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.

So, wait, your only network connected computing device is a mobile phone running iOS?