I also mostly deal with customer facing tasks, my calendar is 80% filled with meetings. If I need to prepare something important, it needs to have a calendar blocker otherwise I won’t physically have time for it. If I can do it immediately (send some email, provide some existing report or documentation, I do it immediately and arrive 3 min late for the next meeting).

If something slips through the cracks I apologize and say “I was busy with x, Y and z, haven’t found time for it yet”. Helps to have “fuck you” seniority I guess, I wouldn’t have dared doing that 10 years ago.

A few years ago speaking to a VP he told me every week he empties his inbox. Not in a GTD way, just mark all as read. Rationale: “if something is important they will call me”. Email and slack are best-effort channels for me since then.

But OP said they didn’t want to work at either and would take any other job regardless. Didn’t mention about negotiating, or anything. It very much didn’t happen.

A SWE that can get offers from both Amazon and especially Meta has no stress to get a job at any other company. If you want to get a job at aunt Mary ice cream and oil change shop, you will get it.

If you don’t want to work for Amazon or meta (who have famously hard interview processes, and very long too)… why do you apply?? You can much easier get a job at any local or international b-tier company.

Screw “say in how the company is run”, I’ll settle for the money. Pay me and I will work. Pay me more and I will keep working. My current employers understood the assignment, I still have a long career progression without going into management.

Of all the things that didn’t happen, this one happened the least.

As of late, calendar for meetings, memory for todos. If I can’t remember it, it wasn’t that important. If it was that important, someone will call asking about it. I’ve delivered too many “urgent reports” that sat unread for weeks, if at all.

On the other hand, the red flag is a big plus.

Hard to claim manipulation when the leadership team is taking a machine gun to their feet.

Whoever posts on reddit can copy paste to other platforms, if they are to lazy to use a software that consolidates it for them.

That doesn’t have anything to do with the discussion. Either you want to ban paid content or you don’t.

So it makes sense to ban discussing games that are not open source, discussing movies not in the public domain and sports that charge for tickets?

So we shouldn’t have communities around videogames (or board games), professional sports, traveling, food, clothes, most hobbies, or anything else, because it costs money? Even in a bookbclub, the library won’t have 15 copies of the same book, some people will have to buy it, unless your book club comprises 2 people.

You get what you pay for is exactly right.

You can apply the same for movies, games, theater plays, theme parks, travel… so you just don’t pay for anything just because you want to talk to someone about it?

For sure, but even the BBC has been under heavy criticism lately for some bias.

It doesn’t. Doesn’t mean anyone has to allow anything besides fox news either.

Just pointing out that journalism costs money and certain stories are very expensive to research and cover. As many things in life, you get what you pay for.

To be fair, state controlled (or state financed) media has its own set of problems, depending on the country and historic period, and things can change fast with certain governments.

Because journalism costs money, and journalists have bills to pay. If you don’t want to pay money for news, some billionaire will happily pay it for you: https://youtu.be/_fHfgU8oMSo

Trump was polling at 45% in the worst moments… AfD is polling at 15-20%

And there is no world in which the AfD takes majority. Not even most voted, let alone majority.

To be someone who hates snarkiness you should try being much less wrong.

VW is a publicly traded company, half the country owns it.

Yes, but quietly.

Yes, but quietly.

USB-C is the latest standard. Try buying a phone, mouse or headphones swith mini USB these days.

Wat.

I’d argue systemd is the opposite. It was so controversial that it made a bunch of init systems appear when before you had just good old sysV.

Cries in CEC.

It just needs a good text editor, is all.

You look at the screen while watching video, making ads profitable (they obstruct the view making you click something to close it, hijacking the click and generating visits).

If you do it for music people walk away and nobody clicks on the ads.

Probably using ports, but it depends on the version.

Does it come with an android app?

Could you share your link here, or by pm?

Eventually

That’s a terrible opinion and you are dumb for thinking it!!1!

Fair, fair

None of those things are liked because of their color, tho ;)

While “good for you” and “congrats”, it’s not something anyone can buy for under 100 bucks.

Is Nintendo any better?!

/s

I very much doubt Google home is running on “investor” money

Cries in European. Any decent Thinkpad is 2.5k+ and rarely are any discounts. They just don’t care about private consumers over here. Either university students or big companies can get reasonable prices.

It’s not an enshittification process where it’s becoming more expensive or features are going behind a subscription. It just understands less and less and can do fewer things apparently. Plus it’s quite inconsistent.