I’ve been fully remote for 12 years. I’ve had two jobs during that time and moved five times over three countries.

I’m glad I got into my industry on-site. But I’ve come to realize that I hate cities. I hate commutes. I’d rather take a pay cut and live somewhere cheap.

My wife works from home, too. We have two dogs. We do our meetings, have time for focused work and grab lunch together.

My previous job was definitely not lonely or isolating. I was the go-to-guy for everything, so people video calling all day long. My current job gives me space to get shit done. I’ve got two days a week blocked off for just deep code mode. No meetings.

If you don’t like the job on-site, then you’re not going to like it remote. You’ve got to do something that feels rewarding.

OpenSolaris still lives on as OpenIndiana.

We ran SunOS on both desktops and servers when I was at uni.

I run it on my maxed out most-recent 15" PowerBook G4.

This thing was a screamer back in 2005, but the web got very heavy.

Serenity was getting close, but I think that whole operating system took a bit of a back seat ride when they started with the gigantic task that a modern browser is. Hence Ladybird.

MorphOS. My own PowerPC hardware is starting to be a bit dated for todays web, but the odyssey browser is modern enough for the interwebs.

In the EU we’re limited to a 10% duty cycle for LoRa, so we’re screwed even without traffic.

I told this to my SIL. The rest of the in-laws don’t speak English, and got a good jump scare.

Also, not velcro, but opening a beer without the wife hearing.

I keep a client running out of habit. All my regular hangs are pretty dead. People left their clients running out of habit. One line per month is a busy month.

A small group of friends have moved to a self-hosted matrix server. That’s more active.

I think there’s just a paradigm change. IRC used to be pretty synchronous. You’d chat while you were connected, and not really multitask and zone out to do other stuff.

Today people expect messaging to be asynchronous. You get your push notifications and deal with it when you have the time.

What about those Epstein files, though?

I spent a few clicks on the site trying to figure out what guix is and does.

It’s a distro. Saved you a click.

I did deliveries for the postal service one summer 20 years ago. They always had you load up with just a little more than you had time to deliver, yet expect you to do it all. This one particular day it was scorching hot, and in addition to the regular small packages I had a fridge, a bike and a couch. All packaged to make them hard to grip. All to be delivered to the door, on the 4th, 5th and 3rd floor respectively. After ringing the doorbell with the bike in a box on the third floor and the Karen chewing me out for not leaving it downstairs by the garage I broke. Our supervisors at the time did call around to make sure people would be home, and check about floors, help to carry, and such. Such a request would’ve been noted on the package slip.

That job served as good motivation to stay in school and get a cushy SWE career.

I run it on a 6650xt just fine. I have to explicitly set what version I want, but no issues.

You should be in a better spot with a 6700xt.

I chipped so many glass beds back in the day with PLA and Elmer’s glue stick. I’d often put them in the freezer in hopes that they’d just release on their own. Alas, they chip there, too.

Grease is bad for those PEI sheets. I wipe it off with alcohol before every print. They need to be hot, too. Around the glass transition temperature of your material. I exclusively print PETG. 70°C will fail, while 85°C will stick great.

It sure is!

In my case it’s vulnerable while I re-balance.

btrfs can work with mixed-size disks and change RAID-levels on-line, too.

Another surprising source that heats Finnish homes: poo-poo.

I’m on RAID1 on btrfs, so I just rebalance and remove the disks as they break.

Damn. 2/8 drives in my array have died. I was going to replace them, but at this price point I might just delete some porn instead.

Or buy cloud storage.

My sources tell me that there’s even poo-poo involved.

Looks like ABS plastic. You can dissolve ABS with acetone, reshape and it’ll harden back up as the acetone evaporates.

Also consider epoxy. I like to mix it with a bit of colloidal silica to get it less runny.