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I switched my desktop to mint a few weeks ago. Kept win10 on a separate drive, but I haven’t booted it since.

If you haven’t already read it, check out Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari.

My first job straight out of college in the late 90s, I was making 35k a year (tech industry.) my boss was from France, H1B, making 30K, obvious reason is obvious.

You’d probably get a discount if you promise to live in it and become a vanfluencer. Make sure to be quirky!

Code monkey is the appropriate term

Well, obviously? What else do you demand to go with your cheese?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2024/11/01/british-cheddar-cheese-theft-arrest/75982560007/

The most interesting part of the article

“One of the things that we have done in my office, for the drop boxes across the counties, is make sure that they have fire suppression equipment inside of those drop boxes,” Fontes said during a Zoom call with election officials on Thursday. “Unfortunately, the United States Postal Service doesn’t have that.”

That’s not at all how it works. Micro$oft paid a LOT for those congresscritters, precisely so they DON’T have to pay for it. We do. We always do.

I’d rather see people panic buying toilet paper than ammunition

When a person has nothing left to lose they will take chances that otherwise they wouldn’t. If we weren’t living in a corporatocracy, perhaps there’d be no demand for this sort of thing, but we do and there is.