What Are You Doing Right Now
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Evening Daily Wire watching.
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Taking snapshots of Vultr VMs prior to running updates.
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Headed to East Atlanta to buy pickles from the local pickle wizard. He's doing a pop-up shop at a newish brewery, so good times are ahead.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Headed to East Atlanta to buy pickles from the local pickle wizard. He's doing a pop-up shop at a newish brewery, so good times are ahead.
Today's Internet phrase of the day: "pickle wizard"
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Headed to East Atlanta to buy pickles from the local pickle wizard. He's doing a pop-up shop at a newish brewery, so good times are ahead.
Today's Internet phrase of the day: "pickle wizard"
I would have thought that 'Pickle Wizard' is a term reserved for people who are rather talented at getting themselves in a pickle
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Just testing an Xbox One X that i've just installed an SSD in.
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So much snow over here.
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Wondering where everyone disappeared to this afternoon. I was listening to crickets.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering where everyone disappeared to this afternoon. I was listening to crickets.
Tickets, nothing but helpdesk tickets for me.
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Dealing with carriers. When you have nobody in an office for weeks, then suddenly people show up and d'oh, the Internet isn't working! Yeah that kind of week already.
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@jt1001001 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dealing with carriers. When you have nobody in an office for weeks, then suddenly people show up and d'oh, the Internet isn't working! Yeah that kind of week already.
Yeah that sounds like a fun start to the week.
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@black3dynamite said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Wondering where everyone disappeared to this afternoon. I was listening to crickets.
Tickets, nothing but helpdesk tickets for me.
Ditto... Only my boss has the bigger shovel. I'm not entirely buried yet. Just holding it about neck level, lol.
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Just registered for Red Hat Summit 2021. It's a free virtual conference again this year in April and June.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just registered for Red Hat Summit 2021. It's a free virtual conference again this year in April and June.
Hard to believe that they are bothering to still have a summit. The meeting of "inconsequential" Linux.
How long do we think Red Hat will still even be a thing now that IBM seems to be reconsidering their place in their ecosystem. My guess, Red Hat's days are numbers. Long but numbered. They never quite fit IBM's vision and IBM is definitely not seeing them as the valuable product that they did a year ago.
My guess is that the summit will be primarily trying to convince people that they are still relevant.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
My guess is that the summit will be primarily trying to convince people that they are still relevant.
Probably so. Last year's summit was more cheerleading than training for me. I still enjoyed the content though, even if much of it was product demos.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Hard to believe that they are bothering to still have a summit. The meeting of "inconsequential" Linux.
How long do we think Red Hat will still even be a thing now that IBM seems to be reconsidering their place in their ecosystem. My guess, Red Hat's days are numbers. Long but numbered. They never quite fit IBM's vision and IBM is definitely not seeing them as the valuable product that they did a year ago.
You might find this interesting if you haven't already read it.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/26/killing_centos/ -
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Hard to believe that they are bothering to still have a summit. The meeting of "inconsequential" Linux.
How long do we think Red Hat will still even be a thing now that IBM seems to be reconsidering their place in their ecosystem. My guess, Red Hat's days are numbers. Long but numbered. They never quite fit IBM's vision and IBM is definitely not seeing them as the valuable product that they did a year ago.
You might find this interesting if you haven't already read it.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/26/killing_centos/Yeah, I've seen all that. To me it all reads the same: IBM doesn't see Red Hat as strategic and they are taking the first step of redirecting investment towards somewhere else because to them, Ubuntu has already won and it isn't a fight worth investing in.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Hard to believe that they are bothering to still have a summit. The meeting of "inconsequential" Linux.
How long do we think Red Hat will still even be a thing now that IBM seems to be reconsidering their place in their ecosystem. My guess, Red Hat's days are numbers. Long but numbered. They never quite fit IBM's vision and IBM is definitely not seeing them as the valuable product that they did a year ago.
You might find this interesting if you haven't already read it.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/26/killing_centos/Yeah, I've seen all that. To me it all reads the same: IBM doesn't see Red Hat as strategic and they are taking the first step of redirecting investment towards somewhere else because to them, Ubuntu has already won and it isn't a fight worth investing in.
I can see how it appears that IBM itself has surrendered to Canonical. It seems like there were (are) two problems happening at the same time. 1. IBM's focus. 2. Disarray within RedHat about whatever its priorities are, which is likely caused by #1.
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Hard to believe that they are bothering to still have a summit. The meeting of "inconsequential" Linux.
How long do we think Red Hat will still even be a thing now that IBM seems to be reconsidering their place in their ecosystem. My guess, Red Hat's days are numbers. Long but numbered. They never quite fit IBM's vision and IBM is definitely not seeing them as the valuable product that they did a year ago.
You might find this interesting if you haven't already read it.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/26/killing_centos/Yeah, I've seen all that. To me it all reads the same: IBM doesn't see Red Hat as strategic and they are taking the first step of redirecting investment towards somewhere else because to them, Ubuntu has already won and it isn't a fight worth investing in.
I can see how it appears that IBM itself has surrendered to Canonical. It seems like there were (are) two problems happening at the same time. 1. IBM's focus. 2. Disarray within RedHat about whatever its priorities are, which is likely caused by #1.
That's what IBM was like when I was there. It was a cluster fudge. Internally IBM wouldn't touch anything that they had made because they didn't trust it (and for good reason.) And for me, that makes RHEL toxic. I know how IBM views support and with RHEL being an IBM product, I could never defend it honestly in a business. RH was a toxic culture before IBM bought them. IBM is nice people, RH was not. But IBM can't do support to save their lives and I would never compromise my integrity to claim that I could consider anything with their name on it to be "supported." That puts RH in the tough position of having nothing I could qualify as support, while also being a toxic entity on its own. Combine that with abandoning their core product and the value of the IBM/RH ecosystem is like so insanely negative.
