Exactly. It exposes the bias in the headline wording designed to trigger a reaction because this is Amazon, but companies move all the time, and a percentage of the workforce will always prefer not uprooting themselves, no matter how good or bad their employer.
Might be worth waiting for some news outlets you’ve actually heard of to start carrying the story before you break out the balloons.
This feels like a cynical ploy for funding, like almost every “miracle battery” story carried over the past ten years.
That’s a surprisingly well written article.
Not arguing with the other possible reasons given, but it can be really hard to get started with SO as anything other than a reader. Gaining enough points to comment, answer, or even answer a comment feels really hard now that so many questions are already answered well.
You make it sound like there’s a plan involved.
That’s a whole lot of “fuck spez”. Well done, strangers.
Same has happened in recent versions of Gitlab. Lots of feature creep and UI changes that seem non-intuitive (at least for me)
As a UK citizen, I totally support this. The more that the average voter is disconvenienced because of proposed law changes like this and the (unenforcable) anti-porn laws, the more likely they are to actually pressure their MP or change how they vote.
Trump style dead catism?
Keep doing crazy things so people stop talking about your last crazy thing?
Run the cables more neatly.
Musk is not a likeable person, and I’m definitely not a fan - but he has changed the world. Not many people can say that and Reddit’s distaste for him has spilled over here recently.
Paypal - first and still biggest widely trusted online payment handler.
Tesla - Started a ground-breaking electric car market that’s changed the entire face of motorised transport, and is still the leader in the sector. Their motors and battery packs are still way ahead of anyone else.
Starnet - Bringing low latency, high speed internet to remote locations around the globe. Even in the developed western world where other technologies have deemed it unaffordable.
SpaceX - Seriously, who can fail to be impressed by seeing a rocket LANDING intact?
All areas where other companies dicked around and really achieved very little through lack of vision, drive or funding.
Yes, he’s had failures (Boring Company, Twitter) and yes he’s a category ten arsehole (accusing people of being paedophiles without grounds, manipulating stock prices illegally, pot smoking on live tv, having complete disregard for human beings’ feelings and lives, etc etc) . Does that give him a free pass to act like a knob? Of course not, but the man has actually achieved genuinely amazing things.
Any work-issued device should be used for just work, right? Surely that’s common sense?
I know what you mean about “it feels a bit ruined” - I had to post something for work there today (a technical question that I felt was best suited there), the first time I’ve been on for two weeks. It kinda felt like I was visiting a porn site - that same shifty feeling that I hope nobody notices it was me.
It is a real shame, but when you sit back and think about it - it’s just a website. It’s not really that important compared to other things, so I’m generally finding better things to do, like you are. Doing that, for whatever reason, is a good thing.
Same! HA is a really interesting thing to get into. I moved to it from Domoticz, which is easy to get going but you hit some hard limits after a while.
I got a bunch of automod messages too when I did it. If you edit a message, automod reviews it just as if it was a first post. If the edit breaks the sub’s rules (as it will if you used a generic message for all your posts as I did) then it’ll get blocked. Don’t think that’s being precious, just how automod tools work.
Yes. If you’ve not been using reddit for a little while, have you noticed any mental health changes?
It’s also nice to be here whilst it’s still got new-thing energy. I like that.
Yep! I have a reminder in my calendar: “Delete reddit user”. 11 years of contributions gone. Already deleted all posts and comments, but kept the user back so that if anyone’s keeping score, it counts.
Nah, it’s fine. Boot times are considerably faster than sys.v in most cases, and it has a huge amount of functionality. Most people I work with have adopted it and much prefer it to the old init.d and sys.v systems.
People’s problem with systemd (and there are fewer people strongly against it than before) seem to break down into two groups:
They were happy with sys.v and didn’t like change. Some were unhappy with how distros adopted it. (The debian wars in particular were really quite vicious)
It does too much. systemd is modular, but even so does break one of the core linux tenets - “do one thing well”. Despite the modularity, it’s easy to see it as monolithic.
But regardless of feelings, systemd has achieved what it set out to do and is the defacto choice for the vast majority of distros, and they adopted it because it’s better. Nobody really cares if a user tries to make a point by not using it any more, they’re just isolating themselves. The battle was fought and systemd won it.
As someone who was working in IT support at the time - YAY! NO MORE FUCKING TRUMPET WINSOCK!