Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

There used to be this really silly pride in high uptime metrics on servers. Those days are so fucking gone.

"EXCUSE ME MADAM PROFESSOR I KNOW YOU'RE ON. A DEADLINE BUT YOUR SERVER UPTIME IS CAUSING ME TO NOT GET MY #NUMBERS"

Crowdstrike have this scoreboard on their dash and it really games your desire to bring it down. If they added achievements I'd be fucked.

If you enjoy a bit of Shakespeare, do check out his version of Coriolanus, with Gerard Butler failing to be Gerard Butler (in the good way).

Quite enjoy the bonkers Ralph Fiennes 'The Menu' although very surprised just how close it is to Glass Onion in feel. It's a nice antidote to rich-assholes-in-a-nice-place though, which Glass Onion also enjoys a lot of.

I used to hate the hamster wheel of going through the job hunting process. It is a surprise just how little better it is on the other side of the equation.

A little bit of Winter clapback these last two days. Very cold mornings, but it gives way to mild highs later. There's talk of snow tomorrow. We will see..

And although you get five years security support for Ubuntu LTS, on a prod server that goes by surprisingly quick. After that if you want to stay secure you're talking a full upgrade (not always possible on a prod server) or paying for ESM via Ubuntu Pro.

And a really good little feature of Rocky is they include security metadata for update --security which CentOS does not. This makes crucial updates a breeze.

Ubuntu Pro support is basically $1k per machine for Enterprise use. At this point, just run Debian. Or Rocky, or anything really.

Why, yes, this is a subject I get testy about, why do you ask?

There is a vast difference between someone not understanding a problem and them making no effort to understand that problem. That they *should* know something in the estimation of others has no relevance as to whether they do know it.

This isn't a barracks, you don't need to yell at people or humiliate them to get them to understand, there's no need for it.

The height of this attitude is best portrayed by ESR's essay here:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

There's a *lot* of attitude in there. It's easy to see how someone can be seduced by it because it depicts a position of superiority, but this is little to do with solving problems.

I have personally encountered it on the Arch forums, and the FreeBSD forums. Hostility to users asking legitimate questions on the assumption they've not put any leg work in - whether they have or not. Treating everyone like shit == treating everyone the same is no way to run things.

I see both ends of this. One of my work responsibilities is managing the level 1 Helpdesk people and I get their frustrations, but you can't let a few less motivated users set the tone for how you treat people, because this leads to. bad attitudes.