Wobbly One Of Myriads @wobblewuffess@awoo.space

This is missing the part were I got frustrated and tried to explain things like containers, cloudformation, terraform, terragrunt and various other template and management/deployment tools and she concluded they were basically "Spells"

Please note.. it is not like my mom is dumb.. she was very much the opposite of that with a Ph.D in nursing and 40 years of experience during emergency medicine, family practice, pulmonology and pediatric oncology

It is just really hard to explain public cloud stuff to a lay person.. it might as well be fucking magic.

So... I went from a Server Sorcerer, Legacy Service Necromancer and Incident Inquisitor to.. Cloud Conjuration Witch.

My mom asked me to try to explain my new role.. and I struggled because explaining anything with public cloud space and Ops/DevOps to someone that does not have the technical background knowledge is basically impossible.

"So you write code?"
"Not that much.. I work with the people who write it to make sure it produces a stable, reliable, scalable and secure service/product."
"So.. you are QA?"
"No... I don't test their code... I cast spells on the internet to conjure up fake servers and networks for their code to live on that in turn only exist on another company's abstracted computing layer atop their physical hardware."
"So you are an internet witch..?"

- Actual conversation with my mom..

@mawr @kelseyhusky

I'm starting feel like Lamda functions are were I'm going to find that in my new role.. AWS is.. very simple when you know where to look for things and get a grasp on the cli and UI which is good.. but it is not the same as my old role... for things like..

"Hey guys.. I uh.. resurrected that legacy hardware that was critical to your team and not backed up.. now you should make a plan to replace it and get the data off. here is what I would do!"

And it is official.. Now to set up eleventy billion AWS accounts... Fucking hell.

Bleh... what unholy hour is this? I think I am going to hate mondays again

Apparently it was so bad at 7:30am I forgot to hit enter.. lol

FREEDOM FROM THE OPS-ENG 2nd shift oncall...

but Monday I have to be up for a 8am meeting as a shiny new SRE :(

@asonix I had a feeling it was something like that after exhausting everything on my end. :X

Huh... firefox thinks all my addons no longer are signed correctly on both my windows machines... and murdered them all... tried rolling back.. nope.. tried downloading new ones on a fresh install.. nope

waterfox is working okay though... and able to pull and install addons from addons.mozilla.org.. wtf.

@kistaro Ughhh.. that always sucks :(

@kistaro Gotcha! No judgment here as long as it fits your economic situation!

@kistaro Yeah that would definitely be helpful.. oof.. I didn't realize the 960m had fallen that far behind.
On the subject of display out.. thankfully USB-C has become pretty standard on anything made in the last year. I wish more manufacturers would use display port or mini display port over HDMI.

@kistaro That is completely fair. I wasn't willing to throw down for a RTX serious card but I have a gaming rig that is still cutting it for the most part for now. (Though I really want to move to 2k @ 144hz eventually.. since I love my aging 2k Dell Ultrasharp.. but 60hz has been.. frustrating in some of the things I play with friends.. but that would require a full rebuild most likely and that is probably not in my budget until next year.)

Looks like the GS75 uses a different keyboard so hopefully you don't have the same issues I had with the G65.

On trackpads.. I've definitely been spoiled.. the razerblade 14" used for 5 years had the best trackpad I've ever used on Windows only machine prior to the razerblade 15". Which is almost as good as the 2017 MBP work issued me and miles better than my bootcamped 2008 MBP that I used for years prior to buying the razerblade 14" in 2014

@kistaro But the razerblade advanced 15" was literally everything I was looking for in a laptop.. at a fairly reasonable price (1400 USD)

The MSI GS65 Stealth Thin was perfect on paper but they skimped on the trackpad and keyboard and that killed it for me.

@kistaro Supposedly some of the older 10 series Max-Q units had some QC issues and coil whine.. mine doesn't.

Other than the fan controller and the finish (mine got scratched up in my bag by the charging plug.. but I'm probably going to skin it anyway to get rid of the glowing logo) I can't find anything I don't like about it after a month. Which is surprising because after how my 14" blade died I had pretty much sworn razer off for ever.

@kistaro And unlike my original razerblade 14" from 2014.. opening the it up does not void the warranty.. and the ram is swapable, fans replaceable and SSD serviceable. In fact none off the components are soldered to the mobo except the stuff that is build into it (GPU, wireless etc)

So it is extremely serviceable.. the battery is easily replaceable* (razer does not sell them but it is a more standard cell arrangement and easy to buy 3rd party compared to their older offerings)

@kistaro Manual fan control lets you set the fans between 4k and 5k (max) rpm.. no lower.

The lighting controller for Synapse loses all of its settings if the laptop goes to sleep. (So things like disabling the glowing logo.. have to turn on.. and off again to get it to stay off)

But.. it has a fantastic keyboard, amazing trackpad.. like just as good as the macbook pro I use for work stuff. I do wish it had a dedicated ethernet port like the GS65 (which is somehow lighter and thinner)