“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. They’re allowed to take only a knapsack and a little cash with them, and even then, they’re robbed of these possessions on the way. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone.” — Anne Frank

3w ago

Its a circus and we're the clowns

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shapis @lemmy.ml 3w ago

It’s bad. Very bad.

I spent the past month or so looking for my first job out or school. And so many places make you jump through hoops or have humiliation session interviews.

The place I accepted the offer from called me once for screening. Then set up a technical interview.

The technical interview was half of it talking about who I am. What I like to do. What I want to work on etc. and the other half them explaining what the job is, why it’s a great opportunity etc.

Next day I got the offer. Simplest process ever and not humiliating at all. Felt like the exception. There are decent people out there still.

3w ago

Why does Lemmy.ML admire authoritarian regimes ?

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shapis @lemmy.ml 3w ago

It might be because this place is so small. A single idiot screaming loudly will take up the whole room.

3w ago

Why does Lemmy.ML admire authoritarian regimes ?

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shapis @lemmy.ml 3w ago

Idk man. I don’t believe in any of that I’m just chillin.

4mo ago

Not that I or anyone would ever have issues.

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shapis @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

Bluetooth mic is currently broken for everyone that uses wireplumber and libwireplumber.

Which is basically everyone using the up to date version of those packages.

This affects everyone. If you turn on your Bluetooth mic on it the system hard crashes.

Yes. I’m using it right now. There are many ridiculous broken things like the one mentioned above. I can give you a few more that affect everyone if you want.

I really feel like I’m being gaslit by people here on Lemmy saying that their system doesn’t randomly breaks. When major functions just break out of nowhere for everyone and stay broken for arbitrary number of weeks or months.

4mo ago

Not that I or anyone would ever have issues.

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shapis @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

Indeed. I think you just have to accept a half broken system if you use Linux.

If you accept that’s the trade off for less spyware you won’t be disappointed.

4mo ago

Where is Linux not working well in your daily usage? Share your pain points as of 2026, so we can respectfully discuss

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shapis @lemmy.ml 4mo ago

Affinity for Linux? Canva's next big move could reshape the desktop software market

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shapis @lemmy.ml 6mo ago

I tried to like Krita. I’ve used it extensively for a few years. But it’s just not good. For all the reasons mentioned in this thread.

7mo ago

We gotta be more encouraging

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shapis @lemmy.ml 7mo ago

It’s both really.

When I was publishing my first paper after sending it in to a professor for review a few times he called me in and went line through line of the whole paper for about 4 hours explaining to me what I needed to fix and why.

A lot of it were things that came down to experience and that no book education could have given me.

People that believe they can make significant contributions need to go through the proper process. But ridiculing them before they even attempt is not the way to go.

A good point that Angela made in her video from what. I remember. I watched it a while ago was that these crackpots always have grand theories. It’s never a small contribution. In that sense. A good filter is just asking them to show why we should listen to them before putting effort into it.

You think you found a way to make warp drives work ? Show us a prototype.

Edit. I did live in the midst of academia for a while. But from my experiences. Reaching out to people in other universities. They had no real way of verifying a priori that I was who i said I was. And.no one ever told me to fuck off and very few people ignored me. From memory no one did. So it does make me wonder what kind of insane message that person is sending and to whom.