Thank you. Didn’t know what I was looking for at all! Yes the backpack is getting very annoying

Cosmic desktop has been neat but it definitely needed more time to bake before hitting the general release. Just last weekend I did an update that dropped me to the emergency terminal and took half a day to repair. Pop was my go to “it just works” but right now I can’t in good consciousness recommend it for average users, especially gamers. Hell I still have to drop to gnome to play half my games, and the other half usually have visual bugs that I’ve tinkered with for ages. I’m sure it will stabilize, but they should have kept it on the beta branch for longer.

God thank you. A perfect example of this was Picard season 2.

What they did was go back to the bad timeline and showed everything we’re doing wrong and shoved our noses into. I remember them looking at the forest fires and the tear coming down and she said it’s already starting. Fucking thanks. I already feel like shit about the state of our planet, thanks for making me feel worse about the future instead of optimistic.

They tackled climate change in TNG elegantly. The realized warp technology was destroying an area of space. Geordi was against it because he didn’t want to admit his life’s dedication might actually be hurting space and others. They all worked together to come up with a temporary solution with goals to fix it long term. That was the optimistic future show I wanted to watch, showing that humans couldn’t past the differences of today to solve real problems.

It’s why TNG gets regular rewatches while I’ve never watched Picard again. If I want doomsday shit I’ll watch literally all the other shows ever made. I watch star trek because I’m feeling sad and want a shred of hope.

Not an unpopular opinion, just the wrong term. It’s nationalism, vs patriotism.

It is, but I’m guessing they know pretty accurately how many will actually take the deal, like 20k or something. Still an insane number, an entire town leaving.

So they’re just being transparent that “in office” is a cleaner way of laying people off.

Personally I like Sable, it feels closer to Discord, has call support, and “just works”

It is, but I’ll honestly give Microsoft credit here. I have several friends who work there who are nearing retirement, and this is honestly the best way to do it. You leave with dignity, you get a fat check, and you get to retire early. I have a couple who have done it already. Honestly, as far as layoffs go, it’s the best way to do it.

The only gotcha is if you choose to stay you officially know you’re on notice, you probably shouldn’t trust it. If you don’t take it then tomorrow you could be shown the door with a minimal severance, or no severance at all.

We’re talking about it right now, which means people are thinking about it. That means they successfully got to us.

There was another universe where it wasn’t cancelled too

Christians are always so freaking cringe. It’s not even their beliefs IMO, just their awkward need to put it in everything. Nothing can be fun without something related to their personal beliefs. Then they wonder why everyone is sick of it.

I didn’t say that, I said it’s a skeleton crew, which it is. Are those people technical? Yes. But it’s not something worth bringing to your small town expecting jobs.

Do post ads when they are shaming a company. You don’t make the rules here.

You can make it 500 and it still isn’t that economic “boom” that big tech promises.

You’re talking in terms of an individual. 50 people is not bringing a lot of jobs to an economy and not worth giving tax breaks to. To a town of 5000 it would be 1% of the population working there, maybe 2% with electricians as you say. Politicians think it’s like their corporate headquarters where thousands of people will be working there

That could backfire proving that they “can” block “internet” though I’d think

All my is very quick to assume the absolute worst intentions, and don’t get me wrong it happens a lot, but yeah this seems a simple case of no one wants to see it. I don’t like him, why would I want to sit in a 3 hour documentary watching him?

Selection bias, of people who listen to podcasts regularly.

Datacenters do not bring jobs or tax income! I scream into a room of people who do already know that but it breaks my heart seeing the damage done there.

They bring massive land, energy, and water use, and are manned by only a skeleton crew of tech workers, even a small town wouldn’t notice a bump in population or revenue.

Leaders who approve them are either too naive and stupid by not understanding this (and thus should be voted out) or they are corrupt and accepting bribes (and should be kicked out or minimum voted out)

Hate when people think that there can be no nuance to things. That “yet you participate in society” meme.