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agressivelyPassive,

And how many buyers actually care about that?

I’m pretty sure, nowadays institutional buyers define the market. Tons of regular people don’t even have laptops (or desktops for that matter) anymore.

agressivelyPassive,

He’s giving bridgehead?

agressivelyPassive,

As someone who had the wonderful experience to work with HR I can tell you that the bullshit they’re telling us is 100% an attempt to justify their own existence.

HR adds less than nothing to the entire recruiting process. They inflate requirements, they smash together templates so that the result makes no sense at all, they add buzzwords they think are important. If someone actually applies, they “filter” applications based on elaborate models of a coin toss, and during interviews, they want to make clear that they are, in fact, not useless by asking nonsensical questions.

In short, they are parasites and don’t want corporate to know.

I’ve got my current job via a recruiter and it was a super relaxed process. One video call of an hour or two with my (to be) team lead and his boss. Both of them were actual developers. HR was only involved for the formalities, as they should be.

agressivelyPassive,

Smaller companies offer much less safety, though.

If a project is late at Google, you can pull in resources from other projects, delay the release, etc.

If a project is late at a small company, that could mean bankruptcy, even if everyone pulls 80h workweeks.

I personally would prefer a company that is just small enough not to require much corporate bullshit, while still having enough buffer to survive rough patches.

My current project is together with Cap Gemini and holy shit are those guys corporate drones. Absolutely horrible.

agressivelyPassive,

Not really, especially not in countries with sane workers rights. Google won’t just fire a bunch of people because a project is a bit late. They’ll finish the project, eat up the costs and maybe decide later on what to do.

Of course, given the absurdity of the US labor laws, big corporations will also fire people, but ceteris paribus, a larger corporation will be more likely to be able and willing to keep you employed than a smaller shop.

agressivelyPassive,

While I like gardening, unironically advising people to grow their own food to cut costs is just bonkers.

It takes months to grow anything, and given the limited space, you can’t grow much anyway. You’ll be lucky to grow 20€ worth of food on your balcony while spending hours doing the gardening. That’s not cost effective.

agressivelyPassive,

You can get away with very little supplies, actually. Basically just a small shovel, the rest be salvaged.

Pots can be made from old plastic bins/containers, soil/fertilizer can be made from food waste using worms, seeds can be made from surprisingly many fruits/vegetables. Pumpkin seeds are right inside the pumpkin, potatoes and beans can be put right into the soil, even tomatoes can be grown from store bought ones.

And while it’s a really cool hobby: you’re right regarding the cost effectiveness. Unless you happen to have a significant plot of land, it won’t make a dent in your grocery bill.

agressivelyPassive,

As I wrote in another comment: you can create your own soil with earthworms. You can get a small batch of worms in fishing supply stores for like 5€ (or collect them yourself), these guys turn almost any plant material into pure fertilizer.

agressivelyPassive,

“Random crap” is what’s used in agriculture as well, if you buy a big plastic tub, it won’t leech more into the soil than your coke bottle already did. There’s only so much plastic that can leech out and planters can be used for years, the plastic you’re using around your house gets thrown out in a week or two and replaced. Much higher chemical content there.

And you can absolutely use store bought potatoes, they are clones, there’s no difference between seed and regular potatoes. At most, there might have been something done to prevent sprouting for a bit, but that’s it. You can simply wait for them to sprout, if that’s a concern. You know how I know? I’ve been growing “old” food potatoes in pots for years. Works just fine.

agressivelyPassive,

And my aunt gets headaches from 5G.

You’re not getting headaches from water bottles. It’s placebo (or nocebo, in this case).

I just finished setting up Linux Mint for an old buddy of mine on his old dog of a laptop, rendering it useful once again! (i.imgur.com)

Edit 2: to everyone suggesting an SDD: i know. Look, if this guy had enough $$$ for an SSD, he could buy a used lappy less than half the age of this one that has an ssd and 2-3x the memory....

agressivelyPassive,

If hardware/budget allow it, you might want to throw in a cheap SSD and some more RAM. Something like 50€ could greatly improve usability.

agressivelyPassive,

I still don’t understand, why this is seemingly no problem in any other application.

Desktops, servers and even some chonkier laptops manage to work with regular (SO)DIMMs just fine.

agressivelyPassive,

But I want clear black and white distinctions and outrage!!!

agressivelyPassive,

It’s not gatekeeping, but a frustration about a new generation coming to an obvious conclusion, that they already had.

agressivelyPassive,

Aren’t the PS symbols copyrighted/branded? I read somewhere that there’s some IP involved, so you can’t use the standard symbols.

agressivelyPassive,

Or sellers obviously don’t know, what their stuff is actually worth.

Some want to sell used goods for more than the new price and three times what other offers are.

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Man könnte fast meinen, dass der Staat und seine Organe gar kein großes Problem mit einem 4. Reich hätten.

agressivelyPassive,

Absolute classic.

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Ukrainian infiltrators started the fires using the jewish space lasers the Americans are raving about!

(It’s actually frightening, that only the reasonable part of that sentence is made up)

agressivelyPassive,

It’s a win-win then? I mean, bullets and bombs are expensive and you can’t expect Americans to pay for every genocide!

Geschäfte mit Autokraten: Alarmstimmung in der AfD – Politiker aus Sachsen versinkt im Lukaschenko-Sumpf (archive.is) German

Der Landtagsabgeordnete Jörg Dornau steht im Verdacht, von Belarus gekauft worden zu sein. Eine zweiwöchige Reise mit einem russischen Propagandisten beschäftigt den Landtag. Ein riesiges Agrarprojekt in Belarus wird für Dornau und seine Partei zunehmend zum Problem.

agressivelyPassive,

Es gibt ja schon erste Schritte dahin, aber ich sehe da das Wahlvolk ein bisschen in der Pflicht.

Wenn CDU, CSU, FDP wieder und wieder mit Korruption auffallen und die Partei offensichtlich nichts dagegen macht, warum wählt man die dann noch?

Das gilt in anderen Bereichen eigentlich genauso: die Politik ist so scheiße, weil ein sehr großer Anteil der Bevölkerung grenzdebile Idioten und apathische Ignoranten sind.

agressivelyPassive,

Most people (public and private) never go beyond disapproval, though.

You’ll hear people complain about this and that, but never even looking for an alternative.

agressivelyPassive,

Es hilft aber nicht, wenn man ihnen auch noch Gründe liefert.

agressivelyPassive,

If you can’t join a call without authorization, and (implied) you only grant access for authorized persons, no content can leak.

It is a sound statement, but given the Bundeswehr’s reputation, I would be surprised, if that implication above actually holds true.

agressivelyPassive,

Selling for parts. Techtechpotato did a rough estimate and RAM/CPUs alone are currently worth and 1M (using eBay prices). If you add all the support components (network cards, mainboards, PSUs) it might be worth it.

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