Picture this.

Person 1 went to uni and invented a great new programming language during his doctorate.

Person 2 is slightly on the spectrum, loves puzzles and enjoys creating businesses forms with person’s 1 programming language.

Guess who is making money.

This cartoon is flawed at the base. Education doesn’t lead to jobs, it leads to knowledge. A job is a practical application of part of that knowledge, but only if there is someone willing to pay for it.

Make churros. Mix same amount water and flour with a bit of salt. Press out with a churro maker, fry for 2 minutes, cool, sprinkle sugar and serve with hot chocolate

Most silly excuse was my boss refusing to install Linux because he just had a friend give him original windows 98se licenses for the PCs we just bought for the company.

Well it gets less silly thinking that getting the eprom programmer software and orcad 4 working on Linux was probably impossible.

Then it was outright the best decision ever, because those machines never required a reinstall and worked flawless for the 5 years I was there working. Never understood the bad rep W98Se had. Never used it on my personal rigs of course.

Remote work looks like that thanks to covid. Before that, nobody wanted to see your face, maybe share the screen and that’s it. It was a beautiful time. No tracking, no meetings, no stupid dailies, just pure self organized efficiency.

My kid (13) surprised me the other day and said he wanted to try Linux. He has seen me forever using it and got scared about W10 getting hacked or something so thought of trying it out.

I handed over to him my Fedora 43 (KDE plasma) install USB drive and once installed the problems began.

The monitor couldn’t be set to native resolution, and Steam didn’t want to run. Turns out that there is no wayland compatibility with the Radeon Polaris RX480. What a bummer, that card is perfectly fine for what he does on his PC.

We tried with the cinnamon version and that is working fine. He even has roblox running.

Tl;Dr: Wayland isn’t compatible with older hardware that most casual windows users are mostly going to be using.

If you are a firefighter?

Me thinks this is funnier where universal healthcare doesn’t exist

Pre-teen is the worst age for this. Just try to get your kid past this the best you can. Happens everywhere, eventually they will mature and learn.

Heck, this is always the plot in school movies.

37.5 hour work week

Last finished was Black mesa few months ago, and had a blast remembering playing HL1 and 2 in the day. Just to show you don’t need the best graphics to enjoy.

Prior to that was Metros Exodus, and it was one of those games you remember well after a year of playing.

In between, I have started RDR2 but can’t get to keep it going, I’m not hooked on that one.

Edit: Played Stray with my son on his ps5 and was really great! Had me wanting more.

Ulefone Armor 21 has a RGB notification led on the front and a light ring on the back.

It also has audio jack and get this… FM radio!

It also weighs as much as my bed, but I wouldn’t want anything else!

We have a budget for streaming services. ATM Netflix, HBO max and Showtime. About 20€ a month. Me and my wife like a good classic flick every now and then, so the two latter stay. The kids eat up crap Netflix series like candy. Everytime they ask to get prime or Disney they have the choice to give up Netflix to change… but they don’t.

If ads come, or the price goes up too much will consider canceling. Until then, it suits our wants.

When I was about 12, my father brought from the airbase thrift shop two books of the “Tell me why” series. It blew my mind knowing how stuff, iI never paid attention to, worked.

From then on I knew that there was an explanation for almost everything, it just required looking for the right book :⁠-⁠)

I took WFH for higher pay in 2013. It makes sense because I’m more productive without the noise, uncomfortable lighting, interruptions and subpar hardware.

Not conidering going back to office unless things change A LOT

Not really to impress, but everybody likes a good paella.

Easier on a gas than with embers as I tried the latter for first time and was quite challenging.

Just ask first if everybody is ok throwing in rabbit or chicken, not everyone is fond of rabbit.