old and dying LCD steam deck
Umm, the steam deck hasn’t existed long enough for that to be a thing, it only came out 4 years ago. I have mine from September release year and use it every day, fresh as the day I got it. I’d be pretty hacked off if it seemed ‘old and dying’ already! And it’s my only decent computer, I need it to be going for several more years 😅
I’d go one step further. This kind of ‘tool’ is not fixing a problem that doesn’t exist. It is actively causing a problem that didn’t exist, and doesn’t need to (along with the charlatans peddling the AI application-slop ‘services’). I’ve heard from hiring managers of people trying things like this, and it:
Ultimately, it makes an already brutal interview landscape 1000x worse, for no benefit to anyone.
And even if you did somehow manage to, once you’re actually doing the job, you’d get found out pretty quickly… I’ve heard of people trying this nonsense, and there is no scenario where it works put for anyone, it wastes everyone’s time, and just puts up more barriers to stop genuine hard working people accessing the jobs that actually fit them. Yes, the interview landscape can be brutal at the moment, but ‘tools’ like this are the problem, not the solution.
Popup ads? Where are they? That’s not something I’ve heard of, but then I always use an adblocker…
I used it for years on a raspberry pi, and it was great, very easy to manage storages and different ways of sharing over a network.
If you are after a Debian based system, with an interface for file server/backups/network storage, with a (web) interface, you are pretty much describing https://www.openmediavault.org/ . Decent plugin ecosystem to set up Wireguard, as well as a web interface to set up docker based containers for anything.
This Mitchell & Webb sketch comes to mind… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h242eDB84zY
What kind of dystopia are you living in that listening to music or podcasts would ‘raise the alarm’? Yes, don’t do anything inappropriate (definitely no piracy, obviously), or detrimental to productivity, but listening to music? Would definitely quit if an employer had a problem with that.
Is this a thing that’s considered ‘normal’ in the US? (I’m assuming US mainly because other countries are not generally so hostile towards employees)
True, just clarifying to clarify the last sentence:
In UK, it is just the legal term everyone goes by for when you lose your job
Since I think there’s room for misunderstanding that it’s more generic than it is
That’s not quite true, it’s a very specific reason for losing your job. If you are fired for doing a bad job, and said you were made redundant, that would be a lie. Redundancy is about the role, not the individual.
It’s not quite the same thing. If you are ‘fired’ that’s generally to do with performance or conduct of the individual. Redundancy is about not needing (or affording) the role any more (i.e. it is redundant). There are specific legal protections for each case that work quite differently. (You cannot rehire for the same position after a redundancy, for example)
Possible counterpoint: their use as a generic is isolated within the US (maybe some other countries, but certainly not universal), whereas ‘google’ has arguably become a pretty global term (at least in the Anglophone world, and I believe in some other languages, too), so the reach is very different in scope.
(e.g. Despite Kleenex still a big brand in the UK, nobody uses it as a generic. The product is called a ‘tissue’)
Surely, if you forget it’s even running, you aren’t using it, and it doesn’t matter if it stops running? (With a couple of obvious exceptions like automated backups, etc)
Not denying it could be faulty, obviously. Just wouldn’t be accepting it as just ‘age’