Me too. To this Day our national Electric invoice standard uses ISO-8859-15. An that’s just fine until somebody feels the need to have a look with Notepad, add a random space and save the file.

Notepad then helpfully changes the encoding to UTF-16 and the whole patch errors out somewhere down the chain.

I do live in a bit of a different part of the globe. It is a losing battle here on side of humans. Trees pop up and every year there are less people around.

I like it here, may it make me a hillbilly on a flat ground or not.

It’s really not that hard. I’m the IT department for a medium sized bakery operation. Around 200 employees. This just means that I’m available when it really is necessary. I’m in situ or on call when orders come in and when shipments go out.

In the end I’m cheaper than outsourcing all the in house software and hardware. And I’m available at 3am when the bakers do their thing.

And yeah, I do have somebody somewhat trained in every bakery. When they’re at end of their wit I’m the person they call.

In the end, I’m around 1% of the payroll. IT is not that special.

I have not, and on a glance it looks really interesting, thank you! I will give it a spin and I really hope it is the editor of choice from now on.

I will not make vim my sweet as it is optimized for us keyboard. Most of the shortcuts are awful in my native (Finnish) layout. As much of a heretic I am, there is a place for mouse and windowing display managers.

What I do miss from the Redmont dystopia is Notepad++. Can do anything, can be explained over the phone.

That’s the way it works. I had an uncle with multiple sclerosis (spelling?). He used to get his PC infected with all sorts of ransomware back in late 90’s. For him credit card was the answer, luckily his siblings mostly got somebody to clean the shit up.