Y'know the setting in the bios where you can choose boot on power restore, stay off or last state? This relies on a capacitor on the motherboard near the bios battery to store the last state. This 5 cent capacitor can die and sometimes behave like you are saying. I had a repair guy fix it cheap and that server worked normally after that.
I learned one morning that a cmos battery could become a resistor. It can fail in a way that it's not working nor completely dead but passes just enough current to make a server motherboard that otherwise might A: Work, B: detect it's dead/missing and boot anyway with defaults to instead C: just freeze and not do anything. That was a fun full day of time wasted.
Funny. It had me up until paragraph 5 negated paragraph 3. When you can netinst Debian and do all the things in para 5 with iceweasel without doing a single compile or chore from para 3 it's a good reminder how far Linux has come in my lifetime. :)
Of course. Plus shampoo, toothpaste, razors and body wash would be claimable on tax. Haven't figured out how to improve the shower coffee situation though.
We have plenty of distraction free brain freedom. It's the formality of the meeting. If I'm fighting to see Karen through the steam and pausing to spit toothpaste I'm less concerned about the passive aggressive way she's telling me I didn't submit my code on time.
Done. I'll miss you.