Sounds like the network people at my company. They are asking us to spend more time in the office, but they don’t provide enough desks, they don’t provide working wired LAN and they only provide semi-working Wifi. All with proxies that don’t work and filters that don’t let me access the webapp I am supposed to maintain, which is blocked for “being a commercial website”. Thanks, I know, I have to program that crap.

IMHO the mask simply came off in 2008 when they bailed out the rich and not the poor. They’re pissing on our legs and telling us it’s raining. As more and more people are forced into poverty while the stock market soars, more of us are rightfully asking these questions. So what are we gonna do about it? Do you trust your savings to someone who insists that the economy is rich people’s yachts?

It’s all just a matter of goals. Is economics there to help the poor, the middle class or the rich? Depending on your answer, it’s either an absolute failure or an unmitigated success.

And considering the golden rule (“The one who has the gold makes the rules”), it’s quite clear what’s happening there. All of the economics technobabble is only there to distract and justify, not to actually make sense.

This. In Austria most libraries have a self-scan machine where you have to return your books and the librarians will sort the books back in. Part of the reason for that is that they need to check the condition the books were returned in.

Check out this post, btw: https://lemmy.world/post/39372777

There you can see the USB to LAN adapters dangling off the bottom row of phones.

It is not. This is just yet another piece of garbage science made to get into headlines, nothing more or less.

Do they still offer a Win10 theme? When I first tried it, they still had a Win7 theme.

This is it.

Same as a lot of people would be very happy with a perfect meat-free replica of a wagyu steak, a lot of people would be happy with an open-source, privacy-respecting Windows that runs on old hardware.

Not everyone is the same. You might have left Windows because you want to theme and style your desktop. That’s totally valid.

But there are other people who left for other reasons (hardware support, spying, cost, AI being forced onto them, Win11 design being too different, …). And for those people using a system that looks, feels and works similar to what they are used to can be very beneficial.

Not everyone is the same and what works for one person might not work for another and vice versa.

It really depends a lot on what programs you are running, what exact version of Wine/Proton/… you are running and how it’s configured.

Wine is finnicky, but it can totally also just be bad luck, depending on what you try to run. Wine on x86 works quite well for me. x64 has issues more frequently, and combining it with Box86 to run it on ARM is more miss than hit.

Also, Wine is advancing pretty fast, so stuff that didn’t work a while ago might work now.

If you feel comfortable in Mint, there’s not a lot of reason to switch to Zorin. Under the hood they are quite similar. Similar tools, both based on Ubuntu, all quite similar.

The main benefit of Zorin is that it looks and feels a lot like Windows, so it’s easier for someone switching from Windows. If you aren’t switching from Windows, no need to use Zorin.

Zorin OS is a Linux distro. Linux distros are different Linux-based operating systems. Kinda comparable to how Samsung-Android looks and feels different than Pixel-Android or Amazon-Android (aka FireOS). All of these are distributions of the same operating system.

The same exists with Desktop Linux, but the distros differ more than the Android distros differ.

With that out of the way: Zorin OS is a Linux Distro that is focussed on people migrating from Windows. The user interface looks a lot like Windows, it’s setup with Wine (a tool that lets you run most Windows programs on Linux) out-of-the-box.

It’s a quite decent starting point for someone migrating from Windows to Linux and it’s a commonly recommended “beginners’ distro”.

The lan thing makes sense, I could see that. Still an impressive amount of patch cables, if true. Plus those adapters are cheap but not dirt cheap, right?

You don’t actually need to adapt out of it. There are Ethernet-over-USB switches that output to USB directly. So all you need are USB cables, and you need them anyway to provide power. So all you are doing (compared to just power over USB) is to use an Ethernet-over-USB switch instead of an USB PSU.

Here’s the first one I found on google: https://www.digi.com/products/networking/infrastructure-management/usb-connectivity/usb-over-ip/anywhereusb

The one they advertise on that website has 24 USB outputs, but I’m sure you can find bigger ones. And from them you only need a single patch cable to the next proper switch.

There’s about 100 phones on the panel and another 100 on the other side, so that would be maybe 8 or 9 of these switches, all wired together into a 10 port switch and that one then is fed by a single input line.

The upside for a setup like this is that the bandwidth requirements per device are minuscule. It’s a lot of devices, but they aren’t doing anything for most of the time. That’s quite the opposite of what we usually plan for when designing a regular network where if we have hundreds of devices we expect them to actually do something as well.

The phones are all wired, so I could imagine they receive LAN via USB-C. That would make the whole setup not that difficult.

On the other side, these phones don’t need to be all active at the same time. I could imagine that they just switch on the Wifi while interacting with one of the phones.

Now let’s make KPIs for them that are about as useful as the ones they make for us. Let’s make “Time spent navigating directories” a positive value that should be optimized for.

Aka: radio comms, when talking about robots.

Maybe we should do an uno-reverse and use bossware to keep tabs on our bosses.

Mainly a question of money.

Totally makes sense too. If the fake cigarettes are ok, chances are that someone doesn’t get they are fake and uses a real one.

Besides, using a fake cigarette has no benefit for anyone, so there’s no harm in banning these too if it makes policing the use of real ones easier.

Didn’t specify. Good luck!

This, so much this.

When I think about what limited my performance in the last year it was mostly:

• Having to get 5 signatures before I am allowed the budget to install some FOSS software on my work PC that the corporation has already approved for use on work PCs
• Spending 8 months working on a huge feature that was scrapped after 8 months of development
• Being told that no, we cannot work on another large feature request (of which there are many in the pipeline) because our team said we can only fit that scrapped feature into this year and we are not allowed to replan based on the fact that the feature we were supposed to work on got scrapped by business

And then they tell us to return to office and use AI for increasing efficiency.

It’s all an elaborate play performed by upper management to feign being in control and being busy with something. Nobody is actually interested in producing a product, they all just want to further their own position.