asimovc: at the moment i'm a computer technician for a logistics company
<riteo>
instead of pressing a lot of tiny things you have this 3x3 grid of buttons with common keys and you can swipe to the less common ones
<ivyfri12_>
n900 is kinda pain in the ass to type on, but its still way better than onscreen keyboards
<midfavila>
when they hired me they outsourced literally all of their IT and they even hired a computer operator because none of them wanted to touch tech
<midfavila>
so i built a little machine using a board from pine64, plopped armbian on it, and moved all of the outsourced stuff like the site, point of sale, etc, into the back
<asimovc>
so you just need to use the crap in your work?
<midfavila>
neb
<midfavila>
i don't touch it
<midfavila>
the machine in the back gets sshd'd into by my uconsole or reform and i just do everything in text mode
<asimovc>
what you do exactly?
<midfavila>
works fine
<midfavila>
asimovc: i manage the point of sale and transaction databases, an email system, the company website, etc
<asimovc>
so just admin stuff in system?
<midfavila>
pretty much
<asimovc>
yeah thats great
<midfavila>
it's a small company so as long as things keep chugging along my job these days mostly boils down to updating packages and rotating backups once in a while
<midfavila>
easy asf
<asimovc>
i still need the stuff but i moved career for not even need windows
<midfavila>
nice
<asimovc>
maybe one day i move to no need of the bloat
<midfavila>
the only person who uses windows in the company is the operator they hired which is annoying
<midfavila>
she *insists* on using,
<midfavila>
of all things,
<midfavila>
microsoft excel to write documents
<midfavila>
not word
<asimovc>
riteo: not worked the patch
<midfavila>
excel
<asimovc>
and f*** the firefox
<asimovc>
just go flatpak and deal with it later
<asimovc>
don't have time now
<asimovc>
just need my system working for tomorrow
<midfavila>
riteo re:swipe typing i used to use that
<midfavila>
it works fine
<midfavila>
i guess
<midfavila>
but i still prefer a physical keyboard
<asimovc>
midfavila: are you using kiss?
<midfavila>
at the moment? no, i'm using slackware on my x86 laptop
<asimovc>
why slack?
<midfavila>
my usual laptop, mnt reform, still runs the stock debian image