Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

Always fun when a software update causes your code to break because your code was wrong in the first place.I have a little python script that feeds SAR reports into a MySQL instance and suddenly it was rejecting my datetime entries. It was obviously tolerant of the format before...

I do love the fedi community. Most of the time.

For example on my son's PC I could not get the Wifi up for love nor money. Just wasn't happening. Strong signal, but it kept dropping. Got my old Slackware 14.2 installer (I cannot tell you how many times I go back to Slackware, but..a lot) and although I was back in TTY land everything worked with no problem.

This is where the more 'basic' or 'do the work' distros seem to win, they don't have the layers until you add them.

Ubuntu is great when all the stars align and your hardware is in the middle of the bell curve, but generally it's never changed in that it just does too much bloody *stuff* with GDM and Gnome in the mix complicating things. As a result, occasionally things simply don't work and it's unusually hard using the usual methods to figure out why.

The entire experience is awful. Look what they make you do just to use your own computer. How did it get so bad?

How about just give me the driver and store my prefs in a file like normal people you complete dicks

ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING ME YOU UTTER COCKWOMBLES

I have a peculiar loathing for for Windows updates. They take far too long, are barely introspectible and of course trigger countless reboots. This has been going on for 24hrs now.

Valentino Rossi has finally retired. What a career, on and off the bike a fascinating person.

I don't know what Ubuntu changed in input handling with 20.04 but it's annoying and I've had to unplug and reconnect USB devices on a couple of machines now because its shit the bed for no obvious reason.

In the meantime, put some food in the vending machines, you bastards.

I am back in my office. For how long? The delta variant is probably going to shut us down again.

I get the high school outreach target of the project, but given that antivaxxers are paranoid about shills being everywhere *already* is this a good idea?
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/01/technology/vaccine-lies-influencer-army.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

Kermit being rude

There's a good chance the needle stick from my 2nd vaccine might have damaged my bicep. I have to have physiotherapy which apparently has a good outcome in such cases. I have a fairly serious loss of mobility in my left arm.