I’m in your boat, dude. In my company, every month, there’s at least one coworker resigning. A lot of them were with us since the beginning. Now most of my friends there are gone.

A lot of them are replaced by new faces, whom I barely even have the energy to get to know. For some, we couldn’t even find a proper replacement, the management decided to canibalize someone from other teams, one of which is mine, which cause my team to become understaffed.

This month, one I’m quite close with is resigning. I’m in the same batch of recruitment as her.

At the moment, I’m looking for new job. I know currently my job is safe simply because they’re desperate for help, but still… It’s fucking depressing, man.

Why not? It raises awareness and gets more people to come next time.

I’ve read The Three Musketeers, and while he’s indeed portrayed as a hero, there’s not a part that portray him as an underdog. Also, he’s an elite soldier, so he works for the government!

I was today years old when I found out d’Artagnan is a real person.

If they’re pragmatic, they’d wait to confirm the requirement. Currently, they’re more on the proactively bootlicking side than pragmatic.

Location is needed to set timezone. As for real name and email, they’re both tied to history.

I get that systemd also manages user data. I still fail to see how it needs that DoB.

It doesn’t. It just needs some name to display on the welcome screen and doesn’t know what else to call it.

Enlighten us then. Why would an operating system management tool need to know the age of its user?

“Good job, me!”

Yeah… I think you should get off your drug…

Thanks to Nvidia, we have more tech waste than we’re supposed to.

They’re a bunch of idealists that are detached from reality. Kinda reminds me of myself back when I was still in college.

It usually has something to do with programming. Again, most cases, the versions in the packages included in your garden variety stable distros should cover most use cases.

However, once in a while one would encounter the need of using the cutting edge features on certain compiler or interpreter. Rust comes to mind. I know Python introduced some features that could drastically alter workflow (e.g. switch statement). NodeJS is another one known to be lagging behind from time to time.

In other cases, hardware support might be taken to consideration, especially for newer machines. However, with Mint including the optional newer kernel, it shouldn’t be a problem.

Because for most use cases, Mint works flawlessly. It changes little from time to time. It has all the drivers to get started with a wide range of common hardware. It has all the codecs to play common media formats.

Of course if the package update is too slow, it’s not for you, but then unlike you, most people don’t need the latest and greatest. They just need something that works from the get-go with predictable behavior.