I’ve been paying the same price for the last 10 years because I moved from San Francisco, to Austin, and then to Chicago – and the price in the last two caught up to San Francisco’s price while i lived there.

i was going to say this.

forcing us to cope is why the epstein class is able to do so much bad shit to us.

I suspect that there are more libertarians in this space than communists.

But that’s not saying much because there are relatively few communists to begin with. Lol

going from system76 to kfocus has taught me that there’s a BIG delta between linux-first vendors and that the price tag has little to no bearing on the difference. i’m glad i saw this before buying a tuxedo; thank you for sharing.

the server itself died a little while ago so it’s going to be while before it try and i planned on using cli only to manage the vm’s and the sdn’s; but i’ll give this a try before doing that.

i gave that a shot too. it works, it’s just that the vm management was only part of what i needed since it also controlled the sdn.

NICE! i didn’t catch that part and thank you for making me aware.

i did try cockpit and i had better luck with it too.

i tried that with x forwarding over ssh and it didn’t work all that well; what’s why i switched to vnc.

i REALLY needed this when my everything server was running since i managed it headlessly using vnc w a minimal installation of gnome.

virt-manager works okay, but it would be nicer not to have to install more than what’s needed for a headless setup.

larger universities have more specified degree programs; i now of 2 of such programs.

and i LOVE it because it lets me keep going. lol

when it actually does become a craft, like it sounds in your case, it REALLY does become something to behold.

the half baked code base i inherited as my primary responsibility at my new IT gig is inspired by the most artisan like proof of concept and besides the recent revisions by my manager and i; 90% of hasn’t changed since 2010.

it’s a non-profit entity that serves the community so it can afford to keep running in the same manner for extended periods of time unlike commercial institutions typically do – apparently. the last time i beheld such quality was with my first software engineer job in mountain view, california and it acclimated me to a particular threshold of work that i never expected to see again after leaving silicon valley.

so i was surprised to encounter something that surpassed that threshold after learning to expect to encounter spaghetti in my subsequent years in the field – and at a cash strapped community service non-profit no less. i think that watching this piece of work trudge along with virtually no updates in almost 20 years and having had serviced over hundreds of thousands of people in the city and surrounding area i live in has to be the highest testament there could be to true software engineering craftsmanship. it literally outlived it creators.

i already know that whatever i end up completing will never be as good as it’s predecessor and it REALLY makes me wish that just a teeny tiny fraction of the talent to goes towards making the epstein class richer could be trickled down to community service organizations like ours so that we could build a worthy successor. we and our sister organizations that depend on the software are the only things standing between people and generational poverty and being able to get a fraction of that kind of talent would help literally millions of people in the future. i know for a fact that google, circa 2014, spends more in a single TGIF afternoon of wine, cheese & entertainment than our operating budget for an entire quarter so i CANNOT 👏 STRESS 👏 ENOUGH 👏 HOW 👏 TINY 👏 OF 👏 A 👏 FRACTION it would be.

also: i learned recently that the person who spearheaded the effort to build this proof of concept did it by pooling together the talent from all of the sister organizations even though he was never an employee. he was a retired ex faang software engineer who probably thought of his work in the same way you do – considering his talent – and part of me imagined that he was you as i read your comment. lol

@[email protected] it’s the same for me and i suspect that the way the down/upvotes for your comment have played out and that of @[email protected] is indicative of the software engineering field’s proclivities of today.

my decade as a software engineer gave me the awareness that its most outspoken practitioners voice a viewpoint along the same vein as that @[email protected] shared – as artisans working at their craft – and i think it lays bare their background and how they see the world and themselves in it.

my time in the field also gave me an anecdotal awareness of how popular the sentiment is despite an overwhelming majority not embracing it until influenced. in my later years in the field, several other engineers and i took it upon ourselves to formally train fresh graduates because we collectively became aware of the gaps between academia and the needs of our old-silicon employer.

i was the first to teach them because most were slated for operations roles and i was also the last because i was on the team responsible for new pushes to production. the other engineers and i agreed to this pattern because my decade+ of IT experience lent to a role more closely involved in day-to-day operations than my colleagues who did nothing other than software development.

for 6 years and without fail, the “students” at the first almost-week long bootcamp saw the work the same way i did – as ordinary technical work that’s skilled but not sacred or unique. after they spent the following almost-2-weeks with my colleagues and then returned to me for the final few days of company specific training, they began espousing this artisan perspective, the same as most of my colleagues had before them.

i shared this observation with the only other colleague that had a background and make up that was different than the others. she called herself an engineer like i did and she called my observation the “geek industrial complex”. she had been a software engineer since the 1990’s and told me about red hat’s “geek world” contest – a marketing facade based on the popular-at-the-time mtv show named “real world”. she said people calling themselves “artisans” or “craftsmen” instead of engineers was the same playbook: manufacturing a romantic identity to sell back to people who bought in, leading them to often gatekeep against others to prove their own authenticity. she said it was how they coped with being cogs while convincing themselves they were something more – a labor aristocracy that clocked in just like everyone else does.

i wasn’t sure what to make of it at first, but i started studying leftist politics not long afterwards and everything i’ve read & watched since then has reaffirmed to me that she was right.

I’m a dinosaur still using vim but I’d consider switching IDE’s if they had this much snarky behavior. Lol

Oic. They didn’t understand that I was asking a question and thought that I was addressing one of their links

Thanks for helping clarify.

this is the first time in my life that i’ve heard of an individual needing to use tpm since it’s almost always a corporate or government institution.

what do you use it for?

instead of initiating an oblique guessing game.

i don’t understand the hostility.

i asked a question about needing yubikey software in a ramdisk image to enable decryption at boot time and most of the sources you provided don’t mention it at all.

read them and you will see that only ones mentions initrd at all.

wouldn’t doing this require that building a ram disk image with the yubikey software included?

fwiw, you might be able to turn it off in the bios/efi