They wanted someone with experience, who can hit the ground running, but didn’t want to pay for it, either with cash or time.

• cheap
• quick
• experience

You can only pick two.

How does this work? I know that PR is an US territory but I imagine there are some quarantine procedures for animals.

Or has all of that been worked out already and you’re just the courier?

Edit: nevermind. My mind skipped past the explanation and went straight for the cute picture.

Volunteers are on both sides of the journey.

• the most felony convictions
• the most state and federal criminal investigations that are still open
• the most amount of diapers worn during a presidential term
• the first president in what 20 years to puss out and have his inauguration indoors
• the first president to have been a confirmed rapist

I’m going to speculate:

• the smallest penis
• the most obese
• the shortest

I think what makes enshittification is “give users less and charge more”. It’s about returning shareholder value instead of customer value.

Netflix is a great example. They have pulled back on content, made password sharing more challenging, and increased cost. They still report increases in paying users.

They’ve done the math. They know they can take lost in users because they know they’ll make up for it. That’s the sad part in all of this.

This is a great compromise honestly. More OSS devs need to be paid for their work and if an anime character helps do that, I’m all for it.

The line demands you cut costs but also increase service.

The line demands it go up. It doesn’t care how you get there. In many cases, decreasing service while also cutting costs is the way to do it so long as line goes up.

See: enshittification

ELI5: Torrents require a way to send data and that’s done through a port. Either you need to have a port available or someone else does. While you can upload without port forwarding, you’re more likely to get higher connections if you have it turned on.

For the lazy: https://hiddenpalace.org/Animaniacs:_Hollywood_Hypnotics_(Prototype)

“many titles are designed from the ground-up to be rent seeking”

There is absolutely a connection between how shitty corporations are treating their customers with how likely those customers are likely to stop paying and start sailing.

Netflix in its prime was the GOAT, showing a very significant decrease in piracy. We’re only seeing a rise now because of the proliferation of streaming companies. No one wants to pay for 4+ streaming services.

ISPs already do that here in the states. The court case is to decide whether they should shut off access.

Unless you really need that version, you’ll want to install 26 when it comes out next April (upgrade should be very seamless).

Don’t get too hung up on it. It was an fyi not a “stop what you’re doing you newb!”

We need people to test the latest, bleeding edge. So you’re helping with that! But since you’re new to Linux I wanted to make sure you knew what you were getting yourself into.

It’s not that odd numbers are less stable. It’s more that they aren’t supported for long term. Many of the lessons learned are pushed to the next version though so either way you’re doing good.

I’m not a PC gamer so for me stamina and longevity matter more to me than bleeding edge technology.

Just in case you didn’t know, odd numbered Ubuntu versions (in your case 25) are considered short term releases and won’t be maintained beyond a year or two.

Unless you really need that version, you’ll want to install 26 when it comes out next April (upgrade should be very seamless).

Even numbered versions are supported long term, often for several years.

The question I often ask clients who think this way is "How much would it cost if it did fail? Let’s say this happened today. What would be the cost to replace it NOW and not only that but make sure people who are working can still do so with the interruption?

Now how much would it cost to schedule the interruption and manage the fall out in a way that is controllable?

For some, the catastrophic failure points to “hey I fixed the thing!” And the incentives for that kind of person are different from the person whose job is to mitigate risk.

It sounds like your boss is the former. In which case it’s going to be fun when it fails.

Which, honestly, is the better way to go. Treat your compute resources like cattle, not pets.

I don’t think Lemmy would count as social media but that said, you can easily create a dummy account that just, for example, posts pictures of moths or beans or bread or whatever.

Many red states have banned wearing masks at protests.

It’s almost like old school Google front page.