Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Telegram Premium? I have no problem with developers getting paid well for good projects, but there's something a bit nause about these offerings. It smells of VC money and startup mentality, which is one of the worst excesses of modern tech.

She shrugs and says "I know. Can you get the data off it?"

I swear we deal with this kind of shit every day.

A user brings me an external HD. "I need the data off this" She announces. I plug it into one of our bench machines. "This is encrypted." I say.

The Mandalorian was very good, but this is just a cut above, even if it takes a very similar idea.

Really enjoying Obi-Wan. I wish they made them all like this.

Parasitic for-profit vendors only exist because of corporate paranoia about wanting a phone number to ring when 'something goes wrong', or more realistically, someone to blame and then try and sue.

So often when projects get monetised they become obsessed with 'features'. Everything is 'features' and shit you're told you need.

Also dealing with fun shit like someone trying to upgrade their Oracle client (The only company that makes MS look sane) and discovering the uninstaller basically leaves most of the software (and Services!!) behind.

The AD is out of our control, so you get bonkers things happening like the built-in admin account getting disabled via GPO, so you can't add yourself to the admin group on the server, and have to ask someone else to do it, FML

The entire ecosystem is designed- by-committee bullshit. I swear it's intentionally arcane and complex to sell certs.

But look at big tin for example, there is still no way - almost amazingly - to say "I would like this filesystem on that Raid Virtual disk thank you". You can't do it. It's not a use case. You can mount a volume on the filesystem but not anywhere useful.

It does give you a lot of *Nix-like commands (which are aliased to various powershell cmdlets) but it's something, at least.

Powershell is a step in the right direction but Microsoft never found something they couldn't fuck up. Take the security modules: There are *85* cmdlets. Its bonkers.

Take remote administration for example; Windows is incredibly open by default and yet getting this to actually work is surprisingly annoying. Everything about it annoying.

So much busy work to do because of proprietary nonsense, and the whole ecosystem feels like a giant cluttered mess.

More responsibility at work has meant a lot more involvement with Windows, and while I'll do it because it's my job, holy shitballs do I dislike it.

Apple/Safari uses a password generator that is really good; it makes 20char passwords that have pseudo-words in them, making them easier to remember. I wish more things would do this.

Same with dd