And here I am nostalgic for the good ol days of Obama.

Honestly regardless of whether or not orange Lucifer tries to cling to power post-2028, it benefits everyone involved to just assume that he won't and prepare accordingly.

This is why you always have to be careful when chasing metrics. If you pick wrong, it can have the opposite effect that you want.

I don't know where the adage came from but I find it very true:

Once you turn a metric into a target, it ceases to be a good metric.

Yeah it's similar to a computer spitting out 42 as the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

I worked on a project that had at least 4x the amount of "management" people of various stripes talking about delivery dates and status as it did engineers. There was like 5 engineers on the project and 20ish people just talking bullshit and sitting in meetings.

I spend most of my time in other time wasters like jira and fucking aha as well.

If I actually do anything, it only generates more work for me because I have to explain myself to fifteen different parties before making very minor, very necessary changes.

My company can't be the only one like this.

The US doesn't feature Harriet Tubman on the $20 because it's full up with racist, slavery-denying fools who still have the mindset of an Andrew Jackson voter and would vote a wheel of racist cheese into the office of president over an eminently qualified black woman any day of any week.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you extreme vetting.

I mean I've done a thing or two but honestly the worst problem I've had in recent years is trying to get a flatpak to work in Linux mint / newest Ubuntu because something about Qt had changed.

For the most part it works, without the ads, unlike the "competition". I also get an advantage in that it's basically a native thing for me at this point, so I'm better than a lot of my co-workers at using it (which is inevitable because Linux is basically the entire Internet).

Now here's someone who uses Linux. 😆

I'm curious as to what you do for a living, and if any portion of the proper practice of that thing has been outlawed by the state. You must be some type of professional freedom fighter to be so self-assured in your righteousness.

Only problem I've bumped into with that is that the "python" command doesn't work out of box on most newer Linux machines. It definitely doesn't take hours nor any repairs to install "python3-is-python" and get that working either (if I care).

Linux on the desktop being popular for people who don't know how to use bash shell isn't really a priority in my opinion. Canonical probably has that as something of a goal, but even they focus a lot of time and energy on Ubuntu server, which has no GUI at all.

I understand people not wanting to learn how to use a shell, but ultimately you're probably going to be dependent upon corporate software for a long time. CLIs are more expressive than a GUI ever will be.

As a developer, I have a company issued MacBook and I spend much of my time in iterm2 on it. The shell is what makes the Mac useful as a development platform. That's also the reason Windows is trying to accommodate Linux with crap like WSL, because developers basically all want a bash shell. Many of the UI developers I work with even primarily develop using a shell.

This aligns perfectly with a bit I read that said that social movements and protest movements largely form and organize under progressive / non-repressive political situations where the people aren't so busy fighting for their basic survival that they can get more involved in politics.

😆

I have often thought that social media is missing a local, small scale form of platform that is based more upon where you actually live than shared, long tail interests with others around the globe and other things that don't really build local community.

I agree with all of this and find myself in the same rut. There is a lot of talk of solidarity and community in progressive, leftist, anti-fascist, and anarchist forums online but I have yet to see any of it in my own life. At this point, I don't even go back and forth to work because I work from home.

Does anyone have a clue as to how we can at least get the ball rolling? My spouse tried to arrange a meetup group but the most attendees we have had in a year has been like 2 or 3, and we've only had one attendee attend multiple events.

Yep and this may partially be why I think focusing on the identities of voters and demographics has resulted in less and less support for Democrats over time.

In the end there's really two demographics that matter: rich, power hungry assholes, and the rest of us that don't collectively add up to a fraction of a percentage of their power or net worth.

All a part of keepin' 'em dumb.

I think SSHFS would work for your case as well. You'd have to enable SSH on your Mac to do it.

This is all off-topic for a Linux hate CJ so feel free to message me if you want more details.