ExtremeDullard

I'm tempted to try Ubuntu Touch. But I want to buy a second-hand Fairphone 4 to try it on, and other OSes possibly - because I don't want to waste the CalyxOS install that's running fine on mine right now - and I haven't found a good second-hand one yet.

If you went through school without learning anything, it means you're a normal person.

Don't worry too much. What you need from your school is a degree, not an education. You do your own education. The degree doesn't mean you know anything: it only tells your employer you were patient and dogged enough to sit through boring classes and terrible teachers all the way through.

That's the real value for your future boss: they like someone who can withstand and survive the idiocy of the workplace. You getting your degree is reasonable proof that you won't be a snowflake and leave them hanging when the going gets a little tough.

But make no mistake: you know nothing out of school. Nobody does. All employers know that. The best you can hope to get out of school is the ability to learn all the rest quickly after you're hired.

The way Google is actively on the war path against deGoogled ROMs and sideloading lately, I expect to have to install some sort of mobile Linux OS on my Fairphone at some point to do my regular smartphoning while preserving my privacy, while having to buy an ultra-cheap, small smartphone on the side with vanilla Google spyware just for my banking apps. In other words, carry two cellphones for nothing. Because Google.

I guess now that fascism rules the land, Google isn't worried about being getting broken up for being a monopoly anymore. That emboldens then to finally do what they've always wanted to do: lock down the Android ecosystem.

Fuck Google.

Intel has ties with a fascist regime.

Don't support fascism. Don't buy Intel.

The future is now the present and it is both kinds of dystopias: as in all fascist regimes, the private sector is in cahoots with the regime. The US is no different.

Everything Trump and his henchmen do seems to have a degree of built-in cruelty. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, being one of the few real thorns in Trump's backside, probably earned himself an extra helping or two.

I assure you that I had no special skills when I moved out of the US the first time 🙂 I was a decent but otherwise run-of-the-mill junior software engineer. The only "special" skill I had was being rather good at coding tight assembly - something that was in demand when embedded systems didn't have gigabytes of disk and RAM and processors that would rival a Cray-I just to flush a toilet or something.

I picked up skills that are quite valuable along the way (I am certified aero QA engineer on the white collar side, and I have a degree in a rather obscure but highly-specialized metalworking sub-field that I shan't mention because there are so few people working that field on the blue collar side). So it helped to find new jobs for sure.

But the relocating and moving countries was just me wanting to see the world before I was old by living where other people lived for real instead of being a crass tourist for a week, and it didn't have much to do with my professional qualifications.

Lincicome lists a number of problems with this transaction, including (but not limited to!):

• Intel making decisions for political rather than commercial considerations
• Intel’s board prioritizing government interests over their fiduciary duties
• Other companies being pressured to purchase Intel products, weakening their long-term position.
• Disadvantaging the competitive position of other companies
• Incentivizing the misallocation of private capital

Here's my biggest problem with the US stake in Intel, that's not in the list: whenever Intel turns a profit, 10% of it directly finances the fascist Trump regime.

People who want to fight fascism in the US absolutely need to boycott Intel from now on. That mean no Intel processors, but also no daughterboards or laptops with integrated Intel chipsets, or anything Intel-branded.

My outrage is exhausted

That's exactly what authoritarian regimes like the USSR's or Trump's want to achieve by overwhelming everybody with outrageous shit all of the time: people get used to the dystopia and it becomes their new normal.

*attempts to fire

It's as good as done. She can lawyer up all she wants, ultimately it will be decided by the corrupt Supreme Court and it'll be in favor of the orange utan.