I generalise this far more. See I'm immediately suspicious of people who turn the concept of someone using a distro into some culture war labelling others. Somehow the people who judge others based on a distro they use are all the same gatekeeping arseholes, typically with some anti-systemd thrown in for extra toxicity.

You're like a vegan. How do you know someone hates systemd? They'll tell you, loudly, publicly, angrily, rant about it, then announce to the world that they judged you for daring to not give a shit.

The cheaper ones might sell well, but they still sit on a shelf collecting dust. I got a Quest for free from my work as a gift, and I used it for a while, played some cool games, but lost interest after about 6 months. Yeah, it's still a pain to strap the thing on for any length of time, and I just don't need it to entertain myself. There are so many real things I'd rather be doing. The VR headset is just about the last thing I would consider doing in my free time, and so it just never even gets used anymore, after the initial curiosity phase wore off. I'm certainly not going to be spending money on another one, because no matter how much more advanced it is, I know it will still end up collecting dust on the same shelf.

Call me back when AR/VR can be done with a set of lightweight normal size glasses, since I'm wearing those already because my eyes aren't the greatest. I'll even be okay if it has an umbilical cord to a device. I'm just not strapping the full headset on anymore, because I hate it for a variety of reasons - it's heavy, it obstructs my view of the rest of the world, and I certainly don't really need it.

Yes let's equate violating privacy with contributing to a regime very likely committing war crimes. Tooooootaaaly the same thing worthy of the same response. Fuck you for gaslighting the protestors.

At work yes. Work is not a democracy. It is not there to look out for you. It's not your family, your company is not your friend. You are paid in exchange of services under a contract. Nothing more, nothing less. The contractual terms allow parties to part way often for all manner of simple reasons. If your employer permits atrocities your choice is to ignore it, leave the employer, or argue with them and be shown the door.

That's all there is to it. No more, no less. If you bring your politics and free speech and pointless rights to a place defined entirely by a work contract and limited contract law you should expect to lose any fight you start.

There's a place for politics. Work isn't it. You're not paid for politics, you're not paid for your opinion. You want to have an open discussion in a public arena, go your hardest. You want to bring politics in a place in breach of your contract, well not liking the contract was your idea, and I'm with you, lets tear it up and don't forget to take your stuff with you on the way out the door.

>Come to the table. Draw up official borders and have nothing to do with each other. Israel doesn't control what goes on in Gaza's borders and they become an independent state (maybe united with the West Bank, maybe West Bank becomes its own separate country - who knows). After that though, any attack from EITHER side against the other is an act of war. There is no more fighting, no more trying to reclaim ancestral lands - you have your territory and you stay there in peace.

I give that "peace" all of 15 minutes to last before some asshole in Gaza fires a rocket at Israel, again. Letting Gaza be "free" while still letting terrorists lead the country is a complete non-starter, allowing more weapons and rockets and bombs to flow in freely to Gaza is a recipe for disaster... this is why Israel has to have a blockade, because they know what open borders mean, and so does Egypt. It does not mean Gaza gets to defend itself, it means they will launch more pointless attacks on Israel using their own people as human shields, and nothing good can ever come of that.

In a recent poll Palestinians overwhelmingly approved of Hamas and said they wanted more Oct 7th attacks. You can't change their minds about this, and all it takes is one asshole to disturb the "peace" and then Gaza if flattened some more.

You have to be completely suicidal to poke a bear like Israel by doing the horrific things on Oct 7th. The violence on Oct 7th was celebrated by Palestinians everywhere - they glorify it, they want more of it, so I don't really think there is any real chance at peace even if Israel gives up a lot of land, or whatever demands Palestine has, it would never be enough so long as there are Jews anywhere near them. And as we've seen, they will kill non-Jews too, even acting out in other countries. The sickness here is believing that more terror and violence are justified and can solve the problem. It can't, and it won't.

And I don't really care what happens in Gaza as long as they are still holding hostages. Release all the hostages, and then I'll be sympathetic to their plight.

No they clearly do. You can see that from the sales of the Quest (which since you compared it to something like Nintendo, is actually more popular than the well regarded Gamecube). What people don't want to do is pay $3500 to wear obnoxious heavy goggles on their head. Devices which lose the trailing zero sell extremely well.

I also would like to know how many sell 50,000+ copies, not 500,000+. An author who can consistently sell at least 50,000 copies of each book can earn a decent living, as long as they dont take years in between each release. Knowing only 50 authors are making $1+ million per year isn't as interesting as knowing how many people can realistically be full time authors.

Instead of banning non-compete, just make sure it can't be abused. Something as simple as requiring companies to continue paying the employee their full compensation for the entire non-compete duration (with a 5% increase each year) would prevent abuse. Companies could still use them when it's important enough to protect the company, but no employees get screwed.

Corporations in the US have sooooooo much power. Itâ(TM)s a strength - a lot of things are built on top of our healthy economy. But there needs to be some counterbalance to that. Companies can hire and fire as they please. Thats fine, as long as Im a free agent as well, baby!

You work a *lot* more hours. And you do work. Back in the day you'd have time to do research projects to keep my skills up no problem, it was encouraged. These days you're on 24/7 and doing one very tightly defined task because your CEO doesn't want you to be too critical to the company, they want a cog in the machine they can replace as needed, even if that means paying a little more. The predictability is worth it.

I mean, I guess if you're one of those freaks that doesn't need sleep. I've known a few. Get by on 4 hours a night and they're fine. It's like having an extra 28 hours a week in your life. But for us mere mortals we're kinda stuck. We make due with what we've got.

Sure, and they should expect that they're putting their jobs on the line for their cause. Without that risk, their protest isn't particularly meaningful. If they were to "win" by getting Google to cancel the contract, they'd actually have little effect because Google is almost certainly right that this contract has little to no effect on the war.

Generating headlines by getting fired from their $500k/year jobs is the most effective thing these Google employees can do for their cause. So, good for them, they succeeded!

If they expect Google's decision to generate significant public or internal backlash, though, I think they'll be disappointed.

Fiction:

12 books from the Deverry series
The Three Body Problem trilogy
Monkey
Treacle Walker
Various books on Powershell

Non-Fiction:
Linux Administrator's Guide
Linux Network Administrator's Guide
Both OpenZFS books
Ansible
Terraform
Various books on Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL optimisation
C++ manuals
Various Cisco manuals
OpenPF manual

Both. They're both victims of the governments of those two nations/regions. Hamas's barbarism is entirely inexcusable, but at the same time, the leaders of Israel (and Netanyahu specifically) turned their country hard to the right in a manner that pretty much gave rise to Hamas's power. Foreign governments have also added fuel to the fire, which doesn't help.

The tragedy is that nobody actually wants peace enough to make it happen. All it would take is the U.N. declaring all of Israel to be a demilitarized zone, ordering the Israeli government and Hamas to both disarm, shooting anyone who refuses to comply, and then keeping those million or so troops in that region to help rebuild, slowly drawing down the number of troops over... say 200 years, so that by the time they are gone, no one alive still remembers the horrors of this day.

Thanks, I will look for one.

It didn't ship the DNF package manager. Does that stand for "did not finish"?