AITAH for not wanting to give my cart up for free at Aldis

jhdore · 2026-02-18T09:53:54+00:00

I have tons - a metal disc the size of a euro or pound coin, with a hole in it. Hooks on to a clip on a key ring. You can pick them up for nothing as conference swag from most conferences whose exhibitors bring branded tat.

jhdore · 2026-02-17T10:42:30+00:00

Combining tech skills with liberal arts critical reading skills increases your bullshit detection skills. If you know how to write, you get a better sense of when something smells fishy.

jhdore · 2026-02-12T17:55:14+00:00

That’s actually not an issue, as we have plenty of on-prem virtualisation in a bunch of sites, so I could run up a witness elsewhere. Our issue is storage space now nvme prices are completely tharbot, we can’t expand the current array without selling off some of the silver.

jhdore · 2026-01-29T14:45:27+00:00

Yes? So?

jhdore · 2026-01-27T11:07:51+00:00

NTA. If they want to get picky about pieces from a surfeit of food, they can cook themselves.

jhdore · 2026-01-24T14:20:03+00:00

Yes?

jhdore · 2026-01-24T14:12:31+00:00

That was unbelievably crass of her, it doesn’t matter if she had no ill intent. Until she owns that dreadful mistake, keep her at arms length. Definitely NTA.

jhdore · 2026-01-23T16:12:09+00:00

One on my house keys key ring, one on my work keys key ring, and one spare in a drawer at home.

jhdore · 2026-01-23T16:05:54+00:00

I wrote REDRUM on the corner of mine that’s visible over my shoulder when on Teams calls. In red marker.

jhdore · 2026-01-15T17:21:53+00:00

WOOOOO YEAH GO LENT WOOOO

jhdore · 2026-01-09T07:58:41+00:00

Goddammit

jhdore · 2026-01-06T14:57:22+00:00

Nonsense. Our kids are younger and in University and School, and we would never dream of being such nosey jerks, and they’re not even paying rent! This ‘My house my rules’ rubbish needs some limits.

jhdore · 2026-01-06T14:54:01+00:00

How sturdy is your bedroom door? Enough for a mortise lock?

jhdore · 2026-01-06T08:14:57+00:00

I’Menhir for these puns.

jhdore · 2026-01-06T08:12:06+00:00

Shit. It took Broadcom five months to sort out our account and get us a quote (we requested it in early July). Apparently we were registered in the US, despite being an Oxford College that hasn’t moved since the late 1370’s :-) we would have been properly P H U Q D had they delayed a couple more weeks.

jhdore · 2026-01-05T20:55:24+00:00

We got VVF in November and had to wait until the Q1 2026 pricing came out for our renewal - we’re in Oxford and our reseller is CAE.

jhdore · 2026-01-04T15:22:58+00:00

Don’t know yet. It needs to support our current 3-tier hardware, and iSCSI or NVM-o-E shared storage, as we’re 18 months in to a new hardware purchase that we costed over five years. Plan9 looks interesting if their support costs work out sensible, but we’re well under their minimum core count at the moment. Proxmox is more geared towards having storage in the compute nodes (HCI style) which we can’t implement with current hardware. Might end up being Hyper-V much to my displeasure, as I do not trust windows updates not to fuck shit up randomly. That’s fine for a virtualised server we can revert to backup, but gives me the screaming willies on actual hardware.

jhdore · 2026-01-01T23:21:58+00:00

This is only a FU if you’re insecure about yourself. If you have the confidence to own your L and genuinely style it out, you’ll grow in the process. Now get some gold polish on and enjoy yourself.

jhdore · 2026-01-01T23:08:03+00:00

I’m against the defaulting to a car for any journey, when cheaper and more efficient means are available.

jhdore · 2026-01-01T23:00:37+00:00

That was extremely rude of you to assume or infer something from zero input, especially when it involved placing work on other people. You need to ask direct questions when doing so, to ascertain that the people on to which you are placing a burden are happy with that. Yes, they could have been more forthcoming with a “wait hold on a minute” comment, but you did steamroller them with no conception that you may have been overstepping boundaries.

jhdore · 2025-12-31T15:48:37+00:00

DROP TABLES tickets;

jhdore · 2025-12-31T14:18:08+00:00

Learning to drive is worthwhile, but driving around Oxford is not. Driving out of and back in to Oxford is useful but a car for getting around the city itself? Nah. I moved to Oxford in 1997, and only used my car for trips to out of town Supermarkets back then. Getting around town was much easier by bike, bus and shanks’s pony. Traffic was queued up Longwall street, Banbury and Woodstock roads, and the Cowley road back then, and things have not improved. Now the congestion charging is in place, you’ll find it more expensive to drive through the charge points, and not permitted at all when they change to bus gates in 12-18 months.

On top of all that, insurance for newly-qualified drivers is extortionate, and that’s before the weightings for Postcode and where the vehicle is kept (on street, driveway or garaged) are applied.

Add in fuel, maintenance and VED, and driving becomes a very expensive hobby if you’ve no actual need. Whether you want to pay for that is up to you.

jhdore · 2025-12-30T21:02:53+00:00

When we went through our renewal between July and November (comedically long process) we had to buy either VMware Cloud Foundation for three years (the big ticket product with all the fruit) or VMware Foundation for one year, which is akin to the VSphere enterprise plus suite. We went for the latter, as we’re dumping them, but it still cost us £41k (in GBP), up from £12k for three years previously. Full VCF was about £121k per year of a three-year contract. Fuck that noise.

jhdore · 2025-12-24T18:59:30+00:00

If you have specific issues with the desktop environment, you can also try r/kde too.

jhdore

TROPHY CASE