And even if you did somehow manage to, once you’re actually doing the job, you’d get found out pretty quickly… I’ve heard of people trying this nonsense, and there is no scenario where it works put for anyone, it wastes everyone’s time, and just puts up more barriers to stop genuine hard working people accessing the jobs that actually fit them. Yes, the interview landscape can be brutal at the moment, but ‘tools’ like this are the problem, not the solution.
Popup ads? Where are they? That’s not something I’ve heard of, but then I always use an adblocker…
I used it for years on a raspberry pi, and it was great, very easy to manage storages and different ways of sharing over a network.
If you are after a Debian based system, with an interface for file server/backups/network storage, with a (web) interface, you are pretty much describing https://www.openmediavault.org/ . Decent plugin ecosystem to set up Wireguard, as well as a web interface to set up docker based containers for anything.
MS doesn’t blame the user when they get confused by a GUI or become intimidated by a command line interface.
Umm, yes they do. Look at copilot (as one recent example). The full range of opinion I’ve ever encountered goes from apathy to hatred. (Never heard of anyone having anything positive to say about it, the ‘nicest’ thing being to the effect of ‘I just ignore it, so I don’t care’). And yet, Microsoft’s attitude is that ‘the user is wrong, deal with it’, and this has always been the case in both Windows and Mac OS, while the various OSS DEs attempt to fix real user frustrations.
Many of the points they make are true for GNOME specifically, but thankfully, there are plenty of other options, and Linux != GNOME.
This Mitchell & Webb sketch comes to mind… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h242eDB84zY
Of course it does. This particular change may seem innocuous in itself, but the idea of compliance with ridiculous laws like this one, in one jurisdiction, being implemented in a project used globally will result in compromising everyone’s privacy/security, regardless of whether they are even subject to that law or not.
If anything, it’s more troubling for those outside the relevant jurisdiction, since we get 0 say on the laws, and have no actual reason to comply.
They don’t really have to support the controller, though. Steam input lets you map controller inputs to kb/m inputs, so no degree of controller support is required. If there are any programmes that don’t work (which is possible, there are weird quirks in any system), I’ve certainly never encountered them.
What kind of dystopia are you living in that listening to music or podcasts would ‘raise the alarm’? Yes, don’t do anything inappropriate (definitely no piracy, obviously), or detrimental to productivity, but listening to music? Would definitely quit if an employer had a problem with that.
Is this a thing that’s considered ‘normal’ in the US? (I’m assuming US mainly because other countries are not generally so hostile towards employees)
Precisely. SSD puts the decorations in the hands of your window manager, which allows you to customise what information and controls are available in the title bar (or if you even want to display one at all), so you can use the space much more efficiently. With CSD, you’re down to the whims and opinions of the application, and their space-wasting choices (and whether they even choose to respect your theming).
That kind of case makes sense, actually.
Wow, that’s wild. I guess that’s what you get from being such a young/niche project, they haven’t had the time/demand to come up against the problems that all the other distros had to solve years ago.
I DLed Cachy with the torrent. Another thing I wish more distros would offer, haha!
I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a distro that doesn’t offer a torrent download option, since it saves the project expensive hosting costs.
Since when did CSD become accepted, let alone encouraged? Titlebars should only ever be drawn by the system. This trend of individual applications drawing their own titlebars is a disaster that results in fragmentation and inconsistent behaviour. The absolute disaster that is the titlebars is one of the main reasons I cannot bring myself to use GNOME, recently.
True, just clarifying to clarify the last sentence:
In UK, it is just the legal term everyone goes by for when you lose your job
Since I think there’s room for misunderstanding that it’s more generic than it is
That’s not quite true, it’s a very specific reason for losing your job. If you are fired for doing a bad job, and said you were made redundant, that would be a lie. Redundancy is about the role, not the individual.
It’s not quite the same thing. If you are ‘fired’ that’s generally to do with performance or conduct of the individual. Redundancy is about not needing (or affording) the role any more (i.e. it is redundant). There are specific legal protections for each case that work quite differently. (You cannot rehire for the same position after a redundancy, for example)
Possible counterpoint: their use as a generic is isolated within the US (maybe some other countries, but certainly not universal), whereas ‘google’ has arguably become a pretty global term (at least in the Anglophone world, and I believe in some other languages, too), so the reach is very different in scope.
(e.g. Despite Kleenex still a big brand in the UK, nobody uses it as a generic. The product is called a ‘tissue’)
In the same way vibe coding has transformed software development
So, that is to say, they expect it to have no impact on serious work whatsoever?
Surely, if you forget it’s even running, you aren’t using it, and it doesn’t matter if it stops running? (With a couple of obvious exceptions like automated backups, etc)
I’d go one step further. This kind of ‘tool’ is not fixing a problem that doesn’t exist. It is actively causing a problem that didn’t exist, and doesn’t need to (along with the charlatans peddling the AI application-slop ‘services’). I’ve heard from hiring managers of people trying things like this, and it:
Ultimately, it makes an already brutal interview landscape 1000x worse, for no benefit to anyone.