Well that’s rather indeterminate.

Who lied?

I don’t understand the comparisons people make between OSS and comunism. Comunism is a flavor of old-world authoritarianism, based upon the idea that mankind is incapable of choosing the right thing, so the right choice is instead mandated by law. OSS’s emhasis on freedom, choice, and the lack of any kind of governing authrorty or social dogma, as well as the inherent trust in the majority public to choose the right (to donate or contribute) has a lot more in common with liberalism than comunism.

Pretty sure it’s basicaly

alias apt='apt-get'

was Stallman really the author of that copypasta? I mean it’s funny to pretend he did, but does anyone know for sure?

But what if… I took Debian, and disguised it as my own distro? Ho ho ho! Delightfuly devilish, Seymore!

You can’t expect me to remember the right words for things while studying for engineering finals

It’s nice when memes are drawn completely from scratch like this. It gives just a little validation to this silly scrolling we all do everyday.

Solution: install windows for them, but complain and evangelize at every opportunity. You’ll be so insufferable they’ll never ask you again.

They clearly don’t consider their human capital to be all that important if they’re relagating hiring to ai. Take it as a signal that your value is too high for this company. Chaces are they would prefer to hire 2 year grads or bootcampers over experienced engineers.

Electricity isn’t free, and neither is it’s impact on your computer hardware. The life expectancy of a circuit may reasonably be approximated as a function of watt-hours. this is why hardware manufactuers test their circuits in ovens: the heat simulates high wattage.

it doesn’t matter if the power drain is low. So long as your computer is on, it’s lifetime watt-hours are constantly ticking down.

I’ve heard an ex microsoft employee said in a blog once that the windows team has no seniors. Anyone who has worked there for one or two years has left for better employers. Nobody knows how to refactor or maintain old codebases, so instead, they just write new things on top of the old things. The windows kernel has hardly changed since XP.

I mean, you see it a lot in local or low to mid budget network TV. They dress up the laptop to make it look like apple hardware (usually a pear logo instead of an Apple), but when you get a glimpse of the DE, it is clearly neither windows nor apple.

Tv writers and other liberal arts types tend to be cult-like in their devotion to apple, but I guess network TV prop departments have decided apple is too expensive, and installing windows is too much of a hassle.

I TA for an electrical engineering class. It’s amusing, to look at student’s code these days. Everything is so needlessly wrapped up in 3-line functions, students keep trying to do in 25 lines what can be done in 2, and it all becomes impossible to debug.

When their code inevitably breaks, they ask me to tell them why it isn’t working. My response is to ask them what its meant to be doing, but they can’t answer, because they don’t know.

The sad thing is we try to make it easy on them. Their assignment specs are filled with tips, tricks, hints, warnings, and even pseudo-code for the more confusing algorithms. But these days, students would rather prompt chatgpt than read docs.

I’ve never seen chatgpt ever benefit a student. Either it misunderstands and just confuses the student with nonsense code and functions, or else in rare cases it does its job too well and the students don’t end up learning anything. The department has collectively decided to ban it and all other genAI chatbots starting next semester.

Jut put my Mother on mint. Her windows 10 pc is reaching EOS, and I finally convinced her that having to buy a new computer every several years is unacceptable.

Honestly, I’ve only ever had problems with Wayland so far. So many times when I look up the issue tracker for a software I’m having issues with, the solution is always “switch to a DE that uses Xorg.”

I get that it’s not a mature software yet, but neither should people be pushing to use it until it is.

I deliberately said Windows instead of Mac, because all the apple users I know are the type of people who will never, ever try linux in the first place.

you either go back to windows, or turn into this guy. There is no 3rd option.

its the things I hear from real software developers that concern me:

• You will spend your entire career chasing trends.
• The market is volatile. People are constantly getting abruptly laid off. SD has never been very stable, so you should plan on getting a new job every few years.
• Software companies are constantly looking for ways to make SD easier. As a result, your value will decrease over time, in preference for bootcampers and 2 year degree graduates.
• Nobody listens to developers. Your manager’s beliefs about SD come entirely from consultants, magazines, and Elon Musk tweets.
• Nobody cares about quality software. If you take the time to make your code efficient and lightweight, all your manager sees is you taking longer to make something than your peers. After all, we can just raise hardware requirements if the software is slow.

the more i learn about software development, the more i feel I’ve dodged a bullet by changing my major to electrical engineering.