Ha, yes, I remember pretty much the entire Linux community dropped KDE 4. What a time for a rebranding.

I like to think those internal communications were “goddamnit this torrents got no fucking seeders too!”

Chuck Ragan

If you’ve been reading tech articles long enough, you know when wccftech appears; don’t trust a single word.

Sorry. I don’t know anything like that. The creator of TapRoot method used to provide newsletters talking about how/why he developed it, advantages over other methods, etc.

But I don’t know if he still does.

Recently have seen a video about the 5 why root cause analysis, which talked about a logic tree to find root causes and that was nice. Obvious, but nice to hear about.

Five why has very limited uses in practice when investigation root cause. I teach the basics of Five Why to staff so they can follow up low level incidents without my help, but I make sure to always review their findings.

If there is any meat to an incident I step in with proper root cause analysis like ICAM or TapRoot. With practice you can make short work of incident investigations for even smaller incidents that don’t warrant a significant investigation.

2 and 3 are both the best, and still going hard with fheroes2 and vcmi if anyone hasn’t chomped into them in a while.

Consulting. I’ve done a little bit of it before as an occupational hygiene consultant. In a 2 week period I’d done air quality tests at a sulphuric acid processing plant, noise dosimetry at a bread factory, management system audit at Shell petroleum, and reviewed findings of air quality tests at a building where half the workers were “getting sick all the time”.

But it’s not consistent work, and if you go into business for yourself; 1- good luck finding the work, and 2- have fun spending months chasing up invoices.

They blocked Pirate sites here in Australia years ago, and as far as I’m aware it affected nobody. Everyone who knows how to torrent already knows how to get by it.

Yeah, no trees down for us. We’re lucky that the previous owner of this place had old gum trees removed, the cypress pines are thicker and sturdy.

Around here if you drive after a windy night you might have to turn around and find another route because of eucalypts fallen across your usual road.

Only the old clamshell sandpit lid ended up in the paddock, and a few chairs on the verandah went down.

I see our neighbours were collecting their tarps from our paddock this morning too.

Well this is just off the top of my head, but… bribe the captain with beer and cooking.

Lacklustre hardware, poor Linux support, and anti-consumer business practices.

These are the things that Asus are all about and it’s why I dismiss their product.

I think Slitaz is still around, I always liked that for older machines, I was going to try it on an AMD C-50 laptop I pulled out of storage recently, except I don’t have time for messing around.

I know it’s getting over 100km around Melbourne, but we’re tracking 83km winds where I am in North Central, and it’s always scary.

We have cypress pines only 10 metres from the house. Well established and solid, but still…

And I just heard a tree come down a few properties away while I was typing that.

I clean mine by soaking in hot water and scrubbing with a nylon bristle dishwashing brush. I don’t have a dishwasher. This is working great, but the key is I’m doing it after every 2nd or 3rd time I use the air fryer.

It’s a new one, we had to throw our old one out because we didn’t wash it well enough and it gunked up so badly it was almost unusable and started smoking whenever you turned it on.

I did get the gunk off with thorough scrubbing but it damaged the shit out of the non stick coating, we weren’t gonna risk using it like that.

Taking real good care of the new one.

Yes, I have a catalogue of music on bandcamp, mostly local bands that can’t afford to put out records.

Not the guy you asked but that is a decent question.

My hair thinned massively between ages 21-23, and when I was 24 I’d had enough and finished the rest off with a razor.

21-22 I could get away with it, but by 24 it was ridiculous and nothing could hide it short of always wearing a hat.

I’ve made sure I’m good to go, as I always thought the day might come that I can’t afford internet anyway.

I have my entire gog and itch library downloaded (if I have any steam games not on gog, I’ve pirated them if I can find it). I have my nas full of movies and tv. I listen to all my favourite music on records. Every couple of years I go through and update my rom library to make sure I have the most to to date best known roms.

Even as much as possible I keep latest version of the Linux iso I might want, and if there is an appimage of my most used programs, it’s there too.

I’m pretty much ready for my life to become leaner when it comes to internet.

Absolutely. I spent the last 4 years commuting 2 1/2 - 3 hours every day on the freeway.

I count my lucky stars that I’m still alive.

Whenever I see’fediverse’ I still think it has something to do with Roger Federer.