my employer gave us macbook pros' to work on and it so much spyware/malware that it made my router go off like xmas lights; so i setup a linux vm using kvm/qemu on my own hardware and retired the macbook.
i now fully expect my employer to somehow force a return to the macbook; but i've already returned it to the company so they're going to have to buy me a new one when they do so.
i started using kde once personal computers became beefy enough to handle it well around 2002 but switched to gnome because gnome felt more polished at the time and i recently switched back and, you're right, the customize-ability is impressive after using gnome for the last 15-ish years.
it's also daunting/frustrating at times too.
in the fall of 2002 the windows millennium installation on my computer broke, trapping an entire semester's worth of work on the hard drive and i was a starving college student with less than $20 to my name, so i couldn't afford to buy windows xp and didn't know anyone where i could get a pirate copy from.
i bought a mandrake linux cd pack for $8 from circuit city and used google in the computer laboratory to learn how to mount the hard drive, install drivers for ntfs and copy my all my work to a usb drive and i've been using linux ever since. i switch to 100% only linux both professionally and personally sometime around 2010.
my idle time is the 10/15 mins between tasks and i retain less than 5% of anything i read within 15 minutes of reading it.
i've seen others try, but the fediverse lacks reddit's niche groups so the content seems to get ignored by the general/generic loving fediverse crowd.
the first from an ultra sexist and capitalist society to willing join fully automated gay space communism is freaky, so the class should be too. lol
austin has people who call themselves liberals; not actual liberals.
If even a small number of people start doing this then it’s going to break all the hiring channels and we’ll only be able to hire referrals and friends.
my multinational employer thought that they could do that since they one of the biggest players in the industry so they figured they can force return to the office and they could just replace everyone who left as a result. fast forward a year and they've had to outsource hiring to bolster their own recruitment because the referrals they got were in such high demand that they had to compete with other major industry players to hire them and they had to double down on finding people through traditional means.
i know it's not like that in all industries; but that ones that stress or rely on experience are really hurting to find people like this because the social circles of ones with that experience are others with similar experience and those circles are tiny.
i've applied to this company several times in the past and got auto rejected; it wasn't until the attrition got so bad that they deigned to give me the time of day.
So long as rfk is running; trump won't win
Tesla is a driving force for both the automotive industry electrifying and worsening worker rights, safety, pay, and labor practices.
Only the bougie and the rich focus on the first part even though the second part has much bigger consequences for humanity.
I always thought that arch was more difficult to get started w due to my experience with it from 2003/2004; it was MUCH more difficult to install and use than red hat or Debian at the time because both only required an installation cd and the ability to click on "ok"
It's nice to know it's gotten better, but I'm an old fart now and you'll have to pry Debian out of my cold dead hands before I'll consider anything else. Lol
i like that contemporary a & b list actors are joining star trek in the last few years whereas before it was really uncommon.
is it just my memory playing tricks on me?