No, because until the dot-com era when “tech bros” first became a thing, a lot of the computing pioneers were leftist/hippie counterculture types. Think MIT AI Lab (RMS), The Homebrew Computer Club (Woz, Captain Crunch), Germany’s Chaos Computer Club, etc.
Further reading:
https://bigthink.com/the-present/1960s-counterculture-created-silicon-valley/
@madthumbs@lemmy.world needs to learn to stop misusing semicolons when a comma would do fine.
I once got an Apple laptop around the time they switched away from Intel chips, I lasted about four months with it before running back to KDE.
That’s well into the time that they were getting worse. They were good in the PowerPC G3/4/5 era, when they were doing things like making laptops that could have the RAM upgraded without even needing a tool. They were also trying to be taken more seriously for business, so they had stuff like the XServe and cared about scripting (putting effort into Applescript/Automator APIs for their apps) and such.
Mac OS is just NeXTStep (i.e. UNIX) with a candy coating. It’s annoyingly proprietary (especially these days, compared to the early OS X era) but it’s fine for a work machine.
Picking Gentoo for that pic is a dirty trick. Gentoo users wanted it to be that way, on purpose.
(Source: I was one of them back in the early 2000s.)
But there are just as many hiccups to encounter.
We’re not talking about "hiccups; " we’re talking about deliberate attacks against you. Linux has bugs, but with Windows, the OS is designed to serve Microsoft’s interests at your expense. It’s a categorically different thing.
Your statement is a perfect example of the sort of bargaining (in the toxic relationship sense) I’m talking about. It’s the tech equivalent of saying “I fell down the stairs” when the real cause of your black eye was your abuser punching you in the face.
And the kind of superior, unhelpful attitude that a noticable part of the Linux communities show (whether that is just a vocal minority or actual major part is irrelevant to someone looking for help), especially towards new users who often have no idea about various Linux-isms
Note that absolutely nothing I’ve written here is about technical competency or “Linux-isms,” but instead about psychology and business ethics.
Windows is for people with no self-respect. Seeing them defend it is just sad in the same way as seeing a battered spouse defend their abuser.
there’s no way someone’s expending that much time and effort and not getting paid for it
…you say on Lemmy, of all places. 😜
If you already are their tech support, you probably could’ve forcibly switched then a long time ago.
At least, that’s how I treat my computer-illiterate boomer parents. For them, it’s “use what I tell you to use or you’re on your own.” To be fair, on their last few computers that was MacOS, but their iMac from 2013(?) got so obsolete it wasn’t good enough anymore, so as of a few months ago they’re on a mini PC running Linux whether they like it or not.
No, not quite correct. The character pasted off the Swedish page was Ø LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH STROKE (U+00D8).
It looks almost identical to the to the mathematical symbol for an empty set (at least in the font I’m using right now), but it doesn’t mean anything even slightly similar and would be rendered entirely differently by, for example, a screen reader reading the text aloud.
∅ EMPTY SET (U+2205)
The key is to find the one in the “mathematical operators” section, not some accented O character.
Nah, SteamOS is a normal Linux. It counts.
Do you understand what being a professional (in the formal sense) actually is? It means your first responsibility is to the public, not your employer, and you are legally responsible for the work that you do. That goes for doctors, lawyers, and yes, engineers.
If you as a civil engineer design an unsafe structure and it kills people, you can go to prison. If your employer demands you approve an unsafe design, the fact that you have to stamp the plans that get filed with the government gives you the power to resist. That’s what being licensed means.
If people making software don’t have that level of accountability – again, to the public, not to their megalomaniacal tech bro boss – then they ain’t engineers.
It only varies by jurisdiction in the sense that some jurisdictions care about protecting the public and some apparently don’t.
The other key requirements I hope your licensing has are continuing education requirements and, most importantly, the notion of being a professional and having accountability to the public, not just your employer. Just taking one college class where you learn about Therac-25 isn’t enough; a professional software engineer also needs to have the power to refuse unethical demands by their employer (e.g. to build dark patterns or otherwise enshittify the software) and have that judgement be backed up by the state.
Assuming the provincial or national government requires you to have such a license or be working under supervision of someone who does in order to be employed in the practice of making software, then yes.
“Software engineer” will be a thing when it’s licensed by the state. Until then, we’re all just glorified cowboy-coders with no accountability.
(Speaking as computer programmer with an EIT in a different field.)
As the owner of multiple cars from the '90s and 2000s, I 100% need a Linux head unit.
Bleh, I don’t want to keep running old software, either. If they’re making the newer versions worse then it’s time to ditch them for someone who’s not doing that.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been procrastinating about upgrading for a few weeks, but that isn’t the same as staying on the same version for years.
Ah, thanks for the warning. My install has been badgering me to upgrade because my (non-LTS) version just stopped getting security updates. I ought to get off my ass and switch distros.
In my experience, [proprietary] projects are doing well if their
Makefileisn’t so broken that they have to run it twice just to make sure everything actually compiles. And you want them to actually optimize it…?!