There's an old saying, "Unix is user friendly, it's just fussy about it's friends."

I've worked for several very, very rich men. The pattern I notice is that they always get surrounded by people who make sure that they never, ever hear "no".

Imagine living in a world where every inane thing that comes out of your mouth, somebody immediately makes it their mission to try and make it happen. You no longer get any kind of useful feedback from the world and your opportunities to learn from feedback are greatly reduced.

I agree, I think in the end, it does make them crazy.

Another old school sysadmin that “retired” in the early 2010s.

Yes, use docker-compose. It’s utterly worth it.

I was intensely irritated at first that all of my old troubleshooting tools were harder to use and just generally didn’t trust it for ages, but after 5 years I wouldn’t be without.

Relatable. 🤣

Cats don’t have any of the typical traits of domestication. Humans do.

Draw your own conclusions.

On the other hand, recent studies have indicated that most copulatory vocalizations in women do not accompany their own orgasm, but rather their partner's ejaculation. The study showed that the man typically finds the woman's vocalization arousing and highly exciting, and that the woman herself is aware of this.

I'm offended, but then I had to acknowledge that I've been using Debian since 1995.

My experience is that people are often motivated by quite different things.

Money matters to me, but it's not what motivates me to work. What motivates me to work is how worthwhile the work seems to me and how much I enjoy working with my colleagues. And yeah, that's tedious, it'd be so much easier if it was all about money, but that's not the way my brain works.

The other options I know of are:

• Actual
• Firefly
• BudgetBee

All services which I need access to when I’m not home I host on a vps. All services which need lots of storage, I host at home.

I think there's a lot of FUD around this. Yes, deliverability can be a PITA, but with a clean IP and good setup it's usually solvable. Worst case, you can pay a small amount to use a 3rd party SMTP relay and still get most of the benefits of selfhosting. It wasn't deliverability that made me stop selfhosting it was spam, and it wasn't that dealing with spam was that hard, it was just annoying.

Same. I tried btrfs and ended up with a corrupted drive. I've never had ext4 fail on me in a way that wasn't recoverable. Boring and safe are features I like in my filesystems.