Same question for you, but about Windows.

People are always whining about how you have to tweak stuff to make Linux work. I have never ever had a Windows system where I didn't have to tweak registry values, manually edit config files, etc. So it's a valid complaint, but not about Linux, only about computers in general. The only place I didn't do a ton of that was the classic MacOS, and that only because there was less tweaking available and you just lived with it being terribly limited.

Those young people need income as much as anyone else, so what happened there was that your employment was so terrible that they were able to find something better and it was worth doing it even though they were already hired by you.

They also don't owe you notice by any reasonable measurement, since you don't have to give them any. That's what at will employment means. Employers have set the standard amount of notice at or near 0 days by terminating people with that little notice as their SOP, and buying laws that permit them to do that. You got what you wanted, now you don't want it? Bummer for you, but you created this.

Frankly, it is both. Blackstone notably bought up the starter homes, but a lot of the bigger ones have been purchased by boomers to run as unlicensed hotels through airbnb. I know one woman who lives in Eureka who owns four or five homes which are exclusively used in this manner. With the vulture capitalists buying up the starter homes, and boomers buying up the bigger ones, there's only apartments and mobile homes left...

For a percentage of people this would not be harmful. You could identify those people because they would reject it as fake.

For the people who fall for it, it will be immensely harmful to their emotional development. It will confuse their whole concept of life and death. Death is part of life, and so is learning to accept it. Fucking with your mind with charlatan's tricks will only have negative outcomes. This is the waifu pillow equivalent of dealing with death.

This is becoming increasingly common in the USA too, and we also have a social credit score. It's called your credit score, and if it's not good you will have difficulty getting a job, renting an apartment... Except here it's more of an antisocial credit score since the only thing it cares about is whether you've been a good economic citizen.

War's not a problem which can be addressed through language, so what you said is silly. If you forced changes in language somehow which made it less violent, people would just invent new words for violence which glorify it even more.

So you mean they could pass down history in an oral tradition for thousands of years?

You bought a smart device that only works when connected to its maker? So... technically... you're not turning your lights on and off, what you do is to ask the maker nicely if he would be so kind to turn the lights on or off?

I have nothing to say that hasn't already been said.

This is the moment when I stand in front of my boss' boss and ask "Ok, so lemme get this straight: Someone who wastes his nights keeping the company's plates spinning is a slacker, but someone who comes to the office to spend his time at the water cooler chatting about last nights football game, that's the company darling?

Just fucking asking because I know what the company really wants me to do. I am not sure, but if the company needs me to, I am very sure I, too, can be a useless slacker!"

And yes, that fucking would be part of the question.

The only question I'd have is, why do you still work there?

That's the worst way of getting rid of people.

Tell me, who do you think will grin and bear it and who will just give you the finger and tell you to stick it: The dud who knows that he has to sit it out because he has nothing to show for, didn't improve his skills since highschool and only works as much as he absolutely has to to not get fired, or the go-getter with a lot of projects to show off, a github full of his private projects, enough certificates from various trainings to cover more walls than his apartment has and could snap his finger and get two job offers then and there?

Great idea. Especially if you have these wonderful turnstile systems that take like half a minute to let anyone pass because they have to make sure that it's only you and not someone tailgating with you.

If you go for lunch with your team, expect to spend at least half of your break getting out and back in. Yeah, that sure improves teambuilding. But the far bigger problem is that all your investments in the surrounding restaurants, i.e. why you tried to force your people back into office because they were lacking business with your workforce being absent, is still going to waste because people notice that if 1000 people want to get in and out at the same time, they can as well just kiss their lunch break good bye, by the time they finally get out, it's time to queue up to get back in.

So... let's measure it by the "time of ass in a chair" metric?

Yeah, that's a good one. You don't even need good developers for that, the bum at the street corner can keep that chair from floating off into space just as good as any senior dev, just for cheaper!

Could you show me on this doll where Mr. Fauci touched you?

Worked since 1975. Back then my country reduced the working hours a week from 48 to 40 hours, while productivity per working hour went up twofold to twenty times.

Productivity has always gone up ever since the industrial revolution. It's time we get something out of that.

Between 2 and 3 is a very crucial step that is easily missed but very, very important:

Get a HR department with a clue and keep them out of the hiring process.

Because if you offer something like this, you can (and must) pick your talent. You will get access to the best who come with a built-in productivity rate of a factor 2+, and you will have to identify them during the hiring process.

Basically what you have to do is what Ford did back in the day. He paid his workers REALLY well. In turn, everyone wanted to work for him, so he could pick the best and most productive mechanics for his factories. His workers were also pretty worried that they may lose that killer job, so they did anything and everything to make sure they don't get fired because that was a once-in-a-lifetime thing. Fuck this up and you lost.

If you offer something like this, and today the big deal is a shorter work week, not paying 5 bucks an hour more, you have your free choice of talent. And of course you have to make good use of that.