Maybe its to saturate production so nobody else gets them first?

I think they really meant “rock climbing jet skiing” which, like “extreme ironing”, is not for the feint of heart.

I’m drinking your milkshake.

I have never seen the word “forgiveness” so subtly weaponized before.

That man is a menace.

I had a dusty laptop running a homelab for you, and figured I should show something nice on the screen. Then, I typed in my password like an idiot. Not gonna put that online. :(

That last pic is what you’d get if the author of Roller Coaster Tycoon made an airport simulator.

one of the good executives

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10 person non-profit.

This sounds incredibly top-heavy for such a small company. The fact that you got micro-managed like that in such a rediculously small outfit is kind of unheard of, frankly. Usually small companies are the exact opposite, where there’s one owner/operator, the job titles are largely made-up, and everyone just gets everything done because there’s usually not enough expertise-hours to go around to solo every task.

Works great on 300 baud; not many editors can boast that. Also, if your programs are all under 2000 lines long.

Oh wow, that is so me. That had better be under… yep, ADHD… yeah, that’s in the right place.

It’s worse when this triggers life-long anxiety about missing future appointments.

Worse still is when you show up a week early by accident, because you had it wrong in the other direction.

I really don’t understand why.

Anti-Microsoft ideologues, mostly. Giving MS any quarter is antithetical to their chosen axe to grind. Pay them no mind.

Ah yes, my old frenemy: procrastinate until the anxiety mounts to near-panic, then ride the adrenaline through the hyperfocus tunnel all the way to “job’s done just before it’s too late” Town.

Wow. I didn’t realize this until you pointed it out. Thanks. TIL.

This is such a hilariously bad take. I like how “I can’t use Win32 on Linux” morphed into “re-write the whole app in Javascript just so I can use Electron.”

Meanwhile, Wine and QT are like: “am I a joke to you?”

I’ll add that (IMO) a lot of applications are becoming increasingly malicious, although less-so in the desktop space. I’m happy that devs like this are forced to quasi-sandbox their crap into a browser. Actually, if anyone knows how to crack into an Electron app in order to restore local plugins, user-scripts, and sandbox security controls, let me know. Or just liberate the guts into a local web app instead so I can use a real browser? This trend could be very useful for local security if those features become available.

Exactly. Another lemming made a fantastic quip to this effect, claiming that consoles and windows are performing “SCP level containment” for the rest of us. Let them have CoD.

The only episode of Survivor I have watched was the season 1 finale. From what I understand, that might still be a peak moment in the show’s history. I get the hype around things like that, but I can’t fathom sitting down for everything that leads up to it.

Selinux

Hey, let’s not get crazy. I still want to use it for practical things, too. /s

Best I can do is strong coffee.

Wait if I assume you are Americans, do you have limited work hours per day over there?

Yes and no. Depends wildly based on industry, job type, and income level. Generally we stick to a 40-hour a week at your place of work, unless you’re a wage earner (which could be much more or less). That said, it doesn’t always work that way.

The worst case is a suburban or rural lifestyle that is one hour (or more!) from the office, where logistics (e.g. groceries, auto maintenance, healthcare) and friends are almost as far away from home. That adds up to a ton of time in transit, with a handful of hours to yourself each working day for the rest, if you want to sleep a healthy amount. Then you add kids, daycare, after-school activities, and there’s literally no free time left.

Dammit.

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Shit, that’s good.