Let's see your First Gen Toyota Tundra in scenic places

Oh yeah, should have said senior linux systems engineer. I've done remote, went remote when I first moved up to the PNW. I'm weird in that I still prefer hybrid and have had good experiences with it with the right team. One or two days a week in the office for meetings, two days a week wfh for actual productivity, and one floater for whatever is a priority that week. Floater day was usually good for heading to the DC to swap out some dying hardware and get out of town for the day.

My biggest problem up here(besides the years of on call burnout) is that this is MS territory and I hate windows. Linux roles are pretty rare around here outside of being a rack monkey at a data center or doing contract work for Intel, also usually just rack monkeys.

I've used all the various VM flavors. Hypervisors are the one thing that I've had to use windows for over the years, but usually just a VM. I have a small VirtualBox cluster at home for spinning up test environments, and manage my home Ubiquiti network from a linux VM on my NAS.

I remember when the change started getting pushed on us to pivot from sysadmins to devops. Coworkers and I were wondering why we needed to start splitting part of our time with our assigned dev teams, still do our own jobs, and still be on call, without a bump in pay. The company I was at at the time was also drinking the Atlassian kool-aid straight from the fire hose and trying to force it on us. Stop planning out your long term projects, be agile, move fast and break stuff, blah blah blah...

I listen to guys around what I presume is both our ages that work in middle management talking about how much easier their lives have gotten with AI. Every time they start going on and on about how they were on vacation for a week and all they had to do was ask their AI to summarize the chat and emails they missed, I want to slap them and ask them if they realize they're training their replacement?

The other problem with all the cloud stuff is a lot of the junior and mid level people now don't even know how to use a command line anymore. If it doesn't have a GUI, they can't use it. I've had friends in larger corporations explicitly told to stop talking about doing things from the CLI because it's making other employees feel uncomfortable because they don't know what he's talking about.

Also I'm sure you're totally aware of how rampant ageism is in tech. All of us that have been doing this for 30 years are expensive and we tend to have expensive healthcare now, much easier to hire someone in their 30s for less money and they can either figure it out or burn out. Either way, profit!

@CC80guy I'm guessing Y2K was a lucrative reason to come out of retirement for you initially? I really wish the linux date bug wasn't still 13 years away, I'm sure as it gets closer there's bound to be a lot of work for the crotchety old neck beards to come out of retirement for. Not really keen on waiting that long though. I still keep debating teaching myself Fortran again. I took it in college, and I know it's still relied on a lot in certain industries, also know that most of the people that know it are retired now.

Hahaha, I ride motorcycles so I don't have to deal with tech and I keep maps in my truck.

I'll take my truck somewhere scenic and take a photo of it this week for fully derailing this thread.

 

Y2K did, in fact, provide a lot of contracts for me, especially the closer it got. Mentioning Fortran brought back some memories. At one time I was coding in COBOL, Fortran, C, and 4 variations of Basic, Quickbasic, etc, even some Assembly, and eventually HTML & Java. Those were hectic days I do not miss. These days I still do a bit of HTML5 but for personal stuff. Mostly just tinker with my ham radio stuff.

 

OMG - Burroughs B6700, ALGOL, punch cards, oh shit - I dropped em, syntax error, syntax error…PTSD!

 

Mt Hood wasn’t cooperating this evening.

 

Sometimes rolling through new towns i’d like to know which mom & pop sandwich shop i should stop at for lunch. If theres something better off main street, or if i’d be better off checking the next town. Burned myself more than once, by getting to the next town & them not having anything but a chain restaurant. I probably need to mount my phone to my handlebars, but my gloves dont work the screen, so the juice aint worth the squeeze.

 

Heres one from this Spring in Utah over looking Lake Powell.

 

I love the desert photos. I have a bunch of my own I could post but they're all with the Tacoma or my old Toyota motorhome. I hope to get down there with the Tundra next spring.

 

Alstrom point? Awesome picture

 

Is my uncle's farm scenic enough? That's the closest I've got since her recent transformation.

 

You got it buddy!

 

It's on my list! Been wanting to make it down there for a while now, I'm already out of vacation time this year though

 

Where are you located? You got to make a point to go sometime. Ive known about it for years and finally went 2 years ago. Now ive been twice and plan on going every year if i can. Its a fun trail at the end finding cool camping spots over looking everything and the views are incredible.

 

Here’s my hood on the Golden Gate Bridge. 650 miles to pick up another bicycle and hang out with old friends.

 

Damn, 650 miles is a long way for a bike. I think the longest drive I've ever taken was Atlanta GA -> Charleston SC and back (~325 miles). I headed out after breakfast, got back before dinner.

You grabbing a MTB, or something else?

 

Don't pull a @FirstGenVol and get gas by the bridge.

 

How bad is it

 

When we were there in 2023, anywhere in the city south of GGB was north of $7.50/gal!

But I'd hope it's less than $5/gal now.

 

Yep.

This was in Big Sur.

 

Oh hell naw

 

Holyyyyy Hell

Even Big Sur whewwwwwww

 

Texans would storm the state capital if gas were $7.50. We start pissing and moaning anytime it's over $3.

 

I mean, all that taxation on things (not necessarily fuel) is likely how/why California pays more into the federal tax system than any other state, giving more than it takes, and why Texas is a welfare recipient, i.e. it takes more federal tax money than it gives. Gotta refill the offset somehow.

For being such a "big meanie" with its regulations and taxation, California is the 4th largest economy in the entire world, even larger than all of Japan. People don't have to live there. They have every right to cash out and move... but the reality is, it's turned the state into a veritable economic powerhouse. The reality is, lower taxes, and lower costs hurt worse than they help.

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Finally, someone posts something that actually has to do with the thread! Thank you!

 

And for all that it is virtually bankrupt. More than 30,000 Californian's file for bankruptcy every year and so have several California cities (San Bernardino, Stockton, Vallejo, etc). Just to put the numbers into perspective, as of 2023 California received 10.8% of Federal disbursements while Texas received 7.6%. As far as contributions, when calculated on a per person basis California isn't even close to the top, Delaware, Minnesota, and New Jersey top the list. There is a lot of info out there but this link sums it up pretty well.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.co...-20-billion-deficit-ignores-day-of-reckoning/

 

Sadly, per capita, I think the numbers are worse per capita for at least 40 of the 49 other states.

 

Paid $2.53 in SC last week. In Dayton, borrowed my BIL's 2019 4Runner and paid $2.69 at Sam's Club in Centerville today.

 

Yup, mountain bike. I could have easily had it shipped, but wanted to get away from the heat in Portland and was hoping SF would be empty due to burning man this weekend, but traffic doesn't seem to reflect that. Also I get to ride some of my old routes and see how much slower I've gotten with age.

I lived here for a long time and grew up in Monterey. Never get gas by the freeway in town. If you know where to go here gas is under $5/gallon and I won't need to fill up again until I'm close to Oregon. Big Sur gas has always been stupidly expensive, but they're mainly taking advantage of the tourists that don't plan ahead and get gas in town.

 

California can't impose federal taxes, you're paying the same percentage of federal tax as every other state. You're paying an exorbitant amount of taxes because they've been imposed by the state of California and its various cities, which are in addition to federal tax. If you're happy with that, continue to vote for Democrats.

 

Yup. Going to San Francisco (east bay) to beat the heat has been going in since forever. This is in August... Under 70. They even have outside gas fire pits to take the chill off. 30 miles west it's 100.