And installing Linux and axe-murdering anyone with a car.

Autocorrect’s version of “having fun”

It’s an advertising display. They’re just having fun with it.

It costs 4 grand and has a resolution of like 3480x600, making its pixel density pretty much useless for a monitor.

I’m on the Municipal side. City Council ain’t gonna raise taxes to hire more people.

I’ll get burned out and leave soon enough. The longest-serving person in the development department has been here just over a year, and we pay nearly double what other cities in the area do.

I work on the City side of the development world. We’re always getting screamed at for taking 3 weeks to review a plan set by the same developers who want to meet with me every minute of every fucking day.

I’ve got 40 projects in my review queue and all of them are demanding a weekly meeting. When am I supposed to do the fucking reviews?

Oh, I’m not a programmer. I’m just bitching about how many of us have to go to an office for no reason.

I work almost 100% on a computer for a municipality using software that’s already 100% web-based.

But I have to drive 90+ minutes each way every day because a citizen might want to have an in-person meeting once every few weeks instead of an email or Teams meeting.

I still use bat h files and the system scheduler to automate a shocking amount of my job.

Open Source software isn’t charity. It’s a group effort that anyone can use.

I use GQIS and OSM professionally. My company also contributes to both projects. You WANT companies to adopt free software because they’ll put resources into improving it, which improves it for everyone.

Are they doing it to make money? Yep.

But it’s good for the product and every user of the product. It allows hobbysts and individual users to benefit from corporate resources without ever giving the corporations money or data.

He’s saying that they would be a good value if it weren’t for the price.

Which applies to most things. If a HP printer used $2 ink refills it would also be a good value.

But until a government steps in there’s potential civil liability for violating the terms. And even winning a lawsuit against Nvidia could be very expensive and take years. And even if they lost it would be worth it to Nvidia to go through the long, expensive process because they’d making sales that entire time.

PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X for at least a year I’d wager.

As someone who works on the city side of development review, I can firmly say I’ll trust a puppy alone with my dinner than a Civil Engineer.

I have several laptops that use USB-C to HDMI cables to connect. They work fine and the port on the PC is much smaller.

What is does do way too often is make itself my default PDF viewer. I’ve got Adobe Acrobat Pro and Bluebeam. I have zero reason to ever want to see a PDF in Edge.

What we need is a paradigm shift in how we empower synergy between product lines through utilization of emerging technologies and strategic acquisitions to improve our KPIs across the platform.

You didn’t have to explain you aren’t really a programmer.

Saying you write comments implies it.

And now I’m having publication flashbacks.

They made me go back and demonstrate that stream discharge increases during a flood, and I’m the end we spent so much time and effort working on it, the whole thing changed into a comparative analysis between rainfall and peak discharge.

They critiqued us so hard we changed topics.

My recent gem was essentially a reply of “I couldn’t find anything on Google about it” and a “resolved” flag.

You see the problem on my machine, understand it’s significantly affecting the organization, and know who the software vendor is.

Fucking call them.