Use Tailscale, for the most part it’s pretty transparent. As long as all the magic DNS stuff is setup correctly, I can access all my internal services by name and it just works.

A fellow greendale alum. Streets ahead!

Makes sense. It sure as shit didn’t have any real intelligence.

I use portainer behind tail scale. Easy management anywhere and no publicly available access.

I use Bitwig on Linux myself, but works in Windows and Mac too.

Yea, we’ve got it so easy today. These kids have no idea :-P

But seriously, I’m sorry that sucks. I happened to be lucky enough with an uncle-in-law’s dad being an EE and just literally gave me a bunch of 6502 development stuff (by that time it was reasonably dated and he had retired). I also got lucky to live in a place where the libraries has tech and programming books that were pretty decent. Had those two things not been there, it would have been a very different story.

I try to pay that forward any way I can by taking part in the local tech/invention/science fair thing. Hopefully to be there to show youngsters how wonderful and interesting tech can be.

Same here! Still have my copy of 6502 software design that I used until it fell apart.

… aaannnnddd… It’s canceled.

Schindler’s List. Saw plenty of scary movies before this, but that scene where the officer murders the engineering prisoner who’s just trying to tell him about a problem with the building. It just sticks in my mind to this day as maybe the first time my young, sheltered self had been confronted with a realistic example of what dehumanizing could do.

I can’t say it better than this post. Only thing I’ll add is it’s often just nice to have a shell on a machine outside of one’s usual machines for debugging.