To all the people posting about all the things they have had to deal with to make it work in the corporate system and still, "made it into the office"; disability, family hardship, kids, health issues, etc, I'm genuinely glad you made it through. You are missing the point that you shouldn't have had to. There is no reason or benefit for corporations being this shitty. Your experiences are not proof that others are weak, its proof that we live in a system of "human capital" and we should be trying to change it. Amazon and others have lobbied the gov to get rid of the ADA. Survival of the fittest capitalism to this degree isn't necessary.

I also to some degree blame modern web design/publishing and the ad driven market as to why its so appealing. The desire to keep people on a page or clicking through sub pages for ad revenue while fighting hostile ad mechanics has added to the desire to use a tool that gets to the damn point. My patience for fighting to extract direct information to simple questions has faded a lot and AI has made that easier. I ask a question, I get an answer. No need to dig through someone's narrative word salad (also often AI written). Probably something I need to work on.

I want to preface this by saying I know its just a rant. In the business world, its not realistic I have recently been burned hard in the big tech reorgs (thankfully not layoffs) and a little raw. If nothing else hopefully this will be entertaining. As a techie and an avid gamer, I am thoroughly sick of seeing nearly everything cool destroyed eventually by corporate interest. Its also my first post on Slashdot in many years. The community that has invested in, devoted time to, and poured humans hours into the betterment of Red Hat has been slapped across the face too many times. We probably should have divested from Red Hat the moment they sold to IBM, ut we tried to give them some grace. That was a mistake. I truly, truly, feel extra bad for the people who have spent their time making CentOS (the real one), Rocky, Alma, Scientific, etc the amazing projects they were. To anyone making a living by working in these projects, even more. That being said, at this point the only thing Red Hat deserves the most brutal and visceral retaliation we can manage. From homelab to HA clusters at work we should push to divest from giving Red Hat a single dollar in every way we can. Yes, I know at work that isn't always possible, but see my preface above. Any opportunity we have should be used to remove Red Hat from any revenue stream we have an ounce of control over. Devote time and resources to Debian, arch, opensuse, or any other variation. If enterprise support is needed, look to Suse or the for some reason always overlooked Ubuntu enterprise. Stop even trying to contribute code to Red Hat repos. Don't even spin up a home VM from a free dev license. In short, we should be launching a vendetta against Red Hat, even if its meaningless. Give them nothing. Time, money, or a single positive word. Openly try to encourage others to do the same. I realize it probably won't do anything but we should not be rolling over for this utter and unacceptable corporate filth.