r00ty

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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 19 points 11 months ago (14 children)

No. If valve cancel your steam account, you lose your games and they owe you a big fat zero.

Same goes for all accounts with assets attached.

Sad to say, but in this case it is musk's platform and his rules.

If he wants to go home and take his ball too. Tough luck.

Doesn't seem right, but it is legal and already happened on multiple platforms multiple times.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 17 points 11 months ago

No, this is the thing. Compared to UK prices it was ridiculously cheap. In fact even when you add the higher expected tip it was cheap. And it was actually very nice. Just, so much food!

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 70 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Many many years ago. I did some work in Texas. We go into this sit down place. Now, having been caught by the huge portions a previous evening I'm cautious. I just order a chicken burger. The waitress is all like "Oh are you sure, just the chicken burger on its own?" I'm thinking, oh well maybe things are normal size at this place. I order some fries to go with it.

Some time later the chicken burger arrives completely filling the full size plate it came on, and the fries came on an entirely separate plate.

I'm not a small guy, but I could not eat all that.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not a bug! That's a feature.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 11 months ago

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 11 months ago

I had this on the commodore Amiga. It was an absolute classic.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't think "creatives" are more active than anyone else. For the number of users, the threadiverse has a higher ratio of activity I think and it's generally more positive here than places like reddit. Maybe it's a similar thing. The demographic that are likely to move, are just making similar content and that makes it look more active.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 9 points 11 months ago

Going to second other comments. Even without archinstall. It feels like it will be harder than it is. Umm, just save yourself a bit of time and configure the network and install a console editor (nano/vim whatever) while in the chroot (if going full manual). It was a minor pain to work around that for me.

There are pages discussing how to do everything (helps to have a laptop with browser, or a phone to look them up). At the end, you generally know exactly what you installed (OK no-one watches all the dependencies), and I've found any borks that happen easy to fix because I know what I installed.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I looked at that. Actually I would argue that was even more negligence by the management there. I mean they couldn't even say how long he'd not been working for.

But in reality he was paid for at least 6 years of work (and they suspected more) and only fined for 1 year of pay. So, he's still a winner I think. And yes, public funds likely did help in bringing that case forward.

Most larger private businesses tend to avoid going to a court for such things unless they need to in my experience.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 72 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You can make fun of managers not doing work. You know what's worse than someone at manager/director level that doesn't do any work? One that insists on doing so! Trust me, first hand experience.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 67 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I don't know if they have much of a case to sue you, if you fall through the cracks on their own negligence. Fire you, yes. Sue, I am doubtful most larger businesses would even try. They'd rather solve the problem and sweep it under the carpet in my experience. Not USA experience of course, but still the attitude would be similar I expect.

I would worry a bit about whether they're allowed to give negative references though. Because if so, it might not be so easy to get another job after.

Best move would be to line up another job to start like a month before the review, and never reach the review stage. Even if discovered, most people that would "know" wouldn't really be driven to report anything if they're leaving anyway. The "not my problem, and this will make it my problem" attitude in big companies is real.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 1 year ago

This does tally up with what I've been hearing. Where I'm at there's been a few hires straight into senior. I've not heard of an official junior freeze. At the same time it's been a long time since I've seen a new one.

The problem, as I commented prior, is that if we no longer bring in junior devs to gain this kind of experience, we lose the flow of junior -> senior. But in most places, the people making the decisions won't consider anything beyond the end of the current fin year.

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