Went to work for our family farm after 20 years in various IT roles. Health problems with myself and my family who managed the farm were influencers for me to switch. I really enjoy the new balance of my work day. More or less is 50% spent on desk work (farm record keeping, paying bills, payroll, and of course small software dev projects). The other 50% is in the field planting, spraying, harvesting, etc.
"Due to the irregularities of climate change". I can't help but ask why the sentence couldn't have been worded -- "Due to the irregularities of weather". Climate has ALWAYS been irregular and will always be going forward. I mean was there once upon a time a generation of people who thrived year after year with constant and predictable weather. My reading of history says that climate catastrophes have struck since the beginning of time, virtually across the globe. Climate is generally predictable but never constant. I wish we could be honest about that. And from that place of honesty I'd be much more willing to discuss modern climate issues, and what if any effect we can have on it.
Correct. Rubber meeting the road comment here. This is the reality of most farms in America. Possibilities are not "endless" for revolutionizing farm practices, they must be profitable and margins are tight.
My family's been farming corn on corn for 20+ years. Started strip-tilling in the 80's High residue fields help trap as much moisture as we can with limited irrigation capacity. Farmers have no choice but to take care of their soils to remain viable. And more than viable, be profitable as there are many people who depend on them both for their livelihoods as well as an ever demanding population with mouths to feed.
I wouldn't go that far... I've used Linux since the mid-90s, and Windows for a few years longer than that, and Linux is still orders of magnitude easier to follow and especially to dissect than Windows. Windows is pretty much entirely opaque, you're at the mercy of whatever happens behind the curtain. UNIX-y OSes like Linux and OpenBSD blow that curtain wide open, but OpenBSD is just much more consistent because it's all built "in-house". (And then some super popular stuff like OpenSSH gets exported from it.)
At the risk of being hung, drawn, and quartered on hackernews, I actually agree. This seems like such a fringe idea among the "hacker" culture but I find Windows to be significantly more tolerable than the not-so-organized chaos that is modern Linux. And BSD tends not to focus on the out-of-the-box experience, but more on the "customize it exactly the way you want it", archlinux-y vibe. Which is cool but I'd rather have something that just works. Windows checks all the boxes for me, was free through my university, and if I get tired of Powershell I can use WSL.
Similar experience. I moved a domain of mine to O365 from GSuite (Google Workspace) about 2 years ago. I am currently in the process of migrating BACK to Google Workspace.
Generally unhappy with O365 email over the last 2 years. Few of my complaints are: Subpar experience on Outlook for Android. (Gmail is so darn good). Just ready for my Gmail experience again. Overall site management using Microsoft's web dashboard for domain, permissions, spam, 2FA, is %ו@#$ NOT GOOD! I have read so many outdated, no-longer-valid support docs that I'm simply done. "Cloud" products like this have a hell of a time keeping their docs up to date and relevant. Google isn't immune here. But for whatever reason I have far less problems with several other domains I manage that are pure Google Workspace, er.... GSuite....er Gotigle Apps. Y'all get my drift.
I sincerely tried to understand that article. Nearly tapped out a few times from brain bleeds but I managed to reach the end. Guess I'll have to take his word for it why this emoji has arrived.
