This article is another, excellent reminder of why for the most part, I literally can not psychologically tolerate living among Millennials. This is about my third re-write of this post. I've tried to make it more compassionate than the first two drafts were.

• Tone is consistently and baselessly arrogant throughout. His level of real UNIX skill is apparently fairly minimal. If it wasn't, he would know to use sed rather than grep for complex search; he would know to use textual anchors with awk and cut in order to extract what he needs; and he would know that an NNTP (Usenet) server within his vpn could give him access to his log files from any machine within said vpn he wants.

I'd suggest some books for him, but he also sounds impatient. I understand; it's hard to find time to educate yourself or really use your brain, in between watching cat videos, mindlessly consuming, or doing the really important, life-changing stuff like playing Flappy Bird or FarmVille.

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• Expresses demand for centralised storage of his log files, without understanding that this is bad design. It creates a single point of failure. If your data is on a single server and that machine fails, your data is gone. Using NNTP as described above, could solve that problem. It would mean that all of his logs ended up on each machine automatically, every time he updated the newsgroup subscription.

• Keeps using the word, "efficient," without defining what it means in his context.

• Apparently values speed and convenience (therefore, instant gratification) above all else. Autonomy and power are only available in exchange for work. If you are not willing to engage in the required work to create your own solutions to problems, then you will have no other choice but to accept the options given to you, by people who view you as nothing more than a potential resource.

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