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[–] 43 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I applied for them once. Went through multiple rounds of bullshit, to just be turned down without giving me a reason or any feedback. One of the rounds was answering a list of inane questions such as "what would your highschool friends say about you?". Never again.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Like the onion on your belt, those stupid questions were the HR style of the time. No one understood why or what those question were supposed to reveal about the applicant. Just that you needed ask them.

    The dangers of letting HR attend conventions..........

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    One of the most useless coworkers I ever had got a job at Canonical. He also seemed like just the guy to be hyped to take about his high school friends despite being in his late thirties at the time.

    He was one of three people I ever knew to actually get fired from that company, and that was only after he just casually stole about 20 thousand dollars of equipment from work. He returned most of it and they agreed to not call the cops just fire him.

    Anyway, guess I'm just saying I don't trust their ability to correctly select good employees. Also some of their work is amateur hour.

    The main two things they got right:

    • Debian testing was a better basis for a good balance of current yet workable software.
    • Making it super easy to install Nvidia drivers, ultimately making then the favored choice of the Nvidia centric ai market.

    Their actual technical developments have been underwhelming or actively against what I would want to see.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    AUR you kidding me?
    Is this some kind of joke I'm too "I use Arch btw" to understand?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Who cares, I’m already bloated and dysfunctional.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    A snap package killed my parents when they wouldn't pay $4.99 for it.

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  • im on mint your threats mean nothing

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I was on linkedin last night and saw Canonical is actually hiring and there are a lot of open positions.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I missed a golden opportunity when I met in person someones Dad who actually did work for Microsoft.

    I regret not asking him if his son has ever asked him to get anyone banned from Xbox Live...

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    Is your dad actively working against GPL licence too?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have no idea why Canonical moved Ubuntu to rely so heavily on snap, it's wasteful of limited system resources. Removing it sped up both my Ubuntu machines significantly (especially the one with only 4GB of RAM).

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I am a flatpak, what does this mean for me?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Not an issue that I've heard if you've got seperate drives. It's also far easier to install as you don't need to partition anything. Just choose the new drive during installation and it'll wipe it and setup the filesystem and everything for you.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can always dual boot and chose boot order in the bios menu. That's a bulletproof method. That can only fail if windows fastboot make it difficult to get to the bios menu.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    No, don't turn me into a snap! AHH-

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I don't like the fact that they're piggybacking off of the "Rewrite everything in Rust" bandwagon & replacing the copyleft GNU core-utils with a more permissive core-util

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    If anyone wants to reccomend me to move to something other than ubuntu, please recommend something else to me.

    Actual thread with deets : https://lemmy.world/post/35450797

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    After reading your post, just use Debian. You need a rock solid, reliable, daily driver and want .deb compatibility. That is Debian. Debian 13 was also just released and it’s excellent.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    the reason I'm unsure is because of juggling things like JACK and whatnot conflicts, nvidia drivers and other things like that Ubuntu (or at least, this flavour I want to move to) has a reputation for managing well.

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