That deserves a slap

My past role was a combined role of these:

Helpdesk technician
VIP technician
Linux system administrator

We didn’t effectively administrate the Linux environment, I was the only linux admin at the company, and I wasn’t even doing it full time.

In an ideal world I agree with you, but when resources are limited, running a separate environment is not allways realistic.

A machine that takes extra time and skills to manage?

IT guy here, if we gave developers the option to exclude whatever the hell they wanted from AV scanning it would just mean that we would end up with computers where the entire C: drive would be excluded.

No, can’t have that.

So what should a decent IT department do to give developers the access they need to do their job while maintaining a decent level of security?

Well, the least bad solution I have worked with was to have a non generic path that was excluded by policy.

Something like C:\Excluded

The directory was excluded from AV scan and allowed in policy, the user could put what they needed there and it would be fine.

I keep my S5/24-105mm f/4 kit in my Thinktank Backstory 15 unless I am actively shooting something, then I put it on my PD Slide and hang it under my Backstory, I tend to keep it on my left side since that is what I am used to, but it does make more sense to hang it on the right side.

I had my Lumix GX80 as my EDC camera, had a 14-140mm lens fitted, a fantastic beginner combo, but about two year ago I got a bonus at work and upgraded my kit to an S5 and a 24-105mm f/4 lens as my EDC kit.

I bought a few more lenses as well.

I am considering getting a Sigma fp or fp l to reduce the size of the kit or just have a secondary camera.

My Lumix S5 with the 24-105mm f/4 lens.

Oh yeah, that makes sense, thanks!

I have heard that some TVs attempt to connect to every WiFi they can find using default credentials even if you never connect it yourself

None, there is no unbiased news source in existance.

That being said, I mainly use the government’s TV station’s (SVT) news feed and one of our major daily news papers (DN) feed to get a general idea of what is going on, they tend to be decently accurate.

If you have a free PCIE slot, you can just get a SATA controller card.

I see other’s talk about an m.2 -> SATA adapter, but I just don’t see the point if you have a free PCIE slot

This would not have happened if company leaders implemented a “don’t be a dick” style of operation.

They would have made a bit less money, sure, but at the level they operate at, they are just working the highscore anyway, so earnings are effectively meaningless to them, their standard of living won’t increase much by exploiting their customer even further.

I am considering writing it on my car’s tyres, so that I get to run it over all the time

Just look at the JFK and Olof Palme investigations for your answer.

Summary:

Decades are spent running investigations, complex conspiracy theories appear, society moves on.

Donate my body to science if possible, failing that, dispose of me in the most environmentally friendly way possible.

Once I am dead I have no care for my body, maximize the use of it or minimize the impact of it.

To be honest, I don’t really see why the developers/publishers should run the actual mutiplayer servers.

They should only run the master server that lists the multiplayer servers in the server browser.

I am no huge fan of Epic, but they deserve all credit for running the master server for Unreal Tournament 2004 multiplayer for almost two decades.

And when it shut down, fans had made their own master server that was ready before the main server went down, you just had to modify the ut2004.ini file with the new master server and it just worked.

It felt more like Epic passed the torch than shut down a service.

Any smart feature must be optional.

I have smart lights at home, none is required to get light in the rooms, they are only used for mood lighting.

That is like cutting off your own nose to spite your enemies.

They should have replaced it with a yule goat mask:

https://www.blocket.se/annons/stockholm/julbocksmask_i_halm/1208094235