That makes me happy. :)

A while back I worked for a company that liked to pull the “lets lay people off right before earnings reports to make the stockholders happy” and then call them back after the shareholders meetings…

They found, after a few cycles of this, that when they did that, the top 30% of employees laid off would have already found other jobs by the time they were recalled… They also found that a few cycles of culling the top 30% means after a while your entire workforce is largely worthless, add to the fact that now you have to hire new people and train them…it ended up costing more money than it made them… (but they didn’t care, because the share value boost was all they wanted, so they could personally sell high after the bump and enrich themselves…

I work for a company now that values and celebrates employees with long tenures… They see it as a sign of health in the company (which it is) and celebrate the number of 10+ year veterans employed by them…

I got lucky finding this place. :)

To keep the errors out and provide just the result.

OOhh ouch, that sucks ass… If I didn’t have Gigabit synchronous at the source there is no way I would even attempt replciation…I’d be carrying spare drives with me every time I go down to visit my grandson. ;-)

Oh I wouldn’t even entertain a contract position…

I had this while back…I was working for company doing DR/Replication scripting…I was about 2/3 way through the job and they decided that “they could finish the job themselves” and graciously released me from my contract…

They called me back about 2 weeks later, at which point I quoted them 400% of my original rate, payable in advance, to finish the work. ;-) They were fucking LIVID…

Of course, they didn’t re-book me, but the rumor mill told me that they brought it in about a year behind schedule and at about 2x the budget they had allocated…

Helpful hint - do documentation LAST. If they fire you before it’s done, they get SQUAT. I didn’t even have passwords written down for them.

I brought the two into the same room for the initial sync…then drove the T630 to the condo and hooked up, and it’s all incremental updates over the 1G VPN. :)

I just use OpenVPN on Ubiquiti to get in front the outside myself, and “public” sites (like this one) come in through a cloudflare tunnel to a walled-off DMZ lan…

Reading about it, seems a bit like reinventing the wheel.

If I were offered that deal I’d politely tell them to go fuck themselves with a cactus.

I haven’t had to report to an office for more than a pizza party since 2011, I have no intention of starting now.

Sadly the latency involved in transmitting and receiving from orbit makes many terrestrial applications fail… The speed of light is a fixed constant.

When gaming, we can always see the idiots running on starlink…the lag is visible and makes them sitting ducks… ;-)

I have 120TB in a dell T630 at a condo i rent on the other side of the state… I replicate some Truenas volumes and proxmox backups to over VPN…an “in case the house burns down” kind of thing…

If a company lays someone off in favor of AI, employees should ask for at LEAST a 20% bump to come back… make it fucking painful for them.

No. Next fucking question. I’d rather data centers have brown-outs than schools.

What he said. DF won’t take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.

What he said. DF won’t take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.

I’m in Virginia - I love Washington state, spent some time in Issaquah a while back in the SeaTac area… But the last time we moved my wife told me in no uncertain terms “If you take another out of state job, you’re going alone.” (Too many years of travelling for work…)

But I’m an awesome remote worker. ;-)

Ask you’re employer if they’re hiring…or…you know…adopting. ;-)

Not gonna lie… I have some space…

So just did a couple of experiments…

sudo su -sh /home - returns permission denied errors on certain NAS subdirectories, but not a lot.

du -sh /home --summarize -returns the same errors.

du -sh --max-depth=0 - returns the same errors plus an error saying that using --max-depth=0 is the same as --summarize.

;-) for the purposes of what I was doing (creating a clip for posting) redirecting stderr to null was the best option.

But I learned a few things today, which is cool. ;-)

Now I need to try that.

SAS actually ends up being a little cheaper due to it not being as compatible with home systems… And it’s a refurb but I got lucky because smartctl showed it only had about 200 hrs of uptime reported.