Managers will still expect you to do 60% of your work on 60% of your keyboard.

It wins by default but only because I never liked the Twitter/Mastodon/Bluesky-like infinitely scrolling threads and only use Discord to follow some artists.

Bringus Studios presents: Installing SteamOS on literal fucking roadkill

Leaded fuel. Avgas is 100-octane leaded gasoline that is still being used by most small aircraft piston engines. Lead-free alternatives exist, but production and supply infrastructure is nonexistent.

Dude’s shilling for his own compositor backend right after ditching wlroots. He has zero credibility in this matter.

Woah, tone down that rhetoric, Yosif!

^/s

Mutations are also bad, see the absolute fuckwaffle that used to be Windows NT (or Godzilla or something).

Sounds like a vote in favor of the headphone jack.

Can’t be late if you celebrate pride every month

You must be running Debian because goddamn, this joke is stale and outdated.

If it’s going to be your problem no matter what, start making offline backups of your email account, and print out the email conversation where the bossmang rejected the fix. Make sure your HR rep is present on every meeting, even especially if it makes the people uncomfortable.

(this assumes that you live in a place where employee protection laws exist, i.e. it might not work in America)

True zen is achieved when you realize it’s not your problem. Even better when the thing eventually breaks and you can be smug about it.

Some required network services were located off-site. It could’ve been done in a secure way, but don’t expect such considerations from the company described above. It’s still better than the many XP and Win2000 production machines with the same internet access.

I can’t say a lot because of confidentiality, but if you had seen the factory around the time I quit, having a Win10 computer with internet access would’ve been the least of your concerns. If we had OSHA here, that building would’ve kept them busy for a week.

don’t you dare restarting that computer

We had two desktop PCs on the factory floor doing server stuff for a lot of assembly machines. We couldn’t move them to proper hardware or virtualize them because the GUI and the server were built as one monolithic application (I still don’t trust any Japanese company’s developers as a result), so one computer was made the primary server for one half of the factory and the fallback for the other half, and vice versa, to solve the reliability issues stemming from the software’s dogshit design.

What it couldn’t solve was Windows’ dogshit design. One early Monday morning, when we switched on the factory, Windows decided to force-update itself, then failed and bricked both computers. We spent half the shift with our thumbs up our asses periodically checking if tech support bothered to show up yet.

My previous work used two mission-critical software for continuous operation.

One was some guy’s university project written in Object Pascal and PHP and largely untouched since 2006. I tried offering fixes (I also knew Pascal), but I was rejected every time because the cumulative downtime caused by software issues was not enough to justify the downtime caused by the update (obviously this was determined by a Middle Manager (derogatory)).

The other was (I shit you not) an Excel spreadsheet with 15000 lines and 500 columns. I tried making a copy and cleaning it up, but Excel couldn’t handle the amount of data and ran out of memory.

NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for staying more than ONE VERSION behind

Joke’s on you, my servers are largely unaffected by regreSSHion because they’re too outdated.

Altyn Tuu. Technically they’re located in Russia, but belong to the Altai ethnic group, so I’m counting them.

Regicide.

Cybercriminals are creaming their jorts at the potential exploits this might open up.