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Gotta stay at the Ballmer peak

Southern Italy is better at pizza. Florence is about the best

Not an issue in Australia, but I bet brick stops or slows bullets more than wood

Our brick construction doesn't do well in earthquakes. If a roof is going to fall on you, you don't want it made of tiles

I care, I don't like him and like the chance to cheer for the cancer

Like they ever shut up

Teslas have bad indicators. On older cars it's a two stage stalk

• First stage: does nothing, or indicates once, or three times, or until a turn is completed or a lane changed as the car prefers
• Second stage: indicates until turn completed or indication cancelled

Later cars have buttons, so presumably just the first stage

BMWs at least have regular blinkers

Ubuntu, if I need to reset it, it'll be Debian/gnome

Yeah, last time I used Usenet the client was the email client, your ISP hosted a server, and the internet occupied the phone line

They are a prolific contributor. The kind that once flourished on Reddit, back when it was good

Don't denigrate the content providers

Linux from scratch was my third Linux, after RedHat, and Debian. That seemed a reasonable point in an interested person's Linux journey to try a difficult "learning" system

If your budget stretches to a new laptop, framework make laptops (light weight or serious game machines) that come with Linux installed.

If you have no budget some second hand high end Chromebooks can be converted to mainstream Linux (video)

The other comments suggesting old ThinkPads are fine, but they're heavier than I like to carry

You can make your own for just moderately expensive

And people from a different culture than the people who trained the AI

Windows to KDE is a smaller change than major windows version changes. Pre-ribbon office to newer office

You know how you make the expertise in a large organisation?

You call for volunteers to run a pilot, move one team or a product to open source alternatives, learn what skills are needed in your tech people, what transition training is needed for staff

Have the pilot group select the desktop environment, change it if the choice generates too many tickets

Take that and roll it out more broadly, possibly aligned with new desktop hardware rollouts

Add to the good - you get to know that the US government couldn't lean on a single American company for access to your organisation's secrets

I watched the process where a set of Unix machines we had were up for replacement. The first version of the request had as the preferred option IBM hardware and Linux, the second version - after it had been to the executives - had the preferred option as IBM hardware and AIX

Like the exec knew what either were, but they would have had a consultant check the proposal. Then they pretend to have respect for the professionals they employ

Waiting for a second generation hardly lets them use the device right now for the purpose they have for it in their profession right now

I'm guessing the second generation will improve the external eye view, which isn't a factor in that user's use which is entirely virtual

It was chrome and Firefox both who were against the format, both saying too expensive to implement for too small a benefit

I bet that company hires lawyers for law technical stuff.

It's not all that bad. I'm sure there are as many youth keen to learn computers and they have easy access to all the tools they need to develop knowledge and skill

It's just as we have become more knowledgeable, more capable, the difference between us and the normal people seems incredible.

But put us in an area needing different specialist knowledge and we'll struggle like they do with computer technical stuff

We speak jargon. They don't know the words, or if they do they use them wrong.

Also it sucks for us in IT work; when you are in an agile team and the manager two levels up doesn't understand agile they do things like break up high performing teams (mine had been a team for four years - from the day the organisation decided to test agile) to share the people around so they can teach the others how to be high performing

Had they read anything about agile, they would know that longevity of a team is a good predictor for performances — but they wouldn't read about agile, it's an IT technical thing