Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

A colleague came up with a neat turn of phrase describing non-tech people's belief in how complex IT projects simply happen by magic, without consideration for work, time, and most of all, cost. The wish compiler takes wishes as an input and turns them into scaled-out projects with absolutely zero effort, in no time.

Of course, no such miracle exists. And yet the myth persists.

Friday! We made it. Once again I am in a house of plague as one child brought something back from school earlier in the week, and now we all enjoy the sickness.

Pleased that the Fedi has now endured several eternal Septembers (I arrived during one of them back in 2017) and is still, when the dust settles, a really good place to be.

My wife pointed out the Ross Google thing with the couch. It's sort of funny how Friends - a show that was funny if bland when it was still new - has thrived with a completely new audience. I'm middle-aged now, so it's so weird to me because all that feels like yesterday.

At the risk of angering the faithful the experience is very close to a modernised X201. I'd recommend it if you're curious.

It's interesting to go back to a 3:2 having been so used to wide displays; some apps including masto web look a bit confined because they have less space on the right, so do one or two work consoles. It is less a complaint but an observation of how these things change and you don't really notice after a while.

I don't buy myself much new computer stuff but I'm very pleased with this so far.

It is quiet and cool too, although I haven't particularly pushed it yet. I really cheaped out on the ram and SSD; work always buys me ludicrously overpowered kit that I barely stretch.

I am very taken with the 3:2 display and the general build. It's a nice bit of kit. Not entirely sold on the port concept but it's still very new to me.

I splurged on a Framework 13 AMD as a belated b'day present for myself as I really wanted a small laptop again after the various pandemic 16's I've been living with. I do not like traveling with them. Very impressed so far.

My son got my old phone for emergencies when he does after school activities. He is off today and is helpfully sending me emails 're - BOFA'

Convinced the boss to let us dump Atlassian because their product really is a gigantic pile of shite.

@checkervest In regards to yesterday's chat..

It beats listening to my HVAC unit humming, or my colleague tapping her foot.

The bigger problem is if I start to tune into it, I start mentally exploring and inhabiting the world, and not doing any work.

These things don't usually work for me but I have had this on for about an hour.
https://youtu.be/FULCBFlX3Eo