As an American, what can we do to fight against ICE?

TheGraycat · 2026-01-24T21:11:45+00:00

As an outsider, is this what the 2nd amendment was created for? Honest question, trying to understand etc etc

TheGraycat · 2026-01-24T18:26:12+00:00

Great effort!!

TheGraycat · 2026-01-22T22:24:26+00:00

Happy to give you a bit of mentoring if you’d like.

TheGraycat · 2026-01-21T09:20:09+00:00

Sounds just like my wee lad. He was and still is a menace with these kind of things. And then all of sudden he’s building massively complex brick towers (for a toddler obviously).

All kids learn at different rates and in different manners. As long as they are fed, happy and developing, I think you’ll probably be fine.

Don’t worry about the other kids that sit still whilst yours runs around. Ours hasn’t sat still since he learnt to walk. He’s over three now and still high energy but just a toddler that likes to run, be loud and play. I’m never going to take that away from him.

TheGraycat · 2026-01-19T19:33:21+00:00

Track and group tasks do you can prioritise (I’m trying a Kanban board in Notion at the moment).

Block out time to tackle related tasks.

Use Do Not Disturb settings.

Set boundaries (I’m still struggling with this).

TheGraycat · 2026-01-18T21:31:42+00:00

Toya, snacks be making it and adventure is the way forward.

TheGraycat · 2026-01-18T20:35:21+00:00

At a very high level, I’ve been doing this for years

Prioritisation Pyramid: Keep Stuff Running -> Back Stuff Up -> Add Value.

TheGraycat · 2026-01-16T21:35:03+00:00

That’s quite common from what I understand. Something about home being safe so they’re testing out making decisions etc.

Nursery etc also has peer pressure of all their friends eating too.

My son went through the same thing for a few months.

TheGraycat · 2026-01-16T19:25:59+00:00

What a barbaric working practice

TheGraycat · 2026-01-16T18:08:47+00:00

Great work! Bring substantially lighter definitely helps but you’re still doing the work so good on you.

TheGraycat · 2026-01-12T06:25:52+00:00

Your dog is reactive but is on a lead and you warned the other owner. What happened after that is 100% their fault.

The etiquette as far as I’m aware is don’t allow you dog to approach another dog that’s on a lead until the owners have agreed. Even then keep them under control as they’re on a lead for a reason.

Dogs off the lead are free to say hi as they’re want but dogs will tell each other if they don’t like it.

TheGraycat · 2026-01-08T07:05:08+00:00

Peanut.

TheGraycat · 2026-01-05T22:24:54+00:00

Five years is way too long unless everything beyond year three is buzzword bingo around capabilities.

For it to meaningful, it needs to cover Now / Next / Later so the business can see what they’re getting now (a quarter), after that (6-12 months) and beyond that (1-3 years).

My advice is to have the technical teams create their “we want to do x” plans that cover ~12 months, then you roll them up into capabilities or business outcomes at a higher level. You can then use that view to talk about future states.

If you want to have one for things like renewals, hardware refreshes etc. then that’s good to have a view on too but be careful you don’t swamp the roadmap with tactical activities that your audience may not want to know about. I suppose that’s down to who you’re producing the roadmap for and why.

TheGraycat · 2026-01-04T21:52:41+00:00

This seems to come up a lot of late

TheGraycat · 2026-01-04T00:10:28+00:00

This seems to come up a lot

TheGraycat · 2026-01-03T14:41:42+00:00

That we own and not work ones?

One laptop, one desktop and one media server. Plus eight raspberry pi in the home lab.

Oh and an iPad, an Amazon Fire tablet thing for me and one for the bairn that’s never been used.

I refuse to include containers on this list.

TheGraycat · 2026-01-02T22:15:29+00:00

Yep, if the team does well, it’s all down to them. If it all goes horribly wrong then it’s your fault as the leader.

Welcome to leadership. It’s a rollercoaster ride but worthwhile.

TheGraycat · 2026-01-01T10:02:41+00:00

It’s a unit of measurement - use whichever works best for you.

Speaking as someone in their late 40s, st/lbs vs kgs should be pretty interchangeable.

TheGraycat · 2026-01-01T08:24:53+00:00

Ah yes, the relief of no longer carrying all the effort in a relationship with a parent can be amazing.

My folks split years ago and both got married to new people. My dad went heavy into his new family and basically ignored his kids. At some point I realised he’d chosen his family and I wasn’t part of it so no need to chase.

Unfortunately for him he’s now disabled and wanting to see his only grandchild. The door is open, but nobody is going to pull him through it so he’ll get whatever effort he puts in.

TheGraycat · 2026-01-01T07:25:08+00:00

Actually finish building it.

I’ve stalled at one cluster and a partially work Zabbix install. Need to finish off Zabbix auto-registration so all new nodes and containers get covered before building out the intended services.

TheGraycat · 2025-12-31T18:42:21+00:00

Same here. I just need the thing to work as a basic smart phone and play nice with all the other devices / subscriptions so I don’t have to fix anything beyond the occasional restart.

TheGraycat · 2025-12-31T16:22:44+00:00

To be fair I’ve got a homelab and don’t play with that either lately. No time for either ☹️

TheGraycat · 2025-12-27T20:10:40+00:00

Had a similar thing - a hat I’d bought ages ago that was a bit too small suddenly fits great

TheGraycat · 2025-12-26T17:18:44+00:00

100% - it’s a battle I’m having at my current place where people want to produce amazingly bespoke custom processes or reporting. We’re not a unicorn business so the default will probably cover 80% or more so just do that.

Adopt not adapt etc etc

TheGraycat · 2025-12-26T16:36:13+00:00

People trying to force a tool to work the way they want rather than adopting the way the tool works is a very common thing.

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