John Riccitello should find it very hard to get a job as an executive after a blunder that massive, but alas he’s doing just fine.

it’ll take many, many years for them to even be on the radar for most developers now.

Probably longer than the company has, to be honest. The engine’s best bet is to get purchased by another company that partially open-sources it or something.

And the biggest clue to the truth of this is that the ACA is basically just RomneyCare with a few more individual protections bolted on. It was literally Mitt Romney’s plan to fix health care, and the Obama team used it because they knew that it could get support in the GOP.

Pretty sure it’s black on transparent. Not the most visible, especially if your client makes the background black.

I think it might be even more mundane than that—I think their bus factor is too low, and somebody important is on vacation. Which explains why they couldn’t tell that it wasn’t actually fixed after day 2 of this (they said it was all back to normal but then it went down only a few hours later) and why their more recent communications have been “70% of users should be able to connect again” (with no indication that anyone is able to connect again). Which just leaves “DK” to try and manage the PR—but they can’t just be like, “sorry y’all, Jeff will be back on Monday,” so they just have to keep stringing us along with PRatitudes and hoping it all starts working again on its own.

It’s absolutely wild. I think any competent devops engineer could’ve rebuilt the entire environment from scratch by this point, or at least given a halfway decent ETA.

And actually, the servers were up briefly (for some people) three days ago, but before that they were down for another two days. Realms has been down, all told, for over five days now, and there’s been no communication about remuneration or even the slightest hint of an apology.

I haven’t seen devops incompetence this legendary since the Sim City 5 launch, eleven years ago.

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Bro, obviously I have no idea what you’re talking about. So either give me a link or shut up in an acknowledgement that you’re trying to get me to admit something and you actually have no argument.

I’m not moving any goalposts at all. I’m expressing how inexperience and bad assumptions can make one’s searching unfruitful through no fault of their own. That’s all I’ve ever been saying.

Ah, you made an edit. Yeah, “kde login rotation” does, but “EndeavourOS login rotation” gives you no results mentioning SDDM. Giving people the benefit of the doubt costs you nothing over assuming that they’re lazy, and the added bonus is that you don’t sound like a jerk.

That’s totally the biggest problem with the internet. And definitely deploying self-important moderaptors is the way to fix it.

/s, of course. Get off your high horse.

Yes. I would assume that the problem is in X11 or Wayland before thinking it could be SDDM, frankly. But even then, googling “Linux login screen” doesn’t immediately reveal SDDM to be the point of concern.

Well, there was zero effort documented in the post.

You’re not their teacher. It’s not your job to decide how much effort they’ve put forth, or to grade whether or not that is sufficient.

Take a look at Ubuntu trying to teach newcomers how to ask a question.

And if they documented their research process, you’d say “tldr just ask the question.” Stop trying to be paternalistic and gatekeepy. Just answer or don’t.

I don’t know about other people, but it’s way easier to google something than to ask a question and then wait for the answer. I’m not OP, but if I’ve asked a question, it’s only because I’ve exhausted my ability to find the answer on its own.

How do you think the OP is supposed to know that “SDDM” is the issue to look up? You don’t get to enforce another person’s effort. If all you want to provide is "you’re looking for ‘SDDM,’ that would provide help and empower them without sounding like you’re biting the newbie for not knowing everything.

Yeah, I have been. That’s why I’m saying what I’m saying.

Do you think I’m someone else?

This sort of passive-aggressive “help” feels like a relic of the early 2010s we could do without.

How can I have contradicted myself when I haven’t made a single assertion? I’ve literally only been asking you to explain your statement.

Prove…anything, honestly. Prove that I called anyone bad (I didn’t, in any comment). Prove that there are mainstream leftists currently advocating for mass murder. Prove that you’re not just making up everything you’re saying based on “feels.” Grow up? I’m not the one pretending that my opinions are more important than the facts.

Prove it. But first, answer my question. Trying to divert the conversation won’t disguise the fact that you’re making false equivalences based upon nothing.