I came out the otherside by becoming a solutions architect. Now when people ask for my help I say things like “I know how to do that at enterprise scale. Here’s the $10k/month cloud solution.”

People don’t ask as much anymore.

One day I might care about 4k, but it hasn’t happened yet. So I really can’t muster a shit to give about 8k.

The first thing I do with any new laptop is figure out show to disable the trackpad. I’ve never liked them and they’ve been getting worse as more manufacturers make apple-like ones (physical buttons are nicer). So I’m disinclined to own something that, for me, just introduces a ton of new ways for my spacebar to break.

I’ve had 3 blobs over the years, all caused by an otherwise benign issue turned into that because filament got caught in a silicon sock.

I liked it well enough to watch through to the end, but I’m neither surprised or heartbroken that it was cancelled.

This is how we learn that it was Jimmy Carter keeping the Simpsons on the air all these years.

Hey! How are your knees?

I went to college in 1997 and went from 28.8kbps dialup to a 2.4gbit OC-48. I had no idea how slow the rest of the internet was until I had a better connection than most servers (at the time).

Edit: I was connected to the dorm ethernet via 10mbit NICs. So even with 5 PCs running in my dorm room, we were only using a fraction of the available bandwidth.

Arch BTW