Have backbone; disagree and commit.

I can't read the paywalled site but it sounds to me like they are at the first part of having a backbone to disagree. I am sure once that part is over, those who do not commit will 'leave'.

I work in IT and get way to many unsolicited vendor calls trying to sell me crap which puts me off answering the call if I don't know the number. I am talking multiple calls in one day.

I ran dual boot for years, mainly for Games and Office.

With the advent of Open Office being good enough and Steam providing Proton, my Windows install basically stopped being used about 4 years ago. Ironically, it was broken by a Windows update about 3 years ago and I never bothered to fix it, just formatted the partition and used it for extra storage.

This year I built a new machine and requiring a Windows boot option was not even considered.

I knew you could install a .deb by clicking it but I never did it. Call me old school but I would always download the file and install it manually with dpkg on the command line after checking things didn't look too dodgy.

I have lost count of the taxi drivers and convenience store workers I have spoken to with an IT degree (often doing that as a job for a few years after they got their degree) who all ask similar questions and give very similar answers when they found out I worked in IT.

Them: "I have an IT degree. How do I get a job in IT, you work in IT. How did you get your job in IT?"
Me: "Get an entry level job. That's how I started and then with the experience worked my way up to better jobs."
Them: "I don't need to do that, I have a degree!"
Me: "Without experience, your degree is not worth much. It is good to help you get an entry level job, get some experience then go for the better jobs and your degree will be worth more then."
Them: "My career advisor said I don't need to do that and that I can get a 6 figure paying job as soon as I finished my degree!"

Came here to mention this and no, I am not going to subscribe to Disney+.

I kind of gave up on the franchise after the last effort anyway and it will take some major improvements in writing/plot/character progression/acting etc for me to interested in it again.

From my personal experience, this is not far from the truth.

Just speaking from an IT perspective, they love to hire contractors or to outsource projects to vendors for which they pay way to much for both and select on average (not all the time, just most time) people/vendors who over promise and under deliver and basically can't do the work.

This is made worst by the management not really knowing what they are managing or really 'caring'. They like to 'outsource' so if it goes bad, they blame the vendor, if it goes well, they take the credit.

A few examples, I got a quote for hardware, it was a rip off. I demanded a requote without all the crap I didn't need (support etc) and this dropped the price by 40%. The director got annoyed with me and said 'just pay it, if we run out of money for the project, the government will just give us more money'. Woah! What made it worst was I later found out she used to go drinking with the sales manager from the company I got the quote from.

One more for the road, I was invited to a large infrastructure kickoff. I went to the meeting and basically told them that what they wanted to do would not work the way they were going to try and do it. This caused all kinds of emotional responses. Essentially, I didn't get invited to any more of the meetings. 9 months later, the same project manager who kicked me out of the project turned up to the desk and demanded to know what I did to make sure the project didn't work. I re-explained that what they wanted to do was never going to work so he dragged me into a conference call with the vendor. Long story short, I got the call escalated from the first level tech through to senior level management who when challenged after their little spiel, paused and replied, 'yes, it will not work for the exact reasons you mentioned.' The look on the PM's face was priceless but I still got stuck cleaning up the mess.

That was the proverbial straw and I got out of government paid work not long after that last one.

My work installed a new security system which requires an App on my phone so I can get into the office. Then you have 2FA for everything. Besides that, the older phones will be phased out over time by the telco's as they constantly move to newer network technology and retire the older ones as they do.

I grew up in the country. I remember laying on my back and just looking up into the sky at night and seeing the milky way which was like a river of stars. It was amazing, awe inspiring and really made me think about what was out there.

I live in the city now and you only see a sprinkle of stars. I read about light pollution years ago but didn't think much of it until I did a tour where you get to experience star systems in 3d in a specially built room and they showed the night sky without light pollution. It was like a punch in the guts when I remembered the view from years ago and realised how much the light pollution hid the night sky.

It made me feel old and kind of sad :|

Slashdot being an American website used $US33.4 million for its headline. Convert $US33.4 million to Australian dollars and you get $AU50 million.

It's also not called Tiktok in China but Douyin and basically, the stuff Tiktok serves in the west is not allowed in China due to it being harmful to society. I found the double standards the company holds rather telling and interesting.

I currently have an aging Pioneer receiver and was planning to replace it in the next 6 months with an Onkyo. There goes that idea, shame.

Same as you. My receiver is in the lounge room and connected to the TV and used to manage audio sources for a number of devices; TV, Playstation, Set top box etc.

Over the years, I have lost count of the times I have come across a taxi driver or a convenience store worker with an IT degree.

I would often get asked for advice on how to get a job in IT. Generally I would tell them experience is important so get a junior role and work your way up. A common reply I would get is, 'My university career advisor told me I could get when they finished the degree and get an IT job'.

In the end, I started to ask them how that mind set was working for them. Some of these people had finished their degrees years ago making it almost useless with no practical experience.

One of the most worrying things I read was an interview with the people making the show. They admit they didn't refer to the story or the game (and haven't played it) and will use this as a chance to write their own time etc.

Essentially, they plan to use the games name to push a show of their own creation with very little to do with the games lore/story.

All they are going to do is create reasons for customers to migrate to competing platforms like OSX. I would say Apple will be the biggest winners from this decision. That's where the vast majority of regular people will look when the ads start to get in the way of their day to day use of their home computer.

Personally, except for a 2 year stint when I had to choice, I have been using Linux for work for the last 20 years. At home, my Windows install borked itself during an update on my dual boot computer 2 years ago so I have not personally used Windows for a while now.

Seeing this kind of information, it would take an extremely compelling reason for me to consider using Windows again.