mosiacmango

Not getting this experience on Mastodon. I hopped on after Lemmy, but so far I’ve had several positive back and forths with people.

Its been what, 8 years since the original switch was released?

They had plenty of time to decide on a better name.

In my experience, people want “it will work.” They will not accept “it could work” at all.

“It should work” is the perfect amount of hedge, even when you know “it will work,” because all of us have been burned by simple assumptions that were right 1000 times before and were somehow wrong this time.

This is why “sure” or “yes” are not part of my IT vocabulary. “Should” is king. “We should be be able to do” or “that should work.”

In the idiocy of stakeholders that want IT to be a magic wand to fix their ineptitude instead of a helpful contributor to their well thought out process, you have to coach everything in the polite “no” that is “maybe” or “should.”

I had the hardest time with this. What I ended up doing instead was provisioning a dedicated vm to run as a tailscale subnet router, then just advertise my gateway and the applicable container IPs via /32 CIDRs. Tailscale will let you do multiple comma separated IPs when advertising routes, so it’s easy to append a new service via IP.