Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 12/10/24 4:06 PM, D wrote:

  On Tue, 10 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
 

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:07:36 +0100, D wrote:
>

Ahh... I lost a business deal with the government yesterday, and this
old trick was specifically the reason. The IT-department was very
pro-windows,

   Then not worth suffering for ....

and with my solution, they had to manage linux and the hardware, but not
the solution on top. With the competitor, they promised them that they'd
take care of everything and that they would never have to see a
terminal, and there was much rejoicing among the windows people.

>
We had two sites that used Linux on the servers although the workstations
were Windows. In both cases the administrator was a Linux fan. When they
left or moved up the ladder the servers were moved to Windows.

 Yep... a story that is sadly waaaaay too common! And todays story... some of the students a colleague of mine is currently teaching networking thought the exam was too difficult, so they told the school they will refuse taking it, until it is made easier. ;)

   Then FAIL them all ... no mercy.

The key here is that each students brings the school a nice profit of 8000 EUR per year, so the threat of a student dropping out very often softens the heart of the school, to the great frustration of the teachers. =/

   Ah ... Gen-X/A2 ... it it ain't easy/zero-IQ then it's
   not worth attempting  :-)
   Look up the US term "DEI" .....
   The SCHOOL - well - the the profit per-student likely
   dictates its sympathies .....
   Somewhere, at least for now, there WILL be some who
   actually want to learn/practice the Black Arts of
   Linux/Unix and do-it-yourself programming. HIRE THEM !
   Kinda worried about BEYOND Now .....
   As some point the "AI" will be called upon to do
   it all. Then, for people, it's all MAGIC afterwards.
   NO comprehension of what/why/how.
   I speak as an oracle here ... just watch ......
   SOON NOW - the "AI" will be giving advice/code on
   how to improve the "AI". Humans won't Get It - and
   will just sign-off on the upgrades in hope of
   more $$$. THAT ought to be interesting  :-)
   A little bit of advice ... while you can ... get
   a fairly good general-purpose PC and install one
   of the BSDs. OpenIndiana/Solaris is maybe an
   offbeat alt (it's OK) and even the odd Plan-9
   can be useful (though intended for distributed
   systems). This will give you fair access while
   kinda circumventing the "AI"s and spy apps and
   such for awhile.