My job title is "IT support engineer". No, I don't know why your email is slow. No, I don't fix stuff on your work laptop. Call me when you have a 1.8PB storage volume that is throwing errors, or when the robotics and automation can't talk to their controller.

Luckily I'm getting a new title next month, along with a new employer.

Surely the collective noun for a group of particle physicists has to be A Theory.

Free power as well. I see no downside to this.

Just get it over with and start building an equatorial particle collider already.

There might be more modern ways of doing this, but I run "Wifi FTP server" on my phone, with my download directory as its root. Then I use filezilla or whatever to transfer what I need. Trouble free and platform agnostic.

Be the change you want to see.

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Both.

Checklists are on my phone, as it automatically hides checked items, making the remaining items easier to see.

Procedural lists, such as a task list with items that have to be done in order often go on paper, such as when I'm traveling: each line has flight number, time, from-to, and booking references.

Calendars go on both, as loads of household planning has to take my work schedule into account. The consolidated one that contains everything that has been finalized so far hangs in the kitchen, while the things that are subject to change as on phones/laptops

Which publishers? Sounds like I should make a public library of their entire catalogs.

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AITA was more creative writing and outrage baiting than anything else.

My 10 year old liked it, that's the only review that matters to me.

Server clusters and fiberoptic networks. My parents ran a dairy and cattle farm better than I ever could, though. In a pinch I could probably do it, but not for 40 fucking years.

My mom is 72 now. I wonder if I could teach her the concepts of my job if she really wanted to.

Edit: Funny thought I just had.. I am myself a living incarnation of the "old man yells at cloud"-meme, as I mostly deal with on-prem stuff. I've toyed around a bit with Azure, but that's it. My dad liked excel for accounting, that was the extent of his IT skills. Holy fuck, him dealing with azure would piss him off enough to stay alive longer just to get a chance to kick whoever invented cloud computing in the nuts. He's among the most stubborn people I've ever known.

Obligatory: Google en passant.

Figure out when a kettle of piratoes is ready. I can cook a lot of stuff, but when boiling potatoes I always need my GF to check if they're ready.

Edit: potatoes. No fucking idea what happened with my spelling

Alright, i misunderstood your question, and I was thinking of a very different scale and setup. But I'll post it anyway in case someone finds it useful.

I can absolutely recommend the Seagate Exos Series. Reliable, fast, and durable. I have 864 of these spinning at work, and the only ones who've failed are likely due to the harsh operating environment. I've used them since 4TB, and now 10tb. We'll probably go for the same brand when upgrading again in about 6 months.

Hoboy, that's an arguement I'm not even remotely willing to approach. So instead I will respect your opinion, fight away the mental imagery of "crow of judgement", and move along. Have a good day.

Into the forest/mountain that is literally right outside my house. Harsh terrain that foreign agents won't be able to traverse easily without local knowledge. With a five minute head start they'd have no way of finding me without dogs and helicopters. And even they would have difficulty navigating the terrain and local weather conditions.

Can you claim that you don't have a smartphone? Then they'd either have to provide an alternative authentication method, or provide you with a phone.

I've been part of the Microsoft Bad crowd for well over 25 years now, but there are a few things that I will concede that MS has done well. Authenticator is one of them. I haven't looked much into the privacy aspect of it, though.

Same. I used mIRC back in the 90's, but ever since I started dabbling with servers I preferred to have an irssi client running inside a screen session somewhere. Allowed me to catch up on things that happened while I was AFK, as well as provide some continuity while I was on the move and/or on a dodgy connection.