zacher_glachl

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zacher_glachl,

Probably something like 6h or so. I enjoy my job and I think I do it well, but there’s only so many hours you can juggle complex logic in your mind per day before your brain turns to mush. After that point any further minute spent staring at the screen would just be a waste of my time and motivation.

zacher_glachl,

Other people’s computers. Never forget.

zacher_glachl,

What else did you expect from Microsoft Linux? They’ve been taking notes from the best for some time now.

zacher_glachl,

I got a master’s degree in the field and then applied to a company in a closely related field.

zacher_glachl, (edited )

For distros I’ve been mainly looking at Manjaro, Linux Mint or plain old Ubuntu. Can you recommend anything that might fit for me or will I maybe run into any issues with my chosen three?

Like others I would caution against Manjaro, the distro maintainers have shown on multiple occasions that they are not exactly on top of it all.

Ubuntu derivatives are typically great works-out-of-the-box distros. Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) has made a number of questionable moves with Ubuntu over the years so I would rather suggest going for Linux Mint instead. Mint is based on Ubuntu but IMHO fixes most of these issues.

My main concerns for switching are that I’ll have a hard time with university work because we mostly use teams for video conferences and work together with word, and other office stuff.

Since Microsoft Teams is an electron app, it works very well as a web app in a chromium-based browser like Brave or chromium itself, there’s no real need to install any separate app. I use it daily that way and I have no issues either with screen sharing, videoconferencing or chat.

Microsoft office is a tougher nut. LibreOffice may or may not work for you - there’s a good chance it won’t be 100% compatible with existing office documents, and may for example slightly change pre-existing formatting. If that doesn’t matter to you, LibreOffice could be completely fine as a replacement. Otherwise, Microsoft Office 365 in the browser works as well on Linux as on Windows, maybe try if that is a workable solution for you in most cases. I find that for me, the web version goes 95% of the way, and for the last 5% I keep a windows 10 VM with Office installed around.

We also are required to do some virtual machine stuff where we use virtualbox.

The de facto standard virtualization solution on Linux is KVM/QEMU, but Virtualbox does appear to exist for Linux, so I don’t see a blocker there.

Also I’m a bit worried that some games on uplay, epic and other platforms aren’t available anymore.

I don’t play much, but I don’t think there’s a good solution to that. Setting up non-Steam gaming setups on Linux (e.g. via Bottles or Lutris) is IMHO finicky at best. Also, AFAIK a number of online multiplayer games don’t work simply because the DRM software refuses to work on Linux. You can check ProtonDB for a database of games and their support on Linux. If there are blockers there, maybe consider a dual-boot setup.

zacher_glachl,

Sorry but that sounds like bullshit. There is no logical sequence of actions leading from “your employer being an asshole” into “you having to slash your leg open” which wouldn’t first pass through “handing in your notice”. Unless you are a literal slave.

zacher_glachl, (edited )

But honestly, explain how this makes sense please. Why would anyone physically harm themselves to be able to stay with a company that’s apparently filled with assholes anyway. Money? There’s no paycheck large enough to make me slash my leg for it (edit: well, of course not none whatsoever…but nothing within an order of magnitude of a realistic salary). And surely unemployment benefits must be a thing in Canada too to keep you alive while looking for another job (in case you really feel you have to leave before finding something else).

zacher_glachl, (edited )

Right, but still nobody is forcing you to continue in a job which it turns out is not a good fit for you. I for my part would consider working on SpaceX rockets a dream job but I know I need at least 16h of downtime every day and a weekend, so that is just not gonna happen.

And even if other company cultures are not as mercifully transparent, IMHO complaining about having to mutilate yourself when you could have just as well simply quit and not mutilate yourself is a bit much.

edit: And I’m not saying a company with this sigma grindset bullshit work culture is perfectly fine. It’s not! That’s why it makes even less sense to me to pour your lifeblood into it when this crap doesn’t suit you.

zacher_glachl,

Like 5 min. But then I typically only try to fall asleep when I’m actually getting sleepy or when I’m edging close to some 6h of sleep until the alarm goes off, at which point I’m usually already pretty tired even though I hadn’t been aware before.

zacher_glachl,

Eh, I don’t know. Maybe have Putin think twice before invading Ukraine. Possibly lock some dude in 2019 Wuhan into a closet for a week.

Any significant change to the timeline further back than like 5 years might 1) mean I’m never born or 2) might really change my life, and I really like my life. So Unless I can wish for my 20 year old self to lock a thumb drive with 1000 bitcoin into a bank safe until today, I think I’m otherwise good.

zacher_glachl,

any asylum will do

edit: make sure they have a closed ward

zacher_glachl,

I’m looking forward to the Kerch Strait pier into nothing

zacher_glachl,

I’m a mind hosted by a brain piloting a bone mecha covered in flesh armor

zacher_glachl,

That’s a great heuristic! I had to learn all of those individually and in part painfully.

zacher_glachl,

I dislike censorship more than I dislike having to constantly see posts by tankies and nazis, but only barely. I don’t want to have to advocate for defederation from obvious loony instances if there’s a possibility to just block them individually. There’s just not a single user or community I am interested in reading the opinions of with @lemmygrad.ml in their handle - it’s a perfect heuristic. So why not allow me to use it?

zacher_glachl,

extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence, yadda yadda

zacher_glachl,

flatpak mask org.mozilla.Thunderbird until the “hide title bar” flag works again. I’m not losing two lines of display space to eye candy.

zacher_glachl,

If it’s something that might actually improve how I live

Don’t worry, it’s not. Social media is, almost by definition, a detriment to your mental and worst case also physical well being.

zacher_glachl,

Man, the ability to individually block any and all traffic from whole lemmy instances can’t come soon enough. The fewer authoritarian regime apologists oozing out of the cesspool of lemmygrad I have to yet manually block the better.

zacher_glachl,

Sanctions are politically motivated. In other news, the sky is blue.

Iran’s government is such a joke lmao

zacher_glachl,

There’s catt which can be installed in termux on Android or directly on your PC easily enough. AFAIK there’s also a few (T)UIs for it out there. I personally have set up a bash script in termux as a share target and send the links from the revanced app to catt for casting. But yeah, it’s definitely more work and needs more expertise setting it up than hitting the cast button in the app, fully agreed.

zacher_glachl,

Git.

Keep all the config files of your tools in subdirectories of a git versioned directory and symlink them into their target location (e.g. with GNU stow). If installation of a tool is involved and you expect to have to revisit it, put the steps into an installation bash script and version it as well.

zacher_glachl,

I wonder whether the average person is really as retarded as they are made out to be by large corporations.

zacher_glachl,

I said “lemmygrad.ml”, but I appreciate that this post probably did not call for a snarky reply so I suppose the removal is fair.

zacher_glachl,

I’ll start watching sports when there’s coked up cyborgs competing for who can stave off graft rejection for long enough to cross the finish line, thank you very much

/s but not really

zacher_glachl,

Up until recently, Lemmy had a hard coded (like, a regex compiled into the fucking Rust binary) slur filter which would perform such marvels of content policing like turning Stardew Valley into Sremoved Valley. So what do you think?

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