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  Monday morning ticket, in its entirety: "it's slow." No error message. No timestamp. No indication of which thing is slow. Just those two words and an expectation that I'll take it from here. Thanks! That narrows it right down! #MemeMonday #Linux #SysAdmin #ITSupport

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  This week’s #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds was an incredible experiment! I got real Event Horizon (1997) vibes!

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  Stepping away from the homelab today. The blinking lights can wait, because I'm getting ready to run Savage Worlds tonight. There's something about sitting around a table with dice and paper and friends that nothing on a screen quite matches. No uptime to babysit, no logs to read, no updates pending. Just a story we make up as we go. Curious how everyone else unplugs. What's your no tech or low tech hobby you're putting some time into this weekend? #TabletopRPG...

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  Bit of fun news to close out the week: I'll be on the RADIO Monday! Joining Noah Chelliah on Critical Thought over on News Radio 1310 KNOX, talking passwords, open source, and probably whatever tangents we wander into. I'll be on around 10AM Central! You can catch the stream here: https://knoxradio.com/critical-thought/ Should be a good time! #OpenSource #Linux #Radio #Tech #Podcasting

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  The four stages of running #Linux: It doesn't work. It doesn't work and I have no idea why. It works and I have no idea why. It doesn't work again. Happy Monday. #MemeMonday #SysAdmin #OpenSource

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  I'll be on the radio this morning! I'm joining Noah Chelliah on Critical Thought (News Radio 1310 KNOX) to talk about passwords and technology; I should be on around 10:06am Central! We'll be talking passwords and Bitwarden! https://knoxradio.com/critical-thought/ #passwords #bitwarden #opensource

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  Wrote something new: what #PragmaticMarketing is, and why "your opinion, although interesting, is irrelevant." (Their words, not mine!) Spent years watching teams argue about features in a conference room, all of them sure they knew what customers wanted. Pragmatic Marketing is the antidote to that. It's a framework built on a simple, yet revolutionary 😉 idea: go TALK to the market instead of trusting your gut: https://itguyeric.com/blog/what-is-pragmatic-marketing/ #...

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  New IT Guy Show is live, and this one is about a tool a lot of us LOVE: @bitwarden . Password managers are one of those things everyone agrees you should use and nobody really wants to talk about. We got into why Bitwarden being open source actually matters, new features, and how it holds up when you take it into a team or an org instead of just your personal logins. Watch here: https://youtu.be/mtJVzPL9-fQ #Bitwarden #OpenSource #Cybersecurity #PasswordManager #Linux #ITGuyShow

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  Not every marketing problem needs a full time hire. Maybe you've got a launch coming and no one to own the messaging. Maybe your docs are solid but your positioning is a mess. Maybe you need someone who can actually talk to your engineers and your customers and translate between the two. That's the kind of work I love, and you don't need the budget for a full time role to bring me in on it! https://itguyeric.com #ProductMarketing #DevRel #OpenSource #Freelance #Marketi...

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  You might work for a toxic company if: you're battling insomnia and their response is a Performance Improvement Plan. Not a check in. Not "hey, are you doing okay?" People go through things. Sleep, health, family, all of it. A decent company notices and gives you a little room. A toxic one sees a dip in output and reaches for the folder. How a company treats you on your worst week tells you everything about whether it's a good one. #CompanyCulture #Leadership...

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  Spent a while nodding along to Model Context Protocol like I knew what it meant. Then I actually sat down and figured it out: Turns out it's something sysadmins are going to be weirdly good at, because it's the same job we've always done: build a system, expose it safely, hand over exactly the access needed and nothing more. Take a look: https://itguyeric.com/blog/what-is-mcp-for-sysadmins/ #MCP #SysAdmin #Linux #AI #OpenSource

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  #TechTipThursday: the Linux trick that saves you from retyping the whole command. You run something, the terminal says permission denied, and you realize you forgot sudo. Instead of pressing up and cursoring all the way to the front of the line, just type: sudo !! The double bang means "the last command I ran," so this reruns it with sudo in front. Small thing, but you'll reach for it constantly.

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  How I've been unwinding after work lately: losing, slowly and completely, in RimWorld. For the uninitiated, it's a colony sim where you manage a handful of people trying to survive on a hostile planet. Things go fine for about an hour. Then a raid, a heat wave, and a random infection all show up the same afternoon. Nine out of ten. Would lose again. What are you playing lately? Always looking for the next thing to fail at. #Gaming #RimWorld #PCGaming #WeekendPlans

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  Dwarf Fortress has been on my watch list for a long time now. I tried Satisfactory once, wasn't really my speed, but I may have to give it another try.

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  New #FedoraPodcast is out, and this one is for everyone who has typed dnf install epel-release and never really stopped to think about what they just turned on. We sat down with Carl George, the #EPEL Team Lead at #RedHat, to get into what it actually is. We talked through the golden rule, what's changing for EPEL 11, and how the project is governed. If you run #EnterpriseLinux, EPEL is worth understanding! Have a listen: https://fedoraproject.fireside.fm/57 #Fedora #Linux #SysAdmin #open...

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  #TechTipThursday The best time to learn a new Linux tool is when nothing is on fire. Pick one command you use often and go one level deeper this week. Already use grep? Try grep -r, grep -v, grep -E. Already use find? Add -exec to actually do something with the results. Already use systemctl? Try systemctl list-dependencies. You don't need a course. You need 20 minutes and a test machine. man is still the best documentation that exists. #Linux #SysAdmin #LearningLinux #TechTip

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  This is the correct take and I will not be taking questions. LOL #AI #OpenSource #Linux #MemeMonday

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  Just started Part 2 of #DungeonCrawlerCarl! Oh my gosh, what a ride, LOL!

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  If you’ve got any extra good energy to throw my way, please do. Big decision due today and the suspense is crazy!

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  Schrodinger's Backup: the condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted. Ask me how I know. (Submitted by a follower!) #Linux #SysAdmin #Backups #MemeMonday

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  Looking for guests for the Fedora Podcast! If you're building something interesting in the Fedora ecosystem, contributing to the project, or doing something cool with open source that the community should know about — I want to talk to you. Drop a comment, send me a message, or tag someone who should be on. 🎙️ podcast.fedoraproject.org #Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #Community #Podcast

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  New Fedora Podcast episode!! 🎙️ What does bootc actually look like when it's running in production? James Harmison joins us to talk about building custom bootc images across wildly different contexts: NVIDIA drivers, AGX Orin hardware, replacing RHCOS in OpenShift, and even a couch gaming rig. Real world. Real use cases. No lab bubbles. 🎧 podcast.fedoraproject.org #Fedora #Linux #bootc #OpenSource #Containers #OpenShift

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  One of the smallest changes that made the biggest difference in my workday: scheduling Do Not Disturb. Not turning it on when I remember. Actually scheduling it. Deep work hours in the morning. Lunch. After 6pm. Blocked and protected. Notifications will always be there when you're ready for them. Your focus window won't. What hours do you guard the most? #Productivity #DeepWork #WorkLifeBalance #Focus #TechLife

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  Networking on Linux isn't magic. It just looks that way until you know where to look! Check your network interfaces: ip addr show Test connectivity: ping -c 4 google.com Check your routing table: ip route show #TechTipThursday #Linux #SysAdmin

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  A small productivity trick that helps me: I pick one “must win” task for the day. If everything explodes (which… IT), I still end the day with one meaningful win. Momentum beats perfection. #Productivity #TechLife #Focus

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  Quick cron reminder on this #TechTipThursday */5 * * * * Runs every 5 minutes. But remember: cron doesn’t care if the previous job finished. Long-running jobs can pile up fast. Sometimes a systemd timer is the better tool. #Linux #Cron #SysAdmin #DevOps

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  Spring break reminder: Those Jira tickets will still be there next week. Don’t forget the people who matter most. Step away from the keyboard when you can. #SpringBreak #TechLife #WorkLifeBalance

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  The disk is full. You delete the logs. The disk is still full. You delete more logs. The disk is still full. You have been in this loop before. You will be in this loop again. #MemeMonday #linux #sysadmin

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  Hot take: AI killed the art of blog writing. Not because AI writes bad content (okay maybe alittle), but because it writes enough content that nobody needs to stop and read yours. We're drowning in posts that are technically correct but completely forgettable. Did Real voices moved to newsletters, podcasts, and threads? Am I wrong? Where are you actually reading long-form content these days? #ProductMarketing #ContentMarketing #AIContent

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  The most underrated productivity system: - A short task list (3 things max) - One distraction-free hour in the morning - Knowing when to stop for the day No app required. #productivity