As much as I lean to hate this despite it not even affecting me as a Linux user…
I’m going to structure this as a Q&A with myself now, based on comments online
What is that? “I’m going to pretend to ask questions that I’ll then answer myself the way I think it’ll outrage that most people do I’ll get a lot of clicks on this shitty article”? What crappy excuse for content creation is this? I hate it.
Only for security updates.
I couldn’t care less about the major versions, but announcing they’ll stop with the security fixes three years after the release date for a device that I can’t update reliably any other way was a deal breaker for me.
That and the fact that they, too, are just too damn huge. Yes, even the 5 and 10. No, their aspect ratio doesn’t fix that. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.
windows is still a effecient os, it’s just a lot of bloat
I like that contradiction.
which can be disabled
Pretty sure it can’t, especially not “officially” by the device manufacturer and certainly not in a way that keeps those debloat settings in place over the next few large updates.
I know this is the arch community, so this might not apply, but KDE’s Dolphin file manager has audio CD ripping integrated, with different folders being shown for different formats when you open an audio CD (like, “audio CD” has subfolders called “mp3” or “flac”), so you can just copy those files somewhere and it rips and encodes them in the background.
It surely is going to help “marketing” with “numbers”.
I’m just really looking forward to that optimistic feeling of looking into a bright future. It’s what I always loved trek for and from the looks of it, Resurgence captures it.
Yeah, same. And man, I loved homeworld. Even spent too much money on that remastered collection with the mothership model when I was in college and shouldn’t have done it. But nah, not gonna buy an unfinished game.
They said it. 2018 miles. They got it last month, just drove it home and ran some errands with it.
Yeah. That’s the one I considered more deeply. Still too big. Still only 3 years of promised security updates and only two major revisions of android. Nah, hard pass.
/edit just saw that I mixed up the Roman and Latin numbers in my previous post. Yeah, the 5 is what I meant by 5.
Last year I needed a new phone. The Xperia V (I think) just got released and seemed perfect… But in the end I decided against it because of their horrendous update roadmap and large phone sizes. I’m not going to buy a new phone every three years and I hate phones that can’t be used with one hand - and despite doing a lot of things right, those two points are just not addressed by Sony. I want their compact range back and I want Fairphone levels of updates.
Ich würde generell nicht lügen. Wenn sich jemand in dein Leben einmischt: Grenzen setzen. Wenn irgendwas irgendjemanden nichts angeht würde ich das so auch sagen. Keiner zwingt dich mit offenen Karten zu spielen, genau wie dich keiner zwingt dir falsche Karten auszudenken.
Das hier ist wichtig. Dinge nicht an die große Glocke zu hängen ist legitim. Lügen hingegen wird dir auf die Füße fallen: so was macht dann die Runde und führt auch bei neuen Vorgesetzten dazu, dass sie dir nicht glauben können.
There are sincere attempts to explain why things in the Alien universe are the way they are
But that’s not what made the original movies great. Not at all. A lot of stories are great because they do not tell certain aspects. Explaining it all just leaves you with nothing left to explore.
Being naked isn’t hot. Being partly dressed and suggestive is hot. You need to leave some things hidden to make it interesting.
Um mal eine Lanze zu brechen… Auch Arbeitgeber sind Menschen (und gerade niedriges und mittleres Management sind auch meistens nur arme Hunde, die genau wie du im Hamsterrad stecken) und mit ein wenig Empathie kommt man meistens weiter.
Und was soll ich denn gesagt haben? Dass ich mich für mehreren Tagen krank melde, weiß aber immer noch nicht wie viele?
Also… Ja? Ich hätte das so gemacht. Einfach wenn du den Termin hast mal eben im Sekretariat angerufen und sagen “moin, ich habe am nächsten Montag einen Arzttermin mit einer Untersuchung. Den habe ich vor meinen Dienst gelegt” (das zeigt gleich jede Menge guten Willen) “aber wenn sich die Untersuchung verzögert oder sich dabei etwas zeigt, das weitere Untersuchungen nötig macht werde ich mich gegebenenfalls spontan krank melden müssen.” Easy peasy. Dann wissen die Bescheid und können schonmal planen und dein Kollege weiß auch, dass er evtl angerufen wird und für dich einspringen muss.
Also, musst du das tun? Nö. Aber es erleichtert den Leuten im Büro das Leben und macht den Tag für deinen Kollegen berechenbarer. Wäre also mEn einfach ein feiner Zug.
If the alternative is Windows which is increasingly filled with ads or Linux which shifts the burden of computer administration to a user who might not have a clue about what they’re supposed to do if their WiFi doesn’t “just work”, paying for a managed walled garden that doesn’t try to install candy crush without you asking for it isn’t such a bad option.
Oh we have a dedicated Linux service contract with a dedicated Linux support company that has technicians just to deal with Linux issues and provide the Linux setup. We’ve had time to adapt. I guess some bloke still decided that there just had to be a malware scanner and now we all have to eat shit. This is much less a lesson for it departments and much more a lesson that the people who manage stuff just have other goals than the people working with the tools that are managed, so you end up with somebody who wants to cover their ass in case something goes wrong in the future and makes it a terrible experience for everybody in the process but can sell it as a necessity to the people below and as action to the people above.
Same. The Linux setup there is a fucking mess though… AD authentication freezes login for a minute or so if you switch networks at the wrong moment, puppet keeps messing with the system and recently they installed clamav as a live malware scanner on all machines, making them eat batteries for breakfast and slowing down even menial tasks. If you have admin rights, they refuse to add your user to sudoers but instead create a new admin user (another indicator that they’re just really coming from windows) which everybody just uses to add their original user to sudoers, which was a nice workaround but which they now noticed and want to prohibit via puppet or user rights or something. It’s just such a mess. I mean, still leagues ahead of using windows, but a corporate environment really is a machine that transforms time and money into a terrible experience for everybody.
Xournal lets you paint on a document, which I guess isn’t what they need when they talk about legal stuff. Digitally signing a document is still one of the rare cases where I boot up my windows vm. It’s so annoying that there’s practically no way to do that in Linux as my company’s processes rely on it.