That's the neat part. It doesn't even need to be.

Indiscriminate mass killing and destruction is still mass killing and destruction, regardless of any objectives. A regime official or a school for girls? Who cares.

Mass surveillance doesn't need to target terrorists and opponents, the goal is to terrorize the population into submission. The more arbitrary it is, the better.

Disinformation doesn't need to be believable, you just need to flood the public discourse to drown any reality-based opinion.

this does not fit MY exact use-case therefore it is STUPID

Sorry bud, but this is how you sound like.

The VERY FIRST LINE is "larger than a motorcycle, smaller than a truck". The use case is hauling SMALL CARGO in a dense urban environment, a use-case where tiny, nimble vehicles are infinitely more beneficial than massive pickup trucks or panel vans.

Same.

It's a lot of money tied up into a depreciating asset

That's such a weird take. You already bought and enjoyed a machine most people would consider way too expensive "just for coffee". Which means it's a passion buy, not an utilitarian one. Especially since you, quote, "are not hurting financially". Depreciating assets are for commodities, not passions and hobbies. Otherwise, what's the point in life? Selling it would be a net loss anyways, because at some point in life, you might want to buy another one and you'd lose the depreciation on this one plus inflation.

Don't sell or you'll regret it. Kids grow up quick, you'll find the time again to appreciate a nice espresso very soon. Get a cheap alternative for guests and/or inconvenient times. Keep the nice espresso machine.

I became a manager about a year ago. Now that I'm part of the "inner circle", I can see firsthand what I suspected for the past 20 years.

There are 2 types of managers.

There are cunts bosses who treat their employees as property for their personal gain and advancement. They demand productivity at all costs (see: LLM-cogsuckers), punish for mistakes and pressure people into responsibilities they should take. They are the ones who want RTO to exert control on their employees. They are the ones who "joke" you must take a half-day leave if you need to go before 6PM. They are the ones who openly shit on their employees (or other teams employees FWIW) because they're not benefiting them enough. They are not part of the team, they feel and act above everyone in it.

The second type, which I strive to be and most of my closest "manager friend" are, are servant-leaders. They want to get shit done by easing roadblocks and making technologically informed decisions. They understand that productivity is a consequence of a functional team and happy employees. They take on responsibility for mistakes and push the team towards finding solutions to prevent them. They understand that Life^TM^ is more important than work. They are an integral part of the team, they're not the boss but a full member with a different role and different responsibilities, like a PO or a data analyst.

As a tech lead first and a trained Scrum Master second, I feel much more comfortable in the second role. I help the team internally and report and manage external roadblocks with other teams. It's what I already know. I hate the hierarchical part of the job.

I fucking hate politics so much...

There's a guy in my team. I need to push him into a more advanced role. Because he deserves it, and because otherwise I might lose him. I brought him in from another team where things were going bad. Real bad. Turns out, all he needed was a human working with another human, not an type 1 cunt demanding output from a walking, breathing toolset. He already fits and fills that role within the team, but I need to make it official. Better pay, more perspectives. I know I'm gonna get cockblocked by the fuckers who still hate him for the wrong reasons. Career reviews are at the end of the year and I already dread it. I need to get involved in politics and I'm terrified of it.

Of course. In this case productivity is a shorthand for obedience. If you do everything I tell you to do, when I tell you to do it and have it done before I need it so I can look good to my managers, then I will deem you productive. Meanwhile, their requirements are completely fucked up and impossible to implement as is, and the deadline is impossible to achieve.

Crashing mid-game.

Mine is about 5 years old. Still works perfectly. I mostly grind light roasts for espresso, which are much harder on the grinder. The burrs gave up and I upgraded to SSP burrs, but the motor still runs strong.

Fun fact, you can play tough too.

Manager: We (meaning you) need to do task A. How long will it take?

Me: Task A will take X days to do.

Manager: That seems awful long.

Me: How long do you think it should take?

Manager: It surely could not take any longer than Y days.

Me: Ok, which features are you willing to remove to make it fit in this timeframe?

It's surprisingly effective, especially with a bit of seniority.

One of the largest slop-machines targeting one of the most vocal and popular anti-slop edutainment channels as slop feels like a targeted attack...

Canada also shares a border with Denmark. At this point Canada is basically Germany

Il in this picture. This is my "let's do one week worth of code in a single session" mode.

MFW I get a ticket for going 5.374x10^-8^ dumbasses in a 4.633x10^-8^ dumbasses zone

Yes it's already there, you just have to activate the performance overlay in the "•••" menu.

You can easily alter one of the presets to only show battery percentage by editing /home/deck/.config/MangoHud/preset.conf using this documentation.

My goto preset only shows FPS, watts and battery percentage.

The entire country of the Netherlands have proven that infrastructure, not weather, makes cycling the most popular mode of transportation. Hell, most of Nordic big cities are cycling heavens despite their shitty snowy/rainy weather.

Thanks OOP for putting words on what I've been feeling for months.

Were "incentivized" (read "threatened into") pushing features quicker than humanly possible with no regard for quality, sustainability and proper ownership of the code to please one (1) stakeholder who had a barely thought out idea. The amount of tech debt in staggering, broken features come and go as the code is "rewritten" with each commit.

It's completely unsustainable and the only ones who profit from it are the LLM providers. When the whole product collapses, the only one to suffers the losses are the company building that product and their clients. Their employees get fired because it's somehow their fault. LLM providers get even richer because now the remaining employees burn through tokens to try and "fix" millions of nine of code nobody has ever thought out, written and reviewed.

Companies pivoting to "full AI" code are literally committing suicide, for the exclusive benefit of LLM providers. I get that that's Anthropic's and OpenAI's plan all along. I just can't understand the utter stupidity, hubris and amount of kool-aid drinking most CTOs are riding right now.

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Geocities pages suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: it starts with hardware.

It's sad to say but a flawless Linux experience out of the box often comes from picking the right hardware first. Chose vendors who actively support Linux. AMD/Intel CPUs, APUs and/or GPUs. Intel WiFi card. Everything else should work ootb except most fingerprint sensors. Avoid laptops with dGPUs. Avoid nVidia. Hardware support comes from hardware vendors, the days of janky community drivers have been over for almost 2 decades. When it's time for you to replace your hardware, do your homework first and/or buy from companies who sell Linux machines (Framework, Tuxedo, Slimbook, Starlabs, System76, some Dells, some Lenovos, etc). You can still buy from random companies but there won't be any guarantees.

Then, the choice of distro in kinda important but not that much. In my 20+ years of actively using and working with Linux, both in the desktop and server space, I've always found Ubuntu and its derivatives kind of janky. I'm a lifelong Debian user, but my best experience on modern hardware have been Fedora on my main laptop and its atomic derivative Bazzite on my gaming rig. Bazzite also comes with a nVidia-specific image for those who can't/wont replace their GPU.

Nowadays to limit interactions between system and user-facing applications, I tend to install most things from Flathub. It might not help with hardware issues, but it helps with stability.

This is perfectly normal.

It also works with a Gaussian: (Noob) haha Fedora go brrr -> (angry advanced) nooo you must use Arch/Nix/Gentoo/Slackware -> (Linus Torvalds) haha Fedora go brrr