aka @JWBananas
aka @JWBananas

I will go slightly out of my way to step on that crunchy looking leaf.

  • 0 Posts
  • 17 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 14th, 2023

help-circle












  • I switched once in college just because I could. But then I switched back when Windows 7 was released.

    Then I switched again at work because our product ran on Ubuntu server, and I hate PuTTY with a passion, and it was just easier to manage Linux from Linux. But I switched back again when we were acquired by a larger company that required us to use more productivity tools that didn’t run well on Linux at the time and had to to “just work” (Skype for Business, Zoom, etc).

    These days I spend most of the workday in WSL via Windows Terminal. At home I run a handful of Linux VMs atop an ESXi hypervisor installed on an old desktop. But when I’m not working, I generally just stay as far away from computers as possible.


  • I switched once in college just because I could. But then I switched back when Windows 7 was released.

    Then I switched again at work because our product ran on Ubuntu server, and I hate PuTTY with a passion, and it was just easier to manage Linux from Linux. But I switched back again when we were acquired by a larger company that required us to use more productivity tools that didn’t run well on Linux at the time and had to to “just work” (Skype for Business, Zoom, etc).

    These days I spend most of the workday in WSL via Windows Terminal. At home I run a handful of Linux VMs atop an ESXi hypervisor installed on an old desktop. But when I’m not working, I generally just stay as far away from computers as possible.




  • Corporations have been pushing the sustainability-is-a-personal-responsibility narrative for decades. But even in the best case, it only makes a drop-in-the-bucket difference compared to solutions that work at massive scale.

    “What is your carbon footprint?” I don’t know. What is Walmart’s?

    On top of that, there are billions of people who are either currently living in poverty or are finally on their way to tasting the prosperity that much of the Western world has had for the last century. Will our cuts in consumption be enough to outweigh the increases by everyone else? Even if we break even, that still leaves us on the way to disaster.

    There is no silver bullet. The more realistic scalable solutions we can synergistically use to achieve sustainability, the better.