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I'm on an engagement with a client that requires Windows to access their resources. Issues I've had so far:

- The trackpad driver doesn't support scrolling w/ Win 10 (Dell E7470). I know how to fix the issue but I don't have the correct user permissions.

- The buggy corporate printer helper has caused the laptop to shutdown due to overheating twice so far in two weeks. I'd disable it since I will never print from this thing, but...

- I've been trying to figure out how to install software I need without local admin privileges and now I have a Git installation that takes ~30 seconds to update the shell after each command. I tried everything in StackOverflow...

In all fairness, picking a laptop to use with Linux takes a little homework, but I've had no issues with Thinkpads or my current XPS 13 running Fedora.

Recruiters are not your buddy. Just like the salesperson at the car dealership is not your buddy.

I don't think that Red Hat announces release dates for RHEL. At least I don't remember one in the last 10 years.

Remember that time S3 went down and the only updates were on Twitter because the status page was hosted on S3?

Sendmail is deprecated. That was the first Unix service I ever learned to configure. This is kind of the same feeling I got when I heard music I grew up listening to on the classic rock station.

You could run pgbouncer in a fargate container in ECS. Still serverless technically?

This is politics in general. The power structure incentivises liars and crooks. It shouldn't be a surprise.

Perl was considered as the defacto scripting language in Windows until they settled on PowerShell.

Iirc there are some free servers you can use provided by Google and/or twilio.

Edit: STUN is free, Turn is not. Been a while since I worked with those.

Blockchain is perfect for its original use case, a distributed trustless database. The tradeoffs don't make any sense for a trusted system, i.e. replacing SWIFT or storing titles to property.

Maybe you could count number of Ph.D contributors? I bet Bitcoin has as many or more than every other project combined.