I swear I've never heard "tankie" before a week ago and now I'm on Lemmy I read it 50 times a day.

I used to work IT at a company that leased electronic stuff to the general public. Oh boy were they shitty. Keep in mind, this is in a Western European country where employees and customers have actual rights.

There was a general policy of harassment and intimidation. Sexual harassment obviously. The female staff was constantly "ranked", outfits were loudly commented. By management.

Sometimes you manager came next to you at 6:25PM. You've already been doing free overtime by then but utterly stupid management means sudden, unpredictable and hard deadlines. He would lit up a cigarette in your face and keep you until 10PM. Sometimes the deadline was so short and "important" people had to work until 5AM. For free (well, pizzas). And show up the next morning at 10 (instead of 9, woo).

Managers kept threatening you to cancel your holidays the day before leaving if you didn't do this and that. Sometimes people had to connect from their vacations to do stuff because they were "critical" for something.

Money was a funny thing. We were constantly paid late. Sometimes more than 2 weeks late. Everyone who wasn't an employee wasn't paid at all. Not the rent, not the building staff (the toilets were FILTHY), not the contractors who remodeled the floor when we moved in, not the suppliers and especially not the IT contractors. I came in on day and found that I lost my entire team because their employers has never been paid.

One day, they lost a major investor because they lent money to purchase stuff to lease, not burning it in massive management salaries. As a collateral, the investor left with the customer database. So they were back to square one. So, as a get-new-customers-quick tactic, they created dozens of too-good-to-be-true promotions, like giving out electric scooters for new subscriptions and the like. With of course zero intention of honoring them out, since there was no money.

I could go on and on. Everyday there was new, shitty, borderline illegal stuff going on.

Funnily enough, they are. Some tech millionnaire invested in them just after I (and 90% of the IT staff) left.

We all thought he was going to be another whale that they would bleed dry. But he actually took over and changed a lot of things.

So, for now, they still exist. I don't know how or at what cost, but they still exist. I wouldn't go back there for all the money in the world tho, I'm pretty sure the corporate culture is still toxic af.

Especially if he's just been sold the wrong grade of copper.

Google literally owns Android tho.

undefined>Beehaw.org wants a curated community and Lemmy.world doesn’t. Beehaw.org has a tougher sign up process while it’s basically free at Lemmy.world.

To be fair beehaw seems very different from the joyous anarchic freedom we enjoy here (I've been on Lemmy for a week and feel more at home than I ever was on Reddit). No right to create new communities, registration needs approval...

maybe they'll come back to the federation, maybe they'll be their own thing. I hope for the former because there is some great content there too.

I'm glad to see that the gap between RB and the competition is slowly closing. Maybe it was a one off, maybe they expected rain all weekend and went with a setup that favors stability over performance, maybe it was a dead bird, maybe Aston's and Merc's upgrades really work.

Ferrari took a gamble and DID NOT FUCK UP. That was a refreshing change of pace, especially after being in full Ferrari fuck up mode all weekend (all year so far?).

The battle between Alonso and Hamilton was epic, as were the ones behind Albon who held onto his spot by sheer will and raw pace.

De Vries being De Vries, taking himself and K-Mag out on an open online lobby divebomb...

All in all, a great race :D

Wow nice! I just replaced the Apollo icon on my Home Screen with this.

Looks great and feels like Apollo!

For the ones curious about what I was roasting :D

It's meta. Their intentions are never honest.

Knife skills.

Buy a very good chef's knife. There are expensive options, there are some more affordable options. Carbon steel is best, but there are some very good stainless alloys too. Do some research. Don't cheap out, this is a tool you'll buy for life if properly maintained. Pro range Wüsthof, Zwilling or Kai are great options.

Learn how to properly and safely use it.

Learn how to maintain it and keep it razor sharp (not exaggerating, you should be able to shave your arm after sharpening it). I use a dual sided Japanese wet stone (1000/3000 grit), it's great.

Not only proper knife skills with a good, balanced, sharp knife are much safer and save a lot of time, they also make cutting a joy instead of a chore.

Yeah yeah, AOSP and all that. Despite, Android is made primarily by Google to push Google products and most apps depend on Google services. For all intents and purposes, Android is a first party OS for Google.

And r/gifs only gifs of our lord and savior tasting something truly disgusting and softly muttering "oh no"

I feel this should have been part of my beloved "Trotskyist insults" stamp set I was gifted many years ago.

You DO love coffee. You're just not as far down the rabbit hole as I am :D

The Dark Side of Wine leads to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural.

But mostly, https://github.com/Gictorbit/photoshopCClinux

Didn't keep it long tho, there were many issues and I didn't fully trust a cracked version of Photoshop on my main computer. It didn't survive reinstall when I upgraded my SSD.

Pandering to his misogynistic neofascist fanbase?

Oh thanks, I'll check it out.

Lelit Bianca, DF64 stock burrs.