I could do the upgrade and then spend the next few weeks reinstalling apps, packages and the like, but what a pain.
Good news for me.
After retiring I entered seminary school and earned ordination as an Interfaith Minister and Chaplain. I just finished a 5 month internship at a local hospital and figure to go work as a hospice chaplain next. I've walked into rooms with the dying, their families, and brought solace and comfort to the worst day of their lives. Much more satisfying than anything I ever did in IT. And I've already got enough money to live on without working.
Wow, I had no idea old sysadmins ever retired...I thought they just got crankier and crankier.
When my last gig was winding down, I interviewed at a shop that had their own, bare metal data center. The sysadmin manager was looking for a "grey beard sysadmin" to show his staff how to work with the hardware. They asked me what I thought was my idea of a good day, and I told 'em it was a day in the data center. They looked at me like I was from Mars.
But then I interviewed with one of their millennial programmers. You know. Tatoos, face jewelry, hipster haircut. The whole works. He asked me if I knew what it was they did and how they made their money. I replied with what I'd been told by the recruiter and he then told me that how they really made their money was in data mining the behavior of their customers.
I shrugged and said I didn't care. I just like working on the machines and dug the other team members I'd met.
This guy shot me down saying, "Russ isn't a good cultural fit because he isn't sufficiently bought into the company's mission."
That's when I realized it was time to hang it up. So I pulled a little money out of savings and paid off the rest of the mortgage on the house. I now live in a house I *OWN* and pay no rent to anyone. Property taxes are all of $6k/year.
I'm looking forward to all the millennial techies leaving the SF area and taking their avacado toast with them.
California allows seniors to take their tax assessment with them when they sell and buy elsewhere. So if you've had your house for 30 years and are paying $2500/year on a $2,000,000 property, you can sell it, buy something else in the state, and still pay only $2500/year, no matter what the next property sold for.
But if you're a regular person, yeah, you're screwed.
I'm an Old Sysadmin. Started with BSD in '89. Went to Sun OS 4.x in '90. Then to Solaris in '92 - 2000 or so. Linux after that. Retired in 2019, just in time.
When you're retired *EVERY* day is Saturday!
Started work a couple years ago towards my next career as an interfaith chaplain. Haven't settled just where I'll work next, but chances are there won't be an AI to replace me in a hospital room.
Don't like California? Nobody's making you stay.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
The courts have rules about if a case is properly submitted or not, and the Trump campaign racked up over 50 losses at every level of the justice system.
A few losses is bad luck. 50+ is frivolous and a complete waste of everyone's time.
That, or the courts are just as rigged as the vote was. And for the record, there is plenty of evidence.
You mean the rigged courts crammed with Republican appointed judges?
> but the aliens in the Galactic Federation are saying, "Wait, let people calm down first,'"
Really? This being a country that has at least 70 million people living in a paranoid fantasy world, many of whom are better and more heavily armed than their local police. If they really are waiting for humanity to exhibit collective sanity, they'll be waiting a very long time.
The next thing you know, somebody is going to look at this and come to the conclusion that the universe is self-aware.
Don't hit the keys so hard, it hurts.
