foofiepie

joined 1 year ago
[–] foofiepie 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bit rough. I’m doing the job of about 3 people this week as colleagues on leave. Lots of questions I don’t know the answer to and trying to catch the important things and let other stuff go. Time-boxing the day as much as possible and trying to draw strict lines between work and home.

Forced myself to leave the office and take a walk for lunch.

Hopefully I can sleep and not worry too much before it’s rinse repeat, tomorrow.

[–] foofiepie 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Works as a civil servant

Makes perfect sense.

[–] foofiepie 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please make more of these. Thanks for sharing.

[–] foofiepie 5 points 1 year ago

Oh so true. Also, have ever looked at a word for long enough that it just doesn’t make sense?

[–] foofiepie 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you and Erk!

[–] foofiepie 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Link to a brief video of the aftermath (sorry it’s a Xitter link): video

[–] foofiepie 1 points 1 year ago

I wouldn’t consider myself to be an expert, but I have a niche skillset, coupled with knowledge in a specific key industry.

There are probably only a handful of people with this particular combination of skill and sector.

It doesn’t make me especially special, but it is niche enough to make non-compete clauses post-contract, unenforceable.

Other people think I’m an expert but I’ve seen enough to know I’m not.

[–] foofiepie 4 points 1 year ago

How do you ‘de-google’ your life? Are you just talking about ceasing Google accounts, services and avoiding the use of Google software, or is it more than that?

[–] foofiepie 7 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the horrifying mental image.

[–] foofiepie 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not weighing in on opinions about the fella as I’m British and ‘not my politician’ but, just showed this to my wife who is a specialist in geriatrics for the NHS and she said she’d refer him for a scan querying either a vascular event or vascular dementia.

[–] foofiepie 4 points 1 year ago

Oh shit that’s like 3 hobbies in this one thread. I stopped at a (very) decent Lamy 2000 and Iroshizuku inks.

[–] foofiepie 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok now you have to share. A decent bag at a half kilo?

 

Hi!

I’m a long time Mac user, but I want to set up a laptop or mini desktop (something not too old but powerful enough for image editing, really just for photography workflow), and try a Linux distro with FOSS tools for this purpose. I’m done with Adobe.

I’d like to scale one day to having a NAS of some kind.

I’ve experimented with Ubuntu before but it felt a little noddy, I just didn’t like it. Any recommendations? I’d like something with a decent community that would tolerate my noob questions.

Many thanks.

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