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  • Vqhm@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•Linus does not fuck around
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    7 months ago

    I’ve never had a negative experience contributing to open source.

    I’ve also been to scrums where everyone is equal, and we have to be very PC, about explaining “processes” and “best practices” to people that break the build pipeline every single day. Eventually I just coded error handling and guard clauses into everything so no one could screw anything up by not following the documentation being a cowboy. That is a best practice, sure, but you’d be surprised by how people break things even after being warned not to do a very specific thing.

    A cowboy that fixes things always 24/7 can be a maverick and talk shit.

    But in todays PC world you can also be a cowboy that breaks everything always and spends weeks fixing something they themselves broke…

    I wish I could say the things Linus said instead of just putting people on a performance improvement plan.

    Sometimes being angry is appropriate. When I am I step back and try to figure out solution where the fuck up can’t happen again and no one gets hurt.

    I’ve seen people be VERY angry and even hands on working in jobs where fucking up can kill people.

    I’d rather see anger than people dying. Did Linus go too far here? Probably, but there is a time and place for anger and being direct.

  • Vqhm@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•It's OK if you cry
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    7 months ago

    Even a decade ago it usually meant ticking a box that you also allowed nonfree drivers.

    Even Debian allowed you to download the specific nonfree driver you needed and add it (without Internet) at imaging so post install you could connect with wifi and not just Ethernet.

    It’s come a long way. But doesn’t anyone else remember when windows did not have drivers and you’d constantly be confronted with “have disk”?

    I mean, the amount of drivers for old hardware I still have saved… Because before win10 nothing would reliability always fetch the driver you need from the net…

  • Vqhm@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*
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    8 months ago

    How can us older folks explain concern trolling and that among the old out of touch frontman both sides always choose, you can set aside single issues, and just pick the one that will do the least harm?

    I hear a lot of black and white ultimatums and statements boiling down to if you don’t do impossible I won’t vote tantrums. Sounds exactly like the trash before, people won’t vote for a woman. Gore came out slightly critical of Iraqi war and the media ate him alive as a antiwar idiot peace nut. He tried to transition to climate change but got called a boring and stiff despite being passionate about environmental activism.

    There’s always an ultimatum. Being slightly critical of a blank check for war after 9-11 was an express ticket to no where.

    The Democrats, even if they have some fresh ideas behind closed doors, are always running a terrible campaigns with mixed messages : “more of the same” mantra to big business; latest identity politics hot button issues for the people.

    But past all the terrible policy that can’t be quickly changed and flat messages one party constantly comes in with a plan to exploit, fucks shit up, dig a deeper hole, and hold onto power. While the other at least seems like they’re trying to act in good faith and approach some issues.

    I feel like there’s always a bunch of trolls identitying a single issue and saying, well because there’s some war you can’t have reproductive rights cuz I won’t vote .

    Or because some fetuses aren’t fit to live but I like cute babies you have to have even worse and more war, cuz I hate reproductive rights.

    For fucks sake nothing is black and white. It’s complex and voting for those that listens to science and lean into harm reduction is a real platform.