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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Yeah but that time is long gone. Finance is throwing number in air of growth and profitability that must be met no matter what, and IT have to battle between what is effective, what the company tell them to do and what the users want, and in many case, the IT has a misplaced elitist attitude, like every user should know the infrastructure by heart and fix their problem themselves.









  • The direction that the company is taking. Clearly that Bitwarden feels like other open source projects are diverting revenue from them.

    That’s a small step towards enshittification. They close this part of the software, then another part until slowly it is closed source.

    We’ve seen this move over and over.

    Stopping your business with Bitwarden over that issue sends a message that many customers don’t find this acceptable. If enough people stop using their service, they have a chance to backtrack. But even then, if they’ve done it once, they’ll try it again.

    Your current price is 10$/year now. But the moment a company tries to cull any open source of their project is the moment they try to cash it in.




  • The tenants literally pay the taxes, insurance and maintenance in their rent payment. When any of these inflates, so does the rent unless there are protections in place.

    So being a landlord means someone else pays the mortgage for your unit.

    The only thing that could be seen as a service are short term rental, and even then, it was abused to death by the AirBnB/VRBO and any other short term rental service.

    Rent seeking is the most capitalistic thing someone can do : you use your money to get someone else to pay your rent. You do the minimal maintenance that you can get away with, and when you actually do real maintenance, your tenants get a rent hike.

    If there weren’t any landlord, there would still be housing. But a lot more people would own the place they live in, at a reasonable price, instead of housing being used as an investment vehicule.








  • I am thinking of going Debian as well since I like Ubuntu on my work laptop.

    I would like to use the same OS for both PC since I am not a power user yet, but I am tempted by endeavourOS to dip my toes into arch linux.

    I don’t want to have too big of a productivity loss at work (don’t care at home), so I am thinking to switch to Debian for work, and EndeavourOS on my personal PC to gain experience with it. If I like endeavourOS a lot, then I can switch my work laptop to it as well.

    Isn’t it how most Linux users progress?


  • I use Ubuntu for work and it serves its purpose really well.

    It was the first time I really ditched windows and learnt how to use Linux.I have Kubuntu on my personal PC and it feels klunky to me.

    So I am not sure why is that, since it uses the same base.

    My only issue right now is that I need to split the apps I use between dpkg, apt or snaps and it sucks when I need to uninstall something.

    So once my project is done at work, I will try another distro.