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Off to a non-US instance. Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish.

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So yay landfills? So caring for the environment is only important when it's cheap?

Overall way fewer parts suffer from degradion from use in EVs than ICE cars.

That's only because an EV has less moving parts. And yes, there is built-in obsolescence in any modern car, ICE or otherwise.

Do you mean taking an existing ICE frame and making an EV version? It happens. The Mini Cooper EV is a Cooper S with the guts from the BMW i3 dropped in. They changed as little as they could get away with. They even left the hood scoop on.

Meaning it can be done. I don't think there are that many engineering challenges to overcome. If the main obstacle is money, perhaps stopping the subsidies to Big Oil would help?

Economies of scale, i guess... Renault seems to have tried it, perhaps for internet points only though.

I can't shake the feeling that the technology is there and attainable, but... money. Which means it only favors automakers.

Why isn't adapting ICEs into EVs a thing? Why more lithium-based ewaste with build-int obsolescence?

And has RSS, nice.

Haven't seen ads in ages... Firefox on linux with uBlock origin.

#surprisedNoOne

That's bullshit the damage will be recovered within a week.

And some people lost their jobs. then again, if they're against their employer's policy maybe they should've resigned in the first place.

Iirc they tried some regular stuff before resorting to this method. Also, it’s always funny how when people try to change things, they never seem to do it the right way.

Did they resign though?

If you're an employee protesting your own company you're surprised they'd fire you?

Shouldn't they have resigned first? Or did they really expect random employees with posters would make Google change their mind?

And then they continued by not implementing the certified format correctly in Office anyway.

Enter the hefty fines. Like 5% of last year's revenue.

I'd focus on enforcing standards and interoperability first, in a serious an highly punitive fashion for offenders.

If you can read/write your spreadsheet using any spreadsheet tool or OS you're half-way there and will've severely hampered the old embrace-extend-extinguish (it's still a thing).

I thought OpenSUSE is German, so why would you export it?

The only rationale is that it ships with cryptography that's made in 'murica and probably stored in US servers, hence the export warning.

Oh, by the way... you have all those rights, but from now on you can only have them if you pay 10$/mo, otherwise we'll take it upon ourselves to switching on all telemetry and cameras in your car and pass that data on to insurers and others.

Actually... it doesn't even qualify as analogy, more like premonition.

No, it's not. It's just less convenient.

I can't shake the feeling that administrative stuff only grows because people need to justify their jobs.

I did, actually. One was a "good" manager because both my team and the customer were fully committed to agile and he (along with the tech lead/senior dev) ensured requirements were well-defined and locked by the time they reached the team; the other was good 'cos she kept all the shit from upstream management - many layers or course - from hitting the team's fan (we noticed when she left).

These are the exceptions.

Let me rephrase: do management tasks require someone full-time and/or can they be diluted throughout the team? Does one need to be managed to work well?

Does any role require a manager though?

This happens every time a company focus shifts from building a good product to appeasing the shareholder gods. Capitalism kills.

It's not about trust in flying it's about trust in Boeing. Slight difference.