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   Allen Stenhaus (allenstenhaus@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 13:39:39 JST Allen Stenhaus

   • [nick@earth.sol ~]$ :cursor:

   I must absolutely give #Solarwinds credit here. #SolarPutty has a clean intuitive UI. Took me less than 30 seconds to set up a brand new connection, compared to the 20 minutes I was fighting with OG PuTTY, which I have very little experience with.

   A great reminder that an intuitive UI is one of the most important aspects of most software.

   @linuxfiend

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     Allen Stenhaus (allenstenhaus@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 13:46:50 JST Allen Stenhaus

     • silverwizard
     • [nick@earth.sol ~]$ :cursor:

     @silverwizard @linuxfiend Because I am frankly brand-new to ssh... at least in this sense. The Solarwinds software I used professionally did everything in the background for me, so all I had to do was click to open the command line or click to establish a full remote connection. This aspect of it is very much foreign to me, but I'm learning! :)

     I dislike networking as a rule, both socially and with computers. I much prefer being able to hear, see, and feel the machine I'm working on. *shrug*

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     Allen Stenhaus (allenstenhaus@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Dec-2022 14:10:27 JST Allen Stenhaus

     • silverwizard
     • [nick@earth.sol ~]$ :cursor:

     @silverwizard @linuxfiend No doubt that's part of it. I'm sure another is I don't know half of what most think I do. What I do know I'm fully confident in, but it tends to take a lot for some things to fully stick.

     Ultimately, I seem more knowledgeable than I am because I have phenomenal troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, which tends to hide my weaknesses.

     I've learned to use my gifts to hide my liabilities. Were the this 80's, I'd be the guy with a bookshelf full of tech manuals.