> this is what GOG Galaxy does in the background (and it will even backup the installer and fetch bonus content if you want it to

Lutris does most of that too. Granted no automated updates etc, but this is a case where joining the existing ecosystem would've been a real nice move.

> If people have to be onsite while some programmer for the same company lives in some really low cost area

Absolutely no difference to one lucky on-site employee not paying rent or mortgage while others do.

> The conditions that made WFH the best path forward have changed.

Yeah, a C-level dick measuring contest appeared wherein company culture strength was measured by office attendance. Our CEO bragged about having better attendance than some friend of his.
Then they made attendance an inter-office competition which all non-US employees ignored. It was hilarious.

> A worker who spends two hours commuting to sit on video calls with colleagues in other cities is not experiencing culture. That worker is experiencing theater.

It's Potemkin all the way up.

In my case attrition indeed was the goal. We all knew it. 15% of my team left, including both Linux devs. Apart from one person, all my peers were in other offices. RTO was just being on videocall in a room far from home.
Fortunately labour law was on our side, and they couldn't force me as remote work was written in the contract, and I am legally allowed to not sign any modification to the contract, keeping the original intact. So it became a case of "fuck you, make me" . I got 6 months severance out of it, which I consider a win. Some more courageous were planning to play the longer game and to go to court. I wonder how that worked out.

How much more native than directly using the AMD hardware driver do you want to get?

To quote, this port is
> relying on the AMD Radeon Software Windows kernel driver.

If finished, this implementation would be as native as what is provided by AMD's windows binary blob.

Considering that a decade ago ( https://www.phoronix.com/news/... ) AMD's attempt to upstream an abstraction to keep common code between windows and Linux was rejected, getting the OSS stack on windows would be major, and funny.

All devs can find and fix bugs in the lower layers. Everybody wins.

Valve gets a unified stack for its runtime : the same Vulkan/GL implementation running both on Linux and Windows, making support easier.

When dancing I don't think about the steps, but about placement. If I had to think about the steps and details in them, I wouldn't even hear the music.

My first reaction reading this was "they described what we call muscle memory..."

> unnecessary backwards compatibility.

Unnecessary?
https://www.skoda-auto.com/con...

Do not underestimate the amount of devices still relying on 2G/3G, not every industry has a turnaround of 5 years.

Nobody is immune, survival is about planning, and a bit of luck :
In 2017 Maersk almost got destroyed: notPetya wiped their systems, including domain controllers. Luckily a power outage in ghana kicked the local DC offline during the attack, and thus the sole remaining copy was perserved. Talk about luck.

https://www.wired.com/story/no...

They are being given an offer they cannot refuse of a new and exciting opportunity to go up and forward in their professional lives.

I only use bluray for movies, got a PS5 for that.

> old hardware just got replaced, all without drives

I felt that coming...
Years back a friend's laptop died, I scavenged the DVD drive. I bought an enclosure for it and since then it's been serving as an external drive. Now it's the only drive I have. And man am I happy to have it, since I once again buy music CDs, to be ripped and added to player library.

I suggest you watch Louis Rossmann's documenting of how raising the issue before his council went. I don't remember the details, but the council kept changing the meeting topics at the last minute (only the flock related ones), and surprisingly the flock representatives were aware of it. Then the discussion was moved into non-public parts of meetings.

The feeling with this is that you can't win by just raising the issue with the council, you also need to play dirty.
Destroying the cameras might be too dirty, but that depends on the current state of society...

> If I exercise, first I'm spending my time on something I dislike

Doesn't need to be exercise: could be woodworking, gardening, car fixing.

My personal hope is to die healthy. I don't care as much about the when.

They redid the exercise in 2022, adjusted with newest knowledge. The forecast got considerably hotter. Still got beat yesterday.
https://x.com/TF1Info/status/1...

That 2014 forecast had already been beat in 2022.

#fasterthanexpected