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They don't merge it Obviously I don't allow this for any project I run, everyone will commit their work whether they like it or not, or I won't even look at it This is for other projects in the company where juniors who aren't software devs write some python code or something and they have no actual oversight from a proper developer. I worked at a company that was very silo'd and the non-software projects they'd just let some junior run wild with it underneath a scientist or project manager that isn't IT savvy I tried pointing out that a big cleanup / refactor is exactly the kind of dangerous stressful operation that makes a git commit beforehand critically important, so you can go back if you break everything or make sure you didn't change the output. They never listen though, it's never "ready" Luckily they're not software projects so they normally just stay someone's internal tool forever and eventually get abandoned. I'm sure some of them though were actually being used to generate data to sell, and they weren't version controlled at all despite my protests... Oh well not my circus and all that...

Yes same, but it still saves a lot of time when people keep coming to you with the same old questions and my response is always "it's on the wiki, here's the page" It got to the point where they knew what my response would be before even asking, so they started coming to me with "I searched the wiki but I didn't find anything on X, do you know how to..." instead, and then I just reply with the link to the article they somehow didn't find because they did a cursory 5 second search and didn't actually read anything When other people write down what they do though it doesn't matter if it's not a well formatted article, it still helps. Just seeing the commands they used for something at least lets me reverse engineer what they did I don't care if other people don't read it, it's worth it for myself alone just to not have to look up the same old commands all the time but actually see what I did and what mistakes I made last time so I don't have to fix them again It's much better than "Oh the NFS export isn't working, I remember this happening before, I think it was something to do with SELinux? Crap what did I do last time". Baffles me that people can work like that

Red flag #2: People who try and give themselves "job security" by obfuscating what they do to try and make themselves "unfireable"

Haha it's like you set out to prove everything I said You don't have to "curate it into a document for others" You don't have to "prevent it from becoming out of date" You don't have to "deal with questions about it" (almost no one will even read it let alone ask you about it) Just write down what you're doing somewhere people can actually see it I don't know why people think it's like publishing an article on wikipedia or something. I see the same attitude from junior developers when I'm trying to get them to git commit their code. They're like "oh no I can't git commit yet, it's not ready. I need to clean it up first. It's not good enough. I'll do it soon I promise" (this drags on for literally months). My god just commit the work in progress it doesn't have to be flawless. I think they consider git commit like this grand act of publishing something for the entire world to see and scrutinise and it needs to be flawless and clean and finished Trying to "curate a document for others" is a fool's errand because you'll never write anything better than the wealth of tutorials out there on the internet anyway. Just write down the command you used to make the virtual bridged adapter so I can see what flags you used damn it

Uh this is very worrying lol Does your company not have a wiki or knowledge base or documentation of any kind? I hate it when people don't document what they're doing and everything is fragmented, and when you ask them "did you write this down anywhere" they say "sure! It's right here on my desktop useful_commands.txt" Like uhh, were you planning on sharing those at any point? The reply is always the same too. "Oh it's nothing fancy, just stuff I need to know. It's not neat and formatted for other people. I don't have time to clean it up!". Brother I'm not asking you to write an blog or flawless how-to guide. Just a "if you get this error message run this command to restart the web server" or something but no one ever does it No one ever documents anything it's the bane of my existence

I see this fallacy all over reddit, it makes arguing anything literally pointless here "One thing that can statistically lead to higher rates of A is B" "But I have A and it wasn't caused by B. My one anecdotal example totally disproves your scientific evidence!"

How much collective human energy has been wasted over the years by stereotyping large groups of people? Believe me there are just as many stupid lazy incompetent sysadmins out there as there are developers, I've had to work with them. Downvotes on the left. In fact there are people bad at their jobs everywhere That's literally how I was able to pivot into sysadmin work from software development in the first place. I was the only developer who actually cared about maintaining our environment and the IT department at my company was so incompetent and unwilling to touch anything Linux related because "we don't have time to decommission that old RHEL 5 environment and put RHEL 9 on that hardware right now" that they eventually just said "ok fine you do it then if it's so easy". So I did. I basically became the Linux sysadmin for the company because the IT department just wanted to cling to their Microsoft certs and "that's the way we've always done it", and were terrified at the prospect of a bash script or making a Linux filesystem. It's only after I started sysadmin work I realised that 99% of the time "that is not possible" actually means "I don't know how to do that and I don't want to have to learn" I even got friendly with the head IT guy and convinced him to let me trial run several Linux workstations on old hardware. Long story short they ran successfully for years several developers including myself used them, they were fully AD integrated, and IT wouldn't touch them at all because they were Linux. Every few months someone in IT would check their antivirus dashboard and see that there were several workstations in the manifest that weren't pinging antivirus, and they would pester me to install antivirus on those machines, and I would have to have the same conversation single every time that "these are Linux workstations they are running the latest version of Fedora, that antivirus is not even available for that operating system nor is it really required" and I would get the same pushback each time. I would remind them that they are automatically updated, that only myself and IT have admin (sudo) access on them and that devs can't install random shit on them, that if they aren't concerned about our various RHEL and Ubuntu servers not having the antivirus then they shouldn't be concerned about these either. It didn't matter. Every time I'd get the same old response and be told "but... they need antivirus... can you at look into alternatives or something" But I guess that goes against your narrative that all sysadmins are godlike beings and all developers are just dumb code monkeys

> Anyone who claims it is (who is older than a teenager), is completely brainwashed at this point I mean I'm quite sure it was like this in 1976 or whatever The thing those people seem to be missing is that 1976 was *50 fucking years ago*. This was a once in a generation event that was so incredible and unexpected they're still bleating on about it 50 years later Now though this shit is just happening every other year at this point, the frequency has increased dramatically

This is a very weird post The most annoying and weird coworkers I dread working with are the ones that are like openly and performatively "geeky" and wearing something like a Star Trek pin talking about Warhammer or something then expressing surprise that someone can work in IT without having their exact specific brand of niche hobbies or "what do you mean you've never seen IT crowd and can't recite it religiously? You call yourself a programmer / sysadmin?". They judge anyone they consider not "geeky" enough and assume they know less than them The best and most knowledgable IT colleagues are the ones that are just normal well adjusted human beings with normal hobbies that know their shit inside and out The smartest guy I ever worked with was into bouldering, lifting weights, and had never even seen Star Trek or played DnD Oh and before you say it, I am a Star Trek fan myself. But it's not my entire personality or a requirement for the job

Also a lot of people in this thread who seem weirdly gleefully happy at the prospect of people being made redundant, and thinking they're safe because they fell for and spread the AI CEO propaganda on twitter about how you "need" to adopt this or you're a luddite who'll be "left behind"

You sitting in the back thinking you're getting some kinda hot gossip when they're actually just talking about the TV show they just watched

You do realise that's like someone with a toddler bitching about how much work their kid is or someone with a high flying job earning 200k bitching about how annoying work is right? It doesn't mean they want to give it up, people just love to moan

Gosh darn old people and their *checks notes* Talking to you at work, coming to after work drinks, and being friendly How dare they

> need to vent/bitch about it without your boss taking it as an issue/attitude problem. Then you don't go to after work drinks Work drinks are for the people you work with. Everyone is invited. Not for gossiping venting and shit-talking people you work with in a clique Being an adult means you have to socialise with people you don't like sometimes, get over it Amazing how many people can't follow this simple rule and wind up getting into trouble with HR for excluding or bullying people. Keep that shit out of work

The difference is you'll be able to actually sell the BMW in 5 years time for more than scrap value These cheap Chinese EVs with 5-10 year old lithium batteries, you'll have to literally pay someone to take it away because no one is buying that off you

Well because most of the time special instructions are also either stupid, old, no longer applicable, or wrong You are seriously underestimating the stupidity of the average Brit here They'll have scaffolding up blocking their front door on one day in 2023 so they put a special delivery note saying "Bring round back please!!!", then they'll just never remove it so it's on every delivery. So you make all the extra effort to get the van down some back alley to get to their back door and they just answer it bemused like "why have you come down here? Our front door is on X street?" Um you told me to? So next time with a note like that you ignore it and just knock on the front door, and that's when you get some absolutely miserable old git come out of the back door and tell you "I told you to bring it round the back..." said with this wow delivery drivers are so thick they can't even read attitude. You can't win

Because 90% of the time ringing the doorbell is pointless so you just stop bothering I can either A) Knock on the door and be done or B) Look for a doorbell, left, right, up, down, maybe it's on the wall this time, then assess whether I think it's actually been maintained by the relative condition of it, press it and see no visual feedback and hear nothing go off inside so I have no idea if it's broken or not, which means I have to knock to be sure anyway, so then why not just knock in the first place Most of being a delivery driver is about being efficient. Walk up and knock is most efficient Don't be annoyed at us be annoyed at the fact most Brits don't bother maintaining a working doorbell or take it down when it's broken Oh and nowadays a lot of you have those creepy Ring doorbells that are beaming my face back to a webserver in the US so Jeff Bezos can analyse it with AI. I have no interest in having a cute little video call with you because you're "only 5 minutes away mate hang on". They're never only 5 minutes away. I deliberately ignore those and knock I knock first. Only if there's no answer to that or if there's a handwritten note saying "please don't knock, sleeping baby" or something I'll look for a doorbell and press that instead, that usually only works if it's a Ring camera or a fresh sparkling new button, most of them don't work so then I'll phone you. No answer, I'm outta there

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I'd like to see them take accessibility seriously It's the only thing GNOME still has over KDE Still to this day you can't stop the text cursor from blinking in KDE plasma, you can in GNOME and GTK based DEs like Xfce by the way. And yes it is an accessibility feature, Windows also has it too if you were wondering

> they’re not gonna deter someone who’s determined They're not supposed to? They are just there to deter the opportunistic thief and make it more hassle than it's worth, no one is claiming they are invincible I may as well ask you why you bother locking your car doors. Don't you know it's not going to deter a determined thief? They'll just smash the window and hotwire your car instead. Might as well leave the door unlocked. Well it deters the opportunistic thief who just walks down the road trying every handle but doesn't want to make a scene

> but CTO guy mentioned you didn't have much experience implementing AI features, Man this is why people lie in interviews and employers constantly complain about it lmao, they literally bring this on themselves I never lie if I don't have experience with something I'll say so, but if I got a comment like this I'd start questioning that policy

It's not even about impressing anyone it's just they're flooded with more applicants than they can manually filter out because of AI generated spam and it's an employer's market right now So humans can't process that much information and they start reaching for something, anything, to narrow down the pack, no matter how silly Made a typo in the CV? Out Didn't know what part of our tech stack was? Out Wasn't super confident with the randomly selected leetcode medium we gave them and didn't have the solution already memorised by heart? Out Worked at Meta? Ooh they must be good, let's interview them It's stupid but the market is just fucked right now

Yeah as every life coach and successful celebrity always says, "never do anything that makes you uncomfortable, if it's scary just don't do it, stay in a safe space bubble all your life"... I now await your "bro it's just phoning for a takeaway it's not that deep" comments. If it's not that deep why can't you just pick up the phone and do it then?

Also it's important to point out that in situations like these you *probably aren't telling them anything they don't already know*. They probably already know it's not the "ideal" or cleanest solution but they've decided on balance that it's easier anyway. Pick your battles Because if we add a new database table and change the schema we need to run it through the approvals process and document it and migrate all the testing and live production customer data through and validate that and make that breaking change to the backend and keep everything that interacts with it in sync and we've now made every database backup we've ever taken completely useless and have to develop a migration script to import old backups before this breaking change but also handle backups made after this breaking change and goddamnit it's just easier to leave it decoupled from the database schema in a json blob that we can put anything we want into and you can add as many new metadata fields to it as you want for your fancy web frontend stuff without affecting our actual business logic. Annnd breathe Tbh this disagreement just feels like "we don't want our database schema to be dependent on the stupid user defined filter's functionality" because they know as soon as you implement that you'll be like "actually it would be cool if user's could have more than one record per foobar" or "can we add a column for baz" and it would be never ending

Yes but, maybe this is because I was actually laid off this time where I wasn't for previous hype cycles, it feels different this time It feels like people are actually buying into the hype this time or at least the project managers, CEOs, and hiring managers are anyway (and they are the ones that matter when you're looking for a job) "It's not real it's just social media hype" yeah but if social media is indistinguishable from reality which it is in 2026 does it even matter? It may as well be real at that point

> When I see a place that has AI slop posters it makes me not want to go there - when will businesses realise this. They won't realise it because it won't matter. You and I are firmly in the minority Most people will not notice or care at all Did you know the traditional playing card designs we all know and love actually arose out of a more complicated ornate original design that was once popular? Like German style cards. But here there was an influx of shoddy low quality copies that degraded and butchered the art style and simplified the symbols. Those bastardised card designs became codified as part of our culture, even though they came from the degradation of what came before. If you asked someone why playing cards look so weird they'd be like "what do you mean? They don't look weird they've always looked like that?" Did you know the only reason pubs traditionally hang pictures outside is because people couldn't read back then? There was no point writing the name of your pub and that you were a public house if no one could read it, instead you hung up a picture of a Red Lion or the Queen's Head or something and said "come meet me at the Red Lion later", and they would look for a building with a picture of a red lion on it. That got codified and became part of our culture too As much as this pains me to say it, this AI slop is just going to become a part of our culture now and will drive it going forwards. It's inevitable. We can't stop it. Posters will be AI slop, logos will be AI slop. It's so odd to think about but future generations will just think it's normal, like "oh yeah that art style is very 2020s, fun fact, it actually wasn't like that by design the style originates from the early generation of primitive AI they were using at the time, not many people know this" I'm not sure how I feel about this yet but I do know there's no point fighting it

> Unfortunately, building things with code in not like riding a bike It literally is though? Logically breaking down problems, good programming practices, problem solving, bug fixing, these skills don't just disappear because you're not at a keyboard The muscle memory of using your favourite IDE is literally like riding a bike Some of us get stuck or silo'd in jobs that don't let us implement fancy new continuous integration toolchains or reject our requests for time to write unit tests and we our skills stagnating as we don't get to do any actual coding or use new tech When I was made redundant I suddenly had free time to learn about the new fancy technologies I'd always wanted to and actually start writing code again instead of bugfixing legacy applications, I was a far better programmer out of work than I was in my last job where I stagnated hard But hiring managers see that you're not in work and they just reject the CV because obviously in 6 months of not getting a paycheque you have completely forgotten how to write a for loop

People queue in pubs now Why? Oh I guess they weren't socialised properly because of that huge global pandemic thing we had a few years ago that totally shut down everything and raised an entire generation of kids who don't go outside or do anything off the internet any more...

> If jobs were plentiful right now, this would be a valid strategy. I'd rather leave the industry entirely than stay in a job like this In fact that's exactly what I did. So you can't even hit me with the "that's easy for you to say" line I'm doing minimum wage to pay the bills while I assess my next move, but if I'd stayed where I was the burnout and my mental health decline would've just continued to the point of no return

> so you won't be dragged down when it does go down Hah cute, you'll still be blamed 100% The only way to avoid it is to leave

Exactly, and did anyone mention yet that the US is super big? Like really really big? So big a European mind cannot comprehend it? There that should explain it

"Fun" yes but fun means constant engagement which means tiring like the other commenter said And the second you come off the A30, A38, or A303 in the south west you are on shitty little roads

"Where's a restaurant I can get good British food?" You don't get British food from a restaurant You get it from a pub. Every Brit instinctively knows from vibes alone which pub will serve good food and which won't, tourists won't have a clue so they shouldd just use trip advisor to find a pub serving food that's highly rated. It will be the best British food you ever have Tourists don't get it though so they just go to some "Authentic 100% British Fish & Chips" restaurant they saw on a sign somewhere in some tourist area and get absolutely scammed (fish & chips is supposed to be a greasy takeout food) No other country works like this so I guess we're just destined to have the "shit food" reputation forever. The very notion of a "gastropub" baffles and confuses any foreigner I think to them it's like going to a dive bar for a gourmet meal

> There are very few UK roads that you can actually just chill on, most of the roads are very engaging whether that's with traffic or just the nature of them not being very straight. Firstly its very tiring I've given up explaining this to Americans because they just don't get it. I think they have to just experience it to understand it "But it's only a 4h drive, I've driven that far just to go to a restaurant in the US" Yeah nothing in the UK is "only a 4h drive". Any drive that long here means getting to a motorway and driving past, around, or through multiple cities. Heaven help you if any of those are at rush hour which is basically guaranteed to happen if you're on the road at that hour since we're such a dense island. And there will be traffic jams, roadworks, 50 average speed zones, accidents, or other delays because our roads are just over capacity so it will take longer than 4h for sure That's the best case scenario. If you're driving 4h on A and B roads into the country like down here in the South West (no motorways) you will arrive at your destination exhausted They think it's the same thing as driving an automatic 4h on a dead straight interstate through some area with 1 person per square mile and the odd random towns with population 500

I was a software dev for years and I am currently supermarket delivery driving on the side while I look for work I'm not going to say it's more or less difficult, it is certainly less mentally taxing of course which is nice. But I wouldn't say it's "easier", just hard in a different way. Delivery driving is probably a lot harder than most people think though since it's just assumed by many to be a doss job for lazy or stupid people, it's not Firstly finding addresses is the worst. British people, why the fuck do none of you have house numbers on your houses? It's absurd. You don't realise how stupid some British roads and addresses are until you do a job like this Secondly there's the stress of parking and inconveniencing people or getting the van into tricky spots. No matter what you do you are going to inconvenience someone, it's the nature of the job. You're blocking someone else's driveway / parking bays / a side street / alleyway, or partially or fully mounting the pavement and blocking that. Those are the good options by the way. Often you have no choice but to block the entire street. Most city streets are rammed with parked cars on both sides and are barely wide enough to get a van down. It's not realistic to park 10 houses down for every drop and walk everything down, you'd never get home on time and no one would get their shopping 9 times out of 10 no one comes down that street in the 2 minutes it takes you to unload anyway so it's a numbers game. I was so worried about that happening before starting the job. On the rare occasion 1 or more people drive down that road and get stuck, they're actually surprisingly understanding most of the time. They mostly will just sit there and wait. If I'm done unloading but the customer is just slow unpacking, and the road layout allows it, I'll try and move the van out the way. But mostly it's not necessary because customers are fast. I've only had 1 person so far kick off and get out the car to start effing and blinding and take their little photos to "report me to Tesco" (LOL) but honestly I was expecting a lot more. If it does happen I just ignore them and take my sweet time, let them rage it out

Yeah this is absolutely it. Good and bad developers existed before AI of course. Our field is so abstract it's hard to immediately tell the difference between good and bad devs or code But even bad devs were forced by sheer brute force and trial and error to eventually learn at least *some* good practices against their will over time. Even if they didn't care about their craft or learning at all it just wasn't possible to make it to senior level without picking up at least some stuff by osmosis Now though the genie is out of the bottle and it's never going back I am done reading delusional posts about how one magical day in the future companies and management are going to realise the error of their ways and we're all going to be rehired on triple salary to "fix the mess" and have jobs for life. It's not going to happen. They will just double down and get the AI to fix the AI, or eventually start rehiring juniors and just throw more juniors at it (who will of course use AI) This is like the perpetual cycle of tech and it's hilarious to see play out time and time again. Every generation thinks they are the last true devs and they are irreplaceable, but every time they just replaced by eager new young people who adopt some new technology instead COBOL devs said "you know they're not hiring and training any juniors to replace us right? We've got jobs for life dude we're gonna be so rich". Reality: They were just replaced by C++ and C# juniors who re-wrote everything from scratch C++ / C# devs said "you know they're not hiring and training and juniors to replace us right? We're the last to write code by hand without AI! We've got jobs for life dude we're gonna be so rich". Reality: They were just replaced by vibe coding AI prompting juniors who are re-writing everything from scratch as we speak

> All the kids we hire now only know work from home and seem allergic to social events or travelling. They just sit at home coding This might be my most boomer take of all time, but this is so sad to me. I don't understand it at all. It sounds like a miserable existence and so bad for your career development too. Most of what I learned I learned by osmosis just being around people more talented than me and seeing how they worked. Or it's cliche but those "watercooler moments" where you just chat to someone and ask what they're working on In tech no one ever has time to mentor you properly 1 to 1 for an extended period of time. Seniors have stuff to do so being physically in the same place is really the fastest way to learn and the best way to collaborate I started work around 2015 and the pub friday after work drinks was still alive and well then. Everyone came too. Juniors in their 20s. Mid level people in their 30s. Even some of the older folk in their 50s and 60s would come for a few quite often. It was a great way to break down barriers between people at different levels and get to know people Covid lockdown and wfh killed it all of course. Now every man and his dog works from home on Fridays and like you I've found that new hires have absolutely 0 interest in going out or socialising at all so even if they were in on Friday it's pointless anyway. It's very odd

Pete Hegseth is that you?

> Can you refuse to take over a vibe coded product from non technical people? "But it already works? We already have the proof of concept? Just clean it up a bit and integrate it into prod I don't know why you're being so difficult and refusing to do your job?" Yeah fuck this I quit

So you're just going to leave it there until you arrive back home to perfect conditions with access to a sink and your special antibacterial soap?

Why am I seeing this stupid fallacy everywhere? Don't let perfect be the enemy of good or something? Like why bother wiping that baby shit off your arm? You know you're not gonna get it all with just dry tissue paper right? Might as well leave it and do nothing. It won't even kill the germs so why bother?

I was once using the toilet in a Tesco and a guy was taking a shit in a stall behind me (I don't want to get graphic but he wasn't just blowing his nose in there the sounds were unmistakable, I was trying to ignore it and get outta there asap) Anyway I did my business and went to wash my hands at the sink when suddenly the stall door flies open and he marches back out onto the shop floor without washing his hands before I can even turn around I'll never look at the cabbages the same again

Wait you guys didn't get laid off?

I think the internet has given everyone the illusion of a social life so they just stop caring about IRL relationships as much Like "I could go to your birthday party and I know I agreed to go because I felt socially compelled to agree in the moment but now the day has actually arrived I'm getting cold feet. I'm not going to know 3/4 of the people there it will be scary and also I'm tired and anyway I'm talking to my 'friends' on discord or my old uni friends on whatsapp in the groupchat so it's not like I'm being antisocial or something I think I'll pass sorry man couldn't make it" That seems to be the mentality now I've seen new coworkers at a job hide themselves away and not talk to anyone while clinging to their phone like a comfort blanket for years. Reddit will get mad at me because that is literally the entire reddit demographic, I know you all do it. But I can't help but think they'll regret it later when they realise they worked at a company for 5 years drifted away from all their old friends that only existed on their phone, their "internet" friends turned out to not be real friends or vanished, and now their IRL social skills have atrophied and they have no one they can call on to help move a washing machine Watch them attack me now because they don't want to be asked to move washing machines lmao. It's just an example, humans are social animals and we need to build a village and help each other out with minor things. That used to be the norm

I'm a software dev and no offence but it being a "technical interview" makes 0 difference It's still 95% a test of your interpersonal skills personality and whether you're a team player who is willing to admit they don't know something and learn or if you're going to be a nightmare to work with The technical content of a technical interview is just there to make sure you didn't bullshit your qualifications and give you something to talk about

10 years experience and I've been out of tech for 2 years now after a redundancy I now work in a totally unrelated low paid job, but it's also low stress low mental load and more fulfilling. No taking the work home with me. No AI. No micromanaging managers looking over my shoulder. No office politics. No corporate grind. No daily standups. No fortnightly sprint review and sprint planning meetings that last all day and have you making JIRA tickets for 2h just to get thrown out and ignored 3 days into the new "sprint" I genuinely don't know if I've just fallen for all the doomposting online and ruined my career for nothing, or if I've made the sensible choice and saved my sanity from all the AI bullshit. I do still apply to tech jobs occasionally but honestly I've kinda given up on hearing back from any at this point But I do know that I have 0 desire at all to be an AI wrangler. Absolutely none. If "the future" of software development involves prompting an agent to work on a ticket while prompting a 2nd agent to review the work of another agent's PR while prompting a 3rd agent to roadmap some changes while prompting a 4th agent to scope out the requirements of a new change to feed to the 5th agent, all while hoping you aren't one of the 25% that get laid off this quarter, then I want no part of it. I'm done. I will happily be a luddite and let the rest of you fight over the scraps that are left Since someone will inevitably ask the new job is driving a van around delivering supermarket groceries. It's much more laid back than the crappy Amazon style courier jobs. Nothing in tech is ever "done" but I start the shift with a van full of food and I end it with [hopefully] an empty van. It's done. And people are generally happy to see their shopping arrive, some of them even say "thank you". 10 years in tech I don't remember anyone ever saying "thank you" for anything I did

There are people in 2026 who still don't use systemd timers? I will never understand people who work in tech and refuse to adapt or learn new technologies. Don't even try to pretend that crontabs are "better" or that you need them somehow. Or that in 38 years you "didn't have time" to migrate

It's because free open source software developers work on things they want to that are fun. And it's more fun to re-write a new program from scratch in gtk4 or qt6 or whatever than it is to maintain an existing program. So everything is constantly being re-written I want stability from my DE not constant churn. It just needs to stay out of my way and not annoy me

Great but that didn't stop me losing my job and struggling to get hired because I can't tell which companies are the ones that aren't run by idiots It's like when people say "we just need a good housing market crash! Then we can all buy houses for cheap :D". They all seem to not think about how bad that would be for everyone in the meantime

You say that like it makes a difference If the decision makers believe the bullshit (non-technical management, middle management, project managers, HR, accounts, C-suite, and so on) then it may as well be true. The end result is the same Offshoring is also bullshit but that still happens