Possibly off-topic for this thread, but I’ve just bought an old Thinkpad (last of the 10" screens, Edge E145 from 2013) and stuck Debian on it. For when I can go away for gaming weekends again, and I want to take a bigger screen and better keyboard than the phone, but not a huge great laptop.
(Then I replaced the 500G hard drive with a 1T SSD.)
I’m still happily using my 2011 T420s. A 14" model with a funky 1600x900 display. It’s been running Linux Mint since… 2013?
I think in the time I’ve had it, I’ve replaced the harddrive (because it came with a 120G SSD) and also the CPU fan. Thankfully, Thinkpads have been designed to be easy to work on and the CPU fan was an easy swap.
I’m a big fan of Thinkpads and specifically the T-series.
I think Lenovo are unique in making the hardware manuals for Thinkpads freely available, even for the older models. (And when I got some warranty service on my T430 a while back an actual IBM tech turned up at the house.)
Had my interview just, think it went reasonably well.
Just wish my body didn’t react the way it does to nerves. Looking forward to a good sleep tonight 
I got an oncall task that one of our database tables was not being accessed in coldstorage, and freeing it could save 0.0017287235250470002 TBs.
To save you the math, that’s about 1.7 GB, or 1728723525.0470001698 bytes, or 13829788200 and 3/8th bits.
I really really want to know where they get fractional bit technology.
Someone using floaty numbers where they shouldn’t?
The more I use languages with dedicated integer types, the more I regard floating-point with faint distaste, like a mysterious smear on my screen.
Today, automation informed me that the automation status of something changed from “Homer” to “Bender”. Homer was in red and Bender is black, so I think that’s good.
Neither of those sound especially positive!
Last sprint was a misery. Repeated lack of connectivity to our nexus that we can’t push stuff. I left rushing things at the last minute and wasn’t happy with the rush. At least, it wasnt just us. Every team’s stats went down.
I’m putting some incense and offerings to the connectivity gods so it doesn’t happen again this sprint.
I have now learned the scale is
I get the homer reference, not the others. It’s also really stupid.
Krusty presumably also from The Simpsons; Bender from Futurama. (Which I would interpret as “doing its job, but don’t look too closely or you’ll learn things you didn’t want to know”.)
I know the characters, but I don’t know what krusty or bender have to do with automation. (For homer, “drinking bird “ and “mumu” should turn up the relevant bit.). This is why it’s a bad scale.
Possibly “Bender” means it’s fully automated because he’s a robot? Whereas Homer still requires a bit of human input? Krusty … I don’t know.
Is a clown?? Buggy? Unpredictable?
Although I am still not sure who is more untrustworthy out of the three characters…
Clown is clearly the answer, given the widespread use of ‘clown’, ‘clowntown’ etc elsewhere.
Why is this so difficult to figure out?
All I want to do is stop Chrome from automatically signing in to my Google account and my gmail for anyone that boots up “my” computer at work. I’ve been trying to do this for an hour now, and nothing seems to have changed.
change your password from another device, and log out all other devices.
Seems obvious, right? I am “not signed in” to my Google account currently, but merely opening Chrome signs in to gmail (I have disabled automatic sign-in).
if you change the password, there’s an option to disable other device’s tokens. T?hat’s for a plain personal google account. If it’s managed by someone, different rules apply.