My salary is well-known. It's an equality thing to fix on a standard rate scheme. The rate is known, the stepping is known, and the steps are known. Anyone can figure it out.

And, if not, it's in a yearly report that needs to be released and contains all of that. I could find out how much my entire chain of command makes, at a glance, but I don't care.

Okay; from the daytime job, at least. The side gig is a little variable.

Well, THAT worked well for everyone before, right?

This might be a really great case for Rocky Linux though, as it also gets 10 years support.

That happens to be my plan. I just started rolling out a few but I will have to bulldoze some servers because CloudStack doesn't work in it yet. That means it's upgrade-disco for my 9s in 5 years.

Since 2002 I've been doing yum-cron for updates, but just at the side gig with up to 50 boxes. It used to be absolutely rock solid before systemd wrecked it, but it's still pretty reliable.

My entire obituary will start with the phrase

Area man ....

Of that. I'm sure.

Think of all the kids who grew up without a computer and now they have no idea how they work and can't do basic tasks.

Hi there. Didn't have a computer until the 12th grade.

In the 30 years I've been working with Linux professionally, some of it was at a distro, working to secure it, and also Unix. I've managed an ungodly number of computer hosts, and I took over and maintained a somewhat well-known security tool I'm not gonna name. Lately I do automation: mgmtConfig when I can, Ansible if they pay me so much I can forget just how amazingly bad it is.

I was getting paid for Linux work long before I got a cell phone.

1. Blink the lights, Doug.
2. Reciprocate+1
3. That+1 is permanent until the next regime.
4. Agree to remove the 'basic tariff' if he does.
5. That +1 really stays.
6. Next time Trump rattles his plastic sabre, it's another reciprocation +1 more permanent.

Or

Cut the power by 35%.

Nope. Of course not. Your age is a duncarion of your birthdate. yoire not a person before then.

I know what I said.

Could Trump please not permanently fuck with things that aren't his?

I admit I didn't notice.

I was in one of those situations where work was satisfying, home was great, and leisure time was often spent exploring a maaaassive safe city on foot with no real worries.

I could go anywhere my feet and subway fare could take me, and I had so much to explore.

Good times, good memories, excellent pizza.

In this chart: kinetic energy is relative to mass.

I'd pay to watch bicycle jousting.

Segways too.

Isn't Deezer owned by some Russian oligarch? If so, I worry about jumping from the proverbial frypan into the fire.