Their recommendation usually starts with a disclaimer, and ends with “But it’s worth it, cause you can easily clone your machine”.
For me, one look at https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#ch-configuration and https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options is enough to know it’s way too much hassle for me. I’ll stick with Slackware.
We grew up together in the 90s in Germany and this video and song just captures the mood perfectly.
OK but if getting fired is also something they don’t pay you enough to care about, then you might as well stay home.
Just be aware that using a VM without telling IT can jeopardize your company’s IT insurance in case of an attack and can get you fired for cause.
My 10yo laptop is faster than my wife’s new one.
I mean hers is a lot more powerful obviously, but fuck if I know what Windows does with that power, cause it sure isn’t using it for the stuff she wants to do.
As long as what you publish is truthful and they don’t suffer any actual damages, you should be fine it’s not illegal.
If the people you write about are rich and influential, it doesn’t have to be illegal for them to ruin you in court.
I spent 2 weeks on the northern shore of Koh Tao in Thailand, around 20 years ago.
It was as close to an island paradise as I could imagine.
There were a few bungalows and a bar under palm trees, directly at a perfectly white sandy beach, surrounded by rainforest.
The sea was clear azure, with a reef you could snorkel in.
It’s impossible to describe the beauty and serenity of the place.
We were the only guests. The next houses one bay over didn’t have electricity yet.
One night we didn’t finish our hike in time and almost got stuck in the forest in the evening, because it got so dark you literally couldn’t see the ground anymore.
To get there you had to take three boat rides, then ride over unpaved roads on the back of a pickup truck for one hour.
Just checked the place out on Google Maps. It’s now entirely built up with hotels.
I do the opposite. Whenever I delete anything I use rm -rf /full/path/to/file
Just starting to type that triggers a fear response and makes me triple-check what I’m doing.
No. Being a reptile might be cool, but I’m now 40 and already think that being at the half-way point is fine with me.
Damn, being a lemmy mod is more demanding than I thought!
My cats jump into bed as soon as I go to sleep. They’ll wake me up in the morning by rubbing against me and purring (haven’t needed an alarm clock in years). I get up, feed them, go for a half hour walk with them before the dog walkers are up, and then make breakfast for myself.
When I leave for work, they’re already back in bed, and we all wish I could join them.
Unfortunately, one of us has to earn the money to buy cat food, and it sure as hell won’t be them.
Next: Stop using computers
I work from Monday to Friday, 8:30 till 4pm with a half-hour lunch break, 3 weeks in a row.
The fourth week I work from 9:30 till 5, and then I’m on call from 5 till midnight and all day during the weekend.
On average I get 1 call per week that requires 15-30 minutes of actual work (remote). I can live my life normally during on-call time as long as I stay sober, within cell phone range, and within a 1h drive to work in case of an emergency.
As compensation for doing on-call, I get a company car, about 20% more salary, and 12 additional vacation days, for a total of 42 days per year (plus unlimited sick days).
You stop making new friends, and the friends you’ve had move away, don’t have time anymore due to family and job, and eventually start dying off.
If you don’t make a conscious effort and invest time into creating new friendships (with considerable difficulty since you yourself are tied to “adult” obligations), you can end up alone with withered social skills before you realize it.
There’s also the danger of collecting bad memories or feelings of regret tied to certain activities, like “I should start playing the guitar again…but I already tried to get back into it multiple times, so why bother?”
If you aren’t careful that will lead to stopping doing the things you once enjoyed, with no new hobbies to take their place.
On Lemmy, everyone is a trans-feminine lesbian autist communist.
Not everyone yet, but we’re working on it.
It makes sense, though.
It’s a different measurement for a different type of precipitation.
And snow has about 1/10 the density of water on average, so going from mm to cm makes sense.
Probably not in most systems but mine still has it. Slackware btw.
That’s the part that mystifies me. On the one hand, in an enterprise setting, it can be frustratingly difficult to license and activate your MS products, to the point where you cry out “Why do you make it so hard to give you our money?”
And on the other hand, you can easily bypass the whole thing and get all their stuff for free.
And it’s been that way for decades, so it doesn’t seem to be a mistake on their part.