• Taleya
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    2 days ago

    -wake up

    • win10 work machine rebooted update overnight closing all open docs despite explicitly being told not to cheers ya fuckhead
    • Win7 machine decides it now hates name resolution
    • tweak dns / set to dhcp, no go
    • flush dns no go
    • pull up dns repository and see some freah adobe hell in there
    • use win10 machine to scoop latest blacklist for hosts file while i’m at it
    • win 7 machine won’t talk to win10 machine or ping (talks to everything else) but win10 can ping win 7

    Oh. It’s gonna be one of those days.

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        2 days ago

        Also i know the go to is "try linux!!’ And it’s solid advice, but dumping it unsolicited is about as useful as a fart in an elevator. Don’t be the fart.

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          Sorry. Debian’s good because it has a longer update cycle, and you can opt out of them completely if you’d like. So you don’t get things suddenly breaking on you.

          I feel like Linux also plays better with remote desktop services as any version of Linux can do it, you don’t need the pro or enterprise versions like with Windows.

          And mounting network drives can feel more complicated when doing it in the command line, but I like the transparency of working in there than Windows’ wizard.

          That’s been my experience at least, I’ve just been tinkering and don’t actually work in networking

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            I actually built a multi session MINT termserv for work to baby the users away from windows. Had a looooooot of linux people saying it was preposterous despite the fact this is what fucking linux was built for and trying to mock me, someone with 20 years experience who spends 90% of my time balls deep in production deb servers and proxmox (irony of ironies, I personally run slack)

            …i have a very dim view of a lot of online *nix touters. The dunning-kruger, it is real.

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          😂😂

          I used to have a friend who was a total Linux nerd, and he’d take every opportunity to try and force on the rest of us.

          But then would struggle to get a multiplayer game to work because it wasn’t compatible… I know things have improved since but I’m so turned off Linux anything because of it being shoved down my throat non-stop

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            Yeah it gets a bit like that. Where’s that jon stewart “you’re not helping” gif :)

            (I mean this very lovingly as a non partisan tech: don’t proselytise guys…)

            In other fresh hell it threw the bootloader, fixed that, disconnected my actual content (non-os) drives so i can fuck about with the validation, thought 'i’ll give her a clean while i’m in here" aaand the front bezel 14mm intake fan is also pooted. (Lives behind the hdd cage, so a hassle to get at). Got plenty of 12s, even a spare 24, no 14s.

            On my bike to the shop i go…

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              MY FUCKING BIKE THREW ITS BACK TYRE ARE YOU SHITTING ME

              there’s a hole in my bucket dear liza dear liza…

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        Oh i have *nix boxxen, i keep the winturds to keep my hand in professionally