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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • Picked up the audiobook, narrated by the author herself. I’m about 9 hours into the book, and nothing has really shocked me, more reaffirmed my thoughts on tech companies as a whole.

    Every time I see Zuck talk in public, I can easily picture myself in his shoes: a software engineer way out of his depth. The fact that the engineers rule Facebook is exactly how I would run a tech company, obviously there has to be business people but I’d want my friends and the people like me to be the ones I’d deal with most and the ones making decisions.

    I’m at the point where zuck is finding out from his senior execs the role Facebook played in Trump’s win. And then him getting a taste of real power, not just billionaire CEO power, as the world leaders start sucking up to him knowing how big a role FB will play in their own countries elections.

    I like the book so far, and the author really paints a picture of who she is as a person. So you easily understand how she’s feeling during every part of this. She went into the business wanting to save the world, and while Facebook had the ability to be that, the senior execs clearly had a different goal in mind, alot of them came from Google and probably left because they didn’t click with the “Don’t be Evil” thing. I think Google had to drop that too because all these executives are just naturally evil.


  • It’s pretty common for me at least, I went from manjaro which broke during an update, to endeavour which broke many times but by that point I clued in to btrfs and it’s snapshots. Now I have my home directory split into different hard drives and I just keep my fstab file backed up online in the event that a snapshot can’t save me. Which happened last week, rather than continue on with endeavour I tried CachyOS this time. One day I’ll install Arch the way it was meant to be, but until then…


  • No, I’ve been running Endeavour forever and know his pain quite well. It’s almost always core packages that break it. None of the stuff from the AUR has ever caused issues. That being said he should be using btrfs and taking regular snapshots. Sometimes I feel like installing grub just to make recovering snapshots easier.

    Twice this year I’ve had updates break the system, both were core packages. I just restore a snapshot then delay my next update for a couple days and it’s usually fixed.