A music app like Spotify founded by Jay-Z

Really? That’s not how I remembered it, I just thought he bought the existing service Wimp and rebranded it. Kudos to Jay-Z if he actually made a music streaming app though.

Interesting, how would that work if your corporate IT department uses an (Azure/Entra) active directory system? Can you use a bare metal Linux OS on a Microsoft-based domain service? Asking out of ignorance and curiosity.

As an engineer, all my jobs so far have used niche internal corporate software which would only be available for Windows. This would be Document Management Systems (DMS’s), internal reporting tools (progress and hour keeping), software distribution programs etc.

And of course the engineering tools themselves are often only built for Windows, whether it’s proprietary PLC programming environments or CAD software.

That said, I can run both WSL and a corporate-approved Debian VM on the same work laptop as a compromise, for whatever makes sense for the task. Still sucks though! At home I’m a Debian fanboy 4 lyfe.

Depending on your country, that is the norm. Engineers here have at least 2 national unions to choose from, finance have a couple of unions, same with teachers, admin staff, etc. etc.

As usual, this is probably just US being victim of 'merican exceptionlism.

That would be a nice legal loophole for a corporation. Bribe someone to lose a court case without council, and then use that case as legal precedent for future cases.

What are you doing, step-grandmom?

Nah, industrial communication protocols in the IT industry uses lots of master/slave terminology. E.g. Modbus and Profibus DP comes to mind.

The majority of users are either a communist or almost a communist.

I was 97% communist at the last measurement. I think I will get the final 3% any day now, God willing.

a human produces 1.35 deaths per 100M miles driven

My car has been driven around 100k miles by a human, i.e. it has produced 0.00135 deaths. Is that like a third of a pinky toe?

Most.

(Also a made up statistic)

Shutting down FM broadcasting doesn’t mean shutting down radio; if you read the link, you’ll see that DAB is taking it’s place in those places.

That doesn’t help much if your country has shut down FM broadcasting though.

you were trying to be sarcastic, but instead you have…

Lol no, I know better than trying to be sarcastic online, I was making the same point as you (although less eloquently). Wholeheartedly agree with what you said!

Same with buying shoes; how do you expect me to go to the shoe store without having shoes to walk in?

And for glasses; how can I find my glasses without glasses?

From my experience in Norway, these are typical in context of daily speech: (…) km, m, dm (kinda rare), cm, mm

Don’t forget the Scandinavian mile! You and the Swedes use it all the time.

I’ve been happy with all my FatMax line of tools so far, especially the tape measure. Thanks for the tip on the utility knife, will look for it!

Do you also get the webcam paranoia though? I’m covering up mine when I’m working in the nude.

Perma banned from r/Libertarian

Oh, the irony

The major big tent communities/subreddits all look the same.

What’s your favorite tent community? Looking for input on getting a Coleman, but I’m open for suggestions.

Yeah, but which of the two arrows though? The yellow one pointing to the right, or the white pointing to the left?