Maybe in some cases. This particular company at the time had revenue of $5M, with a much lower net, so $2M want even feasible.

The number of clients I’ve worked with who are “stuck” with Oracle passes the 50% mark and I’m just one person.

One company said that Oracle offered them a de-obfuscation tool to migrate elsewhere for a mere $2M. Absurd.

Fuck Oracle.

It’s not even viable for me. I simply cannot use Linux daily because all my jobs require software that doesn’t have a Linux version, or it does but it’s lacking necessary features, or there’s an alternative but I have to burn extra hours making it work with their systems/setup - hours I don’t have.

Or I have to use internally configured Remote Desktop profiles over a VPN (not to be confused with RDP), and you can’t do that specific use case on Linux because it requires using the company’s internal Windows Store with specific Remote Desktop installation.

Or I have to use a specific Outlook instance, locally installed, because somehow they’ve blocked web access (I still haven’t figured out exactly how they set this up).

After a 12 hour day, sure, I can switch back to my dual boot Linux instance and spend 1-2 hours for personal use. But the ratio is still Windows-leaning no matter how you slice it.

I agree. I hate using a mouse and generally avoid it, and still the productivity gains I get from using something like VS Code versus Vim with plugins to the max are impossible to ignore.

When I’m juggling like 3 development contracts at once, it’s dumb of me to not use every little gain in productivity possible. I don’t have time to spend a day recreating a plugin to my liking in Vim when something already exists that gets me 99% of the way there. I don’t care about the extra RAM use because I have plenty of that.

I think some people just like to die on this hill out of principle, and that’s whatever, more power to them.

On it.

Yeah, this might actually make me sign back up just to script kiddie the shit out of things.

I actually like my Snapdragon X Elite laptop :(

Nice battery life, nicely portable for working at bars, I’ve had zero issues but I’m also not exactly the average consumer.

I love this. I love this so much.

Must not be looking very hard because they’ve been all over my general lemmy feed every few days and span multiple states, cities, and even countries.

On the protest side, Americans are turning out in droves across the nation regularly. At capitol buildings and Tesla centers and more. Our media just doesn’t over it because they’re trying to squash the efforts.

Despite that, I’m still making plans to leave the country.

They start being hunted down.

Going to be honest, didn’t realize my Brother laser printer got firmware updates, lol.

In 7 years I’ve replaced the toner cartridge once, given that the stater cartridge isn’t very full I imagine it’ll be awhile before I have to replace it again, at least.

Oh haha so this won’t work for…well, work.

Hmm, I’ll check these out, thanks!

We’re all keyboard warriors with opinions.

I’ll get downvoted to hell for this, but I honestly feel like right now it is a nothingburger.

Will I continue to keep an eye on the things they do? Yes. Does their CEOs work history bother me? Yes. Will I keep using it and just keep tabs on settings and extensions? Yes.

Thoughts on why?

Thank you for making me laugh.

I’m with you. Fuck this shit.

You seem far more hopeful than me, and far more intelligent, so I am going to try and hold on to a sliver of hope.

Cuts and such heal WAYYYYY more slowly.

I also seem to bruise easier.