• Ignotum@lemmy.world
    18·
    21 hours ago

    AUR you kidding me?
    Is this some kind of joke I’m too “I use Arch btw” to understand?

  • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    I was on linkedin last night and saw Canonical is actually hiring and there are a lot of open positions.

  • yucandu@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 day ago

    Question for Linux people - I have heard issues with dual booting with Windows (IE Windows trying to fuck up the dual boot), but I don’t want to give up my ability to play games that might not be compatible with Proton.

    Is it less of an issue if I dual boot using an entirely separate drive?

    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      20 hours ago

      You can always dual boot and chose boot order in the bios menu. That’s a bulletproof method. That can only fail if windows fastboot make it difficult to get to the bios menu.

      • jj4211@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 hours ago

        Also makes bitlocker and Tpm secured Luks encryption more straightforward if you don’t possibly incur one platforms bootloader before the other.

    • BootLoop@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      16 hours ago

      Not an issue that I’ve heard if you’ve got seperate drives. It’s also far easier to install as you don’t need to partition anything. Just choose the new drive during installation and it’ll wipe it and setup the filesystem and everything for you.

    • fossilesque@mander.xyzOPEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      Get a seperate drive, Windows is increasingly greedy and likes to overtake your bootloader, especially on it’s frequent updates. There are also issues with how Windows encrypts your drive. Just occasionally expect to have to tell Windows to fuck off every so often. I just run one of these scripts when it happened on the computer I used to dual on.

      PS: https://github.com/Jacksaur/Gorgeous-GRUB

  • GiveOver@feddit.uk
    45·
    1 day ago

    I applied for them once. Went through multiple rounds of bullshit, to just be turned down without giving me a reason or any feedback. One of the rounds was answering a list of inane questions such as “what would your highschool friends say about you?”. Never again.

    • BlessedDog@lemmy.world
      8·
      21 hours ago

      One of the rounds was answering a list of inane questions such as “what would your highschool friends say about you?”.

      What the fuck?

    • Bluewing@lemmy.world
      10·
      18 hours ago

      Like the onion on your belt, those stupid questions were the HR style of the time. No one understood why or what those question were supposed to reveal about the applicant. Just that you needed ask them.

      The dangers of letting HR attend conventions…

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 hours ago

      One of the most useless coworkers I ever had got a job at Canonical. He also seemed like just the guy to be hyped to take about his high school friends despite being in his late thirties at the time.

      He was one of three people I ever knew to actually get fired from that company, and that was only after he just casually stole about 20 thousand dollars of equipment from work. He returned most of it and they agreed to not call the cops just fire him.

      Anyway, guess I’m just saying I don’t trust their ability to correctly select good employees. Also some of their work is amateur hour.

      The main two things they got right:

      • Debian testing was a better basis for a good balance of current yet workable software.
      • Making it super easy to install Nvidia drivers, ultimately making then the favored choice of the Nvidia centric ai market.

      Their actual technical developments have been underwhelming or actively against what I would want to see.

  • HouseWolf@pawb.social
    7·
    16 hours ago

    I missed a golden opportunity when I met in person someones Dad who actually did work for Microsoft.

    I regret not asking him if his son has ever asked him to get anyone banned from Xbox Live…