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jezebelkat

@jezebelkat@famichiki.jp

Labor Organiser 🎌, Journalist, Teacher, New Mexican, Kimagure Orange Road Fan
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jezebelkat, to random
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Although Linux has come a long way in the 25 years since I started using it with Red Hat 5.2 or whatever, there are still those squirrelly things that means if you install X, it breaks Y, and even when X is removed, Y remains broken, and you just have to bypass it.

I borked my keyboard layout and it seemed the layout applet (the Japanese flag in my previous screenshot) and the full screen app dashboard I installed did not play nice. In the end, I had to remove both.

jezebelkat,
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@brian oh yes, just like 2020 and 2015 and 2005 and 1997...

jezebelkat,
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@brian At this point, modern macOS actually runs significantly worse than Linux Mint XFCE on this 2015 MacBook Pro, so these things are truly minor annoyances compared to MacOS randomly deleting applications, refusing to run pkgs, archive utility stopped working, random crashes, and fans going full speed while editing a text document.

jezebelkat,
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@brian I can more than live with my XFCE set up if it means I don't have to drop $2000 on a new machine until 2025.

jezebelkat,
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@brian I've done pretty darn good with the theme, though it's pretty much entirely bespoke:

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats @brian my sprocket, named Toad, has been wet since 1992. It's what happens when you walk on the ocean. And really, it's all I want anyway.

jezebelkat, to random
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I'm officially done with macOS on my personal machine.

Given the age of my MacBook Pro (2015) and the demands of running Ventura or Sonoma via OpenCore Legacy, it's time to move on. The errors on macOS given the hacked nature are impossible to deal with.

Linux Mint XFCE runs well enough these days to eke out one last year on this thing--and then I go with a custom Tuxedo laptop.

jezebelkat,
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This is basically Nick @thelinuxEXP 's fault.

FlockOfCats, to random
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Gonna try reading an analog Kindle

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats dead tree?

FlockOfCats, to random
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No entry, 24 h limes

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats It can not hold all these limes.

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats 8 h limes, 8 h sleep, 8 h of what we will!

Daojoan, to random
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Nazis are not a fragile endangered species who need you to be agonising over the nuances of their free speech

jezebelkat,
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@Daojoan

"If you meet with these historians, I'll tell you what to say, tell them that the Nazis never really went away. They're out there burning houses down and peddling racist lies, and we won't rest until the day that every Nazi dies..."

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avdi, to random
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If there's one thing that's more and more clear to me over the course of my career is how much of developer culture is dedicated to making ourselves complicit in our own exploitation. Witness the absolute mindless doublespeak that passes for engagement on LinkedIn.

jezebelkat,
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@avdi

My experience as a union organiser: there are only two classes, the labor class and the capitalist class. The blue-collar/white-collar distinction is a created one to sow division between workers.

If you trade labor for wages, you are working class. Whether that is coding or factory line assembly. And management doesn't view you as differently as they want you to view yourself.

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@passenger @daniel_wengelin @avdi

Yes. Middle managers are some of the most stressed out people I know.

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@passenger @daniel_wengelin @avdi

My union has middle managers, being protected by trade union law here (in Japan) if they don't meet the benchmark of having final or sole say over hire/fire/discipline (which is actually a pretty high bar to clear), and what prompts it is usually moments of extreme moral injury, with upper management crossing a line they just can't follow through on.

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@passenger @daniel_wengelin @avdi

A pretty common join reason is "company asked me to enforce X, X is horrific, I can't do it."

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@passenger @daniel_wengelin @avdi

My union is overtly democratic. Like militantly so. The organisers, such as myself, do not run the union, and do not want to run the union, and we're also members with our own workplaces. We don't have outside staff. Everyone is elected. Most receive no pay. I assume that we quickly run off those that don't get that. Or they don't bother applying in the first place.

jezebelkat,
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@passenger @daniel_wengelin @avdi

Yes, we do struggle with a recent boom in recruitment, and the organisers are overworked--only one of whom is an actual member-employee, and only one other is paid. I'm generally considered "the major third," and I have a day job and receive no pay. I don't even ask for reimbursement so I pay like double-dues. :P

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@passenger @daniel_wengelin @avdi

We've more than doubled since the pandemic, and that's why it is so important for members to understand that unions are not insurance schemes. You don't call the rep when you're in trouble. You have to do the work to run the union. The union is you.

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@passenger @daniel_wengelin @avdi

Exactly. We have a hyper-local version of it called 駆け込めないで which means "don't rush in" (like trying to catch a closing train door).

Don't join when you have a problem--the train is already leaving the station. It's too late.

jezebelkat, to random
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Okay, given the expressed interest, I'm looking at launching a D&D Campaign through Foundry starting maybe late January.

The party will be limited to Famichiki participants for a couple of reasons: keeping party numbers manageable and providing some assurances the party members know each other or at least know of each other.

Please let me know your interest by the end of the year.

jezebelkat, to random
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If next year I tried to figure out how to run a D&D game virtually, would anyone on the chicken snack be interested?

Might even look into hybrid if some people would be willing to come out during the warmer months to Kujukuri...

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats I'm sure that with the pandemic, someone hammered out a way to run it via Zoom or whatever. I'll need to investigate.

jezebelkat, to random
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I guess Season 5 of Stranger Things actually is filming now. So I guess that's cool. Now that I'm invested I'll have something to look forward to.

jezebelkat,
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@FlockOfCats no, as of S4, the characters are only freshmen.

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