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The person who pays the electric bill takes issue with your recommendation to use old enterprise gear.

Literally every internal IBM tool interface.

It wasn’t that long ago that anything I mailed would zip through the USPS network. It’s amazing how bad it got in a short period of time.

What about LORD?

The TCO isn’t the same mostly because now you need to pay for AppleCare separately where before it was included.

The view from the ikea was perfect. It must have been really bad condition because there were never any “public” field trips to visit the ship.

I’ve seen it at least once a week if not more for 10 or 15 years. It’s really startling that it’s missing from the waterfront. Super big bummer no one could make it work.

The iPhone update program /was/ a great deal for a number of reasons. The current klarna incarnation pushes the value lever in the wrong direction, this being the first year I haven’t upgraded in probably a decade. I /could/ pay cash, but it was just as easy to use someone else’s money so why not?

I believe there are a huge amount of bots in this thread. It’s wild.

When I rent a shore house for a week on the east coast (direct from owner rental, not Airbnb), it’s been customary for at least 30 years to clean the house and wash the dishes you use for the next people. We would usually wash them anyway when we arrived because I’m crazy.

When we had little kids we used disposable plates because we didn’t want to break the plates in the house. I don’t do Airbnb but disposable plates might be one way if you needed to stay in a short term rental.

Any idiot can work for any idiot that starts a company!

good god that video is absolutely horrible. why is stuff blurred then the same blurred stuff is suddenly all visible? nothing changed.

On my iOS devices, hitting a season and then the episode always took me to the episode detail. I'm not sure if this is a setting to configure, I never changed any plex settings other than setting direct play.

I don't have the "back" issue, there's an "X" on the iOS app to tap to exit the video, and the "menu" key on my Apple TV works as always.

So much for unifying the code bases! :D

I’ve had a synology NAS that’s been running for 8 years. No data loss. I use random drives I had laying around. It’s not the fastest or fanciest, but I never had any experience with lock in. It’s got a 3rd party 10g card, more memory … nothing locked in.

I can’t run any web apps from my employer unless I’m on one of their computers. Tokens are only generated on corporate systems. IP access only allowed from corporate VPN.

That’s an overreaction.

Ham radio licenses were revoked worldwide during WWII.

Short story: if you piss off other spectrum holders enough, amateur radio operators will lose the leeway they get with the service including the self policing aspect.

Also, when you break little rules early (like low power transmission out of band) it makes you desensitized to breaking dangerous rules later (like keeping people away from antennas being driven with high power).

... they're open source apps that run on your computer. The apps themselves are not illegal. How will it be "shut down", again?

I am fine with slack (though my slack is also a disorganized mess) and used IRC at work for over a decade. Discord is at a different level with the different communities having super-duplicated functionality.

I can’t get into Discord. It’s just so messy and disorganized and too much information flying at my face.

“Uh-oh!”

I have had to fight hard for disputes, even with “premium” credit cards like Amex Platinum. I’m not talking about “not as described” bs, but being asked over and over for the same info to wear me down.

I recently ordered some snacks from another country and after 3 months the vendor stopped responding while never having sent anything. When I asked for a chargeback, my claim was denied because I didn’t have proof they didn’t send anything! I literally had an email from them that said they are backed up and unable to send stuff.

My state's gasoline refineries use about ~13 million gallons of water each day. It's about .7 gallons of water per gallon of gasoline refined.

People looking for something to run against?

Jay’s gone. So many other smart people gone. Why dump Jay unless you want to radically change directions?

I don't know techrights, and reading about them it does seem as if they have a very strong pro-FOSS, adversarial (to put it nicely) bent. So thank you for educating me there!

Reading the post closer, and looking at their other posts, I don't think this is a blog I'd personally put a lot of trust in as a valuable resource. Maybe fun to read, but yeah. Not super trustable.

> "Today the "badge" says IBM,"

Sure, people are getting moved around.

> But the role changed, there's lots of slop ("hey hi") dross or filler

I'm not sure what "hey hi" means, or filler.

> and everybody at IBM knows what PIPs and RA come next

I've been through multiple "silent" and "loud" IBM layoffs. This is 100% true.

> It's not hard to see that the vast majority of redhat.com blog posts sell slop, not Linux. It helps inflate the share price without accomplishing anything of substance.

I don't really think this is true. I feel like as long as I've read Red Hat's blog posts (less frequently now) they've been high quality.

> It's "fake work", just like slop. It cheats the shareholders, but for how much longer?

Based on the last statement, this too seems like it's at best an exaggeration.

> Red Hat's "way" or "culture" or "open source org" is going away, step by step (one step at a time), and some people altogether quit today (or yesterday), not only in Red Hat but also Nordcloud. Some receive money to leave 'voluntarily'.

This is 100% true. When I joined, people told me I was joining a different Red Hat, and the company was vastly different when I left over a decade later.

> The quantum (vaporware) teams are going "the way of the Kyndryl" via Anderon.

I'm not following quantum stuff closely, so I can't judge this, but based on the crappy performance of the Kyndryl stock I got from the spinoff, I sure hope that .. quantum is getting spun off? I don't know, this seems a little wackadoo.

> IBM is imploding 'creatively'.

Gibberish.

After reading it line by line closely and looking at my reaction .. yeah this is a rag of a blog. :D thanks again for knocking some sense into me!

It took IBM ~0 days to layoff 30% of Confluent upon deal close despite continual reinforcement that any RIFs would be coming months later.

Untrustworthy blog? This is literally IBM's modus operandi. Look at what they did to Confluent and Hashi. Confluent is seemingly decimated.

RH pandered to shareholders for the entire decade I worked there. It will not disappear as a brand, that is far too valuable for IBM to buy credibility over their bullshit shovelware.

I left shortly after the IBM acquisition was announced, and I'm so happy I did.

The brain drain happened shortly after the announcement. To me it seems like all the driven, ultra-sharp people started leaving in 2019 and in force in 2020 and early 2021. The people I've interacted with Red Hat since 2020 were not anywhere near as sharp as the folks I worked with prior.

EDIT: I was probably too strong on my statement that "all the driven, ultra sharp people". I know that I have a lot of ultra sharp, smart, engaged friends still there. What I meant to say was that I started to see the drain late 2019.