12, but it’s complicated. I was a freelancer for a long time, count that as one job, but I had dozens of customers. I quit one place and went back, and 2 employers have been acquired while I worked there, count all those as one each. Not counting summer or part times while in school. This is all over the span of 44 years, so I’m a little quicker than your 4 years on average. The shortest one was a little less than a year; it was a mistake to take the job in the first place. IMO, switching jobs is the biggest, maybe the only, leverage a worker has vs an employer. If you don’t have a credible alternative to your job, they know that, and know they can victimize you.

Two things, one you care about and one you might not. The one you care about: you can set up a service in isolation. You can then test it, make sure it works, and switch over to it once you are sure, with almost no downtime. This is important for things you actually need to use. Once you do something like breaking your primary email server, you will understand. Also, less important, you can set up a service on, say, a VM at home, and move it to a VPS, without having to transfer the entire image, and it will work the same. The one you don’t care about. That last bit about moving servers around is important for cloud providers who turn these things on and off all the time.

name.com. I don’t remember why I picked them, but they do no BS and the service is fine.

Old consumer electronics. Good to practice reflashing on old phones or tablets, if you brick one, it was trash anyway. Sometimes you can pull useful components off old computer boards.

New York fit that pretty well. I think Chicago does too. DC, Seattle, Boston are all recommended. Have not done that kind of trip in Atlanta or Philadelphia, but they are what you want.

Uncontrollable Urge with a boner

Exactly. It does happen; you’ll only do it once…

Ooh, thanks, I should have checked that.

I don’t necessarily view it as a bad thing. I’ve been targeting an emotional age of about 12. Maturity is overrated. Some of my SOs might not agree, though.

Likewise, I use vi for sysadmin work, and a big IDE (VSCodium) for writing code.

Okay, but nobody paid any attention to my multiple choice anyway, and the responses are thoughtful.

Grateful Dead - Black Peter

Chicken nuggets.

Yellow American or brown German on sausages. Dijon mixed in salad dressing and sauces.

Top day also, usually, except Active in channels where I don’t look that often.

What I want to know is: did he have sex with her anyway?

Texas isn’t a christian theocracy now?

Agree. Quit twice, the 2nd time was real bad. Now I am a stereotypical hardcore ex smoker. Get away from me with that stuff.

Used to do that, until I started working from home. Half hour on a bike is perfect to get your head out of work. Often I still go for a ride after work (past my old job) even though I don’t need to.

I went back to my hometown last summer. I had not been there in decades. My sisters, who live nearby, both could not understand why. I ended up leaving ahead of plans, there was not much to do, and the place is economically defunct, none of my family or friends lives there anymore. I did reconnect with an old friend who lives nearby, which made the whole trip worthwhile. On the flip side, I now live in a pretty, affluent community. My son, 3 years out of college, comes home to visit, and in spite of being nostalgic, and wanting to visit his old haunts, says it’s not home anymore. We have done practically nothing to his old room, except he took a lot of the furniture with him. You are not the same you as when you were younger. The place isn’t the same either.