I don't think they ever said they knew they were the only one to know the admin passwords. Looks like they've heard it from former colleagues after they left:
> I heard from former colleagues that no one knew the admin passwords for their critical systems except me
And looks like they tried to address the fact that the entire sysadmin operation depended on them and management did nothing?
That's a lot of hostility and assumptions about some person on the internet and by the looks of it I'll make the assumption you've never worked on chaotic places where management is just shitty? I'm in the same situation at my company where I'm the only person managing our legacy CI/CD pipelines which are quite complex and nobody wants to learn it and management keeps saying they'll hire somebody as backup but they never do so I can relate to parent.
I loved to draw as a kid and in 2015 I tried to really learn so I bought a cheap course in one of these learning platforms (I think it was udemy). I haven't really kept drawing and have been on and off since then. Last year I decided to get back at it again and have been drawing a bit more consistently but I still can't keep it a daily routine.
TL;DR: I draw, not consistently, but I do enjoy it.
You should try out drawabox.com. I think some people like it and some don't. Even I stopped following the tutorials from that website, but it actually has taught me important fundamentals to get started drawing, like something as simple as how to hold a pen, about perspective, how to draw a box or other shapes, etc. Also, don't stick to one tutorial, so you don't stuck in yet another tutorial hell haha. I think art is subjective enough that you can disagree on tutorials you follow.
Also, this is a good practice about learning things in general: _take a break_. Don't draw continuously. I find that taking a break and purposely "forget" how to draw very helpful on learning, specifically learning to draw.
The course I did back in 2015 had a really good focus on the fundamentals; it helped immensely. At some point I also did DAB although I didn't follow it all the way to the end, but it also helped, especially with perspective.
One thing that distract me is the amount of stuff I need to learn as my goal was to learn digital painting. Drawing is very important but it's just the first step, then you have lots of other stuff like values, color, light, composition, etc. So you start to look into these things and there are an obscene amount of material to learn so it gets overwhelming and it put me off every now and then.
I confess that I need to improve my organization skills to be able to go through all that stuff without getting frustrated.
I must be the luckiest person alive to use Linux because I keep reading people writing about issues with Linux, issues with Fedora, and meanwhile I have been using Fedora since version 16 and I had virtually zero issues. I'm on my second laptop since then, now running Fedora 41, and still, zero issues.
Sure, I had limitations back then using an external monitor (HiDPI) but all that went away once Wayland got stable. My new laptop has a GeForce and I needed a few commands to make it work nice.
I'm glad I have never had to resort to going back to windows except for gaming since I started using Linux as my main driver in... 2006 I guess?
I thought I was the only one like that, except my dominant leg for kicking is the right one, and I eat with fork on right hand, knife on left; and I use scissors with my right hand. I also play the guitar as a right-handed person.
When I tell people these things, I can see total confusion on their faces. Quite funny.
I don’t drink soda anymore, but when I did, it was mostly Coca-Cola. After moving to the US, I decided to try Dr. Pepper. Couldn’t get past the first sip, because this thing tastes like cough medicine (the bad kind). I know taste is very subjective and individual, but it puzzles me how people can drink—and like—this thing.
My grandma really liked it when i was little, so when I’d go to her house and have it sometimes. Probably just having it in early childhood like for most things.
Conceptually yes (and Krita might be more feature rich than Procreate), but Procreate is an iPad only app and Krita is not available on that platform, unfortunately.
> One bit that doesn't make sense to me is how caves or rock overhangings don't provide protection.
There is a hiking in my home state that takes about 2 days to complete. Along the way, there is a huge rock that fits that description; it sits in the middle of an open area. We are taught to never seek shelter under it when there is lightning. When asking why, we’re told that that rock is informally called “The Microwave”, because, well, exactly what the article says.
This has been common knowledge in the area for a very long time already (not sure if specific to that rock or for any cave or overhanging rock in general like the article says).
I have an Asus ROG Zephyrus with an AMD CPU and a dedicated Nvidia RTX 3060. It also has integrated Radeon graphics.
When using the Nvidia, the system is quite unstable (I get some weird issues with KDE on Wayland) but when using the integrated graphics it works fine. Since I only play games on Windows (this laptop is dual boot), I haven’t missed the Nvidia yet.
The WiFi has an issue though and it seems related to the adapter used. Sometimes when I boot into Linux, the WiFi is not detected (drivers can’t be loaded or something like that); things only get back to normal after power off/on.
