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Yeah, the trick on taking out low interest loans is they have to be long term, like a mortgage. Over 30 years, I'm definitely paying it back in post-inflation dollars. In one year? Not really. I'd have to get a raise on, like, the day I took out the loan.

Agreed, and it should include the prices in brick and mortar stores. There is no reason not to print the price and the price+tax together.

I think TIME is gunning more for the supermarket checkout reader with this piece, a crowd that would find anti-trust and fake USB cables to be quite dry.

On what laptops does sleep/hibernate work correctly when you close the lid, with Mint?

Seriously, swear to fucking god, every time someone says “oh Linux just works”, the next comment is “oh? I tried that distro on the recommended hardware and had trouble with…”

Next response is ALWAYS: “Oh yeah that’s broken but I don’t use that feature.” Usually about hibernate. As in, apparently everyone using a laptop plugged into a wall and never closes the lid. Or uses a desktop. I don’t even know, it doesn’t make any goddamn sense.

I just don’t believe you guys any more. Everyone who says Linux just works has adapted their workflows to be hyper specific to the things they do, and have just decided that basic-ass features present and working on mainstream OSes are just gimmicks that the rest of us should forgo out of moral purity.

Also with this “try again” noise. Good lord, happy y’all are blessed with the patience to try again until you find the right Goldilocks set of hardware and tweaks that doesn’t give you a migraine but there exists a large contingency of the population that doesn’t spend every waking moment staring at glowing rectangles. Spare us a fucking thought, and spare a thought for our relatives who took years to learn how to double click.

You mean: roughly 100 million people will starve and suffer from malnutrition because Russia invaded Ukraine.

It was an entirely predictable outcome based on one country's actions.

You are you are absolutely right that this will be a more beneficial attitude to carry into their futures because it is exactly what has allowed me to succeed, but only after unlearning some terrible internalized anxiety about failure caused by being told I was smart.

Please keep it up. I hope I run into your kids in the workplace and they are running circles around me with their productivity and goal setting.

You are correct. It was Archivist.

A long time ago, on what.cd, I spent some time to upload rare and odd CDs I found at the library in Austin, TX. For a while, I had only one downloader, consistently. A user name Librarian. I looked up their IP address as it was connected to my seedbox and it was The Internet Archive’s. I suspect they have more content than they let on — that they are sitting on a trove of content that they are waiting for copyright expirations or reform.

If I were Kahle, on my death bed I would just upload the entire archive to some IPFS or torrent site and just let it all be free.

Side note: libgen is still around and it’s also another pure instance of what the internet should be.

> But they do it with like minded people

This is the main problem I see with your compromise. The self-sorting will create or enforce existing silos. The compromise is not only between you and your employer, but also between you and your coworkers. You might derive no value from face to face interaction, but your coworkers certainly do — and that includes you.

I suspect that this self-sorting will result in a very loud cohort of in-office workers demanding everyone come back, which spoils the whole deal.

Alas, this is the nature of compromise. Your downside is your employer’s upside.

This is really how it ought to go. Once a quarter, we all descend on one city for one week. We make big plans, we revel in each other’s company, and we see a new part of the world or see a familiar part of the world in a new way with colleagues. Then we go back.

What is a sufficient compromise, in your view, that satisfies the need of some workers to have regular face to face interactions with coworkers and prevents corporations unprepared to manage a remote team from whipping back to full in-office?

I do not want to put words in your mouth, but since you offered so few of them, I am tempted to believe you are one of the few lucky workers who has sufficient leverage to wholesale refuse to work in an office. If that is you, or if you the reader are such a person: consider the path we must take to bring flexible work to more people.

With that goal and those prerequisites in mind, what is a sufficient compromise?