We have an app running on CentOS 6. The vendor of the app informed us they expect to have a new version that can run on RHEL 8 by the end of the year - 2025.

“Unlimited PTO” is a meaningless term, and a trap.
I have 42 days of PTO per year, plus 13 state holidays.
I have a right to take those days off, they can’t be denied by anyone.
And if I don’t take them, my team lead will have a talk with me in October at the latest, because the company would get in legal trouble if I didn’t get them.

With “unlimited PTO” you have no such right to any amount of PTO.
Sure, you could try to schedule lots of PTO, but it can just be denied (“not possible right now”), or if you take too many, you’re just fired.

In an enterprise environment, you rely on a service that tracks CVEs, analyzes which ones apply to your environment, and prioritizes security critical updates.
The issue here is that one of these services installed a release upgrade because Microsoft mislabelled it as security update.

I switched from an MSP to a unionized in-house position, doubled my salary and my days of paid time off.

yes, but we spend most of our time in meetings with cloud service vendors now.
I haven’t been inside the server room for a month.

They labelled an OS version upgrade as a security update.

Microsoft will rename it, add something else in its place but let the old things linger in a zombie-like state.
Lost count of how many separate Skype/Zoom apps there are now.

7 was the version if you only counted the “best ofs” Windows 3, 95, XP, Vista, 7.

In the time it takes you to watch One Piece, you could learn to play the guitar good enough to perform, or learn a foreign language at conversational level.

The problems start when it breaks through the safe barrier.

What do you even need new, “faster” CPUs for? Serious question.

At this point, I just wish there was a search engine with decent results …

It’s important to get this right, or they might have to…recall it.

When you’ve shown that you’re skilled enough, they’ll contact you.

Actually, both monkeys and us are what our common ancestors evolved into. Which was neither a human nor a monkey.

You can download the Windows 11 ISO from Microsoft for free. There’s a gajillon different ways to activate it for free, too. Most likely it will just activate itself, unless you built the PC.

But if you only need it to run some software, you don’t even need to activate it.

Still cheaper than my Arch Premium membership

In this case, the deer just stood there in the road.
Any driver and any AI should be able to stop before the obstacle in that case.
Cause it could be a human, or a fallen tree instead of a deer.

I work with all sorts of Microsoft products daily.
And I’d be really surprised if a sane, sapient person used or tested their products in any way before they’re pushed out.
Cause then there just wouldn’t be any explanation for what the fuck they’re currently doing.

This is peanuts compared to what they owe Russia.