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A good start would be to distrust anything made by a VC funded start-up or a once-great tech co. If you do want to use something they made, create a hard fork and pretend they already ditched the project as they inevitably will.
sure but this approach is limited, ChatGPT would have failed this test.
Knowing which projects/languages/frameworks to invest time into and which to skip (even if they produce useful subprojects) is a superpower these days.
Rule #1: Exclude those with corporate ownership or dependence.
My prediction is a handful of laid off employees will fork the repo and resurrect within a month with new branding.
Was it the distro that was booting in couple of seconds or ms from what I recall?
It boots in less than 30s on my machine
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It’s also not legal in much of the world to do that, thankfully. There’s weeks/months to negotiate collectively with the company, possibly organise a strike with those not at risk of redundancy or even just to say goodbye to coworkers.
This works if you have a trade union. I'd hazard to say that at least 99% of software engineers in the US work on "at-will" employment agreements, and do not belong to any unions. A separation agreement usually stipulates paying 2-3 months worth of salary, and extending the benefits similarly. I don't see how it is worse than spending a couple of extra weeks in the office, and receiving the same. (Also note that empl…
Collective bargaining could achieve far more than 2-3 months of pay. I've personally seen cases of over double that much pay, reduced numbers of redundancies, sacking a few directors instead of a few workers and in one case even preventing the redundancies entirely by forcing management to reduce other costs.
Of course, you are likely to fare much better if the workplace is already unionised, so join/build a union now!
I was running this for a long time, only ever had a single crash from a live kernel update in 4 years that I had it on 3 AMD epyc servers.
This is both a neat anecdote, and also funny with the Epyc punchline at the end ;)