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I'm not sure which version of Gnome you used before, but Cinnamon is a fork of Gnome 2 and pretty popular. Looks fairly similar to Windows out of the box. Xfce is another popular choice.

If this had come off as a genuine complaint and the waiter was covering their ass, there would be a serving of fries on that plate. If someone is unhappy you have to go a little above and beyond, otherwise they'll just stay unhappy about having had to call it out.

In this case the waiter clearly took it as a joke, and decided to have a little fun themselves. I hope the plate came with a shiny dome on it and the waiter opened it with a grand gesture.

I coincidentally tried to update yesterday and it said that the November update was the latest one. I don't know if I just got lucky with the A/B testing or they pulled the update.

I think it's mostly that very few of them identify as Republican.

But also, the less stigma around gender expression, the more kids will be open to explore theirs.

No regrets on my Brother laser printer! Didn't even consider HP, they've been trash for ages.

I don't know what happened with the next line. "Ta meg på" doesn't really mean anything unless followed by a noun (like "take me on the kitchen table" or whatever). I think they either knew that one in English or were just playing with the words.

That would have been better, but doesn't really map to anything probable in Norwegian.

I already knew that, but some of my teammates were a little scared of it and had to learn the hard way.

Having worked for a shitty company like Theranos or whatever is not great for your resume. You want people to read your resume before the company name is tainted by bad press.

Eh, depends. I once had a document with lots of tables. I pasted another table into this document. Suddenly all regular text became bold and vice versa. If I made anything bold or non-bold after this, all the tables moved to the top left corner of the first page, on top of each other. Word did some weird stuff sometimes. We eventually threw in the towel and used LaTeX.

Fun fact: They were trying to sing "touch me", but the songwriter didn't know English very well and just translated the Norwegian "ta på meg" word for word.

See, those are needed for compliance/CYA. That has business value, so I can work with that. What I'm referring to here is just training on useless stuff for the sake of racking up points.

Sure, if there's a business need for cleaning the office toilets I'll stop coding and do it for a day.

In this case it's "everyone needs to spend a few weeks getting points in the training portal, we don't care what you do in there as long as you get points". This clearly doesn't fulfill any business need, people just do whatever BS is the least effort per point. And as you might expect from an internal training portal, spending 20 minutes in that thing makes me want to stab myself.

Again, if there's a business need for it that's a different story, but useless mandates just to jerk people around are a deal breaker.

Do you brag about your long hours, or do you complain about the lack of predictability from management? Only the former matches the statement in the quote.

Management was handing out bullshit busywork recently, and some people were complaining. Then some guy was like "they pay my salary, so I do whatever they want!"

What kind of bullshit wage slave mentality is that? I am the vendor in this scenario, my employer is paying for the privilege of using my services. There can be terms and conditions from both parties of that deal, and if they're incompatible the deal is off.

You've presumably had registers with barcodes for several decades now, so I'm guessing your way of weighing produce is pretty safe.

I remember we weighed our own vegetables in Norway in the 90s. It stopped when they got the fancy registers which scanned barcodes and had a built-in scale.

But the people at the self checkouts do it at a fourth of the speed, so it cancels out. Plus the line for the self checkouts is four times as long anyway.

Although it's not always easy to predict how long something takes. Self checkout is less vulnerable to someone paying in all nickels or having an issue with their food stamps. I'll take that chance to not have to stand there and guess what species of banana I'm trying to buy, though.

I read the "stunning" as sarcasm, but who knows at this point.

At my grocery store the line for self checkout is longer than for the registers, so people would very much be waiting for you. And instead of the time the cashier takes to scan all your stuff being out of your control, they'll judge you personally for being slow instead.