Recently have seen a video about the 5 why root cause analysis, which talked about a logic tree to find root causes and that was nice. Obvious, but nice to hear about.
Five why has very limited uses in practice when investigation root cause. I teach the basics of Five Why to staff so they can follow up low level incidents without my help, but I make sure to always review their findings.
If there is any meat to an incident I step in with proper root cause analysis like ICAM or TapRoot. With practice you can make short work of incident investigations for even smaller incidents that don’t warrant a significant investigation.
Consulting. I’ve done a little bit of it before as an occupational hygiene consultant. In a 2 week period I’d done air quality tests at a sulphuric acid processing plant, noise dosimetry at a bread factory, management system audit at Shell petroleum, and reviewed findings of air quality tests at a building where half the workers were “getting sick all the time”.
But it’s not consistent work, and if you go into business for yourself; 1- good luck finding the work, and 2- have fun spending months chasing up invoices.
They blocked Pirate sites here in Australia years ago, and as far as I’m aware it affected nobody. Everyone who knows how to torrent already knows how to get by it.
I think Slitaz is still around, I always liked that for older machines, I was going to try it on an AMD C-50 laptop I pulled out of storage recently, except I don’t have time for messing around.
I clean mine by soaking in hot water and scrubbing with a nylon bristle dishwashing brush. I don’t have a dishwasher. This is working great, but the key is I’m doing it after every 2nd or 3rd time I use the air fryer.
It’s a new one, we had to throw our old one out because we didn’t wash it well enough and it gunked up so badly it was almost unusable and started smoking whenever you turned it on.
I did get the gunk off with thorough scrubbing but it damaged the shit out of the non stick coating, we weren’t gonna risk using it like that.
Trying to manage mame roms is ongoing bullshit. On my backup drives I have a mame folder with romsets 0.37b, 0.78, 0.106, 0.139, 0.161, 0.174, 0.251 just so it’s ready to go if I get a device that needs older sets. And I’ve given up long ago on ever having latest mame versions working.
Curated roms, because I’m not backing up full romsets every time.
I’ve made sure I’m good to go, as I always thought the day might come that I can’t afford internet anyway.
I have my entire gog and itch library downloaded (if I have any steam games not on gog, I’ve pirated them if I can find it). I have my nas full of movies and tv. I listen to all my favourite music on records.
Every couple of years I go through and update my rom library to make sure I have the most to to date best known roms.
Even as much as possible I keep latest version of the Linux iso I might want, and if there is an appimage of my most used programs, it’s there too.
I’m pretty much ready for my life to become leaner when it comes to internet.
My daughter was 3 when she was watching me play Final Fantasy 4. Cid jumped out of the airship and blew himself up.
She screamed turn it off and ran out of the room. We found her crying in the corner of the room and her mum asked what happened. In between sobbing she choked out “… Cid…” and that was all she could say until she calmed down.
That’s just one example. Plenty of other times she’s just covered her eyes and said she doesn’t want to watch anymore if people are arguing on screen, or a death is involved.
But back in 1997, I had the shareware version of Transport Tycoon and I’d come home from school (6th grade) in summer, about 20 minutes walk in 30 degrees heat - my dad would have the dodgy air conditioner on, I’d splash some water on my face and get down to some railroads.
It was a very good time and as an adult I’ve never recaptured that feeling with OpenTTD. But I still install it first thing in every distro.
Five why has very limited uses in practice when investigation root cause. I teach the basics of Five Why to staff so they can follow up low level incidents without my help, but I make sure to always review their findings.
If there is any meat to an incident I step in with proper root cause analysis like ICAM or TapRoot. With practice you can make short work of incident investigations for even smaller incidents that don’t warrant a significant investigation.