psud

@psud@lemmy.world

Pronouns: any. You can’t get it wrong

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psud,

Try 30 hour week. It’s superior to 4 “days” of random length. I had a couple of Philippines based contractors on my team who had 4 day weeks, but they still needed to work 40 hours

psud,

Seriously? Art, fishing, playing cards with friends, travelling the world, visiting galleries and museums

Though there’s a little truth in the saying idle hands are the devil’s tools. There would be more vandalism too.

psud,

So they can up their investment income from $1B to $1.0001B

psud,

It’s nuts how wealthy some of those universities are. Several could easily provide free education and still turn a profit

I wonder if they use tuition fees mostly for rationing aceess

psud,

There’s a song 6.66 (1/100th of the number of the beast)

But nothing for 6.6.6

psud,

You can’t say that without explaining the reference. How can they be one of the lucky 10 000 when they still don’t get it?

psud, (edited )

Don’t worry about the terminal until or unless you have something to do that needs it, then follow a guide

Incidentally if a guide tells you to run a program in terminal, you can check what that program is supposed to do

  • man command (eg. man mount) gives you the manual, if it has a manual
  • command -h or --help gives you the command’s help page - pipe it through “less” if it’s more than a single screen eg: ls -h | less
psud,

I haven’t tried running anything new, but the stuff I have run in wine has worked easily, without any tweaking

psud,

It depends on your industry. I’m in an agile development team, working in AWS in Java. I’m not a dev, so my work is in spreadsheets, word processor documents, web utilities like Azure Dev Ops

All that is platform independent, though we have to work on the organisation’s computers, so we work in the office on windows PCs or from home on whatever, remoted into a windows machine or VM

The devs work in VMs which are variously windows or GNU/Linux depending on what the person’s previous project was.

psud,

GIMP will be great once it no longer needs to dodge patents

Audio players work great now MP3 is out of patent (before that MP3 was really only available if you were willing to ignore the patent)

psud,

You can look up beer recipes and buy equipment and ingredients from it though. And use web based or spreadsheet calculators on it to do beer related calculations

That beer is also not free, but assuming you make beer for a long time the price per pint (half litre to split the difference between UK and US pints) tends toward about 20c (though highly hopped beers like hazy pale ale can get towards a dollar a pint) which is pretty cheap

psud,

You could get Ubuntu in a free like America style

psud,

There was a TCP/IP bug that shared it’s exploit on versions of windows from windows for workgroups 3.11 (which you ran from the DOS prompt by typing ‘win’) through to windows 7 (which was the new hotness at the time)

That’s a bug conserved from the very first Microsoft implementation of TCP/IP through to the state of the art at the time

People were surprised at the time that it wasn’t a windows NT bug

psud,

But you still need to get at the audio settings to tell it that it should use your microphone for a microphone, not the USB camera

psud, (edited )

Or a GNU operating system with a Linux kernel and KDE desktop environment

But that’s a mouthful

psud,

You can, but it takes a little effort

psud,

I have a 286 running DOS 6 for when I’m feeling especially nostalgic

psud,

Framework sell laptops with Linux

psud, (edited )

I haven’t had luck with auto login, as soon as it’s logged in it wants a password to unlock its keyring

I wish installers let you set low local security mode. We don’t all need strong security, some of us are just playing games

psud, (edited )

I like the word, it fits well with biased which is approximately opposite

My least favourite new word is ‘doom scrolling’ which is now used to mean “scrolling internet feeds mindlessly” where it originally meant “constantly refreshing the internet feed in the hope the result of the American presidential election will change”

I’d be happy if it was used in another doomy context

psud,

I worked as one of my first jobs for my country’s telecoms former monopoly

We had to use the same phrase and say it with a smile when answering the phone: “welcome to Telstra, Psud speaking”

I now hate it when I slip into the vocal register I used there, but at least when I do, I’m usually using it ironically

psud,

My workplace provides showers and lockers for staff who sweat on their way to work.

I can leave my smelly cycling gear in my locker and change into the work clothes I carried in, and wear the shoes I leave at work in the locker

psud,

My bicycle commute is 22km each way, and after riding for a few weeks, I was up for riding that plus a loop around the local lake (with a friend), then back home all on a Saturday, after doing that commute every day of the week before

Now e-bikes exist that’s even achievable by quite unfit people

psud,
  1. It’s rare that more than three people on a bus are doing shopping
  2. Carry an umbrella, and isn’t everything wrapped in plastic now?
psud,

Nope. Lots of people can walk to the shops. We have suburban centres typically 15 minutes walk away

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