Nah, that comes from the cereal that too many people eat!

Sweet jesus

Ffs, have the tiniest goddamn sliver of class people.

Dammit, I finally get it. Yes, I’m slow

Ffs the open office bullshit.

I just reserve meeting rooms for myself every day.

Lol, right, right.

Out of the gate: which distro? Which shell? Now get all a business apps working there, some which were custom developed in the 90’s.

Or CAD. OneNote with SharePoint (which is extensively used). Etc, etc.

Look, there’s a lot wrong with Windows, but switching to Linux for nearly any business isn’t realistic, especially large orgs. And if you only have a few users, working around the negatives is trivial with a few reg scripts, or logon scripts, or Group Policies assigned by the DC.

I do too, but it’s a dog. So damn slow.

Outlook is fast, and that’s important.

I really hope they get the performance issues resolved in Thunderbird.

But you only get the storage capacity of the smallest drive, right? So in a 5 drive RAID, if one drive is 1TB and the rest are 5TB, it’s 1TBx5

It’s been a while since I setup UnRAID, not sure if I remember right.

Spot on.

Plan a little for growth, maybe a 5 drive unit with 12TB drives, with duplicate parity.

Optionally: Two 20 TB drives mirrored, cloud backup (e.g. Storj. io or another), perhaps another local 20TB drive that’s a backup or a local replica.

Edit: any approach needs to include off-site backup, and that backup needs to be tested, at least quarterly.

But I still have off-site backup

I also have extensive emergency planning that’s documented and practiced. I know what’s valuable, and what isn’t. Valuable stuff is already protected or planned for, not stuff I need to grab.

If I needed to leave, right now, I’d be out the door in under 5 minutes and have 3 day’s supply of food and water (with a compact cook kit), a week of clothes including cold-weather gear, phone chargers, batteries, flashlights, blankets, spare sunglasses, medicines, first aid kit, a small tool kit, spare glasses, etc, etc. And this list of stuff is documented.

Grabbing my little 5lb NAS is a trivial add-on that was only added to the list once everything else was organized. And it has its own bag, only need the NAS and power supply. I’ve added a handle to it (mostly to make it easy to move around), and everything has large, clear labels (no guessing which power supply goes with what device).

“It’s a federal crime” : the implication is clear.

What was said after that was sophistry to make him sound better.

The moment he said “it’s a federal crime”, the response should be “then I guess we’re done talking here”.

“Verbal acuity”?

The man hasn’t been able to carry a conversation in a bag for years, and we have hours of video showing his mental emptiness.

He tried to shake the hand of someone who wasn’t there.

He’s being abused by his handlers.

Lots more is holding it back, but I’d agree apps is a huge issue.

It’s still has significant issues with being end-user friendly. Needing to use command line for some things that should be a right click, not supporting right click, ambiguities galore when looking at a package repository, odd defaults in packages that one really wouldn’t expect to have to check (e.g. Selecting RDP connection in a Remote app, but it defaults the security to something other than RDP?)

As for apps, there’s problems like Libre Office devs refusing to support tables in the spreadsheet app, saying data management should be done with a database tool. While they’re not wrong, it takes a LOT more effort to setup a DB than to simply click “make table” in excel, which millions of people are familiar with. I create tables every day for run-of-the-mill stuff that simply doesn’t need a database. No one has time for that.

Or you plug in the most prolific wireless mouse on the planet, that’s been around since 2000 (Logitech), and it doesn’t work. Now pick any random piece of hardware and this is the stuff you run into. You go down the rabbit hole of searching for a solution

Or CAD (which falls in your app argument).

Linux is great for many things (things I run, UnRAID, TrueNAS, Proxmox, etc), it’s just not a great general purpose desktop for the average user, yet.

Who’s Kurt Advice? 😆

Your scrum leader is dropping the ball. Uggh, how frustrating

Ah yes, prescriptivism

People here really don’t like it when a post talks about the English language

Haha, I love projection like this, you assumed and people are downvoting, and you’re wrong: hubris.

People are downvoting for multiple reasons, right up front is this is a community for memes - I don’t see a meme here.

Second reason: you’re patently wrong about the word fry. Frying food has one meaning (as clarified by others), with different techniques for each food.

Also, your post comes across as criticising, which isn’t interesting.

Meh, everything I’ve read says that people dealing with chronic pain really don’t get the high like someone without chronic pain.

Having dealt with significant chronic pain for 30+ years, even the stronger drugs (like the oxy family) don’t do anything other than let me go about my day (though those do make me tired when they wear off).

When my friends or family without chronic pain take similar meds for something like post-op, they’re all kinds of wonked out - they get sleepy, disoriented, goofy, etc, at smaller doses than I take.

I don’t feel like that from the meds, just reduced pain, same with the people in my pain management group.

I’d say the greater risk is in these people, who only need it for a short time, so they do experience that “everything is alright” effect.

There’s some fascinating research these days, into how GABA works, and the interactions with dopamine and norepinephrine. Should help us understand these things better.

Wow, thanks for that link.

Prefrontal cortex - IIRC that’s also the area associated with ADHD isn’t it?

Double-checked, yep, PFC malformation or dysregulation is the core of ADHD.

I suppose people with ADHD are more susceptible to chronic pain.

Here’s a great read on PFC dysfunction in ADHD, seems really much the same problem.

Some of the anti-depressant meds affect things like GABA or norepinephrine (so an SNRI as opposed to SSRI), so it’s not just the anti-depressant angle, as they’re often used in much smaller doses than when used for depression.

It’s pretty fascinating stuff - I just learned about the norepinephrine angle recently. The thinking is that chronic pain causes people to become more sensitive to small pain signals - their nervous system is over-sensitized to pain, and these meds help with reducing the signaling/response to signals.

If you’re curious, lookup gabapentin (it’s been around for at least 30 years) or tramadol (an SNRI), which has also been around a long time.