Dude…you need to get off X and watch something other than Newsmax

Bill Gates (but that’s debatable…he’s at least doing some good with his money)

11 made me make that switch. My main gaming / media machine is still on W10 and will be until it dies. Then I’ll finally invest in figuring out gaming on Linux.

But for day to day browsing and development. Ubuntu has been excellent and is much more snappy than windows. I also picked up a cheap ancient MacBook pro for interviews and it’s a solid machine as well.

No regrets so far.

If you take a job shoveling shit, am I supposed to feel bad for you when you shovel shit?

That is hilarious. That explains a lot.

Getting 4 sponsored links and an AI overview before I get to the search results.

It’s basically all the shit Yahoo did to lose their search dominance.

That’s a feature, not a bug.

The best and brightest will challenge leadership. The shitty barely competent value engineer will say yes until they fuck up so bad they get promoted.

Exactly…they won’t be picky about raises or working conditions.

That’s true. That’s the price you pay for an 80’s platform.

Um…sure Kia marketing sure

There’s a reason the resale value is so cheap.

Meh…it’s just a fact. You hire developers for dirt cheap, you end up with dirt cheap solutions.

And lose all that instant torque. No thanks.

Actually, they do allow (in the US) in an 80’s car. A lot of the regulations around that sort of thing are very relaxed for classics.

That’s a prime (pun intended) example of what I’m talking about. Amazon likely hired them to write the algorithm to watch people shop, they couldn’t figure it out so they decided to watch the video 24/7 instead.

Uh…what? How does a manual transmission work on a direct drive motor?

(And if you really want to do that, drop an electric crate engine in an 80s muscle car. I’m strongly considering it)

My company will be much better off…it’s made up up of 80% value workers from India. AI can’t possibly be worse than those guys at code.

They’re just terrible cars. I’ve had two…they were great until they weren’t. I literally had a screw fall out of the headliner the other day bringing it home from a nearly 1000$ exhaust patch/repair. It’s not 10 years old yet and only has 60k miles.

The other one has had the engine replaced already (under warranty thank god).

We are likely replacing both of them next year. I’m never buying a Kia again.

It’s a great example of the Russian propaganda machine at work?

It’s not…it’s a step in the direction of making sure the government knows everything about you at all times.

It’s usually just enough severance to make it worth it. It’ll be like a month of pay maybe which is worth 6-8 months of unemployment.

And honestly…if they offer a month or two of health insurance on top, you have to take to avoid the cobra fees.

It’s usually an easy choice to take severance.