Made D&D character during 80s. Took Latin word Veritas and made sound like name. Kept using.
Veraxus
joined 1 year ago
Absolutely nothing. No amount of money or threats or “perks”. I work in software and my entire career has been built on flexible, mostly-remote work; particularly creating & leading remote, geographically distributed teams. I get the best talent no matter where they are, and use tools like Slack to work seamlessly in real-time and asynchronously across many disparate time zones. This wasn’t some new thing for me when COVID hit, this is how I’ve operated for more than 20 years.
I don’t mind going places for specific purposes: visiting clients, classified/sensitive discussions that can’t be transmitted, on-site work (like installations, research, etc), or team-building events like lunches, dinners, etc… but under no circumstances will I waste my time commuting to some specific ”office” daily just because. I am an efficiency expert and I will not tolerate having my time or my teams time wasted by incompetent, out-of-touch multi-millionaires that don’t realize the 80s ended 30 years ago.
I had planned a WDW vacation before COVID scuttled those plans. Now that it's safe to travel again, I have no plans to visit Florida for any reason whatsoever for the foreseeable future. Still taking the family on that vacation; we're just doing it in California instead.
Guess I'm not buying that, either.
What is going on right now with more and more games including that heinous malware?
I won't buy anything that has Denuvo in it... but I'm one person. This will continue as long as the general public doesn't get outraged about their games including performance-killing, ownership-thwarting malware and EVERYONE stops buying that trash.
I used to. But now that I am in my 40s, I do not like it. No sir, not one bit.
Huh. I guess even Fascists can get a thing right once in a while.
Orion is GREAT. It’s even better at privacy and ad-blocking than Firefox with uBlock Origin.
It’s a shame it’s Mac only at the moment.
Not listed in there is Kagi, the only non-Google search engine I’ve ever used that provides genuinely great results. The catch is: it’s not free… but that’s because you are the customer, not the product.
A monthly sub is a hard pill to swallow, but the more I tweak the options to my own preferences, the better it gets. I legitimately prefer it to Google now.
This is nice, because screw Google.
But I'm definitely sticking with Kagi. It's soooo good.
I’m finally starting House of Leaves with a book club from work. I have no idea what to expect other than weirdness, and I am very excited!
Historically I’ve done exactly that. Debian for servers, Ubuntu for workstations (because I like GNOME). But my hate for Snap runs so deep that I’ve started using Debian w/ GNOME more and more often over the last year or so.