For real, I was always worried about my back instead because my high school math teacher said don’t mess with your back (or you’ll end up sleeping on the floor).

Managers would never fire themselves, though.

I’m at 9 years myself, I use Ubuntu on desktop, Mint on my home ThinkPad, Ubuntu on my work ThinkPad, and a mix of Debian/Proxmox and Ubuntu for my servers. I’m hoping to switch my desktop to Mint at some point.

Sounds like my blogs lol

Looks like we’re going to need a new decentralized platform.

Or just a platform without people, because people suck.

It’s a slippery slope, I can’t imagine organizations won’t want more and more control over the public.

Not yet, it doesn’t. We’ll see how far we go down this hole.

It’s the enshitification, along with everything else.

I feel like the only way we can do anything about this is for us to have more money than the companies pushing for these changes, which is obviously not going to be possible… I’m not sure what else can be done.

The problem is the laws getting passed, not with software that gives people a choice about whether to comply.

Is it going to give a choice, though? As more and more of these laws are passed, soon people will have no choice. Open-source software was supposed to be about freedom, and I see this as anything but that.

Why do we gravitate toward those brands even when cheaper and more generic options exist that are perfectly on par?

To be fair, there are plenty of people who specifically avoid those brands because they are more expensive and they know they can save money with cheaper alternatives, or because they can’t afford the name brand.

With that said, there are some times where the name brand does actually provide a superior product.

If marketing majors could read, they’d be very upset.

I trust him less than I trust Temu ads.

This is true, but they’re also not wrong that fully-modular USB-C ports is an absolutely huge win. It’s one of the biggest things when it comes to laptops these days.

It was always about the money.

One of the best written comments I’ve seen about this. LLMs are cool for what they can do, but anyone comparing them to AGI is just shilling and trying to make a fortune off of selling pickaxes in a gold rush with the only gold being fools gold.

So really, it’s not supposed to help.

That sounds like therapy isn’t ideal then… the first goal should be to help, not to punish… lol…

edit: You can disagree with me all you want, but helping people should NOT be a secondary goal of therapy, that should be the PRIMARY goal.

edit 2: There’s actually a term for this, there’s a formal ethical rule called beneficence which means the therapist’s first and most important duty is to act in a way that benefits the client.

How can they help OP, though? If it really is that obvious that it was OP who reported it, I don’t see how saying “Hi, we got an anonymous report, we’re here to investigate” would suddenly remove any suspicion by OP’s family that it was OP who did it.

Depending on where OP lives, disability programs can be very difficult to and backlogged to get into.

With that said, it sounds like OP is planning on leaving anyway.

I won? Of course I did, I don’t use Windows anymore, I’ve been using Linux for years now.

That’s a surprisingly large increase, wow. I switched back in 2017 and I’ve been using it ever since, but that’s good to see other people are making the switch too.