90% light tech entertainment, 10% educational. Youtube tech review channels have limited usefulness outside those few moments you need to make a new purchase but sometimes you might discover or learn something new, but it’s mostly just constant roll of advertisements of new tech gadgets, basic tech advice for the uneducated masses, benchmarks and other such things that don’t really matter much and to be honest, most of the content comes out looking and sounding the same - and rather corporate.

But I guess that’s what happens to all big media outlets eventually.

The WAN show (current tech-afftairs podcast) is the only “half-serious” thing that’s worth a listen imho.

Yeah, Mozilla Org is the non-profit and Mozilla Corp is the for-profit that develops Firefox and gives their CEO’s million dollar golden parachutes. Unfortunately these days even the org is overrun with AI bros.

My comment is mostly a reflection of people who are not project maintainers. FOSS users are known to be insufferable bunch. We tend to want to crucify people who are trying something different (just see the comments in this thread, for example). The ”community” is toxic, as the kids say.

A dime a dozen in FOSS it seems.

Not really into fungi or old free software fogies so I guess I’d have to go with traitor.

Miguel also developed Xamarin and Mono (his company was acquired by Microsoft).

RMS labeled him as “Traitor to the Free Software Community” which has to be some kind of badge of honor, lol

Ok, well - there’s the community support section as well. I’ve been on Debian since 1997 so I’m probably not the best person to give detailed advice on this.

Good luck!

Sounds like you’re not enjoying your work too much, so applying elsewhere, even if it’s just to test the market is not a bad idea. Should always be doing this anyway, every couple of years to know where you are compared to rest of your peers.

You naturally do not say or mention this to your current colleagues. You leave your notice only after you’ve signed the new contract. You should always leave gracefully, without burning your bridges (no matter how tempting that might be), because you never know. Might need to use them for reference one day.

Play the game.

Not sure why you felt like you had to have LLM write your post, but each to their own…

Ubuntu and Fedora are the officially supported distros. So go with either of them. https://frame.work/linux

Seems Bazzite, Arch, Nix and Mint are top of the “community supported” distros. https://frame.work/laptop16?tab=linux

Why do you need AI model for this? Seems wasteful compared to normal search

We’ve seen this movie already

Capitalism makes every innovation into a grift

Pro: It does what I need an OS to do. Mostly, I need it to manage my hardware devices and staying out of my way.
Con: It’s a pain in the ass when it occasionally decides to stop managing my hardware devices and gets in my way.

What do I miss from Windows: Nothing. I’ve been using Linux since 1997. Back then Win95 was absolute shitshow. Idk what it is now. I don’t much care.

I don’t. I’ve been running Debian since 1997.
From what I read on the Internets, lot of gamers seem to like Bazzite.

Just try it out for a bit. If you don’t like it, switch back. That’s it. It’s not one of lifes major decisions.

Now you just need a broken toilet and two copies of Outlook (non-functional).

I meant, the priorities for the society as a whole. Our governments and laws are formed accordingly. On individual level it’s same here as well. We have people who reject (or abuse) the system, who hate the taxes etc. But our society is formed to provide certain things like free access to education, healthcare and collective social security for elderly and those who can’t support themselves.

Never heard of 996 but feels like these types of articles pop up every time there’s some kind of tech hype cycle going on. Silicon valley is full of IT heroes, ready to sacrifice it all - their families, health, environment - in order to make it big. Get rich or die trying. That’s the American Dream, right? Work hard, provide full value to shareholders and some precious honey might trickle down to you. The American “success culture” we Europeans apparently lack.

Meanwhile, here I am, I’m living in northern European social democratic utopia with free healthcare, education and annual, fully paid 6 week vacation while wondering why my 4-day work week is taking so long,.

Different priorities, I guess.

USA is not a serious country. What an absolute shit hole.

Ah, thanks I wasn’t aware of those instances. I guess it’s the same old, same old story as always - politicians (in general), even in EU are not really looking to do the “right thing”. They’re looking to do the most populistic thing.