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by dingnuts 2y ago
where did this meme come from that you can do house work and child care while working remote? It's not remotely true. Child care is a full time job. You might be able to move laundry around while tests run but that's about it. If
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by dingnuts 2y ago
contributing to open source isn't fun. it sucks. it might be good for your career but it is developing software in the most hostile environment for the most entitled users I have a side project. wanna see the code? you can't! scre
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by dingnuts 2y ago
which would make lenders more cautious which would make it harder to get a loan which would make less money available so tuitions would be competing for less and prices would come down this is how it's supposed to work yes
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by dingnuts 2y ago
well if you stand by them, do you plan to present actual evidence of the alleged conspiracy or are you just making these statements to troll?
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by dingnuts 2y ago
>In the short term, additional spaces will be started by people who have contributed significantly to an existing space and have internalized the culture and its values there's something ominous, weird, and sort of damning about bei
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by dingnuts 2y ago
there's "sharing ideas on forums" and then there's giving all of your source code, public and private, to Microsoft to host, instead of just setting your git remote to user@yourownhost:/path/to/reponame an
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by dingnuts 2y ago
if you ask professional wait staff in the US you'll find that tips are more popular than set wages. They wind up making more from tips than they would via salary. Occasionally you'll read about a restaurant trying to eliminate tip
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by dingnuts 2y ago
yeah sure let me write important Jira links into a notebook by hand, that'll be better than keeping them in a plain text file
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by dingnuts 2y ago
>on the young internet was virtually uncensored and a 100% free for all, yet we all mostly got by boys did. the girls left those spaces (and the internet more generally, until social media became mainstream) because all the public spaces
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by dingnuts 2y ago
do you know how difficult it is to get four or five friends together on a frequent enough basis to carry a D&D campaign as adults? it's hard. really, really hard. You can have a real D&D campaign and still have -plenty- of time
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by dingnuts 2y ago
KDE has this feature now, you just have to add the global menu applet to your task bar and it will do the Unity/Apple thing where the task bar is relevant to the selected application
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I've met a handful, certainly a sizable portion of those who ran Linux on their work machines. Notably i3 and Sway I've spotted during demos from extremely talented engineers. Anecdotes to be sure.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
There are a lot of little things that daemons like gsettingsd handles, like resolution changes if you add a monitor or change the size of the window you're using your VM in, that you have to do manually if you are not using a desktop e
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by dingnuts 2y ago
it's been a few years since I've done this, but I used to have the same problem as you and I found that if I ran MATE but replaced the default WM in it, Marco, with i3, I got to have my tiling WM inside a proper DE. It was really
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by dingnuts 2y ago
the watch was a leap? the only people I know who have them are Apple stans, and unlike the iPhone they certainly didn't kick off a new category of must have everyday item heck, after growing tired of having one more thing with a rechar
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by dingnuts 2y ago
systems evolve. systemd is nearly fifteen years old and is not hard to use, and it is better than the myriad systems it replaced. that's why it won this is very much not the same thing especially since you can still find non systemd di
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by dingnuts 2y ago
y'all got me feeling smug for buying a 1980s era Omnichord off Reverb. When the batteries die, I just replace them with new D-cells.
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by dingnuts 2y ago
your job doesn't let you configure your own environment and tools?
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by dingnuts 2y ago
it's annoying because in many suburbs the problem isn't cars, it's just zoning! all of the problems described in the grandparent, like the lack of a dirt path between complexes, no small stores in the area -- these are ZONING
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by dingnuts 2y ago
he's just a reactionary; he doesn't have any coherent principles beyond self interest and reacting to things
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Yes, locking people into buildings (which is what you are doing if you need a key to get out, whether it's an RFID badge or a skeleton key) has been illegal since the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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by dingnuts 2y ago
Yeah because nationalization of non-defense industries leads inevitably to corruption, waste, and either complete destruction or incredible mismanagement of whatever value the nationalized industry previously created. Every time. Every stud
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by dingnuts 2y ago
fact checking is always so ideologically fraught (which is why it rules out everyone) that I have given up and instead just try to hear every narrative. They aren't of equal weight, of course, but it's good for unpassionate unders
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by dingnuts 2y ago
isn't it funny how no government service is ever at fault, it's always just a problem of funding? The IRS is good, just under funded. Public schools are good, just under funded. The NHS is good, just under funded. The roads are go
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by dingnuts 2y ago
That's why companies like WPEngine exist. This doesn't have much to do with the software; non-technical users could use a WPEngine like service for WriteFreely, if someone ran that service
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by dingnuts 2y ago
the industry is also mostly dead. non technical users now use sites like Wix with a builder. Technical ones get a VPS or cloud solution and probably don't want LAMP anyway The only non technical people using shared hosting now are peop
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by dingnuts 2y ago
WFH has been normal for almost half a decade now. I changed jobs and stipulated remaining remote in that time, and I suspect my employer doesn't care. They have begun talking about RTO. Here's the thing: it's not JUST inconve
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by dingnuts 2y ago
> There is no discernible continuity. There's continuity of consciousness which is the only thing that matters. Turn me into a mist, I don't care, as long as I can stay awake. General anesthesia is the worst thing I've eve
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by dingnuts 2y ago
what a nasty, sad worldview if you think of humanity as a parasite
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by dingnuts 2y ago
I relate strongly to the comment you're replying to, and I can tell you that it's very frustrating to have a vision of something you want to create and be unable despite struggling towards that goal for a long time. It has nothing

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