JP @daedalus@eigenmagic.net

Ahahahaha holy shit I got quoted into Hansard.

Aussie bogan RWNJs are not welcome on my instance.

Still, we're back. So yay?

But if you wanted that you'd be running Gentoo or BSD or something, right?

Only system managed packages won't provide the New Shiny the devs want, so Docker.
Unless you want to redownload and recompile a bunch of things when you go upgrade the distro version.

An argument in favour of either a) Docker or b) system managed packages.

bundle install --redownload seems to have fixed things.

Well that was a PITA. The install was borkened because of the localised installation of ruby/bundler/gems that had to be recompiled/reinstalled.

All the other machine upgrades have gone smoothly, and I have backups, so should be fine.

Upgrading instance VM to ubuntu 20.04 so there'll be a brief blip for a reboot in a little bit.

Every time I manage to carve out some time for it, I resolve to do more of it, but with limited success.

Finished another book from my unread pile. Feels nice to emerge from some quiet book-reading time.

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With my spear and magic helmet!
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Woke up with What's Opera Doc running through my brain.

Lab results came back: not stonks
I can lick as many doorknobs as my heart desires.

A classic symptom of authoritarian bureaucracies, so DHHS still has a bunch of mess to clean up internally.
But overall it looks like they've been patching the bugs in their system well enough to have it running pretty smoothly now.

Fairly clear instructions and process. One of the traffic directing hiviz types got grumpy with us not moving forward fast enough because we thought the medicos to the left wanted to talk to us, so potential for mistakes and frustration due to unclear handoffs between teams and confused people trying to obey contradictory directions.

About 2.5 hours round-trip including cat herding the family to get out the door. Didn't seem overly busy, but a steady stream of people getting tested.

2nd week back at in-person school and it looks like Jnr has caught a cold.
Guess we're all off to get a brain-probe this morning.