oshu

Yeah its a tough crowd sometimes. Especially when doing that training with our customers.

I’ll never forget the time I was explainging how something worked and one of the customers interrupts me saying, “I don’t care about this – can you just show me where to click?”

you can easily avoid it by making your files 400 and then using mv instead

I used to do some linux training for new hires at my old job. The company had a training room with a rack of servers for lab work.

It was a training on how to deploy the product on a customer server. I personally wrote the instructions and tested them on the lab machines after a fresh install.

I had others test the lab instructions. I even had people from non-tech roles verify that they too could do the labs by following the instructions.

Still I get a guy in the training complaining that “this doesn’t work” and I can see from the error on his screen that he must have skipped one of the steps in the lab instructions.

He’s not even trying to figure it out. Even though others are finishing, he just decided that it doesn’t work and gave up.

Thanks for that. Unfortunately, unless I’m missing something, it doesn’t solve the work flow issue as my goal is to get my written text into a modern format that works with everything else I use, such as ascii or markdown.

Word Grinder hits all the marks.

Yes it has a web ui to connect to wifi. For cable you just plug it in.

Its simple and I can easily put a laptop or phone or whatever behind the microrouter and have confidence its only using the vpn.

When I travel I take a second microrouter with me to connect to the hotel wifi. All my devices are set to use the microrouter wifi so they never touch the hotel network, only the vpn. Easy, private, and avoids any filtering the hotek is doing.

I tried this setup for a bit. I liked Word Perfect for Dos but converting files to my linux desktop was a pain and I never found a workflow I liked.

For undisturbed writing, I use a laptop running a minimal cli only linux install with Word Grinder. Its a modern text mode writer app that stores files in text or markdown.

If your concern is ensuring a killswitch type vpn setup, I do that but in a different and simple way.

I have a GLinet microrouter configured to join the vpn and active killswitch mode. This is 2 clicks in the menu. I connect it to my network via its wan port.

Everything I want behind the VPN gets connected to the microrouter lan port and job done.

OP listed the apps they want to run and none of that was on their list

A gaming rig is a waste of money because you don’t need a fast gpu on a such a server. You want a boring server box and even better one with built-in “ilo” remote management.

Everyone else agrees they are.

Really? Can I see the survey you sent everyone but me to determine this?

The story is not about a new breakthrough or even Energy tech at all. Its about policy.

The common definition of technology is any practical application of scientific priciples.

So yes, a shower head, a shoe horn, and chopsticks are all technology.

However, in the context of News and Discussion, Technology typically means Computing, Internet, Electronics, Telecoms, AI, Energy Tech, etc and usually with a focus on new developments, product releases, new breakthroughs, etc.

I understand! For most of my career its been the same for me.

The “big” switch I’m currently contemplating at the moment is moving to FreeBSD on my home file server.

I do sometimes consider switching my workstation to OpenBSD when I get nostalgic for the early struggle days of linux. Like when you had to be really careful with hardware selection and what not.

But then I remember I had a lot more free time in those days!

Linux feels so mainstream to me now. Some days I’m temped to switch to OpenBSD or something ;)

How is this a technology story?

Seriously, as someone who has been using linux as their daily driver since 2000, I find it pretry amusing.

The majority of tech startups are super chaotic and barely keeping things running. More than you would ever imagine.