

I live in the smack middle of the South in USA, so my brain automatically says “forge Joe” with the space and everything haha. But I get ya, thank you for explaining!
🐧 Hello, I am an electrical engineer living in the SE USA that enjoys Linux, FOSS, Python, scripting, light gaming, photography, hiking, nature, and my spouse and cats. Oh, and I laugh at stuff often without warning. haha Also at @Captain_Faraday@social.linux.pizza @Captain_Faraday@pixelfed.social


I live in the smack middle of the South in USA, so my brain automatically says “forge Joe” with the space and everything haha. But I get ya, thank you for explaining!


How is codeberg?


Got this email last night and felt validated for never uploading any code to GitHub because I don’t trust Microsoft. lol I don’t have any big coding projects, but I self-host a ForgeJo server in my mini rack at home behind a Twingate VPN.


Couldn’t agree more. Some of my best work and learning recently has been me on my back porch under shade with a box fan. While I have solid WiFi and power there, I also pack a portable monitor and can work without internet on much of what I do.


Would have to agree. I WFH now, with occasional lab testing and site visits for clients. Last place I worked, I shared a “quad” cube with a filing cabinet/table in the middle while everyone faced into their corner. Main problems: I shared it with an intern who constantly asked questions and two admin ladies constantly talking in said quad with all the other admin ladies about little league baseball games and one’s ongoing ugly divorce…yikes lol
Yeah, I am one and can confirm that lol. Literally have designed systems of managed cables in power industry for a living and tried to make it clean. lol


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I can relate to this. A much more senior and older engineer in the department I used to work in was lead over much of my projects. He would call me on Teams over and over until I picked up or harass me via chat messages. 75% of the time it was an “IT issue” he had and it was like changing the channel for my grandparents lol. Dude is wicked smart/experienced at electrical engineering, but computer illiterate and abusive to younger engineers like me that are tech literate. While he stressed me out a lot, I felt obligated to helped him d since I sorta reported to him. I recently moved departments to work on stuff I’m much more passionate about. He did it again at 4:52pm on a Friday night and was like nah bro lol.


Installed Vivaldi and Brave from the MS Store on work laptop from the official pages. Got a Trojan in each that IT had to remove. Yeah no


This is the way


My refurbished 2011 Lenovo W530 Thinkpad with 24GB from college has been running as a proxmox cluster node for the last year at least! No battery, the replacement died years ago. 🤣
Omg, you’re so right. I didn’t read it that way until you pointed that out.





And here too! https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Roblox


The next time my spouse and I are in Target, we’ll check the Magnolia section. They love that section and I bet there is a clock made of candle wax shaped like an old radio or something sitting there with this. ROFL


It was DNS! According to the news anyways. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/amazon-web-services-outage-takes-down-major-websites.html
Gonna plug one of my favorite YouTubers now lol https://www.redshirtjeff.com/shop/p/it-was-dns-shirt



I think will actually start using this “master” and “apprentice” now. Love it lol
Ugh, I don’t know that! gets launched off bridge Ahhhhhhhh