Techie Holidays

[icecream-guy]

Gave the wife an 42mm iWatch for Christmas, GPS and Cellular
My daughter thought it was absurd when she called the house AKA Dick Tracy style.

I got a 24" Dell U2415 Monitor which is really nice,   lots of real estate on the screen now.

so what did you get for tech gifts?

[deanwebb]

We were certifiably low-tech this year. Outside of my daughter getting a USB X-Box style controller, nothing else we got plugs in to anything. Not even an outlet.

Lots of socks, since mine were getting holes in them and plain black won't cut it anymore, now that I have to try and look sharp on customer sites.

Oh wait, I did get my wife some bluetooth headphones. So that's 2 things that plug in.

[Otanx]

Wife got herself a SSD and a video card to get her old gaming box back online. Her old SSD failed about six months ago, but she wasn't playing anything so it sat. I think that was it tech wise. We got new blinds for the living room/kitchen, and new blackout blinds for the movie room. That was it Christmas wise.

-Otanx

[SimonV]

New server rack

[deanwebb]

Daughter wanted a Minecraft server... now she knows some basic Hyper-V stuff, we both got introduced to json, and we had a real bonding experience trying to install friggin' java on Linux. HINT: Oracle instructions are useless, as they skip the step between "unpack the archive" and "Done!"

Which makes their smiley all the more appropriate:



As we spun up more console windows to track different processes, we started making Mr. Meeseeks jokes. Fire up a new terminal window, "I'm Mr. Meeseeks, look at me!"

That might actually make its way into my troubleshooting style at client sites...