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Brett Edmond Carlock
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@codinghorror@infosec.exchange Add-on: It must be in customer-facing/service industries, as well (retail, food, etc)
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
After 2k Pro, XP was not a fond experience for me.
I multibooted OS/2 and Linux until I got early access to test Vista, and it was a revelation (once NVIDIA straightened up their drivers for the new WDDM).
I slowly adopted open data formats, then programs, then finally switched to Alpine Linux for myself and my family.
A long road, but as you noted, it need not be terribly difficult (in many cases).
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@Iwillyeah@mastodon.ie Minimum-wage customer-facing work in a service industry is a special hell as you get to interact with people at their "best" day in and day out.
That is not to say the positions you listed do not have plenty of hard lessons to learn (I have done both as well), just that dealing directly with customers as the job brings with it an understanding of how people can be that can be missed when you don't need to deal with them as the job itself.
If anywhere knows, it is Fedi:
Does anyone know of a reputable First Nation/Indigenous owned/operated company that sells yaupon tea in North America online?
Last time I dug around, all the outfits I could find all seemed to skew a bit too investor-y and didn't seem to be Indigenous run (no explicit mention of such).
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US Health Care System Rant
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@Lana@beige.party
@meltedcheese@c.im @wendinoakland@beige.party @blogdiva@mastodon.social
Thankfully hydrogen peroxide is really short lived, especially when exposed to sunlight, heat, etc
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@NullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.place Awesome!
Are you using the default IDLE color scheme for the text coloration?
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@NullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.place It is close enough, haha.
I admit I have to dig a bit to find out the joke/reference for the spam/eggs, which is a nice treat since Python is the only language I have actually made anything in.
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@noodle@aus.social
For me, it was _very_ unlike the Debian-deriveds I used, so same lack of familiarity, but I found the cognitive load of using it much lower once I got over that unfamiliarity.
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
Yeah, my 2k box had a _very_ long life, but I eventually needed dynamic CPU freq/volt scaling, and 2k couldn't do it.
I made my peace with Luna (XP's skin engine) by making and using my own skin and icon pack while I had to use it.
Fun fact: My eMachines 633ids, made for Win98 (my win2k box above), booted every Windows up until early Windows 10 on unmodified ISOs. Still have it, still works, haha
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@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange
WSL2 was my gateway to Alpine, which convinced me to switch off Windows after 20 years of multiboot/VM Linux usage.
@bluetea@ioc.exchange
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@ProcessParsnip
I record gifts for all holidays and birthdays (inbound and out). Super helpful m
#ADHDlifeHack
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@Kaja Now I gotta blast Heut' Ist Mein Tag in my car for a few hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXay1pdfQpI
Blümchen - Heut' ist mein Tag (Official Video)
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@stux
I live in a (nominally) liberal state here in the US, and we fucking *limit* the number of bottles that can be returned per day.
Look, if someone is hard up enough they are trash-picking for recyclables, the last thing that should be on anyone's mind is making their life harder and limiting how much they can earn.
I like how your system has them accessible. It feels more dignified.
#Netherlands
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@nixCraft
We are doing what my parents did (most likely by happenstance):
Internet-connected family desktop in common room, one account.
Any other computers (laptops) not internet connected, curated software.
Phones, not until highschool.
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@scearley
Ecobrutalism 😍
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@noodle@aus.social
No, I run it for family personal computing, not infra.
The Alpine cloud-init script might be a good base to poke at, as well as the setup-alpine answerfile.
What do you mainly want to use it for?
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@feff@comicscamp.club
@NullTheFool@mastodon.gamedev.place
Awesome, thanks!
I did not use that book, or get hands-on back then.
I used Python In Easy Steps and that is my golden example of how to write documentation.
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@feff@comicscamp.club
I felt a bit ashamed given how basic it starts, but that is exactly the utility of them. They assume nothing, and walk you through every little step.
Made me finally able to make a few (really quite crap) python programs after bouncing off for years.
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@CppGuy@infosec.space
There is a ton of good things about that OS family, but they went way too far and I needed to step away.
#Linux #Windows #Microsoft
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@mekhos@mastodon.social
Shitpost or real?
Things were wild at the edge of computing back then, I could believe it was basically roulette that picked the main device by what responded first, and the second was marshalled by the first.
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@mntmn@mastodon.social @postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems any pointers?
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@joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social
I hate to even say this, but after three years of using Proton, my honest recommendation is don't.
As for a client, closest I found to Outlook is GNOME Evolution, and it even beats it, IMO.
Bridge is a persistent nightmare, yes.
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@joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social
Unhelpfully, I do not really have an alternative I can enthusiastically recommend.
I have nextcloud+dovecot/roundcube on a VPS.
My outbound delivery is miserable.
Otherwise, all my data is easily accessible and movable, and usable everywhere because standards-based.
You are doing the right stuff, so I do not mean to take the wind out of your sails, but we started with Proton at work for the same reasons and three years on... we are looking to move, again.
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@dysfun@social.treehouse.systems
@noodle@aus.social
Yeah, alpine is pretty bullet-proof, especially when tracking latest-stable.
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@mathew@universeodon.com
@noodle@aus.social
Yeah, like almost any volunteer-driven OSS project, docs can fall behind.
I keep telling myself I will step up soon, but time has not been kind.
I am certain they would appreciate any new or fixed up docs/wiki entries.