I have worked with “younger” teams in the last few years. They are all about being agile and lean = don’t know what they’re doing, don’t know when they will deliver and don’t know what they will deliver 
The best teams I worked with were in the 90s. Always within budget, always in time … and always the best technological solutions one could think of.
Maybe this generation is louder and knows how to sell themselves better?
Is it still command line or can you have the full fledged UI?
They don’t seem to be able to troubleshoot the same way we could. The reason I have any training on how to solder was because it was required knowledge for IT people then. They’ve grown up working in an environment where if something breaks, or doesn’t “just work” you buy a new one. Their base knowledge about how those things should fit together and “just work” is a lot higher than ours was 30 years ago.
There are guides out there for getting an X server running in WSL.
My girlfriend always has to laugh when I have forgotten the batterys for my SRAM gear on my gravel bike and it won’t shift, as bluetooth needs power.
Thinking about it, it really is stupid that everything is connected now (though I love the smooth sfifting when I haven’t forgotten the battery).
But, “Everything is better with bluetooth”
AI is the new bluetooth …can’t wait to have it in my bike
You can run graphical apps too (X11 and Wayland). Linked video demonstrates, but it’s just one I grabbed randomly - not sure if it is actually WSL or WSL2.
I’m not sure, but I suppose you could run Gnome, KDE, or such if you wanted to.
I happily retired my last three Ubunu servers recently and migrated them to fabulous windows. No command lines anymore, no complicated config files that are scattered in various folders.
I hope to never use Ubuntu again!
Yeah, I would be using Gnome or KDE … or whatever Ubuntu has these days. But only if I cannot avoid it. I could migrate all my use cases to windows now (see above), the last being my own little DVB digital TV headend that has a 100++ day uptime now.
I have only one application for a digital settop box and smart TV server left somewhere, but that can run in a VM. And I rarely need it, since I developed my own little test platform…
EDIT D@mn, I just remembered that my web server is Ubuntu. I have too many servers!
Heh, know those feels. I’m a SQL Analyst and developer in Healthcare IT, manage a team of kids that make me feel my age regularly. Thankfully I still know more than they do about the business use and backend of the software we use so I still get to flex the muscles. All the managers in our dept are still active developers although our new owners are desperately trying to smoosh that and keep us tied up in dumb meetings where we talk about all the work that needs to be done instead of just letting us get on with it.
I do not miss the days of tech support though. I spent 9 years as the sole IT person for a district court house judges office. I still have nightmares.
But this is the only thing support does, right?
This, utterly this. I don’t understand why this is a dying art. I was talking with my bosses the other day about this (both around my age) and it’s noticeable on all the teams, the new hires we get have a serious inability to look at the big picture and just figure stuff out.
Maybe it’s because when we all joined we were a dept of 12, everybody knew what everybody else was working on and discussions would bounce around the office about all sorts of things. By the time we got to the point we had about 50 of us split into 6 teams that had more focused areas the breadth of knowledge had gotten a lot less. But even so, the interest in find out the 'why’s is just not there. I got one guy on my team who is awesome at it but he’s the minority.
Ha, sadly accurate.
I was reading Hitchhikers to my son recently and it’s kind of scary how incredibly uhh, ‘accurately predictive’ I guess one could say about our future it was.
My first “real” sysadmin job was a while ago. This is in the times before Google was a common verb. I was full of potential, but short on experience. Luckily, there was a bookstore directly across the street from the high-rise office building I worked in.
That first year especially, some issue would come up, I’d try to figure it out, end up going across the street to do some research, and then hopefully come back with an idea as to how to fix the thing.
“Figure it out” got baked in by necessity, and now I’m cursed to not be able to accept high level explanations of how things are supposed to work.
I’m trying to distract myself from the fact that my new one is currently on a UPS truck somewhere around town wending it’s incredibly slow way to my house!
Part of it imo is that there is a lot less room for the jack of all trades, master of none now. Everyone comes out of school with their specialties. Partly it’s because around the mid-00’s tech started to become more disposable. If something isn’t working, just replace it. There’s no need to dig into NIC card settings to change full / half duplex 10/100 on cards (as an example). As an operations type, security folks who come out of school and never work as sys admins absolutely kill me. Try explaining to one of them why we can’t just bring a non clustered SQL server down and reimage it without disrupting critical production workflows all because some line on one of their reports is showing a discrepancy that requires some investigation to fix, is a bad plan.
The analogue for software engineers is how it is really funny when you can tell an “engineer” never took something like a Theory of Computation class (or educated themselves in it later). I have seen projects get surprisingly far along (with exec buy-in!) where what they wanted to do was fundamentally not a tractable problem in ways obvious to anyone with the basics of CS down. Good luck bros, let me know when the Nobel committee calls you for solving the Halting Problem.
I cannot wait for agile project management to stop being trendy but,
These two takes make you sound like a grumpy old man
No doubt they are great.
I ordered gold lollipops tuner for my build from best bass gear it said in stock. Turned out they don’t have 4. So I got an email said that more is on the way please wait. Sure! No problem.
3 weeks later I called. They said still waiting. So I called Hipshot, the guy there said oh yes, we have it in stock it’s on the shelf here, just missed the batch delivery that’s was going to best bass gear, he’ll make sure that it would be on the next one. Awesome. I told him that I was waiting for a build. Should I cancel and order from Hipshot, he said no it wouldn’t be right. Ok no problem.
3 weeks later I called best bass gear, no still not here. Again, I called Hipshot got to the same guy asking if the tuners ever made the delivery, he said no he still has it on the shelf. I said we spoke before and I’m waiting for tuners to complete the build. I asked if it’s going to be on the next batch out. He said he couldn’t guarantee it. But they are in stock and on your shelf. He said well then may be it will be on the next batch.
I ordered the gold clover instead to complete the build but kept the lollipop on order. 2 months later I received the lollipops.
It took several months to get the product they have on hand even with 2 direct phone calls explaining the urgency. I care a lot about Hipshot that I specifically modified my bass around their products. They could not care less about their customers. It’s not the guy who took my call unless he’s in management, it’s the culture. This is top down thing. If you don’t drill in the importance of customers and customers service.
They are a luxury company which means they are the first out and last in products when economy go down this should be communicated religiously in the company. Many companies do this that’s why if you email Schaller sometimes you’d get the reply from the owner/ CEO of the company and their company is bigger than Hipshot.
After this incident I emailed Hipshot, never got any reply. How toxic is their working environment that one would jeopardize his livelihood screwing the customers.
Sadly I have a small stockpile of Hipshot products. I traded some out but I have not spent a dime on their company for the last few years considering the amount of instruments I modded and sold that’s the order of a small shop, 
