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  • My last boss was a bit like this.
    He owned a small company with 7 employees, paid himself less than he paid us, and was in more debt than his house was worth.
    So on paper he had less income and a lower net worth than me.

    But he still lived in a big house while I was renting.
    And the company was growing as well.
    I still wouldn’t want to trade places with him.
    I like my 30 days off plus sick days, where I can turn my phone off.











  • To be fair, back then Ubuntu was basically just “Debian preconfigured for desktop with a check-box in the installer to include non-free stuff”.
    Debian today feels like old Ubuntu, and Ubuntu today feels like a distro made by a corporation desperately trying to enshittify Linux.


  • The biggest deal was including non-free firmware on the install media.
    In the past, if you used the official ISO and started the installation, it would format your disk and then inform you that it can’t connect to your Wi-Fi to download additional software.
    Then it would install the semi-complete bare-bones system that fit on one install disc and boot you into a desktop with no network configuration.



  • The UNIX certification is arbitrary and useless. Windows 11 could get it if they paid for it.
    UNIX is irrelevant now anyway. Linux has taken its place, and every commercial UNIX (except for MacOS I guess) is at end of life or in maintenance mode now. They only still exist for a handful of applications that require decades of backwards compatibility.