Microsoft has 18 months to convince folks to upgrade.

They’ll be lucky if I boot my Windows 10 partition between now and 18 months.

I write a ton of SQL. I never use my CapsLock key.

SQL doesn’t need to be upper case, in fact I loathe upper case SQL.

Yeah that’s a common one. If you’re into mechanical keyboards, there are a lot of keycap sets that offer an alternative Control key for the CapsLock position.

Personally I rebind it to Super (Winkey). I have a couple of keyboards without Windows keys, so I can still have a Super key and don’t miss out on some handy shortcuts.

COBOL is not a current program language anymore.

I use all of these except ScrollLock.

What about the CapsLock key? Windows menu key?

Pixel phone which doesn’t let you install CA certs any more

Is that something new? I can still install CA certs on my Pixel 6. It does give a scary warning, but you can just click through it.

Belgium, 48. I drive a manual transmission. I never had a car with an automatic transmission.

Yeah but those $90 savings make IT management look good, and that 80k/year doesn’t come out of IT’s budget. Also the productivity loss can’t objectively be measured or will just be blamed on the employee.

The only way I’ve found to reliably delete a huge amount of comments and posts is to do a GDPR request for your data, extract the resulting zip file and then use the free shreddit utility to delete your data. The utility has an option where you can point it to the extracted GDPR data, and it will handle everything.

Master implies hierarchy, all the other branches are derivatives of it. Main/secondary doesn’t have that.

You can sort of compare it to the master recording in audio, or a master key that can open several locks.

Says the one who obviously has a stick up his ass about white people, and uses terms like “White People trash”.

Because Mandrake was a Red Hat fork

Perhaps. It’s a legal grey area here, not strictly legal but tolerated in certain areas (red light districts), but it’s certainly not a socially acceptable thing.

It’s just really hard to believe a women asks if you’ve had sex with a sex worker…

I’ve been asked that question, and not just one time, so I believe OP that it can sometimes come up.

Yeah, much better to go: “What’s your name again? Ah Jessica, let’s see… Jade, Jane, Jasmine… ah right Jessica, here’s your stuff!”

“Why do you have this cable, you don’t have a iphone”

It’s like having some spare toothbrushes and women’s hygiene stuff just in case someone stays over. You’ll score points for being thoughtful, but on the other hand they’ll be like: waaait a minute …

Deleting your efi partition doesn’t brick your board. It just makes your disk unbootable, but you can always install another operating system and create a new efi partition.

I think you’re confusing with the special efivarfs file system that is mounted under /sys/firmware/efi/efivars. If you delete stuff under there, you’re apparently going to have a bad time, because it directly deletes variables in your UEFI firmware which can prevent your system to POST.

You can use the wildcard domain

Yeah the problem was more that this machine is running on a network where I don’t really control the DNS. That is to say, there’s a shitty ISP router with DHCP and automatic dynamic DNS baked in, but no way to add additional manual entries for vhosts.

I thought about screwing with the /etc/hosts file to get around it but what I ended up doing instead is installing a pihole docker for DNS (something I had been contemplating anyway), pointing it to the router’s DNS, so every local DNS name still resolves, and then added manual entries for the vhosts.

Another issue I didn’t really want to deal with was regenerating the TLS certificate for the nginx server to make it valid for every vhost, but I just bit through that bullet.

I was afraid it was going to come down to that. I have been looking into configuration options for the apps, but they’re 3rd party nodejs apps and I know jack shit about nodejs so I’ve had no luck with it so far.

Going with vhosts anyway (despite the pains it will create on this setup) seems to be the preferred way forward then.

Thanks for the insight, and for confirming what I already suspected.

No worries, your input was helpful and informative anyway, so thanks.

Going with vhosts anyway seems to be the least cumbersome route at this point.