doc_rootbeer

It’s become pretty commonplace in office environments in the last few years. My company did it, and we develop medical communications literature. They just decided that, as more people were working remotely after the pandemic, it was just more efficient not to renew the lease on most of the office space, and not to bother having assigned desks if people were coming in just a few days a week at most.

Of course, my company never made it mandatory to come into the office (esp. because most people worked all over the country, nowhere near an office); I don’t know Meta’s situation, if they forced people to come into the office but didn’t provide a permanent workspace–which is entirely what I’d expect from them–then they deserve to lose all their employees.

It’s almost as though the whole thing was meant to be a grift with no real intent behind it

It’s Ohio, a purple state with a red map thanks to years of the legislature thumbing its nose at the state supreme court, so the state’s EPA is going to protect Ohio’s corporations rather than its citizens.

I’m using my Fiio DAC right now, I have to keep the volume down to a minimum level or I’ll blow out my ears. Using it was murder on the battery on my old iPhone 15 but it doesn’t seem to be an issue on my Pixel 8 Pro with GrapheneOS.

Yeah, it’s a compromise if you need to charge, but it’s not nearly as big a deal as you’d think.

I haven’t tried any of them but from what reviews I’ve seen, both Sailfish OS and postmarketOS are alllmost there but not quite, and Ubuntu Touch is still primarily for tinkerers and isn’t ready for prime time. Part of me wants to say “jfc it’s been in development since Unity was The New Thing” but then again, who’s even working on it? I really want any one of these to be finished and to succeed, but I think more and more that I’m just going to go back to using a dumbphone for the first time in more than 15 years, even as I post this on GrapheneOS.

I’m not subscribed but I do watch his videos whenever I stumble on them and they’re pretty good. He takes the piss out of Apple and Microsoft equally and regularly dunks on Google as well. I don’t think he really centers on Linux very often, if at all, but whatev. Good watch, I recommend [not that my opinion is worth anything]