How I've been unwinding after work lately: losing, slowly and completely, in RimWorld. For the uninitiated, it's a colony sim where you manage a handful of people trying to survive on a hostile planet. Things go fine for about an hour. Then a raid, a heat […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#TechTipThursday: the Linux trick that saves you from retyping the whole command. You run something, the terminal says permission denied, and you realize you forgot sudo. Instead of pressing up and cursoring all the way to the front of the line, just type […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Spent a while nodding along to Model Context Protocol like I knew what it meant. Then I actually sat down and figured it out: Turns out it's something sysadmins are going to be weirdly good at, because it's the same job we've always done: build a system […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

You might work for a toxic company if: you're battling insomnia and their response is a Performance Improvement Plan. Not a check in. Not "hey, are you doing okay?" People go through things. Sleep, health, family, all of it. A decent company notices and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Not every marketing problem needs a full time hire. Maybe you've got a launch coming and no one to own the messaging. Maybe your docs are solid but your positioning is a mess. Maybe you need someone who can actually talk to your engineers and your customers and translate between the two […]

New IT Guy Show is live, and this one is about a tool a lot of us LOVE: @bitwarden . Password managers are one of those things everyone agrees you should use and nobody really wants to talk about. We got into why Bitwarden being open source actually matters […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Wrote something new: what #PragmaticMarketing is, and why "your opinion, although interesting, is irrelevant." (Their words, not mine!) Spent years watching teams argue about features in a conference room, all of them sure they knew what customers wanted […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I'll be on the radio this morning! I'm joining Noah Chelliah on Critical Thought (News Radio 1310 KNOX) to talk about passwords and technology; I should be on around 10:06am Central! We'll be talking passwords and Bitwarden! https://knoxradio.com/critical-thought/ #passwords #bitwarden #opensource

# Noah Chelliah Noah Chelliah was born and raised in Grand Forks ND. While attending the University of North Dakota in 2009 he founded Altispeed Technologies. Altispeed is an IT company dedicated to helping people leverage their technology to it’s full potential using open source principals. In 2015 Noah joined Chris Fisher from Jupiter Broadcasting as the co-host of the Linux Action Show. Noah launched the Ask Noah Show in 2017, a weekly talk radio show. The goal was to create a path to serve the open source community by answering questions on system administration, IT business operations, and using Linux as the operating system for your “daily driver”. Today the Ask Noah Show has been downloaded over 6.7 million times in 7 countries. Each week Noah and his co-host answer questions and bring you weekly updates from geeks eating their own dog food. On July 4th, 2018 Noah met Brad Schmidt over coffee. Brad was hosting afternoons on News Radio 1310 KNOX. Brad asked if Noah would fill-in for him when Brad was unable to do his show. Noah agreed and it wasn’t long before Leighton Media took notice of Noah. By the fall of 2022 Noah was in talks with Leighton to join the on-air staff at KNOX. On October 10th of 2022 Critical Thought went live. Since that time it has been a community hub of conversation, and passion. In his free time Noah enjoys spending time with his wife, playing with his kids, water skiing, cryptocurrency, and shooting firearms. As a certified NRA instructor Noah is a staunch defender of the 2nd amendment. He believes strongly in giving people the tools, skills, and attitude necessary to operate firearms safely. Noah is actively involved at HOPE Church in Grand Forks. He serves as both a technical resource to them during the week, and drums for worship services on the weekend. ## FOLLOW US FOR INSTANT UPDATES! On Air Now Critical Thought w/ Noah Chelliah 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM South Central Transit Removing Some Services Starting Tomorrow (NewsDakota.com) - South Central Transit says it will no longer b... 1h ago President Donald Trump believes Minnesota, Not Iran, Is At Fault For Recent Cyberattack (KNOX) - President Donald Trump said last Friday that he believes... 1h ago everett225 / Depositphotos.com

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The four stages of running #Linux: It doesn't work. It doesn't work and I have no idea why. It works and I have no idea why. It doesn't work again. Happy Monday. #MemeMonday #SysAdmin #OpenSource

Bit of fun news to close out the week: I'll be on the RADIO Monday! Joining Noah Chelliah on Critical Thought over on News Radio 1310 KNOX, talking passwords, open source, and probably whatever tangents we wander into. I'll be on around 10AM Central! You can catch the stream here […]

Stepping away from the homelab today. The blinking lights can wait, because I'm getting ready to run Savage Worlds tonight. There's something about sitting around a table with dice and paper and friends that nothing on a screen quite matches. No uptime to […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

This week’s #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds was an incredible experiment! I got real Event Horizon (1997) vibes!

New #FedoraPodcast is out, and this one is for everyone who has typed dnf install epel-release and never really stopped to think about what they just turned on. We sat down with Carl George, the #EPEL Team Lead at #RedHat, to get into what it actually is. We […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#TechTipThursday: find out if your Linux box actually needs a reboot. After a round of updates the guessing game is always the same. Do I need to reboot, or can I keep working? On Fedora and RHEL based systems, stop guessing: needs-restarting -r It checks […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

You might work for a toxic company if leadership pushes out 11 press releases in 12 weeks and calls it momentum. The people doing the work have another word for it. It usually shows up around week nine, somewhere between the late nights and the quiet […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Hey #anthropic, you need to work on your plan migrations... I have been job hunting for weeks and utilizing Claude Cowork to help me research companies. But being unemployed, I downgraded my plan from Max to Pro and I LOST access to several key Cowork threads I was using!! That's not okay.

The thing I keep coming back to lately is atomic Linux desktops. Base system read only, bad update just rolls back. Your machine either boots into a working state or leaves the last one alone. Boring and unbreakable is sounding pretty good. #Linux #Fedora #OpenSource

I usually post something funny or clever I’ve seen online for #memeMonday. But honestly, this week it would just feel like a lie. I usually feel such optimism and caring for those in my network. Today though, I just need some that positivity sent in from y’all.

Got new intro and outro bumpers for The IT Guy Show and I want to know what you think! Check out the latest episode to hear them in action: Matias Palmersheim joins me to talk home lab SLAs, VictoriaMetrics, and what happens when your wife becomes your […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Looking for my next role as a Technical Product Marketing Manager or #DevRel in the #opensource, Linux, or enterprise infrastructure space. Remote preferred. I came up as a #sysadmin, moved into Solutions Architecture, and have spent the last several years […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#TechTipThursday The best time to learn a new Linux tool is when nothing is on fire. Pick one command you use often and go one level deeper this week. Already use grep? Try grep -r, grep -v, grep -E. Already use find? Add -exec to actually do something with […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Dear @redhat, I miss you and I'm pretty sure you miss me! I miss the community, the mission, and honestly the work. You miss having someone who can explain #RHEL to a kernel engineer and a VP of Infrastructure in the same breath without breaking a sweat […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

You might work for a toxic company if... Your manager takes credit for your wins in front of leadership and finds you to assign blame when something goes wrong. That's not management. That's just someone protecting their own position at your expense. A good […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

New IT Guy Show episode: Most people's home lab uptime commitment is "I'll get to it eventually." Mine included. Then I met Matias Palmersheim, who wrote his home lab SLA into his wedding vows. His wife signed off on it. They hold change management meetings […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Anyone else feel there should be a #dating thread here? I mean, we'd already have things in common, like our choice in freedom-choosing social media! HA!

This is the correct take and I will not be taking questions. LOL #AI #OpenSource #Linux #MemeMonday

Hey #Canonical, we should talk about your job applicant filters! I have a ton of #linux and #productmarketing experience and yet my application was auto-rejected on a Saturday? I'd love to work in your Product Marketing space. Let's chat as humans, yeah?

Close the popup, accept the cookies, dismiss the newsletter, hide the autoplay video, finally scroll, and the video slides right back in. @pluralistic named it: enshittification. I'd love to have you on The IT Guy Show to talk about how the web got this bad and how we claw our way back out […]

Just started Part 2 of #DungeonCrawlerCarl! Oh my gosh, what a ride, LOL!

Continued from last week's efforts: Once you've got #ImageMode running, the real questions start: How do you handle updates? What does a rollback actually look like? How do you change the role of a host without starting over? This lab covers: Tracking tags, rolling back software changes, and […]