Is actually kind of sad. Microsoft Windows does have a really stable and performant core. It has some bad decisions made years ago that legacy compatibility holds them back on, but even so it’s amazing it works as well as it does.

But they ruin all that by piling on the BS literally nobody wants but they have decided you must have.

I stopped reading at “secure boot was enabled so I had to reinstall my BIOS.” There’s nothing about that statement that makes any sense.

https://www.ipfire.org/

I was considering IPFire if OPNsense doesnt play out well.

its basically a bit of futureproofing. 1 gig is fine for my home but I want the option to go a step further if I want to later.

I need VLANs and I’m planning some PoE+ stuff too, meaning higher costs though now that I think about it those are probably more common in 10Gig switches anyway. But that still means they are consuming more power, making more heat, making more noise from fans…

well it’s just for a home network and theres nothing I have that will ever need 10G. I energy consumption is higher and equipment costs are higher on 10G as well. I’ll likely be on gigabit for quite a bit but I’m planning the 2.5G as a compromise for future upgrades.

enterprise wont likely support 2.5gig which is what I’m targeting for this build. 10 gig is too expensive and power hungry for my tastes but 2.5 or 5 should be fine.

Oh i know they arent going to rip out existing support over this drama, but I really want to cut intel out of things wherever I can anyway. They have been on my shit list for years over corporate assholery. But now if they fail or break up or spin off divisions, the new owners of the networking division could theoretically throw the stability of that line into question so since I’m starting from a clean slate, I’d like to just avoid all that if possible.

Anything KDE. My mom and stepfather are using Kubuntu and it’s working out great.

I used to work at a place where it was just a small operation of us three in the IT dept. helpdesk goon me, network engineer, and IT boss. I wanted more experience on Linux in a corporate environment. IT boss saw this as a learning opportunity and gave the green light so I switch my machine over.

Then network guy switched. IT boss thought this was fine too. “We learn some lessons the hard way” he mused.

This lasted several weeks and we had basically no issues. We were actually more productive than he was. He eventually was getting frustrated this little experiment of his wasn’t going the way he wanted and mandated we “had to use windows because our customers were using windows.”

We switched back. Everything went back to shit but it was familiar shit so he was fine with it.

I brought in an old surface pro X and used it. Technically still complying and it did help us figure out some issues some of our other ARM based customers had. Any it worked better than the shitty dells we were given.

You’re going to break things. Then you’ll fix things. Then your break them again. Then you’ll realize there was an easier way to fix that last issue. It’s a fun learning experience.

Boston Legal don’t see this coming

New cat is Manuel. Also known as mannie-boo, manwhich, miniman.

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I’ll give you another reference for this. The day I knew it was time…

“Game over. User wins.”

Jack on! I mean off. I mean in!

Oh so there’s actually a story to her name. She was a Manx. Not even the suggestion of a tail. I got her off my friend when she showed up on his porch one day. (A nearby meth house cleared out and suddenly there’s a new suspiciously well socialized stray cat in the neighborhood.) cat broker gives me the cat and me and the guy I was dating at the time are trying to figure out what to name her.

I recalled a pair of kittens off this friends back porch that slept in his mint plants. One had a tail, one didn’t. I was trying to socialize them so we could find them homes. They hated me. As a human, I was the devil. A devil that fed them. We suspected she was somehow related to them.

I named them Bit and Byte. And so she was named Mrs Ada Lovelace. And she was the best thing in my life those 16 years.

Goddamnit

Manuel does not listen and he is not very concerned with what I think about that. He has opinions. He will give you those opinions. And you will just deal with it.

Unless you ask about Israel. It’s a thing in this house. If we want manny to shut up, we ask him what he has to say about Israel. #catsarentreal