you working?

UpMiiGos as well.

There will most certainly be an after. Unfortunately, very likely not for a lot of us.

Use an inverter-controlled one and you’ll be fine. Our emergency communications shelter runs off one of those just fine, with a cheap offline UPS in there.

Yes, those that control frequency using the engine rpm aren’t that great for most switching power supplies.

It tends to get better with younger generations. I’ve gotten a lot of good and bad feedback about some changes I made during the last months but pretty much exclusively from friends and co-workers under 40.

Was never weird though. Just smile and say something like “Right? I’m trying that out. Thank you :)”

Accepting compliments can be learned.

You will be either in my maelstrom of social interaction or you can leave, I’m partially sorry but I’m nowhere near the steering wheel as soon as I’m in a group of people.

When you entered the scene before epoch 0 I guess it is.

Yeah, that’s what people do here in Germany.

So, just do what a few couples in my circle of friends did and use her last name after marriage?

Yep, that’s how I know by now a depressive episode is coming on.

Recognizing them earlier helps me to give myself a mixture of slack and forced “that’s good for you so do it fucker” that usually gets me through them quicker and with less collateral damage than just waiting them out.

I don’t think they like to be talked to that directly.