Only if you work for Harmonix.
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Being at a small company, I have done the odd bit of audio stuff when itās needed.
And there was the time I spent the afternoon setting up an electronic drum kit my boss had bought.
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Iāve written a password manager (donāt do this) using PGP and recfiles - I tell it āpw arenaā and it prompts me for a password, decrypts the pw file, and spits out the record for BGA with my login details. For extra fun, if thereās a āTOTPā field, that contains the same key thatās stored on my phone or whatever, and the program converts that to the next four six-digit codes.
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I also did my work experience at a place that matches that exact description!
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RR was basically the family business, as my mum, aunt, uncle, and grandad all worked there 
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My dad worked there on engines for nearly his entire career. I almost applied for a job there when I graduated.
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Iām sick of tools that are not the same as the last time I used them.
I had to force a deployment to proceed outside of the allowed time period, and couldnāt find the option to do so, because the UI was entirely different than the last time. I expect to have the same problem in six months or so. (With much clicking, I found the right place to override. And landed a diff to remove a schedule for that job, because it doesnāt need one)
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Thatās when you know youāve given up on having good tools.
I canāt bring myself to give that a heart, but I am laughing :ā)
Iām sick of tools that are not the same as the last time I used them.
I can highly recommend a certain actively-maintained editor and framework which hasnāt significantly altered its UI in 40 years ;ā)
(And seriously, that consistency over all the years Iāve used it really is one of the reasons that I love it.)
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None of the things I interact with is controllable from emacs. (I mean, they could be, theyāre all api driven, but i have a job.) theyāre also not anything used anywhere else. (Even the stuff that is used elsewhere is different.)
Other people may feel differently about this.
āJust as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot.ā
For me itās āvery glad Iāve already moved all my public code to Codebergā.
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Oh good, Clippy learned to code. This will end perfectly excellent without any sorrow or regret.
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(stolen from Mastodon) āI donāt see the problem. Just train the AI on bug-free, well-commented codeā¦ā
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And after you find such code, you can go sell the golden eggs that your goose lays for a fortune and just retire.
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I have a question.
I am still struggling with work infrastructure stuff.
To work I need to RDP to a remote computer. Other connections are being shut off or too slow. I need an alternative.
Iāve been offered the option of using SSH to connect to the remote computer and I had hoped I could create an SSH Tunnel and do RDP through that. Not that I have ever before used an SSH Tunnel but I was assuming the setup of that not complicated using the proper tools and the internet suggests tunneling RDP through that from Windows to Windows is an actual possibility tested the ssh tunnel variant while still using the old zscaler connection and it worked and was fast and so I was slightly enthusiastic.
But to test this I was given a URL I could go to in a browser where I could log onto a website with my work credentials and that then offered me the option to paste my private key (yay that it is only the one I specifically made for work and nothing else) and from there connect to the windows computer via SSH. All of this was via httpsā¦ but stillā¦ not exactly increasing my trust for this solution. Also to my understanding this means:
Me ā https ā webserver@work ā ssh ā computer@work
How on earth would I funnel RDP through that? Thatās not how browsers work to my best knowledge? After logging in I have a terminal to the remote computer and I can copy and paste clipboard and filesā¦ which does NOTHING for me as far as I can tell. Am I wrong?
Is the SSH client running on your computer? Or on a remote server?
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On a remote serverā¦
I have a call with the IT guy tomorrow. I hope we can clear up the confusion.
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Certainly my experience of this sort of thing tends to be an entirely local ssh either direct to the target machine or to a jump-host from which I can then set up a second ssh connection.
Perhaps they have a web-based RDP server? [shrug] At the very least Iād expect a key that lives on someone elseās computer to be a distinct key from my local one.
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I am just making an installation medium for my own hardware.
The meeting mostly cleared up that they canāt or wonāt provide me with adequate tools for my workā¦ so I am on my own. The RDP connection via the only way that is open to me is for some reason not giving me the full resolution even when it is at times reasonably fast. I am getting graphics errors that are so bad I am once again unhappily willing to use my own hardwareā¦
And buy another computer for our homeserver.
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As I had to repurpose my NUC from homeserver to its original purpose serving as my work-computerā¦ we now need more hardware for our homeserver.
Iāve been having discussions about it with my partner.
The NUC I have has an i7 of the lastest generation and is a bit faster than my 2 yo laptop for work purposes which is great.
Howeverā¦ i7 vs i5 makes a difference a) in availability and b) 200ā¬ in price. I want to run gitlab, nextcloud, some home automation stuff and also video streaming from our library with plex. Probably not all active at the same time (although gitlab acts up on its own regularly on my cloud server with housekeeping tasks and I know it needs a ton of processing power even though weāre only using it in the most basic way possible as git front-end and not with ci-pipelines et al)
Do I really need an i7?
(itās also getting fast ram and a fast ssd obviously, but those are easier to find)
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