Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

I know it's churlish but I get quite surly when people reopen six month old tickets and add new work requests rather than submitting a fresh ticket which they know very fuckng well they're supposed to do.

The software shouldn't allow it, either. Closed tickets should not be reopened by the helpdesk parsing email six months after the closure date.

...In addition, KDE5 has a dark theme which really works across applications. Big help.

Should have done this ages ago, really.

Feeling the need to cleanse myself after a day of Windows 10, I updated my desktop Slackware to current. It's a huge step forward. First Slackware out of the box to be really pretty across the default DEs.

I do not miss fucking about with cab files and trying to find a .inf entry hardware likes. pnpctl.exe with a little for loop is handy if the vendor ships a big archive for your flavour of thing.

One thing that has never changed since Vista is the 'period of mysterious slowness'

Doing some build tests for work which involves pottering about with Windows 10. There's a lot I like about Windows, the readability is very good in the UI, for example. But the things that bug me *really* bug me.

My Pixel 2 also freaks out when it loses internet via wifi, even with cellular backup.

It really grinds my gears that Plex fails when the WAN goes down because it can't work without phoning home.

Same with Chrome cast. Why is there no fallback mode? The LAN is fine.

Win 10 loves it, 30MB/s YAY! Slackware linux doesn't see it. Boo. So it just needs a kernel update. No problem! Go up. to 5 LTS. This breaks my Nvidia card drivers, and I have to spend a while looking for a driver new enough to compile its modules against the kernel. Got there in the end, but what should have been a 15 minute job turns into most of the evening...

I found one that's a dual bluetooth wifi thing, for about 25 bucks. Not bad.

Of course it needs a free 9-pin USB port for the bluetooth side, so that's out, but wifi works from the PCIe 1x slot.

Better is the enemy of good part 1023: My aging PCI wifi card (some Realtek thing I bough in Maplins Southampton in 2007) was driving me nuts with its (relatively) slow speed, I'd get 2MB/s max out of it, more typically 800-1000KB/s, so I went shopping for an intel based chipset.

Streaming Titanic Honor & Glory Demo 3, come and explore the Titanic with me!
https://twitch.tv/5ulman

God help me, Powershell is really growing on me. Nurse!

Taking in the visual splendor of Dear Esther's cave sequence:
https://clips.twitch.tv/AltruisticDirtyMetalRitzMitz-BbqR8-e2gD51geKf

Dear Esther stream pt 2 twitch.tv/5ulman

The web-based GUI doesn't mention UID/GID anywhere, you have to get into the shell to get that.