What eludes me is that literally nobody except hp, xerox, canon, brother, dell, epson, kyocera, lenovo, lexmark seems to be making decent printers.

I know that the printer business is rough for sales people for some reason (the guy who I learned sales from 18 yrs ago was a printer salesman before becoming a coach). But what I don’t get is that there does not seem to be good money to make for small companies as they are not gaining on the big ones.

Is everything locked by patents or what is the deal here?

I am new to desktop linux. It is a pain to not know certain troubleshooting steps as I do mostly for server linux.

For example, not knowing what the gui consists of, which applications are essential and which are not.

In my short time in an actual tech company, I was baffled at the amount of cockiness. It was a startup though.

I was easily the most senior person outside of management, yet others got positions in management from the start. I did have management experience and significant success but I lack the ability to sell it.

When I complained that this isn’t what I signed up for, they pretty much told me to suck it up.

I‘m rather exceptional at what I do, yet my neural configuration makes me unable to play social games so I decided to not go on and play them. Currently helping my wife in her small company.

Definitely a lot of them. Our world has a problem with morality. It’s not ok to cross a red light but it is okay to have made millions working for the nazis somehow (for example). I don’t care about the jk rowlings of this world. Being a dumbfuck is not morally bankrupt but using slave labor definitely is and even has been when it was legal.

I agree. Competitive games and code injection don’t mix but for those that are not competitive (i.e. minecraft), code injection is important.

Interesting. So they know what bank you use, which problems you have in your relationship, if your partner was ever unfaithful.

They can find out stuff about you that you don’t know yourself and use it to manipulate you (for example in pointing you away from anti trust legislation support, etc).

It’s not tinfoil hat at all. Google and co have been fined billions for doing this exact stuff.

“You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain” — Harvey Dent

I‘m always the guy on the right. As a gifted, autisic person, I have a special view on things. I usually get the boot after 18 months because the boss or some other person in power doesn’t like me optimizing stuff. „We are not used to change our ways.“ was one sentence I often heard when being let go.

This is so tragic but actually makes sense. happens all around the world as well.

This is the best headline I have read in my life. The person that came up with it is a genius.

(It‘s news from yesterday but I wanted to comment on the headline)

18% reduction (max) for learning a different language than html? Hard pass.

Especially with css you can give most of those small web design studios (and most wordpress plugins) a run for their money.

I think it’s unnecessary to learn some obscure „alt-sub-language“ if the improvement is so little.

I‘m 14 and this is deep, linux edition. :)