Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

I treated myself to a Synology NAS and I like it a lot so far. It's just a simple two-disk version but I wanted something with basic affordability and it was very reasonable. I use NFS because it's what I know and the approach is eerily similar to enterprise EMC stuff, in other words kinda janky, but once you get CLI access it makes more sense.

In person, this is easy to check, and in effect we have trained the users not to think for themselves.

Time and again we spend hours chasing problems that result from the users simply not doing as they're told.

One thing that changed during remote support for me is the understanding that users do not take the steps you have asked them to, even when they say they have.

Nice pinks and blues in the sky last night, from the Dairy Queen car park (yeah Ice Cream in Winter, whatever, don't judge me)

Inevitably, the too-much-time-on-their-hands brigade have come for Pepe le Pew.

I wanted to run a test VM for some concept stuff and VmWare Fusion is broken on MacOS Big Sur.

Shit like this is really infuriating, and in proprietary software - especially in MacOS - fixes take forever.

So out comes the 8yr old Linux laptop and everything works perfectly. Just a little slower but I can get shit done.

People don't like
Mazepin. I get that. The anti Russian sentiment is however disgraceful.

https://twitter.com/HaasF1Team/status/1367384401290625024?s=20

Carnegie Mellon's campus, two years ago today.

Larnell Lewis breaks down and covers Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' drum part. This video is a joy, seeing a musician really pick apart a song and then have a go at it.

https://youtu.be/Zd_UcjMusUA

One of the things FreeBSD does with port maintenance is demonstrate just how extensive deps can be. Compiling the port of Vim-lite doubles the number of packages on my server. Crazy! I went for vim-tiny instead.

"Well this was the number listed"

"Understood. It's not the right number"

Is there anything stranger than someone getting your number incorrectly and then arguing about it?

The Guardian, the fucking *Guardian* reported on it, and they had the facts right.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/26/nhs-gp-practice-operator-with-500000-patients-passes-into-hands-of-us-health-insurer

Here's the scoop: They were already privately owned. The story here is of a change of ownership, *not* acquisition of public health infrastructure by a private business.