... is "someone who reads the manual"?

Saying "we want packages newer than the ones contained within the release" if very different from saying that the release has a "two-year support window." The former is understandable, the latter is simply untrue.

> With a two-year support window, there was only one year left until we had to go through the same process all over again for the next LTS

They release an LTS every two years, yes, but they're supported for five. You're doing lots of extra work if you're updating every two years.

The title is "dozens resign" while the article (and summary) is "one resigned." Everyone else was laid off.

... you mean in a year?

Since when did I2C and GPIO become marketing buzz? Judging from the title of the post ("status update") I don't think it was meant to tell you everything about snappy. It linked to an older post with more information, but if you really want to learn about it, you'll need to do some work yourself.

First of all, I get where you're coming from. I've never been as productive as when I'm working from home, and I've never been as happy. To answer your question: You look for jobs you know involve an incredibly distributed workforce. In my experience, many open-source projects run this way. I applied only to companies I knew had globally distributed teams, and I knew I lived in an area where they didn't have an office. The challenge you'll run into with such companies is that you're no longer competing with people in a city radius-- you're competing with the world.

I trust myself. Get a plug computer with a few USB3 ports, set up software RAID with external hard drives, and you have a server that can run ownCloud using less power than your desktop when it's off. It's worked for me for years. My family uses ownCloud for shared calendards, uses ownCloud for our contacts, and stores all pictures/music/etc. on ownCloud. Bonus: You can host other websites on there as well (I have a few blogs), keeping even more data to yourself!

Both my wife and I were homeschooled, and we both firmly believe it was one of the best things our parents did for us. You can make it work, but make sure your children continue to socialize (e.g. sports and music did it for us). Do it wrong, and you can screw your kids up. That said, public school gone wrong screws kids up, too. But do it right, and your kids can really flourish in an environment that caters completely to their learning style.

You also need to analyze your reasons. Homeschooling isn't easy-- you need to take your reasons seriously enough to be motivated and organized to make sure your kids stay on track. Reasons that don't truly motivate you as homeschooling parents will cause you to lose your drive, at which point they turn into "those homeschoolers."

And learn to charge your batteries without the power grid. I think that's what you're looking for here-- POTS won't last long during a catastrophe.

Hit the nail on the head. Wish I read this post before I started sitting in an office all day almost not even allowed to work...

I am a computer engineer with a clearance working for the government, and my wages suck. If you're gonna go this route, at least look at contractors instead. Maybe you won't have to put up with quite as much crap, either.

Amen. I'm a guy and I probably would have been uncomfortable with their comments as well. In fact, I'd be just as uncomfortable if a woman made similar jokes. However, I don't look upon either as being sexist, I simply look upon them as being off-color. I think of bad language in the same way.

I'm in the same boat as fearofcarpet-- I use Linux for speed. All I use Windows for is gaming. Other than antivirus, I actually have nothing else installed-- no cygwin, no bash, no perl, etc. And I'm still not surprised that Windows is slow. Linux and Windows are on separate mechanical hard drives with the same model number-- Linux boots in seconds, Windows boots in minutes. Linux logs in in seconds, Windows logs in (and finishes... whatever it's doing) in minutes. "Running in a dream" is a perfect analogy for Windows.