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Cake day: August 1st, 2023

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  • Download the live disc images of Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Arch blah blah etc etc etc.

    Distrowatch.com is a great resource.

    Take them for a test drive before you commit.

    If this is your 1st forlay into Linux and you just wanna ride, do yourself a favor and install Mint. It works, and it’s a great way to get into it easily and painlessly and operates (mostly) how you would expect it to coming from another OS.

    Welcome



  • I’ve used Lets Encrypt for years and years, in fact it’s been at least 6?. LE with the encryptbot?, automate the entire process, and then completely forget about it until someone posts on Lemmy asking about it.

    It’s been long enough I’ve forgotten the proper names of the software and I would have to go back through my notes to recreate it.

    Just checked the logs and it’s fine.

    Don’t pay for shit.









  • A long time ago when I handed off my duties when leaving, my replacement (in house) was absolutely astonished at how little I was doing. I had taken the global fleet of bar/retail/hotel/restaurant/office printers (minus properties in China) from around 30% of total being OOS to less than 3% in 18 months. Everything from giant plotters to the fry cooks’ line printers.

    What my replacement didn’t see was the 3 months I spent not sleeping. Worth every second.

    Automate the living fuck out of everything (that’s ok to automate) & read reports / logs.

    [edit] A love letter to Bash, Korn (pdksh) & Cron [dbl edit] And Tail. [tpl edit] and I guess all of /var