I feel like we ended up in the same kind of time line I used to create in SimCity 2000 when I spawned like 8 disasters at once, just to see what would happen.

To whoever is running this simulation, maybe take a break?

Wisconsin is cheese country. They have hats and everything.

Someone who asks for help with their laptop, then opens it to reveal what appears to be several years worth of snacks smashed into the keyboard and on the screen. No, Doug, I don’t want to drive.

To be fair, I’ll use the more convenient shortcuts (cut/copy/paste, select all, save) that are genuinely easier to do with one hand. But Alt+F4? It either requires two hands or else your hand needs to qualify for Cirque de Soleil to hit it properly. Some of the “standard” keybinds are often more trouble than moving the pointer.

It’s still the result of robbing the working class, and concentrated wealth like that is bad for everyone (even the billionaires).

Okay, more suggestions:

• for the clusters, Gus and Buster
• for ingress, Ingrid and Igor
• for the nas, Cass
• for your Mac mini, Bach
• for your development server, Jessop (short for Jessop the Desktop)

Just give them ordinary names. Then when someone hears you say something like, “I think Greg is due for a reboot” you’ll make their day that much weirder.

I’ll sometimes pick ordinary names that are loosely related to the function for memory purposes. ingress01 becomes Ingred, cluster01 becomes Gus (i.e., Gus the Cluster), etc.

And of course, if there’s a machine that you expect will give you trouble, you name it Richard.

I work in engineering in a college town–we hire a ton of interns and co-op students. In terms of Gen Z, some of them mess up a few of the “protocol” things (for example, we had one guy who wore cargo shorts one day when it got hot in the summer). But the vast majority of them are more than fine when we give them direction, and are great employees overall. In fact, percentage-wise, I’d say more of them have better work ethic than most of the boomers who refuse to retire (no, Richard, scheduling twelve meetings back-to-back isn’t “productive,” it’s a waste of everyone’s time). They’ll boast about working overtime, but 80% of their day they’re shooting the shit and producing nothing.