tony @ tony @lemmy.hoyle.me.uk

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Small companies are often under long leases. Our landlord was quite flexible and let us break the lease if we did the work to find a new tenant, but most wouldn't be.

And yes we are coming out ahead, by quite a lot.. offices aren't cheap even the tiny one we tried to use temporarily.. have now ditched that and gone totally remote.

I did it from stage 1 once.. wasn't a fast computer either. You have to compile the tools to compile the tools. Then compile the base packages, then everything else..

Alas you can't do that any more. Pity as it was fun.

camera cuts to parts of the planet literally on fire

Indeed.. apple have spent a lot of time engineering their phones so you can't replace parts. Even batteries are coded to the phone.

I can't see them reversing that.

In many countries it is classed as constructive dismissal.

Not pills, but nutritionally complete drinks exist and are fairly popular.. there's a section for them in the local supermarket that didn't exist a couple of years ago.

Pills would have the same problem as anything else Economics means they'd charge the same or more (because they could) than making food anyway, making it unviable as a complete replacement for most. Or they'd make cheaper ones that were bad for you - like ready meals, you can buy quite healthy ones at a price or get total crap cheap, guess what most buy.

Nah rookie mistake. She tried to return them.

When we steal stuff we make entire museums around the items that declare 'this is our shit now'..

Gallium is discontinued since last year, and not recommended any more.

You might find just the inbuilt linux (crostini) under chromeos is fine.. it's basically debian.

If you want just a linux box you basically start by installing coreboot to turn it into something more like a standard PC. See https://mrchromebox.tech/ - from the looks of that site the Lenovo isn't supported and the Acer is, but needs hardware modification.

Of course there's always the option of just getting a Thinkpad from ebay - really cheap and can run linux out of the box.

zfs-zed, if you haven't installed it already. It will email you after a scrub, or if there's a failure etc.

Yeah we have some tooling that isn't up to API 33 yet.. one app has been abandoned because of that - it'll be ios only for a while until there's resources for a rewrite.

Customers won't pay maintenence. And code can't be maintained forever that isn't bringing in money. This is just the harsh reality.

It's a mad rule really.. it means work that was done for clients sometimes years ago and paid for has to be dug up and recompiled, when they were perfectly happy with the way they worked now.

Requiring 33 for new apps is fine, you're working on them already, upgrading is just part of it (which is more or less how apple work, you must use the latest xcode otherwise they reject). Requiring it for older ones probably means a heck of a lot of stuff is about to vanish from the play store on somewhat short notice.

There are some apps we've already decided to let die because the maintenance work isn't worth it.

The canonical way to get loads to follow on mastodon is follow @lisamelton@mastodon.social - she's basically a human version of the algorithm, and will fill your timeline with boosts.

Yes that's a risk, but would you rather have a broken window or be caught in a burning car? More important it still works after a power failure.

Yeah that's more of a problem that people tend to use the emergency release because it's a physical handle and seems familiar. The manual used to even warn against using it (it didn't drop the side window, risking damage.. I think that was fixed a while ago though).

Like the ones on the 3 and Y that are literally the first things the people go for if you haven't told them where the open button is..

I mean, if you're functionally blind, you could argue they're hidden..

The russians are actually pretty good at space.. although a lot of that was due to koralev inventing most of what they use.. soyuz has been extremely successful. So I have no doubt they can get to the moon.. hopefully next time at a speed that doesn't pancake the ship..

They can't even say that.. law trumps contract. I had to look that up for vancouver, but..

"employers in B.C. cannot dismiss, suspend, demote, discipline or harass an employee who:

• Asks their employer about their pay
• Reveals their pay to another employee or someone applying to work with their employer
• Asks the employer about its pay transparency report
• Gives information to the Director of Pay Transparency about their employer"

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/gender-equity/pay-transparency-laws-in-bc

Ypu missed 'the update breaks your machine, and you lose a day reinstalling everything'

(because I bet a gaming machine doesn't use something like snapshots to roll back before the damage).