Windows, I will always remember it being the best thing for business’s as Microsoft pushes licenses and such business related features.

Most businesses I’m familiar with deserve to have to deal with Microsoft BS.

Well, yeah. It’s OpenSea. That’s like saying “76% of videos on Pornhub are porn.”

Someone needs to teach me this trick of buying pizza with the pizza’s own money.

“Dominoes hates this one weird trick.”

Here too. Weird.

For a second there I was worried there was something I hadn’t heard about Robert Downey Jr.

Shouldn’t his answer be “Yes. I signed an NDA.”?

I write software and I work for a pretty technophobic, brick-and-mortor kind of company that’s still struggling to catch up in tech. (The unstated stance of the top brass was definitely that the internet was a fad until like 2015. And even now they’re clueless, but improving.)

Wonderful place to work. I have surprising autonomy to work on interesting projects. It’s easy to get away with long lunches or showing up late. (The boss kindof doesn’t care.) Full-time remote (even though I live in the city where their headquarters is.)

The more Silicon-Valley-ish (yet “large”) company where I used to work was really… culty? They expected everything out of me every second to the point I didn’t get a chance to take a breath and think. And all my coworkers constantly expected and pressured me to work late at night and such. (Like, they genuinely seemed to want to be awakened at 3:00am to sit on a Zoom call where they couldn’t actually do anything to help with the massive outage going down.) It’s the sort of place that turns down applicants who aren’t smart enough (unlike where I work now), but you’d have to be crazy to want to work there.

If/when I have to change jobs, I’m looking for a remote software engineering job at a company with manifestly the worst technology setup I can find. Lowes might be a good choice. Or maybe a regional grocery store chain. Or some hash-been company that’s now a shadow of their former self like ToysRUs or Sears.

AI has already peaked. It’s all downhill from here.

I’ve run across AI content in non-AI subs before and responded with similar things fully expecting to be downvoted to Earth’s core and was pleasantly surprised at how few downvotes and how many upvotes I got. So I’ve made a habit of calling out AI stuff in non-AI communities when I run across it. (Unless it’s actually strongly related to the purpose of the community it’s posted in.)

This is at least the third time I’ve made such a comment, and the first time I’ve seen a negative net score for more than a few minutes after I posted. Still, it’s pretty evenly split even on this one. Maybe most of the down-voters just don’t want anything negative said about “AI”. (Like cryptobros will deem anything “bearish” to be “FUD”.) Who knows.

And there are places for engaging in mouth-foaming AI bubble hype indulgence on Lemmy. I just don’t want the communities I like inundated with tons of AI PR posts.

Can we keep LLM BS in “AI”-specific subs, please?

Websites need desperately to display their password creation rules on login pages. If I knew this particular site had (for some dumbass reason) a maximum password length less than the length of the password I’d otherwise use on that site or (also completely unreasonably) restricts special characters, I can more easily figure out what password I used when I signed up with fewer wrong guesses, all without sacrificing any security. (It’s not like the rules aren’t public info that anyone can get. Just don’t make me go halfway through the signup process to get that information if I’m just trying to log in.)

I’ve paid more for Raspberry Pi’s. Not including the charger, SD card, input/output devices, etc.

I’m curious whether there’s anyone in this thread who is cool with, for instance, Github renaming the default branch name to “main” but thinks GIMP renaming would be woke BS.

For the record, I’m for both changes and and yes I do have a glass case where I keep my downvote collection.

It kindof seems like what you’re looking for is Gentoo. Any reason why you’re reticent to go that direction?

Clarification: in what program(s) interfaces are they not sorted the way you want? In the output of an ls command? In the default Mint graphical filebrowser? (I’m not a Mint user, so I’m not familiar with the default Mint filebrowser if there is one.) In QT and/or GTK file open/save dialogs?

I currently use Sway primarily. On my work machine, I have to use Zoom, so I use i3 on X1q which acts/feels virtually identical to Sway. (Or rather, the other way around. Sway was made to be a Wayland compositor drop-in replacement for i3 which has been around for a long time.)

Obligatory “install Linux” post.

Yes! I didn’t even think to check until now. Thank you, kind stranger!

Jerboa. Because it’s fully open source and it’s the first one I installed and I have yet to have enough of a problem with it to look for alternatives. (The left-right swipe features are… not a good thing, but they’re not bad enough to make me want to switch.)

If ℕ is natural numbers and ℚ is rational numbers and ℤ is integers and ℝ is the rational numbers, what are 𝕏 and 𝕐?