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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • Amen. Managed to ‘prove’ I was competent enough to run linux on my personal laptop due to a combination of needing me as an employee and that I was able to show why their RDS solution broke after an official windows update with xfreerdp.

    I keep my windows workstation up to date and switched on - but all work is done from my laptop and no one’s questioned me so far.

    Strictly according to the IT policy, Windows is not required - they just thought I wouldn’t be able to access anything without it. When I proved to the auditors that I met every checkbox on the requirements list, they said it was fine too xD







  • Bermuda here, straight from the tap!

    It actually gets collected from rain water on each individual home’s roof. The roofs are lime-washed to kill the really nasty stuff as it runs down in to a holding tank under the house. Some times you get dead critters in there, but nothing larger than a small lizard or bug. They tend to sink to the bottom of the tank, below the outlets.

    Most Bermudians swear by a “cup of bleach” thrown down there every couple of years. It’s in to a tank that’s 10,000gal+ at a minimum (mine’s over 40,000), so it’s basically homeopathy at that point - but the lime-wash works!

    The only place you’ll want to avoid it in Bermuda is in the City of Hamilton (mains, not great quality), a house with a dirty roof, or in one near the sole power station on the island. This is an on-going fight to get them to adhere to the emissions safety standards they claim to.

    White roofs and smoke stack in the picture!