[Shiunbird]

@Irinikus: beauty.

@weblacky: Honestly, I've been finding modern computing so boring that the only way to go is the old stuff. At my day job, over the course of 16 years, I went from writing quite complex operations code (that stayed up and running for years without fault) to long discussions on whether or not to push a button on a web interface provided by a thoroughly incompetent vendor. It's just too sad.

Plus I find out that the knowledge acquired tinkering with old stuff makes me so much better at understanding how we got to where we are now that, in general, I'm usually the most knowledgeable in any discussion.

People propose "one click to automagically do someting" and my brain goes LDAP + federation with a vendor, vendor doesn't do data encryption at rest or in transit, scope of access too broad, need to look at their data retention policies, do they do disaster recovery exercises...