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Cake day: April 3rd, 2024

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  • It’s exact opposite of a trend. The younger generations criticizing the older ones for not living up to their responsibilities has been just as much a constant throughout human history as the older generations criticizing the younger ones for being lazy by their parents’ definition.

    The world sucks, as usual, and by now Gen X are old enough to be in charge. It’s sensible to call them out, just like in a decade or two it’ll be sensible to call out the Millennials for the same thing.







  • I have this variation:

    1. Get hired. Enjoy awesome coworkers and decent perks.
    2. Wait, this is a fintech company.
    3. Why did I go with a fintech company again? I hate fintech!
    4. Fuck it, I’m not quitting after a single year; I’m not gonna nuke my vacation planning two years in a row.
    5. Queue Cue endless scrum meetings about badly defined PBIs referencing ancient versions of a poorly defined domain model.

    I’ve never seen a sector of IT less organized, more averse to basic best practices, and more fixated on procedural boilerplate than fintech. It’s like ADHD poison and my relationship with it can be summed up with these lines from the Muppet Show theme:

    Why do we always come here? I guess we’ll never know.
    It’s like some kind of torture to have to watch this show.



  • Cooking instructions don’t mesh well with some people. I’m one of them.

    Half of the time the instructions are vague (like “golden brown”, which has vastly different definitions based on what you’re cooking) and the measurements are often inexact (“to taste” is completely useless to someone who doesn’t know how the intermediate product is supposed to taste). Plus, you often have to do things during the heating process and if your multitasking isn’t good enough your meal is ruined.

    All of this is less of a deal if you have someone with cooking experience in the kitchen. If you don’t, well, good luck.

    I consider cooking to be highly stressful even with a recipe. Baking is much better since the measurements tend to be precise to the gram and the heating step happens in isolation.



  • The logic board has the CPU built in, that’s true. However, the Framework 16 has a swappable GPU and all models make the ports independent of the logic board through a USB-C-based expansion module system. So that’s even a few parts other manufacturer might consider unreasonable.

    (Also, to be fair, I forgot one other thing most laptops let you swap: The WiFi/BT card, if only because it’s cheaper to have that on a swappable module.)


  • I mean, asterisk. Most laptops let you swap the storage and RAM and many let you swap the battery. Beyond that it usually gets difficult.

    Framework let you swap everything, which is a major difference. But of course you pay for that privilege; modular design has its costs.

    Still, good on you for getting a cheap upgrade. No need to throw away a perfectly good laptop if you can make it work fast again with a new SSD.





  • Heck, that can even happen with Windows.

    My Logitech F710 never worked right with Windows because the driver’s power saving feature doesn’t mesh well with Windows 10’s power saving feature, causing dropped inputs. No such problems under Linux.

    Not everything works everywhere. People are used to how things don’t work with Windows and learning how things don’t work differently with a Linux distro is annoying because you learn by running into problems. If you have people to switch over and have a good time you have to help than through this.


  • They stopped supporting Teams on Linux entirely. Linux users are supposed to run Teams in a browser and the browser version lacks certain features, even things like custom background images; you can only use the ones provided by Microsoft.

    I use an unofficial client, which seems to be based on the old official one. That gives me most of the functionality back.