bryndos

Those are balls.

This close, they always look like landscape. But nope, you’re looking at balls.

Buy a phone that lineage os support then. Way more options than pixels. Pretty cheap used, you just have to accept one from a few years ago. and make sure that any required bootloader unlock from oem can still be done.

He did scam money out of govts and banks to help pay those hires though. It turns out that scamming is the most valued skill in the world.

I’ve never seen the waste management on these. I guess you just dump it all in Flint, MI or somewhere else that can’t afford lawyers.

They’ll have cameras and gps though. So be careful, the cops might protect it more than humans. Catch it in a faraday cage maybe.

Breaking onedrive? I’m confused. It’s like that thing in Southpark “How do you kill that which has no life?”

Most people - especially those without critical thinking - are clicking buttons in browser based CRM systems. Or using some other web-gui hold their hand and query or transact with a database. OS makes no difference to them.
Even my very slow public sector org has moved most of its database interfaces to web apps by now - though i think there re still two important native windows (probably DOS) applications.

Apart from those something like Chrome OS or OSX would probably be best for them - they just need a stable, up to date web browser.

with cloud storage, and even MS pushing people to web apps, even paper pushers working via documents can still just use browser for stuff, and many are.

Lots of people i work with suck so badly at MS Word that they don’t even know how shitty the web version is. They literally just click stuff and if the OS opens a web interface, then that’s what they use.

Most of these people use androids or i phones for lots of things, so they certainly are capable of using things that are not windows - they just learn what buttons they need to click to do what. Like they would’ve in the 70s/80s with a unix terminal. Or in the 30s if they were operating a telephone switchboard.

Yeah , most of the people in our IT don’t know how to use windows, much less teach anyone else about it.

They just try, and often fail to lock it down so that people can’t break it. They remote in and make something slightly less bad and say, “well that was all setup wrong”. but they never teach anyone a thing - or apparently learn how to use install all this ms shite they buy before they force it on us.

I think that’s the real issue with linux. IT people don’t want to learn it, and learn how to secure it - because many of them - especially the mamagers have got imposter syndrome about windows or something or stockholm syndrome, i dunno…

At least when they fuck it up with miscsoft they can often blame MS - and often they’ve got a reasonable case ans MS does seem to keep fucking them over with updates.

Yeah “fag” is fine in context such as: “I’m just nipping out for a fag” “Can I bum a fag?”

But you can’t say it to, or about, a person, well, unless you’re a homophobe.

‘faggot’ is almost always a slur though, you’d better be in that rare circumstance where you’re very clearly referring to a bundle of sticks otherwise, no.

I guess ‘nip’ is also occasionally a racist slur for Japanese, but normally quite innocent; just something quick. or a pinch, or a wee dram.

Vaguely related, you might be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari. A few British slang terms migrated out of queer-creoles into more mainstream usage , possibly via popular radio and tv.

Very much not good in England. You might well think England did enough to fuck up that part of the world in '47. But no we still have to be a bucket load of racist cunts.

Just need the bot’s waste heat to get concentrated into the kettle and I can waste two birds with one cuppa.

There’s another function hiding under the ‘pause’ key:

AI seems like it will help the already bad bosses do more - which seems like a bad thing. It’s better if the bad ones just wank off in the toilet all day.

I think how much difference it will make in the long run will depend on who gets sacked and who survives.

It’s rarely about literal monopoly. It’s more often about market power. Choice is one tool that consumers, and small scale producers have to ameliorate some of the consequences of market power.

Of course having market power, is not the same as abusing it to harm consumers - but if the profit margins are ‘abnormal’ and persistent and or uneven throughout the supply chain that’s sometimes a good indicator. If choice/competition isn’t whittling down excess profits in the long run, then there might be some distorted power relationships somewhere in the market or supply chain.

Proving/ disproving the alleged ‘unwritten rule’ might be quite interesting though. But competition investigations need to be quite wide ranging and it is notoriously difficult to prove anything.

Looks like WordPerfect before the wizzywig crap.

Thanks! That’s very useful to know - I’d have assumed it can only see it’s own files within the wineprefix folder.

It looks like trying Steam within flatpak, and limiting the flatpak’s access might offer some protection. Or maybe getting stem to run as a different user.

yes, it’s when you tell boss, “I can’t do that in 3 hours, it’ll take two weeks”, and probably still have some unknown aspects of quality, that we might not want to sign off on. Maybe we can rush it in 1 week, if you’re ok with want want maybe’ 20% unverified.

Boss fucks off to coprolite - gets it “done” in 3 hours. Gives it to someone else to QR. They comes back to me for advice on turd polishing (apparently that’s my SME). So I then waste time helping that person tactfully create a quality report that says it’s seriously defective and will take weeks to rectify to get it up to an acceptable standard - because it tells us nothing about how it got to it’s erroneous output.

Now, we’ve wasted about a day between us, on dog-shite - and we’ve not learned anything useful.

I don’t know what a “gen Z” is though, but whoever they are they should stand up to shite bosses.

Haha. Better or worse than, ‘jira tickets’ or ‘story points’?

They’re doing a f-ing reporting database migration just now, just measure tables created that match the old DB. And standard user queries that output the same.

“Oh hang on, does the new database have to have the same data as the old one?” "We’ve reviewed all of our non existing requirements gathering notes and the “business " never wrote that as a requirement. we can squeeze it in later on the roadmap, when some dev resources have been freed up. Can you tell us more about these ‘queries’; is that a power bi thing? - i think another team does that?”

Sack 3 or more layers of “management/director/head of/architect/strategy”, that have a lot more impact on productivity than letting people wank from home.

Individual worker / team / prod line. Sure you can measure those. That’s great for those at thst level… But I don’t know how you add them up across the whole of “America” without some very dubious economic statistics bullshit.

Empirically , economy wide measures are generally useless i reckon. And often manipulated. It’s very hard to add up output of different production lines (or different goods or services) in a single meaningful measure and account for all the variables like quality, product mix, availability and if you’re using price-weights all stuff that distorts market power. Econo-statisticians will calculate it, because they get paid to, but the honest/aware ones should fess up it’s got serious weaknesses however you calculate it.

I hope they found a good way to measure productivity, because I never came across a convincing one.