Frank Exchange of Views

Currently I’m in a rediscovery / re-appreciation phase so:

Sinead O’Conner - The lion and the Cobra The Doors - Morrison Hotel

Probably all time favourite, although it fades in and out of rotation:

Dream Theater - Metropolis pt2

Wow, I completely forgot about October Rust, used to listen to it a lot in highschool, definitely need to give it a try again.

+1 for Graceland, not my current favourite, but always high up there.

Also a ton of SCSI connectors

I can answer the 2nd, but also curious about the first.

HIV transmits easiest through blood, so if two people both bleed during intercourse, that gives a much higher transmission rate.

Same reason why it has a higher transmission rate among gay men.

Edit: did some extra research, its not just because of blood, also other fluids make transmission easier through thin rectal tissue. So the gayen part doesn’t really apply

SuSe 7.1 was my first experience with Linux, I got a boxed copy with paper manuals and everything. It was glorious, I learned so much from that.

Watch how there’s a clear hierarchy, some get to go first, while others have to wait their turn

Dont come too close though, buses, with their inherent weight can be the most dangerous creature in the automotive kingdom. They dont often attack, but once enraged, their rampage is nearly unstoppable.

Nope, still the same old BSD utils, but you can install the GNU versions pretty easily.

One addition, in the past I’ve been forced to use Windows at previous jobs, but once we got WSL, that wasn’t too much of a pain either.

And once upon a time I worked at HP and we were allowed to run whatever we wanted on our workstations, but that was before laptops were commonplace for my kind of work.

Linux admin grey(ish) beard here, work provides a MacBook and I just use it as a web browser and terminal.

Internal chat, mail, etc are all browser based, Google Docs is the office suite of choice for anyone I have to work with.

I get a decent terminal (iterm2), together with ZSH, tmux and Python is all I really need. We do have a bunch of GNU core utils installed as well, although coming from a UNIX background, I don’t mind the BSD versions that ship on MacOS either.

Would I prefer Linux? Yes, I would. But at the same time, the M4 performance is awesome, the touchpad is glorious and I don’t have to foot the bill, so I’m not complaining!