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Alt account: @WFH@lemm.ee, used to interact in places where federation is still spotty on .world.

  • What was the most illegal thing your workplace has done?

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  • 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.

  • What was the most illegal thing your workplace has done?

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  • 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.

  • Flatpak vs Snap vs Native Packages

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  • From a technical point of view:

    • Appimages are like MacOS .app programs. You download a random executable from a random website, that contains everything it needs to run. It's the antithesis of the Linux way. Great for portability, awful for everything else. There are no automatic updates unless the developer explicitly bothers to implement them.
    • Snaps are like docker containers. Each snap also contains everything it needs to run, but at least there is a centralized update system.
    • Flatpaks are like another package manager layered over your OS. It manages its own dependency system isolated from your main dependency management. It updates its stuff pretty much like apt/dnf/pacman.
    • Native are managed through your distro's package manager, obviously.

    From a feature/version point of view:

    • If you have a bleeding edge or quickly moving distro, native packages are fine if you want/need up to date software. Arch users shouldn't need Flatpaks for example. The downside is that those packages are made by the distro's maintainers so can be anywhere from untested pre-release software (happened in Manjaro) to extremely outdated (like in Debian oldstable).
    • Flatpaks/Snaps/Appimages are more and more maintained and packaged by their developers. It's great for them as you only need to package once, all bug reports are on versions you control, and you don't need to depend on a distro's maintainer time and will to push updates to users. For stable distros users, this is theoretically the best of both worlds: a stable, tested OS with up to date user facing applications.

    From a philosophical point of view:

    • Appimages and Flatpaks are fully FOSS. Flathub is the dominant ways of distributing Flatpaks but anyone can create a competitor.
    • Snaps are distributed through Canonical's Snap Store, which is not FOSS and is vulnerable to Canonical's corporate meddling.

    My personal preference:

    • Flatpaks for GUI apps, native for CLI tools
    • Appimages as a last resort if it's the only way to get a specific app.
    • Snaps never.

  • Arthur C. Clark once said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". What technologies do we have today that would look like magic to people from the past?

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

  • With so many usernames still available, why did you choose yours?

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  • Ancillary Justice is so good!

  • What are some good hobbies/interests for someone in their mid thirties to pick up?

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  • Do you like beer? Is is legal to home brew in your country? If both are yes, brew beer.

    It's easy, it's delicious, it gets cheap quickly especially compared to most microbreweries, you'll always have a brew to share with friends without having to run to the store.

    Always brew with friends. You can drink beer and have fun on brew days. It's much easier when there are 2-3 people around to lift stuff. You can delegate responsibilities. Share the cost of ingredients and the resulting beer. You can even "associate" and buy the hardware together. Trust me, you will never run out of volunteers.

    Go all grain from the start instead of going extract. Start with something simple with as few ingredients as possible like a stout or a pale ale to get the feel for it. Then brew more complicated but tried and true recipes. Then you can start and go crazy with your own recipes.

    And if anything goes off plan, RDWHAHB. Relax, don't worry, have a home brew. It's hard to make a truly exceptional beer, but if you follow most basic principles it's even harder to fuck up so badly that you brew something truly undrinkable.

  • What are some good hobbies/interests for someone in their mid thirties to pick up?

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  • Film photography can still be pretty cheap compared to digital. Any prime 50mm-ish from the last 70 years will be at least decent to great, any manual camera from the last 50 years is will be good if working. A lot of East-Asian and Eastern European bodies and lenses from the 70'-90'don't hold much value but a lot are very competent workhorses. A lot of (especially Japanese) "basic" lenses like the SMC Taks, most Canons and Nikons have gotten very expensive tho because nowadays people can easily adapt them to any MILC for that "vintage" look.

    Go black and white, buy a bottle of Rodinal (or any clone) and a film tank. They will both last forever.

    Good b&w film like Ilford FP4+ is getting expensive tho, but you can still burn through 50 rolls before reaching the price of a decent, entry level cropped frame DSLR or MILC. Double or triple that if you want a full frame digital camera.

    Plus, a full manual setup is an amazing learning tool, and having only 36 shots per roll force you to stop and think before shooting anything.

    Only potential problem is that scanning negatives can be tricky without buying a film scanner.

  • The resurrection of an IBM Model M2 Keyboard (A "guide" with pictures)

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  • Thanks! Perfectly fine yes ;)

  • Today I discovered Distrobox and it saved my day by letting me install an old-ass, unmaintained app that's only packaged for old Debian

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  • Today I'm making yet another variation of my witbier, this time with kweik and lemon balm.

  • The resurrection of an IBM Model M2 Keyboard (A "guide" with pictures)

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  • ❤️

  • What's your favorite type of salad?

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  • Thank you so much!

    That sauce looks delicious, like a hummus without the peas. I often use the same veggie base for pitas, either sprinkled with lime and za'atar for a Levantine flavor or oregano and olive oil for a Greek one.

  • What's your favorite type of salad?

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  • Could you please share a recipe?

  • Today I discovered Distrobox and it saved my day by letting me install an old-ass, unmaintained app that's only packaged for old Debian

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  • Oh thanks, I'll check it out.

  • Today I discovered Distrobox and it saved my day by letting me install an old-ass, unmaintained app that's only packaged for old Debian

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  • I tried running the tgz a few months ago. It needed a shitload of deprecated python dependancies, I'm not well versed in python so after the 10th pip install I gave up.

    Version 4 is unfortunately closed source and paid.

  • WipEout Pure/Pulse: Goteki 45 custom dyesub PBT keycaps

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  • Lightning is not perfect but it's more yellow and fuchsia. Still looks amazing :D

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Today I discovered Distrobox and it saved my day by letting me install an old-ass, unmaintained app that's only packaged for old Debian

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
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    WipEout Pure/Pulse: Goteki 45 custom dyesub PBT keycaps

  • They might not be Royals, but they feel fit for a king

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  • They're loud as fuck. But they feel amazing. It's like a jolt every time you hit the contact point. Closest modern switches to the legendary buckling springs I've ever tried.

  • The resurrection of an IBM Model M2 Keyboard (A "guide" with pictures)

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  • 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.

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
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    They might not be Royals, but they feel fit for a king

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
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    The resurrection of an IBM Model M2 Keyboard (A "guide" with pictures)

  • bliss

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  • Stop counting, you bean counter.

  • bliss

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  • Bröther may I have some beåns

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    bliss

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Are we defederated from Lemmy.ml or is there a massive sync issue?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    FOSS Apple Music player Cider is EOL, what will you use?

    cider.sh /classic