Just a heads-up, there are activity reports that can be run that will readily show this.

I’m Asian and live in rural Oregon.

This hurts.

I have no movies, photos, or video games. I do have a lot of work-related things like cloned repos and stuff like Visual Studio and SQL Server.

You want hoarder…my friend has over 120 TB in rack mount storage in his garage across multiple systems and NAS devices. It’s insane.

If it weren’t for the spiders, maybe I’d consider moving there 🫣

HAHAHA.

Is superannuation like a pension?

Wait, how? I have zero games installed on my 1TB laptop and still only have like 300GB free.

For me it’s…

• Visual Studio Enterprise (VS Code with a hundred plugins still doesn’t come close)
• SQL Server Management Studio (though with extensions, Azure Data Studio has gotten me pretty damn close)
• Full-featured Office 365 software (Edge web versions are somewhat sufficient, but not quite there)
• Teams with multi-tenant. The desktop Windows app lets me quickly switch between the 6 orgs I need to, unfortunately on Linux I have to have 6 different browser profiles and use the web version which just doesn’t fly.
• More responsive RDP. Unfortunately for server management I’m juggling 3-4 RDP instances daily and I’m not typically allowed to install AnyDesk or VNC or anything. I’ve tried a couple RDP alternatives and there were just all sorts of problems from keyboard issues to rendering issues to general sluggishness.
• There is one weird VPN program a job forces me to run and unfortunately it isn’t available on Linux.

But! All the above said, I run Linux and have a Windows VM. And I also run Windows and have a Linux VM - so it’s almost there for me. If work & clients all ditched Microsoft’s ecosystem, it’d be a lot easier for me to but, unfortunately, they pay my bills.

You win my favorite internet comment of the day.

My personal cuticles need more seasoning.

Where is here…asking for a friend

Genuinely curious, is there a job market for these devices and is it in .NET or something lower-level like C++?

I have a 2TB SSD and a 1TB SSD. My Windows VM is allocated 100GB, so it really isn’t bad at all. I use VirtualBox and it starts up basically instantly.

I just realized I have an oldish laptop with Windows on it though so I’m thinking maybe I should just remote into that instead…derp

For Visual Studio Enterprise, Adobe PDF editing, native Office apps, SSMS, and RDP thin clients, I use a Windows VM.

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Favorite I’ve owned? Model S Plaid

Favorite impractical? Maybe a Porsche 918 Spyder

Favorite classic? Ford Fairlane 427 Black on Black

Favorite right now but I haven’t driven it or seen it in person? Maybe the new Corvette AWD Hybrid.

100% this. I used to be able to control my ceiling fan, my portable a/c, and my TV from my phone.

Now I have to use the fan remote, the a/c remote, and install and create an account with some stupid TV app.

…it was also fun for changing the channel of TVs at bars & restaurants.

I sold cars for a year. During the initial onboarding we were asked to “sell a pen” to the trainer.

Everyone jumped right in to selling the qualities of the pen they had in hand.

At the end of the exercise the trainer said, “I’m looking for a pencil”.

The point was, don’t assume what the customer is looking for. Ask qualifying questions and identify 3-5 hot buttons, then based on what should be knowledge of the inventory and inventory of surrounding dealerships (yeah, they’re all connected to some degree), make recommendations that fit their needs.

Then describe all the ways it could fulfill their wants using positive, yes questions. Don’t ask a question you don’t know the answer to. We were taught that it takes 5-10 Yes responses to offset the negative mental energy from a question asked resulting in a No - so we weren’t supposed to mess that up. That was just one of numerous psychological plays we were taught and forced to use or get threatened with being fired or having bonuses taken away.

The whole training series was bullshit. And I say it was bullshit because it sucked playing all these games on people. Yeah, 1/5 of the time it didn’t work because they caught on. But the amount of times it actually worked made me feel guilty and sad.

The amount of times you put someone into a car they couldn’t afford because you successfully sold them on their wants and not their needs was awful.

I quit near the end of that year because fuck car sales and fuck car dealerships. This was 15 years ago, so who knows what it’s like now.

Also, because I assume someone might ask (lol assuming, I fail), this was for a conglomerate that owned 5 used car lots, a Scion lot, a Toyota lot, a Lexus lot, and oddly a Ford & Chevy lot. Last I heard they’re just down to a Lexus lot and one used car lot now. Apparently the mortgage bubble and COVID hit them hard. Fine by me.

Recruiting Hell and Kitchen Confidential.

Just repeat the last character two more times and call it a day?