Well it’s Saturday morning, the buildings where the battles take place are considerately evacuated first, of course!

We should all aspire to such monkey business.

Or a Red Bull ad 🤔. Jk

why do people put the extra X in there? indolence?

My best guess is it’s become a sort of linguistic meme, poking fun at incels who’d ramble on about things like “looks-maxxing”.

Or maybe it’s a combo of that and “min-maxing” from gaming communities. The extra X makes it more maximum. LOL

Taxing, faxing, relaxing…

"…Shootin’ b-ball…

When a couple a’ guys, who were up to no good…

Started making trouble in the neighborhood…"

–Prince William Smith of Bel Air

LOL fellow American also bamboozled by this concept. “Burnout leave” to us is when you finally snap and quit, cutting off your healthcare and income all in one go.

Hope you have multiple “streams of income” and “side hustles” if nothing else is “lined up”!

For the majority of us burnout isn’t a pathology, it’s the most American state of being. 😂

I’ll admit I’m not versed enough as a developer to grasp this so I’ll take your word for it.

… I’mma just build my cross platform programs in Godot and nobody can stop me. >:)

the amount of ire CPU cycles / frames / watts it draws is overboard. Lol

(Trying to be funny not aggressive lol)

For real though, I think it’s just because it epitomizes that “Hardware is fast now so throw sluggishly interpreted high-level code at it and don’t even bother with optimization” mentality.

Like I remember when people would bash Python over this, but Electron apps make that feel way overblown now.

(Also Python did nothing wrong :( lol)

Funny how people barely scraping by with peanut wages is “Well we all have to just suck it up for the sake of the economy.” (Thatcher/Reagan types love to use this ‘take your medicine’ analogy.)

…but burning down a corporate warehouse is also “Oh no. Now those workers can’t work for peanuts. :(”

Almost like the power dynamic here is ridiculously askew and the company never feels the hurt.

At least one direction here has a chance of actually shifting the balance, and that direction surely isn’t

“Clock in day after day, say ‘yes, boss’, and hope for the best.”

Holy crap, granted I haven’t deep researched them or anything but I always thought of REI as the granola-munching fun hiking kids cooperative kind of environment…

…friggin’ branding…bamboozled again.

how much the job sucks and how good your country’s unemployment benefits are

(* Laughs, then ugly-sobs in stars-and-stripes *)

Pew pew!!!

OMG if you like that you’ll probably also love Burn My Windows (https://github.com/Schneegans/Burn-My-Windows)

Those effects are ported to Plasma too! You can get 'em through the KDE Store / get new stuff system. :D

(Sad forgotten Endeavour OS noises.)

I hear a lot of love for Fedora.

Even though I happily run OpenSUSE Tumbleweed myself, I have run into the occasional “What the ever-loving heck” issue that I’ve had to stubbornly troubleshoot, and I worry that’d make some people run away crying.

I have a family member with a really old laptop enjoying Mint, but my wife’s and my best buddy’s gaming PCs might be worth giving Fedora a shot on.

Like me, they need those updated Nvidia drivers and Wayland, and honestly most importantly for familiarity + cool-new-thing factor: KDE plasma 6! ;)

SO important. They’re always under some kind of attack, and they’re pretty much the most accessible way we have to access a web that keeps disappearing and getting replaced.

… Then you get to file system and the analysis paralysis REALLY sets in.

Here. Let me help: BTRFS with Timeshift or Snapper snapshots. Enjoy. ❤️

This has such a “Barbenheimer” composition lol.

Two was supposed to protect one. :(

Sorry I didn’t articulate myself well here at all.

What I meant was, I’ve heard this particular contributor’s history is slim to none, and suddenly he shows up and PR’s this age form into the kernel.

That’s what’s weird.

You’re exactly right, most of us probably haven’t looked at kernel PRs. Such a major component in such a major project isn’t really a “My first contribution” territory, right?

So it should raise some eyebrows when this guy just pops up and PRs it and it gets merged so quick.

I’m not the most brilliant at this stuff so I’m happily open to being educated here if I’m way off, though.

Yeah, I fear you’re right. Evidence doesn’t point to benevolence here.