Nope, I have yet to ever run Wayland. I'm still on good old X. It happened with my 970, it happened with my 1070, and it happened with my 4060. And then I went to XFCE4 with Compiz (with the emerald decorator.) I still have KDE installed and occasionally use some kwhatever app.

Anyway I had this problem with several games, across wine, proton, and proton-ge. Mostly with games that were bitchy about alt-tab. I tried it with and without focus protection, too. But ultimately it just boiled down to being KDE, and I finally found mention of it someplace and then I gave up and switched.

You have a right to protest. They have a right to fire you for it, and have you removed from the premises. In my opinion, you should also not be able to win a retaliation suit in such a case. You and your employer both have rights.

If you don't want employees to protest your behavior, amass a bunch of followers. No doubt you can come up with some way to achieve that through hiring and layoff practices. Just don't be surprised if their work is low-rate.

We should have given them Wyoming or perhaps Oklahoma.

This explains every Michael Bay movie ever.

You're either drinking too much or not enough.

And tax breaks in TN. From the TFA (Oracle America closes on Nashville riverfront site) referenced in TFA...

The Tennessean article doesn't say how much or how temporary the property tax break is.

As if Larry actually cares about employees.

We're all doomed to drown in a bottomless pit of AI-generated horseshit, brought about by AIs endlessly ingesting and regurgitating other AI-generated horseshit.

Reality will become nebulous, and the only thing you'll be able to trust is whatever was committed to paper before ~1990 or so. After that, everything else and all other 'records', will be suspect.

Maybe you want a formula for some chemical process, will you really be able to trust the information you get online, even if you check multiple sources? Who's to say that they haven't become contaminated or rewritten? How would you know?

This times a billion.

I'm close to the end of my career, and I see the same fucking mistakes being made today as I did 40 years ago. Over and over and over again, regular as clockwork.

And if you suggest a better, proven path, it will be ignored in favor of a flashy new 'solution'. This is the normal state of things as far as I can tell.

I suspect not.

It turns out that most people would rather pay ~$600 for the Meta Quest 3 instead of $3500 for the Vision Pro.

Right, only stupid assholes (like Cummins) want to do hydrogen combustion engines. It's a senseless waste of efficiency, but if you are an engine company and don't care about anything but profits and the world can go fuck itself, it's what you do.

What I want is something that recognizes stuff, labels it if I look at it long enough, provides links to more info, does translations of written text from signs to books, does measurements of objects... Basically a lot of stuff I can do with my phone already but which would be a lot more convenient without having to use my hands. Look at an engine part and get the right manual page, look at a bolt and get a torque spec...

Does anybody remember when Google's tagline was "Don't be evil?". I know that it's probably been over a decade since they used it at this point, but there has to be a few people left in Google's senior leadership who remember it.

I mean, most of them probably cashed out their stock options and retired years ago, but there has to be at least a few of them left... no?

On my Firefox Nightly I have an extension to set Yandex as an allowed default search engine. Makes it easier to pop up another browser for a session.

Somebody fix that extension to work on mobile, eh?

They don't - something like this needs an Act or Congress.

SCOTUS made up some BS "Chevron Deference" in the 80's which has been abused like this since.

The current /Maine Fisheries/ case should dissolve Chevron deference.

We may like the FTC proposal on this one but with that kind of power and no representation it's only counting the days until they do something we absolutely detest. And then there's no effective recourse.