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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Mine are all named for the colour of the case, or case accent when ambiguous, though network infrastructure items are named for their models, being the typical default.

    I sometimes use A records or mDNS-SD for the actual services provided and use a *.home.arpa. domain.

    Another theme at another site is native fauna and flora names.

    No cringe, no pop culture.


  • Windows on my family members’ devices.

    I’ve been in Linux land for so long now that I’ve forgotten windows’ idiosyncrasies… rather they’ve changed since XP.

    Everything is hidden/obscured/cryptic. Just recently I needed to my account on my child’s laptop, no way on the login screen to do that. Just their account visible. Turns out that is a feature and requires three different registry settings to disable according to MS’s appalling community support.