I think you may be overestimating the power of an E-450.

This is already the case at companies like Valve and Netflix. They “don’t hire junior devs”…

I applied for a job at Valve a couple of years ago and was told that my over decade of development experience didn’t make me senior enough.

I hate this shit. Nobody gave a shit about GiB until companies just had to enshitify hard drives. When I was a kid 1GB was 1024 MB end of discussion, nobody was counting anything in base 10.

Rufus is cool. If you want to customize the install more, including slipstreaming drivers and updates, there is also NTLite. Back in the day we used it to add the Intel hard drive drivers to XP installers to downgrade Vista machines.

That’s probably going to depend on your age. Mint didn’t exist when I was using Caldera.

Tesla did that as well about 10 years ago. They opted to not do it anymore if I recall correctly because they couldn’t control how the batteries were being maintained or what age of battery you would get.

I don’t think you have any idea what you are talking about.

Shoutout to Ninite!

I mean… you can probably use the computer to order a pizza right?

There was a brief period of time (roughly 2006-2015ish) when the best Windows machine was a Mac and that will never not be funny to me. I think it was PC Magazine that ranked the MacBook Pro specifically as the best machine for Vista sometime around 2008.

That’s sucks. Best of luck to you!

I’ve been unemployed for going on 18 months. It’s awful and the market is the worst it’s been since I’ve been working (15 years or so).

Depending on when in the 90s you were a teen you may be remembering when they used to use beef tallow (fat) instead of vegetable oil for frying. In addition to all the other enshitification you mentioned.

I do. But, I recognize that preference is personal so I try not to shame people for the desktop environment they prefer.

I’ve tried KDE, and others, multiple times in the last 20 years or so and it’s just never felt as polished to me as Gnome does. When Gnome 3 came out I spent quite a bit of time with Mate because I didn’t like the new Gnome. But eventually I got used to it and it got better.

Typically, for new Linux users, I recommend Gnome for Mac people and KDE for Windows people.

So are you just shaming people based on where they live or what?

As opposed to what? The number of places that have a store that sells Pepto-Bismol is far higher than the number of places that can afford public transit.

That is what Heroic is for.

Exactly, that and the “we are a [insert product name here] shop” mentality. The things I have had to fight for over the years are mind boggling.

All of my degree was in C, C++, C#, Java, etc. and the one class I had that did web applications did Java backends and middleware with PHP frontends. It wasn’t until I got into the industry that I had to learn Angular, Electron, React, Django, etc.

I don’t think it’s the devs making these decisions.

3 or 4 days of day-drinking, eating like crap, staying up late, being outside in the sun on probably one of the hottest weeks of the year while probably not drinking enough water

That’s pretty much what I figured was happening. Dehydration is no joke.