+1, I see switching as a net positive. If people learn that there really isnt a huge difference in these UIs, and how things work in general, they start to understand things more in patterns and less in wrote memorization of how to do something, which is what school should be teaching in the first place.

I.e. as a very bad example, I need to use a new printer. If you memorize how to do it in one OS then you just think things are hopeless when you move to another. However if you understand the concept that an OS usually has a settings area, somewhere that then lists devices, and usually a place to add a printer within that, you now have an understanding that lets you move more fluidly across any of them.

Same concept with phones, I used to use android, switched iphone, to me they are all really the same thing, I honestly dont give a crap about one OS over the other because to me they fundamentally look and act the same. The minor differences with how to get to some such menu or another is such a minuscule leap/difference that it's negligible and I really dont care

+1, Its much better than the alternatives for me to decide, do I want to take interstate #1, or does it have a huge wreck like it has half the time and take interstate #2, or do I also need #2 plus express/toll lanes. Its pretty good at deciding the cost benefit of time vs. tolls as well and wont tell me to use express lanes if its not worth it

I live in a state that its not banned in yet I have never seen it in any store. Searching around apparently the only places you can find lab grown meat here (at least from what Ive found online) are maybe one or two butchers, and a single restaurant that offers it. Its hard to say no one wants it when you aren't selling it in the place 99.999% of people go to buy meat.

Yes but also brought in new hires and anyone else. We had already operated in basically a âoedo whatever you want that works for youâ type of mode. If you wanted to wfh for 3mo cause you needed to, so be it, if you wanted to be in office every day, so be it. We just let people work how best suited them and when we had events everyone was invited, and it worked out well for years and years, pre covid and beyond until we received mandates from the executive class.

Now no one particularly wants to hang out after work and tries to be in the office as little as possible. Treating professionals like children and forcing a working style on them that doesnâ(TM)t suit the job tends to do that

But you can still do those things, while remote, if everyone still lives in the same general area. We still do/did happy hours when everyone was mostly remote, so it was taking the only good part about being in the office, the excuse to go get drunk with coworkers and commiserate and bond, while not having to be in the office, and everyone was happy about it. Now that we have to be in the office no one is happy about it and we do even less happy hours so less actual bonding

why wouldnt you be able to? You can do that today with any kindle

It's not a crime or whiney to want to improve your living and working conditions. For many of us WFH is a huge boost to quality of life so we are fighting to retain it because we dont want to see it slip away just because some higher ups are worried about their real estate holdings, tax incentives, or micro managing. Why just roll over and give up to gain 1-4 hours of your life back per day, saved money on commute expenses, and for many being more productive at their job and being able to work in infinitely nicer conditions than a corporate office would ever be willing to provide.

If you prefer to work in an office than by all means, go in and enjoy it, but for many they despise it and it actively harms their work productivity and life in comparison to being able to WFH. Just because "this is always how we've done it so wanting to change it makes you weak" is a non argument

Depends on the place, and the state. Government jobs people end up with ungodly amounts of rolled sick time. Also some states(like colorado) mandated that companies have to support rollover of PTO. So now most companies here let you rollover anything under your maximum accrual amount, of course once you hit your max you stop accruing but you can rollover anything under that

done, just convince every other state or the fed to also sign it into law, https://www.reuters.com/world/...

Pretty much, everyone who starts out with "Oh well its doable, i did it back in my day" obviously hasnt been paying attention to housing prices in comparison to wages. I bought my first in 2011 for 220k and after 5 years it had already doubled in value, there is no way I could have bought it for it's new value even 5 years later if I wanted to. By the time I sold it it had tripled in value (about 12 years later), and in all that time my wages had *maybe* doubled and that was only due to job hopping

There was just never a way for the people who werent at the right place at the right time with the right amount of money to have a hope of being able to even jump into the game

There is a train line downtown to the airport now. They have been talking about a line to Colorado Springs for a couple years now but I think they are stalled on money and locations for it

Of course none of it is HSR, but at least the options are growing, if slowly.

+1 on the dells, I still have a 10+ year old color laser (I think 5250 or something). I finally had to replace the toner a couple months back, after all that time that’s how long it took to run through it. Grabbed a 25$ set of knockoff full color refills on Amazon and good to go for another 10 years

Damn shame they stopped making those, printer was cheap as hell and a workhorse after all these years

It has gotten orders of magnitude better since then, not worse, mostly due to valve's increased interest in linux for their steam deck. It runs their own wine fork, proton, https://github.com/ValveSoftwa.... With that the vast majority of games on steam run just fine on linux (barring ones with kernel based DRM)

Yea and Purdue has had one for more than 60 years now. Any engineering college that has a nuclear program probably has some sort of small scale teaching reactor, it would be criminal not to if you're offering a nuclear engineering program

cost of living, was that factored anywhere in to this discussion? It makes a world of difference, you cant just throw around numbers willy nilly across the country and have them stick. If you paid a senior dev 200k in SV they should walk because they are being grossly short changed by ~100k because thats equivalent to 100k or less in the rest of the non SF/NYC areas of the country. They could be earning much more somewhere else due to cost of living