sibachian

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[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 7 points 8 months ago

You're not looking at the cost of living. your actual income is usually irrelevant. you could be making $100-250k, it doesn't matter, if the cost of living (and being able to actually get to your job) is 95% of that income.

For example, my buddy moved to the UK from BA where he was making $8000/mo and living paycheck to paycheck and going into debt. they didn't tell him they would cut his salary down to $4500/mo until he actually got there. He had a panic attack, until his first set of bills arrived, and he realized he still had some 80% of his paycheck left for himself due to drastically lower cost of living.

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

i think he stopped working on groups because mastodon officially announced groups shortly after gis preview. not that they have delivered it yet (release target, q4 2023 - an no word for 2 years now).

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

what about the whole knowing who is who based on word pattern/habit, and connected content and/or opinion?

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

not at all. mint offers a bunch of features 'exclusive' to mint as an integration with their system. of course it's all open source and you could install it on any other system. but the key important factor with mint is that everything 'just works' with a fresh install, no customization necessary - which is something that can't be said about any other distro, including Ubuntu. it is the only distro i recommend for non-pc users as there is no chance they will brick it.

regardless, KDE is just a DE. you won't get the same mint experience of course, since it isn't officially supported (and indeed, only cinnamon offers the complete mint experience), but installing KDE on mint is easy enough if you insist on using it.

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Linux Mint is hands down the most stable linux distro out there and has been for years. zero tinkering needed. everything just runs no questions asked.

My only grief with Mint is the most recent update where they changed the software centee and now it's slowed to a crawl. Why they would do this is anyones guess.

I'm recommending MX until such time that Mint sort their crap out - unfortunately I doubt they will, seeing as this change of software center was to resolve some other issues they (but not is end users) though they had.

MX is basically debian but with a lot of improvements. Sure it might have a bit of a learning curve for those primarily used to Ubuntu based systems, but it beats running any of the other Ubuntu distros by miles since they all struggle with the crap Ubuntu puts on top of Debian.

Manjaro is another great option if you don't want to deal with debian based stuff, and KDE is the default DE with most stuff under reasonable control. You can also use all the Arch resources if you ever run into trouble so it's a lot less of a headache than what I've experienced running OpenSUSE (i want to love OpenSUSE but I just can't).

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

i've been pushing mint for years because it truly is just that good. everything just works. easy to learn. lots of easy customization available by default for even beginner tinkering. there is no headache or issues with drivers, patches, or software, ever.

but unfortunately (most recent versions) have become more prone to heavy slow downs and the new store in the latest update is utter trash.

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tying up in assets such as property, land, etc. has real value though. you can sell a huge amount of land without the land losing value because of the sale, but you can't sell a huge amount of stock without the value collapsing while selling it off.

any exposure is good exposure. investors don't normally run away just because you earn yourself notoriety, they usually do the opposite - because the market is entirely made of make belief and fairy dust.

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

he isn't the richest man in the world. his "wealth" is stock. not actual money. and he can't actually use that for anything but leverage.

he is small fry in the world of the actually rich; people just give him the limelight because of notoriety.

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Things that are only relevant, because they are relevant, are not actually relevant. It's fluff dressed in a suite.

Like they say, fashion is only fashionable because others thinks others thinks it's fashionable.

As long as everyone keeps talking about Musk all over the place, he'll keep coming out at top.

[–] sibachian@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

they should, especially as a smaller business, as data leaks could run into GDPR problems. my ex-employer, for example, handled all customer data in plaintext and never delete data for people who were no longer customers. he also insisted on using non-secured channels for business related information/secrets. and zero backup systems. malware ripe for the taking lol. had one system crash and he went mental but refused to accept a backup solution. absolutely no understanding of IT and deaf to any recommendations because of fear that he'd be unable to replace me with a cheaper employee once i was done setting everything up.

three years later, three employees later, and the cheaper replacements were unable to do anything anyway and it's all broken now. but i'm sure in his mind it's all my fault.

so yes, they don't, either due to incompetence or to cut corners. but they definitely should.

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