To be fair, 80% of the campaign consisted of the GM going “yeah, that sounds cool, let’s go with it”. When the players noticed, they took it to the extreme and described how they one-shotted the Borg Collective and insta-ported themselves back home. And got away with it.

https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux

It’s also on Flathub and the AUR. And the Snap store, if you use that for some reason.

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.

“Just as planned,” thinks the wife as she starts going down on the hot dog man.

His first call consisted of repeatedly asking: “Where are you? How old are you? What do you want?”

Mind you, LLMs can be quite inconsistent. If you repeat the same question in new chats, you can easily get a mix of good answers, bad answers, bafflingly insane answers, and “I’m sorry but I cannot support terrorism”.

That is more likely, yes, but not the worst possible outcome.

Given the rapidly increasing debt, an economy mainly driven by what many experts consider a bubble, growing political unrest, and an ongoing trade war, the financial stability of the country could further deteriorate. If it does so too much (and especially if the response is to print money, as had been mentioned), inflation could spiral out of control.

Remarkably, that somehow makes it slightly less ugly, if inly for breaking up the optical lines and making it look less like a drivable polygon. Then again, anything from a 90s geometric pattern to WWI dazzle camouflage would’ve had the same effect while being more dignified.

Okay, perhaps not dignified. It’s a Cybertruck.

Let’s go, hyperinflation!

Get paid in the morning, then rush to the store because by evening your money will have lost half its value! Use $100 notes as wallpaper because it’s literally not worth trying to pay with them for anything! Make a lucrative business out of selling billion dollar notes to foreigners for as much as 5 CAD a pop! Fun fun fun!

Yeah, no. The dollar can crash harder and you might want it to stop crashing while it still has some dignity left.

Hotel cubes? You mean non-adjustable shared desks with 10 cm high felt partitions which do absolutely nothing to keep you from hearing the espresso machine with perfect clarity no matter where you sit. Also, every team contains at least one consultant who remotes in from another country so all meetings have to be on Teams.

When you like rolling release distros because you’re still traumatized from trying to version-upgrade Fedora Core. Although I went with Garuda because of convenience tools like garuda-update.

Well, that heavily depends upon factors like what kind of lifestyle you’re living. For example, I save a shitload of money by not needing a car.

In general I’d say that someone who lives in my town and makes roughly what I do could save 1k to 2k per month depending on how much discretionary spending they want to be able to do. Possibly more if they’re very frugal.

In case we’re comparing to the USA here, Germany has lower wages and higher taxes but a lot of stuff is way cheaper, especially education and healthcare. My health insurance premium can’t exceed 14.6% of my income, deductibles don’t exist, and most procedures are fully covered – for instance, when I went to a hospital for surgery and stayed for four days, my total bill was 40 €.

And everyone is trying to muddle through, including your heroes. I think it’s good to keep this in mind; both to avoid feeling inferior for not having your shit figured out (because nobody has) and to be tolerant of people making mistakes – nobody’s perfect and everyone has issues besides getting your order exactly right.

Be chill with yourself and with other people.

No, I misread (“do” instead of “make”).

I went from something like 25k to something like 50k, which still wasn’t impressive but okay for a junior-level dev. And vastly better than what I made before.

These days I’m somewhere north of 80k but monthly bonuses tied to company performance make it hard to give an accurate number off the top of my head. Depending on who you ask that’s either above or below average for someone of my experience level.

Germany.

The minimum notice time scales with employment duration (if the company terminates the contact) or is four weeks (if the employee quits). However, the contact can state a longer period; this is often done to make the notice time symmetrical. The notice period for the employee can never exceed that for the company. Usually, contacts can only be terminated effective at the end of a month so that can extend things a bit further.

At-will employment is not a thing in Germany except for informal arrangement like paying the neighbor’s kid to mow the lawn. Even during the trial period (a period of typically six months at the start of an employment where firing the employee is much easier) two weeks are the absolute minimum.

I’ve changed jobs since then; these days I still do software but in the financial sector (which is a highly annoying sector since the problem domain is complex and unintuitive).

Back then I did almost triple my salary (more like x 2.5 but it routine taken triple pay to get me to stay) but that’s more reflective of how terribly the old job paid.

I used to work as a cheapo part-time-on-paper software developer to pay for university. All devs in the company were student workers and the quality of the work reflected that. That clown show of a job actually took so much of my energy and attention that it delayed my thesis by two years. Yikes.

My boss was straight up delusional. Among his many bizarre ideas was the assumption that I’d stay on for about nine months after my graduation, obviously for the absurdly low pay I was making as a student. That arrangement would’ve worked out very well for him so he assumed I’d be all for it.

Unfortunately for him, I was already working out the terms of my employment with another company. On the other side of the country. Who actually employed real full-time devs for real market-rate pay. There was no chance I’d stay on for longer than necessary.

So I hand-delivered my written resignation, effective in two months – that being the legal minimum notice period based on my employment duration at the time. Boy, was he upset. He thought we had an agreement (that I never agreed to) and that I’d take as much time as needed to finish up that major project we’d recently started (because clearly that’s a reason to work for pennies).

Hell no. I did tell him I’d reconsider… if he beat the other company’s offer. That would’ve meant a 200% pay rise. Suddenly he was much more amenable to my leaving.

Remember, tomato is a fruit, it’s just not sweet.

Shitty supermarket tomatoes aren’t sweet. Homegrown tomatoes can be very sweet and very delicious.

How about some weird ancient ones?

They’re as much not to everyone’s taste as the shows themselves but I love all of the HaréGuu openings. The original’s a bop, Deluxe continues this while adding a spoken-word section the singer can barely keep up with, and Final is the best of the bunch. HaréGuu Deluxe also has a neat showtune-y ending.

I also think that Nerima Daikon Brothers has a great opening; it very much fits with the main characters being dollar store Blues Brothers.

If you want something that oozes cool, I can recommend the original Hellsing. A World Without Logos is an extremely stylish song as long as you don’t mind completely incomprehensible lyrics. (The song sounds as if it’s in English but is really just onomatopoeia. Basically Prisencolinensinainciusol in menacing.)