@lauralt @redneonglow @sjw Yeah, at the time I thought he was being anal-retentive about it. Like, when we were working on these embedded projects, the chip flasher we had required Windows, so we had this Windows bitch-machine in the corner and whenever he wanted to test a new build, he'd compile it, send the firmware to the Windows machine with smbclient, and then take the chip out of the board and plug it into the chip programmer and ask me to flash it, because clicking the "flash the chip" button required using the Windows machine. So I'd fire up VNC and click the button.

On the other hand, you know, years later, he was totally correct and I should have done shit like that. Maybe not to the same extent, like it's kind of ridiculous to refuse to click a button and to ask a coworker to do it, but overall a good approach.