If anyone is looking for a search engine term, they are all Abrahamic religions, if memory serves.

Proprietary formats are certainly an issue outside of Canada.

Most of the reason corporations/governments stick with popular proprietary formats is actually money.

Developing/investigating an open format is expensive. and then there is the problem of people who have only lived in a digital walled garden.

If you have to train all of your new employees on how to use it the cost rises exponentially.

Then you have your IT support folks who probably just got it dumped in their lap at the last second, and have no knowledge of it themselves, because training wasn’t an option due to time or money.

As a person who handled (solo help desk for that shift) the change over of a health networks electronic medical records systems, I receive no training and was told that they had consultants on hand to transfer them to - yeah well in 4 hours over 2000 calls came in. And of course I got yelled at by a dick hole boss (if your adult children won’t speak to you, and you’ve never met your grandchildren, you are the problem) about people who didn’t want to wait in line for one person to answer the phone and dropped the call.

That boss was ultimately the reason I left that company in favor of a previous employer who offered a lot less problems. Stayed there until the pandemic (hospitality IT) and its been a shit show ever since.

Thank you for differentiating.

The original “skin head” movement was mostly factory workers in Britain who cut their hair short (not necessarily shaved bald) for safety around equipment, and some of the most popular music among the group was stuff by “rude boys” Jamaican primarily I believe.

It was working class solidarity with no intentions of racism.

The neo Nazi groups coopted the term, and delved into punk music to find disenfranchised people who would buy into their rhetoric.

There are also other skin head groups that exist today - SHARP for example, standing for SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice.

Espouse hateful rhetoric around these guys and you’re liable to wind up on the wrong side of a brick to the head.

Why do I know all this? I have a penchant for research, and in the past few years I’ve been shaving my head because I decided to own my thinning hairline instead of have some ridiculous comb over type shit and hide it.

I have had an encounter with a racist white dude at a 711, and he’s ranting at the cashier and looks to me and said “Right brother?!”. No, it was absurdly horrible (misguided) and I threatened to call the cops if he didn’t leave the store and hopefully the neighborhood. He left when he realized he didn’t have any support.

This isn’t the first, shall we say open, church in Texas or even Ft. Worth, but actually assisting with funds is a first for me.

We aren’t all hateful assholes with big trucks and tiny dicks. There are just a lot of them, and boy are they loud.

So many women worry about if they’re too small, some worry they are too big (my ex being one example)

If your parts fit your frame, you’re beautiful. And you know what, the whole product of growing up is most things that grow fit your frame. Fuckin’ DNA sucks sometimes right?

Look, I’m just some random dude replying to a GW post, but I wouldn’t kick you out of bed based on appearance. Lack of enthusiasm and effort? Yes.

Ladies, TL;DR: Enthusiasm and willingness to try trump almost all physical qualities.

Ah, the animal computer books of my childhood, lol.

My parents (both in tech fields) had a library of these before they split up.

Somehow I wound up in IT as a career, no one saw that coming, I assure you /s

Kali was built out as a penetration testing distro, though it does contain some diagnostic tools.

Not a bad place to start if you’re used to Debian, but it is a rolling release so it may break unexpectedly, or have new bugs introduced with each update.

A persistent USB with just Debian could have all the same tools installed but have a longer support scope on releases so you don’t have to update daily (bleeding edge) which is nice to reduce read/writes to the flash drive it’s on.

That being said, I keep a Kali live image (persistent) but thats becauae its home - my first introduction to Linux was 5 minutes with Red Hat, but aside from a brief intro in highschool, I really started with Linux in Backtrack, offensive security’s predecessor to Kali.

Yes, I have to learn things the hard way lol.

I’d be happy to take one, should you still have any to give out.

One of my favorite maxims.

Not driving isn’t an option in my area. Not if you want to be employed.

Its a 30 minute drive to the bus stop to get to work. Plus travel time along bus stops.

Its a 35 minute drive to the front door.

If its still half an hour to just get to the bus stop, what’s the point even, at a personal level?

Captain Planet told me in the 90s what was gonna happen. Corporations just took it as a play book to accelerate shit.

Much appreciated. Just needed some phrases to throw in a search engine to get started.

I’m looking to rise up from the hell desk, I have an enterprise grade server sitting collecting dust at the moment (heat issue, not on the server, just the average ambient temperature is uncomfortable without it running is too much) but its running unraid at the moment and not much else.

Any suggestions on where to start with infrastructure as code?

I’m not a violent person. I abhor it honestly.

That being said, actual self defense is always valid.

That’s why I train and carry.

So possibly, in a thousand years or so, we could have parasites that improve our lives in every conceivable way.

Just need to eat an egg salad sandwich from a truckstop restroom coin op machine.

Edit: I’m a little busy at work, so maybe I read the replies wrong - but this was a Futurama reference.

Also, as a picky eater (still) I probably would have benefitted from not being able to pick what I want to eat, though knowing me I still would have rather starved than eat stuff that I have textural issues with.

It also seems to have some context with whether or not it is in an edible state. You bake dough > Turns to bread (food product on its own) > you roast (toast) bread - all based on your understanding.

I would love to be a polyglot, sadly, the only thing besides english I “speak” are scripting languages - and that was hard fought knowledge.

I can understand not wanting to pay a kid for lawn work, I’ve been broke before. Just say no thank you and go on with life.

That being said, we hire kids in our neighborhood all the time.

We have two girls (9 and 6, I think, never met them, grandma drives and “supervises”) who come pick up dog poop, and we’ve had a kid for a couple years who turned mowing yards in the summer into an LLC and he just hired his first employee to help out with client growth.

I know if he wasn’t a white blonde kid who looks halway decent (long hair, which just makes me jealous, but boomers would have a fit) then the Karen’s would call the cops.

Someone in the neighborhood called the cops about a black woman going through mailboxes. It was a postal worker, in uniform, in a clearly labeled mail truck. I just don’t get it.

Wait, I’ve heard of oxtail as a delicious southern dish, but never had the opportunity to try it.

Is it really just a generic cow tail?

English is stupid, and I say that as a native speaker.

I’d also like to add that there are areas in the US that simply don’t have public transportation reasonably available.

Its about 35 minutes to drive into work. I’ve certainly had longer commutes. That being said, the nearest bus stop would be a 30 minute drive and its not like it has a well lit secure parking lot… I would have to park on the curb in front of someone’s residence in an area that has historically had issues with poverty and crime, and not just property crime, violent crime as well. I worked in that area when I was younger, and I’ve had enough guns drawn on me that it doesn’t seem to phase me anymore, at least in that context. They want the take from the till of a dollar store, they don’t wanna kill someone.

Its just not reasonable to think public transportation is a valid option in the US. Its not necessarily about public transport being for the “poors,” it just simply isn’t accessible for some.