That was a Unix Epoch joke

The salient fact is that this change was made in order to “comply in advance” with totalitarian fuckery. It SIGNALS POLITICAL SUPPORT for it, and that’s not okay!

On an individual level, absolutely do not comply in advance with fucked up laws.

But as a technical professional working in regulated industries, you have to try to predict future legislation to remain compliant and permit your place of work to continue operating. Anything computer or network related takes time to update, and if you do it wrong you can bring your entire organization down. It’s far better to be proactive and ensure that your organization is compliant with future legislation than it is to sit on your hands because you don’t like this new change and then have to scramble to implement it at the 11th hour before your organization becomes noncompliant and may be forced to pause operating business. That’s literally your job if you are, say, a SystemD developer working for RedHat/IBM

This ire needs to be directed towards your local politicians (whether or not such age verification laws are in the process of being passed!), not towards career developers who happen to work on projects you care about

It’s a good reminder that a lot of Linux Enthusiasts are very quick to bandwagon.

SystemD already has (optional!) fields to store user data, proactively adding a birthdate field as multiple jurisdictions are working to pass age verification/restriction laws and the clear best (or more accurately, least worst) technical path to cleanly doing so is to store the user’s age in the OS to pass to the application, it’s a very sane move.

Developers and maintainers don’t exist in a vacuum. Corporate Linux maintainers need to ensure that their product is legally compliant. SystemD, is developed and maintained by RedHat, a subsidiary of IBM. They would be silly not to be proactive in the face of a clear legislative trend to ensure their product remains legally compliant.

It’s the same thing any professional has to do when they work in a regulated industry (which IBM operates in many regulated industries, from finance to banking to military contracting, they have a ton of industry regulations to try to meet), keep an ear to the ground for any likely upcoming new legal requirements and proactively meet those potential new requirements so instead of scrambling at the 11th hour you can focus on other things.

Folks blowing up on this should be focusing their efforts on their legislators, not on hardworking devs who are just trying to make a living

So many of those fax lines are just email servers in a trench coat in the US though

Of all of the musicians I’d assume are super pleasant to interact with in public Fred Durst is not one of them, but honestly I’m happy to hear that

Every body is different, but generally for most people every 2-3 days tends to be the sweet spot for a full shower with shampoo, conditioner, etc.

Personally, I have greasy hair problems, and I ultimately found that showering less frequently made the biggest improvement of all of the changes I made. I’ll generally shower every 2-3 days, and if I do something that makes me sweaty I’ll hop in the shower and rinse off without using any product between those every other day showers

On the other hand, for OOP, they’re making some big changes and probably need the consistency of every day to help maintain the habit they’re building

…because young kids are insane and constantly make poor choices when left to their own devices.

I don’t think kids should walk to school independently until they’re at least about 9 or 10. Before that point their decision making skills are simply not developed enough and their understanding of risk is basically non-existent. Is it probably fine at a younger age? Yeah, but it’s not a risk worth taking, especially given how society at large generally considers all kids to require 24/7 parental monitoring even at ages where they should gain some independence

I live in a town about that size, and I’d estimate that over half of students get to/from school via their parents driving them. Which is insane because the way the buses are setup, your kids will just be picked up/dropped off from whatever the nearest school to your home is, so the parents spending multiple hours each day going to multiple schools to drop off then multiple schools to pick up could entirely avoid it

It’s seriously the only real rush hour in my town is when school starts/ends

About the only edgecase I’ve seen with busing in my town is if you have multiple kids in school and one is special needs, because the special needs bus exclusively goes door to door and they don’t let siblings ride with them unless the sibling is also special needs, so parents have to be in 2 places at once for both kids to take the bus

I guarantee every single one of those transactions got flagged and a report was written as per federal banking regulations. If they didn’t the bank could face heavy fines for failing to monitor for illegal financial transactions. Do most of those reports amount to nothing? Absolutely but the reports get filed and the paper trail exists

I happened sat near one of the guys who did that when I worked at a bank. Basically any transaction that was slightly outside of normal he’d look at, look at who the customer is and go “oh yeah it’s spring and the construction company is spending more on supplies just like every year, oh but what is Darla doing right now that looks odd? Jimmy’s deposit for his new motorcycle got flagged but that’s pretty obviously what it is…” You get the gist.

Also a high chance that every mobile check deposit photo gets reviewed by a human being too. I saw so many communications about scummy companies sending fake checks as marketing and people misunderstanding and trying to deposit them, or just blatant fraud that might pass an automated verification but is obvious upon human review

Banking is one of the few industries that still relies heavily on human review for basically everything because it’s so heavily regulated. But also it’s one of the few industries that hasn’t super consolidated down to a handful of companies so you can quite easily go to a small community bank that’s locally owned and operated. And that’s also partially thanks to regulations as well. I remember the bank I was working at really wanted to open a couple of new branches but they were severely limited due to it being in a different state and some other laws that weren’t fully explained to me

When it comes to PC OEMs I’ve observed that right now Dell has really good driver support. They’ve got increasingly good utilities for keeping drivers up to date and they’ve been doing a good job of loading drivers and their utilities into Microsoft’s relevant repositories where it makes sense, and that driver support tends to actually last multiple years. I can often pull down a new UEFI update for a 5 year old Dell PC, which is not something I can say of most hardware manufacturers.

So at the threat model of an enterprise org, I’d prefer Dell for that reason alone. Lenovo and HP have tried to implement some of that, HP seems to have given up after building the bare minimum and Lenovo has their typical wonky software that will become good after a few years if they keep investing developer time into it, but knowing Lenovo there’s about a 60% chance some new executive will come in and change direction, and the software will be made increasingly unusable then later discontinued due to lack of use

However for my personal computers, there’s a high chance it won’t even be running Windows so I just buy based on hardware & price alone

Why do they always send the poor?

Also since we’re on the fediverse, toss a donation at your friendly instance admins since they’re shouldering so much cost and trouble as volunteers

I can’t tell if there’s a pun that’s going over my tired head (I just walloped myself with an early spring bike ride while recovering from a cold) but IT like any career is pretty easy to break into. Go to school and get a degree (I found a 2 year networking degree was sufficient to put myself on a very nice career trajectory. I’ve already hit mid-high level in my career based off only existing less than a decade of work experience, my technical knowledge and my 2 year degree) then start applying to jobs as you get close to graduating. You’ll probably start in the help desk, then after a couple of years or so of that you can start applying to more administrative roles, such as maybe an admin role at a MSP or maybe you’ll get lucky and snag an internal jr admin role somewhere to get started out, then you can further specialize from there if you wish, but once you get a job that has “admin” in the title and doesn’t crush your soul you’re already at a good point to coast if you so wish

The control of the media really started gaining speed in the 1960s when a certain President Nixon had a media consultant named Roger Ailes and the two dreamed of creating a conservative news network that functioned as a Republican party clearing house. Roger Ailes later went on to be president of Fox News after of course working in the Reagan and H.W. Bush administrations

It’s worth also remembering for anyone not alive and/or not aware that during that period Nixon was also a wannabe dictator and authoritarian and he attempted to rig his re-election and got caught when his associates broke into the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate hotel.

I think the problem is you’re taking a comment where someone described someone they know actively financially ruining themselves to order doordash instead of buying and cooking food and injecting your own specific situation into it.

Are you also going into debt and skipping meals because you exclusively order ready made food and sometimes can’t afford your ready made food orders? That’s what the poster you replied to was describing. Now if that is the situation you’re in, then it’s clearly time to start looking at what you can do to get out of that hole, whether that’s buying food infrequently from a grocer and maybe even hiring a friend or family member to do the meal prep for you, leaning heavily into meal prep and freezing, etc. but that’s ultimately up to you to determine and find the best path out of.

But from your comments it doesn’t sound like this is your situation. It sounds like your challenges are more related to commute and cost of living than over-ordering prepared food delivery. Again, only you can ultimately determine the best solution to these challenges but I sincerely hope you can find a way out other than hoping for some societal scale shakeup to the current order of things

This is absolutely it. So many people simply were dealt a shitty hand and are struggling in this capitalist hellscape because of it. But the flip side is that there’s also many people who are struggling because they are choosing not to live within their means. Through my friend group and family, I can see examples of individuals and families that are struggling because of bad luck, struggling because they choose to spend more on stuff they don’t need than they can, and struggling because they choose not to pursue better jobs (or in a couple of cases, any job at all).

But as someone who is careful to live within my means, as my career has taken off, I’m now finding myself in a financial position I never thought I’d be in. But I’m also at the financial point where I could absolutely very easily spend everything I make on things that dont actually make me happy, like eating out or buying crap I don’t actually want, or subscriptions I don’t use. Spending within your means definitely can get crazy because one might simply not realize just how wealthy they truly are (or could be with better choices)

imagine feeding 4 on $500… 3 pets and 2 adults, we Average $230/week…

I don’t think I could spend that much on my weekly groceries if I tried. Most weeks my groceries are around $80ish but some items that come in large quantities and/or get purchased infrequently make that more like $120 some weeks. $500 is a pretty fair average estimate for our current budget and food preferences. Admittedly we do eat a fair amount of frozen foods and pre-prepared stuff like frozen pancakes, frozen veggies, frozen pizzas, bagels, trail mixes, pre-sliced sandwich meat and cheese, etc.

The biggest costs is usually the proteins and certain pre-prepared items like frozen pizzas, basically the most labor-intensive items because labor is the most expensive component of any price where I live.

I’m really thinking alot of you must be in north America near the grain belts or something…

Yes I’m in the Midwestern US. I was thrown off by your use of the $ sign. Funnily enough the majority of the food in the US gets shipped a pretty long distance. While I live in a small town surrounded by farming communities, other than dairy products and eggs almost all of what is grown near me isn’t for eating. It’s almost all feed corn and soybeans and a good chunk of that just gets turned into ethanol. My frozen veggies usually indicates on the packaging that it was grown in the global South, my potatoes get shipped from Idaho (over a thousand miles away) and the fresh fruits and veggies also are often also grown in the global South and shipped in outside of specific times of the year when they’re in season more locally. The obvious thing when looking at what costs more or less when it comes to food is the biggest cost is labor. Prepared foods that require multiple steps to prepare cost more, meats which realistically require quite a bit of human labor to both rear the cattle and later to butcher the meat into appropriate cuts is usually the largest cost per line item on my grocery purchases. Fruits and veggies are either imported from countries with lower labor costs or heavily mechanized or both, so they tend to be fairly cheap, and processed foods tend to be more expensive due to the amount of facilities that have to perform each step of the process adding in labor costs and profit margins

also 30 minutes maximum for pasta is average in our house. 10 minutes of prep/brown, 8 minutes to boil, 9-12 cook time. considering we have 1.5hrs to eat and a 2hr commute… it’s exhausting some times.

I’ve been there. Last year I worked a job that involved getting up at 6am to immediately get ready and go to work, then not getting home again until 6pm, at which point I’d need to quickly prepare some food, wolf it down and start getting the kids to bed at 7pm, then I’d have about 2 hours to tackle every other obligation before I needed to go to sleep and repeat the process. It sucks. My kids would ask if I was “ever coming home” on many days. I hope everyone who lives such a life can find balance and a better life.

But that’s not the point that was being made. The person your replied to was talking about someone they know spending all of their money on doordash and skipping meals because they couldn’t afford to doordash more food. That’s not doordashing to survive a capitalist hellscape, that’s spending shitloads of money to avoid picking up a basic life skill. If you can’t afford to have someone else cook and deliver your meals and pay each an extra profit margin plus tips you can’t be relying on having someone else cook and deliver your meals. Heck it might even be cheaper for such a theoretical person to hire someone local to meal prep for them if they truly don’t want to put in the effort, but even that is obviously going to cost more than going to the grocery store once a week and learning how to boil some water and do some basic cooking

Again, I’m not criticizing people for indulging in things that improve their enjoyment of life. I just spent $500 on my model railroad, so I’m no stranger to enjoying things that other people might think is a waste of money. Heck my criticism isn’t even of people lacking life skills. Shit happens and sometimes a person learns a life skill much later than they might otherwise ideally have learned it My criticism is of people who never learned basic life skills choosing to spend themselves deeper into a growing hole instead of trying something different. There’s too many people who do this because they “aren’t money people” and it boggles my mind

Doordash doesn’t operate where I live but the last time I ordered any from a food delivery app while traveling it was a premium of about $30 per plate over the cost of home cooking. I feed my family of 4 on a grocery budget of about $500/month and that’s without really trying to be frugal

It also doesn’t take a ton of mental effort to boil some water, toss some noodles in, strain it after 5 minutes then pour a jar of spaghetti sauce in, which for a household of one can easily make up 3 meals, and costs about $5. Toss a freezer bag of veggies (less than $1) into the microwave and you’ve got enough veggies to pair with multiple meals too. Too much veggies in one freezer bag? Cut it open, pour your preferred quantity into a microwave safe bowl with a lid and you’re golden

If one can afford to eat out I’m not going to criticize them for eating out or ordering delivery on a lazy day, but if they’re draining their bank account because they never learned to cook something basic that’s something they should probably take the time to learn

I’m a strong believer in requiring all office/majority computer using roles to be at least hybrid if for no other reasons than to take cars off the road, but the societal benefits of mass remote work are immense.

I’ve worked remotely more than not since 2020 (and that’s with 5 job changes since 2020 somehow) and if I got to pick, I’d work a hybrid role where I go to the nice office and bullshit with my coworkers about all the little things that weren’t worth writing an email or Teams message about a few days a month, then go home and crank out the real work the rest of the time. And with kids, they clearly appreciate me being at home more than at the office even if I do have to shoe them away fairly frequently.