I don’t really see the issue with that one. Most of my staff have commitments outside of work that require them to take certain days off or start/finish late during parts of the year. As long as they advise these things in advance, you can just schedule around it.

Also, if you have enough work on that you need more staff, even a part-timer still reduces the total workload on everyone else.

Weird. I have to switch all my machines to x11 in order to get multiple monitors working. Wayland just renders back screens on everything but main. Also makes remote desktop access buggy as fuck if it works at all.

Do you have another machine(or even a phone with an ssh tool like connectbot) you can use to try remoting into the machine while it is “frozen”? If you can still ssh in, that would indicate it is a DE issue, and you can poke around from there, try forcing a restart of the DE

It’s being pushed in a lot of NZ hospitals at the moment. The claim is something along the lines of “all healthcare discussions need to be in english to avoid miscommunication”, but in reality it’s a bunch of white people getting upset because they think brown people are talking shit about them behind their backs.

I thought they already did this? Wasn’t that their justification for killing integrated SMS?

Converting AC electricity into low voltage DC is fairly trivial. If you’re so inclined, you can build a rudimentary 12v psu yourself for pocket change.

Maintaining a consistent power output within a certain tolerance under load is where things get complex and costly.

The finer your tolerance and more robust your protection systems, the more expensive your components get and the more of them you need.

Assuming that there is good market competition and prices aren’t being jacked up for no reason, the difference between a $100 psu and a $500 psu is the difference between one with redundant protection systems, smooth and reliable power output, and a long life expectancy vs one that has far fewer of those things.

If you’re slapping a replacement psu into an old system that you’ve had for five years, and you don’t have a lot of investment in, then go cheap. If you’re building new and high end, then don’t cheap out on a component that could fry thousands of dollars worth of new equipment when things go wrong.

Don’t forget his most iconic roles; Jake the Muss, and Dr Ropata.

Outside of Unix based programs, probably not a lot.

In terms of their functionality most programs are standalone applications rather than tools where you modify the programming flow of the data.

Tangentially related, why would you fire someone just for fucking up? Everyone fucks up occasionally, an in my experience, the bigger the fuck up, the more diligent thay person will be in ensuring they don’t do it again.

Look again at why these people no longer have work available to them.

If advancements in technology mean that a machine can do the job more efficiently than a human, then the value of that labour still exists, we just need to legislate a redistribution of it now that human employment is no longer doing it directly.

Once we update our tax codes to ensure that the wealth of automation is shared equitably, the question then becomes “what do you want to do with your free time?”

Unless I’m missing something, you can do this fairly simply already. I have a post-install script I run on all of my machines which sets up all network shares and runs ‘apt install whole bunch of packages’ to get things into a ready-to-roll state.

If they do no push back, then they are just kicking the can down the road, at great expense to themselves. This is exactly the sort of pushback needed to get bambu to walk back their push towards a walled garden.

Fair, unfortunately it was a work machine that i needed operational again asap.

Luckily i image my machine monthly, so it was fairly straightforward to roll back.

Get a dog. Always happy to see you when you get home, will pester you relentlessly into moderate excercise, #1 wingman for meeting friends or significant others.

Dont commit to a course of study unless you are following your passion, or have a realistic plan to monetise the skills you get out of it.

Even if university is cheap/free in your region, the opportunity cost is steep. You will spend the next 3-5 years on subsistence wages, and come out the other end with very few practical skills beyond those of your specific area of study.

As cliché as it may sound, take a year off and bum around the world doing casual/seasonal labour while you figure out where you actually want to end up, because no-one else can define your future.

Generally yes. My exception was the time i accidentally nuked python in it’s entirety…

It’s a chicken and egg situation though. If you let them get away selling you broken games then they have no incentive no stop breaking them.

I am now firmly in camp “better run on linux if you want my money”.

English actualy did have terms for that, they just got a bit bastardised with “yea” and “nay” dropping out of common speech:

Will they not go? — Yes, they will.

Will they not go? — No, they will not.

Will they go? — Yea, they will.

Will they go? — Nay, they will not.

Has anyone stopped to consider that we may have the causality backwards here?

We know that frodo becomes invisible when wearing the ring, perhaps the reason we can never find the 10mm is that this was already done?