As someone living around the Timmins area, we’ve imported some hot climate individuals and still have room, send them up! The Northlander should be running by then /fingers crossed/

I use VBox to run my PiHole for now and have used it to play with a couple distros side by side. I also have a sup’d up tower built from spare parts from work, so resources aren’t a constraint.

We’re in a tight spot, our service desk is outsourced while escalations or issues requiring hands on are sent to us. Problem is our service desk is a dumpster fire. I have regular meetings with their leadership to address this but it literally makes no difference. I recently caught that one of their agents we told them to remove from our contract was back and just as shitty and work avoiding.

We’re in the midst of replacing them with an internal regional team, but regional moves glacially slow. So we’re in a “please use the service desk” and “fuck just email/teams me the details and I’ll handle it when I have time” kinda situation. I’d love everything to go through tickets but I also know there’s a 50/50 chance that service desk will fuck it up by camping on the ticket, sending it to our sister site who also uses them, or completely not understanding the situation and cocking up the ticket notes before escalating or closing the ticket…

Recently they took a user complaint of a singular device being offline and noted it as “entire site is without network”, giving it a priority 1 status and escalating to our on-call line.

Sometimes they also take an actual P1 issue and dump into our queue without calling our hunt group or on-call number during business hours. We’re project heavy so we don’t hawk the ticket queue and it often leads us to missing the SLA of 30 minutes to assign the ticket to a tech.

Dumpster. Fire.

This made me think of the game, of which I have lost, and will follow the rule this time.

You rang?

Haven’t heard of the proverbial cheeseburger… gonna stare at this phrase for a bit.

It puts the homemade chilimac into the waffle iron

Welcome to Costco, I love you!

There’s more!

Imagine they went with something Conservative Ultra Managers or something else even more insane…

This is how piss horns get invented, to help stuff your girth into the urinal tube

Definitely not upset lol

I promise

That’s fair! I’m probably going to be adding quite a bit more this year, I have a whole pig to smoke throughout the spring and summer this time.

This summer could be one of the least smokey summers of the rest of my life… yay increasing risk of wildfires… sorry Northern US, we had a warmer winter than the year before so it’s likely gonna be lit again this summer.

“Not bad” potato salad is still potato salad. If it was “pretty good” it would’ve been 3 plates.

Closed captions: [John Wick]: subtle whisper I wouldn’t…

That’s most of Canada really, outside of southern Ontario and Quebec. Sometime in the last 12 months Eastlink dropped their gigabit cable by $40 where I am so I’m hopeful for incoming competition finally. My 5 year goal is to move outside of town, so I’ll likely be going with skynet because I highly doubt I’ll have much choice.

Even if it’s shit, there are options for internet so long as the sky is accessible.

Choose the recluse house! I bought a cheap house with neighbours and now the recluse houses are expensive. I made the bad choice.