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I like Fedora anyway, but the reason I stuck with it was that every IT job I’ve ever had has exclusively used servers with OS’ in that ecosystem. Also, though I’ve let it expire, I used to be an RHCE.

As such, I figured using Fedora for personal pursuits would keep me familiar with the skills and environments that kept me paid.

My work wanted me to use my phone (which, like yours, is Graphene) to login to the messenger they use. I briefly tried; it worked, but mandated enabling MDM. I did consider it, but while researching how much control it would grant if constrained to a work profile, I discovered it’s not currently supported in Graphene. So I just deleted the login and work profile and didn’t try to login any further.

I have an old, unused phone that’s still Android, so if they ever insist (and won’t provide me with a device), I’ll probably just set it up on that phone and use my actual phone as a hotspot … But that seems pretty ridiculous and I’d definitely have some objections.

Similarly, any bureaucratic actions require a 2FA app. I couldn’t really avoid that since I need to file my timesheets, but for reasons I’ve never ascertained, the app works on my tablet (which is also Graphene) but not my phone. I pretty much only ever turn my tablet on for that purpose and it’s on an SSID with guest isolation, so I don’t mind that as much.

Don’t forget backslashes as an option.

Waydot also does this (as well as other, related content).

This was surprisingly hard to find in an easily shareable form.

Maybe in a fjord instead?

I’ve always heard it in a different order as “Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring.”

Stop singing and get back to work.

Thanks! I’m on a VPN using graphene, so that’s probably why YouTube doesn’t like me.

I’m curious of what that means, but that link put me through five captchas in a row and I ran out of patience.

Yes, no, maybe, I don’t know, can you repeat the question?

I use Graphene and, sadly, that option is not in that section for me.

According to an old video by Doug Demuro, an early Volkswagen EV had the “play” and “stop” buttons on the accelerator and brake pedals, respectively.

Well hell, I’ve never welded anything and I struggle with those things in my daily life anyway.

Huh … Someone should let dogs who aren’t male know about this.

Unseen University?

I recently proposed a solution to my boss (who’s older than I am, but not by much) regarding a technical problem we have been having the last few days. He said “that won’t get you anywhere. Ask Gemini.”

Reluctantly, I did. Besides asking it how to disable it, it was the first time I (sort of) voluntarily interacted with it.

It made three suggestions. Two didn’t work. The other one was the solution I proposed to my boss. I told him that (more politely) and he said he wasn’t really interested in addressing the problem anyway and that I should move on.

A long time ago, I worked with some people planning out the layout of a server room. They said that no individual one of them had the whole plan in mind, but that they each understood their section together. They finished by saying “it’s in a RAID in our heads!” (Probably paraphrased. It was a long time ago.)

I thought that was hilarious. When I got home that night, I repeated the joke to my then girlfriend and her best friend, who lived with us at the time. There was a long pause, then one of them said “your job sounds REALLY boring.”

You have just helped me to understand a decades old joke. Thank you.

Nothing can ameliorate the ineptitude of Principal Skinner Plex.