EmilyIsTrans

EmilyIsTrans, 1 year ago

Ah, the James Damore archetype of an engineer. I bet they get wet dreams imagining themselves as the Howard Roark of programming (and just as delusional).

EmilyIsTrans, 1 year ago

I’m pretty happy using Ubuntu. Its got a decent UI and works well enough with little fuss. As much as I enjoy tinkering, I use my Ubuntu machines for work and I really only need something simple that works out of the box.

EmilyIsTrans, 1 year ago

Also, while the applications I use can be installed on other platforms, they’re only supported on Ubuntu.

EmilyIsTrans, 1 year ago

Companies are always going to make shitty changes, but that doesn’t change the reality that industry leaders are usually in that position for a reason. You simply cannot replace After Effects without kneecapping yourself. GIMP is nowhere near as capable as Photoshop. It is impossible to develop iOS apps without Xcode, and difficult/unsupported to develop Android without Android Studio.

You can piss off your high horse as much as you want, but it is fantastical to claim that professions should hamstring their work and sacrifice reality and practicality for the sake of some ideology belief. Companies aren’t choosing these standards because they love giving away money, they’re doing it because they recognise that rejecting a $300 annual expense for $10,000 worth of greater productivity is financially irresponsible.

EmilyIsTrans, 1 year ago

I don’t think it is valuable to argue with this person. Anyone who can’t recognise that the inherent power imbalance between child and adult makes consent impossible is probably not available to be convinced in the first place.