Snot Flickerman

It’s the fault of the pilots for not understanding undocumented things and not having checked plug doors nuts before taking off !

Pretty sure they got away with not fully fixing this one by whining to the FAA that the full fix would be too costly.

Like, what is the fucking use of our institutions like the FAA if all they god damned do is rubber stamp this shit for their corpo fuckwit buddies?

Mine is my family. Not sure I will ever really be able to let go. It’s pretty hard to let go of how badly those who were supposed to care for and protect you failed because they were more concerned about how other Christian Fascists viewed them socially than they were about their actual fucking kids.

And like all Boomers, they refuse to take responsibility for anything. Saying to a six year old “you are just a lazy bastard just like your father” is something they conveniently don’t remember happening. Probably because for me it was a formative moment in my childhood and for them it was just another fucking Tuesday of yelling at their kids.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.

It’s all in pursuit of the One Piece.

You might research academic books aimed at networking and security certification tests.

You don’t necessarily have to take the tests, but they tend to be aimed at what is considered industry-standard knowledge.

Like I’ve got an old copy of CompTIA Security+ Guide to Network Security Fundamentals by Mark Campia aimed at passing the CompTIA Security+ certification test.

There’s plenty of other books like that, that’s just an example. Research which industry certification tests sound like what you’d like to know and then find a book aimed at passing one of those tests. They tend to be pretty competently structured.

You could always turn to libgen or anna’s archive for copies, as well.

I think that’s a valid take, and I think Valve has sort of re-evaluated it, because if I recall correctly, they kind of had to “put on hold” the “do whatever you want” bit to get Half Life: Alyx out of the door. So, imho, it seems like they’re capable of doing both. They managed to produce a high quality VR game by putting the “flat” on the backburner, and them coming back to it later.

Although, to be fair, I hadn’t heard anything similar about the SteamDeck or any Valve hardware, really. So if they can make a SteamDeck from scratch, an entire new product category, with the flat management structure, I bet it’s not holding them back half as much as some folks at GlassDoor seem to think.

Look, despite Musk’s PR, I never read a story about Musk like this:

In 2004, Wolpaw was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. Expecting his condition to require a departure from the company, he spoke with managing director Gabe Newell, who surprised him by offering an extended leave with pay. “Your job is to get better,” Newell said. “That is your job description at Valve. So go home to your wife and come back when you are better.”

Gabe Newell isn’t some kind of saint, but he does at least treat his employees like human beings, unlike Musk who famously berates his employees and treats them incredibly badly, especially if they have to (gasp!) miss work for any reason.

So while people shouldn’t be praising Valve as some kind of panacea in the world, because they’re still just a company, the reality is things like this have endeared Newell to the gaming community and made them believe he did care about a quality work environment.

A reminder, 2004 was before Wolpaw had written for multiple hit games from Valve. Portal came out in 2007 with Wolpaw as one half of the writing team. A few years later he would be head writer on Portal 2.

Those games would not have been the same if he had been let go from Valve when he was sick with ulcerative colitis.

Just a different perspective, I think it’s unfair to compare Newell to a fucking slave drive apartheid fuckhead like Musk.

Comment straight out of 2004.

I guess you’ve never had a “new boss” come in, huh? Even in a private company?

Man, new bosses love to shake things up, to “make the workplace theirs.” It’s literally one of the most common things to happen when new bosses come, and very often it results in a deep change in company interpersonal politics.

Barry used to be your go-to guy, but the new boss has decided they just don’t like Barry. Why? They couldn’t tell you, but Barry gets under their skin, so it doesn’t matter how he’s the best guy on the team who can handle whatever is thrown at him, his role is going to be dilluted and minimized and he’s going to be pushed and prodded by negative management to try to get him to just quit. Eventually, Barry will just quit because who wants to work under those conditions. Barry found a better job, and now he’s replaced by your new bosses 20-something nephew who doesn’t know what the fuck he is doing at all and everyone can’t stand. He’s a fucking loser who keeps getting promoted by the new boss.

I’ve been through that too many times to pretend it’s just “that easy.” No, generally the kind of people drawn to that role are controlling dickheads who have their own dickhead “vision” of being the biggest dickhead to ever dickhead.

That would be the best outcome, legal framework for the “flat” management structure, making it an employee owned company.

Because nepotism just works out gangbusters, every time. /s

Seriously, this is worse news than him not having a plan.

I would rather hope that he legalizes and codifies the “flat” management structure, disallowing any one figure head from taking over and fucking things up.

Valve annoys people because it can be slow to choose to do something, because everyone works on what they want to work on, but it means average workers have a lot more agency in how they’re involved in the company.

I’m sure there’s till unofficial cliques and leaders, but having it in legalese for the employees post-Gabe would be nice.

You know the Hedge Fund Fuckies are just fucking salivating at the thought of Valve being available to buy.

One better: A bidet, leave the toilet paper behind and stop rubbing your butt raw with paper.

Boots.

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

A cute little passage from Terry Pratchett, but it holds very true if you ever need boots.

Paying for quality boot work, especially the kind that can be re-soled, is worth it for anyone who has to wear boots with any regularity.

When I first got a job that needed boots I was using an old secondhand pair. It was hell. Eventually I saved up for a quality pair and was totally worth it. I’ve not underspent on boots since.

As for suggestions as to what brand to go with these days for that… I’m less sure on that because I’m researching new brands myself since Red Wings are a joke compared to what they used to be. Danner still seems pretty all right these days.

There is no such thing as a perfect OS where there is no attack surface or dependencies.

OP, you’re absolutely right about systemd, but similar critiques can be given to nearly any underlying OS service. (Also, I’m sure this is in response to other posts praising systemd)

I’m just starting to feel like it’s a little silly to even have a conversation one way or another about these things instead of just accepting that people could and should use the tools that fit their use case scenario the best.

For most people, the stuff they gain from things (for example, systemd) outweighs the downsides.

We don’t make such choices in a vacuum. It’s important to know limitations, attack surfaces, and dependencies, but it’s important mostly for being able to choose the right GNU tools for yourself.

Nobody can tell you what the best OS/Kernel/GNU tool is to use, because that’s always deeply dependent on your specific needs for the task at hand. While PCs are “general purpose computing,” they all can have wildly different hardware and software hiccups, and only you can use your own knowledge to choose the best tools for your use-case.

https://pine64.com/product/pinetab2-10-1-4gb-64gb-linux-tablet-with-detached-backlit-keyboard/

It’s still very much a beta in a lot of ways, but PineTab could maybe handle PDFs

Roxanne, you don’t have to put on your customer service voice.

https://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology

Considering their methodology, I wonder how many of these are Steam Decks registering as “desktops” when they visit a website in the web broweser?

current copyright laws make zero sense if you actually stop and think about it for any amount of time.

So true.