We have big red magnets representing blocked to put on the board. We have to speak about every single blocker every stand up and what the team’s path forward is to unblock the thing. If it’s waiting for vendor, then that’s all we can do. If the ball is in our court for any blockers, and its still there tomorrow without a really good reason, there is hell to pay.

But who has a modem to dial it these days?

I probably have an old laptop somewhere with a modem on it, but then my next impediment is I don’t have a landline any more.

I think it was the Hitchhikers books that made that joke in relation to people inventing time travel. They travel to some other point in time and die in space because the earth isn’t in that spot any more.

You are absolutely correct. Breathing surface air would negate the bends. It’s why freedivers can go down and straight back up from 400ft with no ill effects.

Except for the early 90’s in the UK. That wasn’t so great.

Now imagine having to wait until next year for that next episode! Worst cliffhanger since Boba Fett flew off with Han Solo!

I’m not even called a “System Administrator” any more. Like “Computer Operator”, that term has fallen out of use in Australia.
These days, my job title is always some combination of the “devops”, “system”, “Cloud” and “engineer”. Never “Administrator”.

Fair. Though, I think the difference between the two hordes is that the Lemmy user experience feels a lot like Reddit. Reddit’s userbase would arrive, take one look at the place and treat it as the same place they came from.

Lemmy is not like either Facebook or Insta - so I don’t think their users would be so inclined to simply take over culturally.

Not quite - organic growth is welcome. What we don’t want is a mass migration of 100 Million Reddit users.

All that collaboration stuff was integrated into Google Docs.

It’s so good that Microsoft copied it - first with the web version of Word in live.com and then eventually into the desktop version of Word.

I agree though - Wave was ahead of its time.

Can Linux mess with my default browser preferences every other time it applies updates? I’m pretty sure it can’t.

I can see why you’d choose Active Directory on a Windows server over a general LDAP server running Linux. But why can’t Linux Workstations interface with a Windows AD server?

I create Computer accounts for Linux servers at work. It works fine. We only have Windows workstations, though. But, I can’t see how we couldn’t have Linux workstations.

Oh please. If I let it, Linux would install updates every day or two. Windows has many flaws, but its updates are not among them. Not that it is better than Linux at updates, just that it is fine at them.

I’m probably being ignorant because I don’t know whether there’s more to it, but Australian garbos drive a truck and control a big robot claw. They don’t need to actually touch the bins.

Pretty much everything you’d want, except your own posts and your own comments, but those don’t matter to me too much.

In a perfect world, you could migrate all this content and keep your points and comments.

Unfortunately, this would be abused so hard. We would have people setting up private instances, faking their databases and creating accounts with a million Karma and huge comment histories. Then taking those personas and importing them onto legit instances.

This isn’t an issue with today’s Lemmy. But down the track if Lemmy is the size of Reddit, scammers and spammers would be doing this to, well scam and spam.

I wish we could just trust everyone. That sounds like a nicer world.

I got a Commodore 64 in 1985. I know that’s not going to help anyone this year, but I can’t think of a gift any other year that had me more excited. My kids are getting a switch and I hope they’re as excited as I was.

Best I’ve given would be a Chromecast - it was $30 and my sister uses it daily, years later. I can’t think of a better return on dollar spent gift for usefulness.

Ooh! I’m totally looking into that laser thingy for my own dad! I’ve been trying to figure out what to get him.

Flight of the Navigator

I responded to just about any request from my parents with “Compliance!” for a while. I don’t remember how long it lasted, but it probably drove my mum nuts.

Bold of you to assume Collections still won’t try to come after you.