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I get the sense that both of those two things are somewhat true here. They’re getting rid of 10, and people want to avoid 11.
I get the sense that both of those two things are somewhat true here. They’re getting rid of 10, and people want to avoid 11.
Do you often use your phone hand-held while it is charging? The devices should be able to handle it, of course, but it sounds like you’ve had a lot of issues!
Agreed on the Apple lightning connector though. I am happy to see USB-c finally becoming the standard, but it’s mechanically a nice connector.
The pro move there would be to physically modify it so that the power is actually going through the ribbon cable. So bulky, yet so thin!
I’ve always been a stander just for comfort and convenience. I thought that was part of the Born Male Benefit Package, that the multiple daily pee trips don’t have to be a whole production with taking off pants and sitting down. If people sit down for comfort or to rest, then that’s all good too.
And on the cleanliness angle, I share a toilet with my 6 year old son. We are not the same’d.
I started using Linux more last year due to work, so the exodus from Reddit to FOSS land has been perfectly timed for me. I think I have 4 different distros in VMs right now.
Like the other reply said, it’s a bunch of money that high level execs are contractually guaranteed when they leave their job.
“So maybe stop doing that,” you say? I think these deals are in place before the person even starts work. It’s a part of the compensation package they are offered. It’s a recruiting tool, just like the overly high salaries and stock awards.
I think they were referring to golden parachutes.
I finally tried out Linux Mint this year at work (we use Fedora for some of our different tasks). It arms like such a nice experience out of the box, and I’d put it on a family computer in a second.
Voyager is the only Lemmy client I’ve tried that has an Apple Watch app! It is so nice to just review some headlines for a minute and save the interesting ones for later.
On my phone though I’ve been using Memmy more recently too.
I decided to try Linux Mint a few months back at work, and was very pleasantly surprised at how easy to use and just-works it is.
We use some fedora build VMs, but I generally have a monitor dedicated to Mint while having the company’s Microsoft stuff on another.
They seem to have their priorities in the right place, living a happy comfortable human life instead of trying to mimic the exploit-profit-control-infiniteGrowth-fullThrottle24/7 priorities of the companies they started/own/work for.
I am using the iOS App Store version of Voyager, and it is excellent as well. It finally displaced Memmy for me, which is also a good one to try.
Sun Solaris is where I really learned to use *nix. In college my department had a whole computer lab filled with Sun workstations. Definitely a more interesting place than all the standard windows clusters.
I have never used this Oracle Solaris business.
Your first paragraph about only profit mattering isn’t even hyperbole.
I’m a computer nerd just like many here, but I went to business school too. There’s no “haha screw the consumers” snickering when you learn about business administration. It’s a simple well-meaning concept that the goal of going into business is to make money for the owners who invested their own money into the company.
Private companies are one thing, but then once they go public, a whole new set of rules and circumstances occur. The “owners” are a nebulous cloud of faceless investors & institutions, many (most?) of whom don’t give a removed about the company itself, just the risk/return and asset category it represents.
The C-suite has a fiduciary duty to make that money for those shareholders, plus those individuals generally have to own a bunch of stock in order to further align their priorities with profit and share price. You don’t want the investing community to see that you had a chance to double profits this year and didn’t take it, which can lead to the short-sighted decision making we see so often. Plus driving up the share price short term makes you yourself able to cash out and diversify a bit.
Definitely. The context just seemed to be people who know what OSs are.