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zacher_glachl , (edited ) to asklemmy in Remote or hybrid workers, would you rather work a 4 day week on site, or WFH completely for 5 days a week, for the same pay?

I have a 25 min commute by subway and I enjoy banter with my colleagues. Due to covid I also know that I devolve into a troglodyte on full WFH so :shrug:

zacher_glachl , to asklemmy in What's with telling YEARLY salaries?

My bad, I didn’t get notified someone replied to my comment and only just checked. As mentioned below in this thread, I meant we get 14 monthly salary payments, where “months” 13 and 14 are less taxed and are tacked onto a summer and winter month as a holiday and christmas bonus, respectively.

zacher_glachl , to asklemmy in What's with telling YEARLY salaries?

In my country you collect 14 salaries. So yearly salary is just the only sensible way to compare internationally.

zacher_glachl , to world in Bhutan cuts daily tourist fee by half to lure more visitors

lmao, $200 per day. For that kind of money I could just as well go on vacation to a developed country.

zacher_glachl , to asklemmy in How many hours a day do you actually work?

Probably something like 6h or so. I enjoy my job and I think I do it well, but there’s only so many hours you can juggle complex logic in your mind per day before your brain turns to mush. After that point any further minute spent staring at the screen would just be a waste of my time and motivation.

zacher_glachl , to technology in Hosting firm says it lost all customer data after ransomware attack

Other people’s computers. Never forget.

zacher_glachl , to linux in Game ad notification on Windows...

What else did you expect from Microsoft Linux? They’ve been taking notes from the best for some time now.

zacher_glachl , (edited ) to linux in Which distro is the right one for me?

For distros I’ve been mainly looking at Manjaro, Linux Mint or plain old Ubuntu. Can you recommend anything that might fit for me or will I maybe run into any issues with my chosen three?

Like others I would caution against Manjaro, the distro maintainers have shown on multiple occasions that they are not exactly on top of it all.

Ubuntu derivatives are typically great works-out-of-the-box distros. Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) has made a number of questionable moves with Ubuntu over the years so I would rather suggest going for Linux Mint instead. Mint is based on Ubuntu but IMHO fixes most of these issues.

My main concerns for switching are that I’ll have a hard time with university work because we mostly use teams for video conferences and work together with word, and other office stuff.

Since Microsoft Teams is an electron app, it works very well as a web app in a chromium-based browser like Brave or chromium itself, there’s no real need to install any separate app. I use it daily that way and I have no issues either with screen sharing, videoconferencing or chat.

Microsoft office is a tougher nut. LibreOffice may or may not work for you - there’s a good chance it won’t be 100% compatible with existing office documents, and may for example slightly change pre-existing formatting. If that doesn’t matter to you, LibreOffice could be completely fine as a replacement. Otherwise, Microsoft Office 365 in the browser works as well on Linux as on Windows, maybe try if that is a workable solution for you in most cases. I find that for me, the web version goes 95% of the way, and for the last 5% I keep a windows 10 VM with Office installed around.

We also are required to do some virtual machine stuff where we use virtualbox.

The de facto standard virtualization solution on Linux is KVM/QEMU, but Virtualbox does appear to exist for Linux, so I don’t see a blocker there.

Also I’m a bit worried that some games on uplay, epic and other platforms aren’t available anymore.

I don’t play much, but I don’t think there’s a good solution to that. Setting up non-Steam gaming setups on Linux (e.g. via Bottles or Lutris) is IMHO finicky at best. Also, AFAIK a number of online multiplayer games don’t work simply because the DRM software refuses to work on Linux. You can check ProtonDB for a database of games and their support on Linux. If there are blockers there, maybe consider a dual-boot setup.

zacher_glachl , to asklemmy in How long does it take for you to fall asleep?

thanks, I will!

zacher_glachl , (edited ) to explainlikeimfive in What's the deal with Linus tech tips?

Right, but still nobody is forcing you to continue in a job which it turns out is not a good fit for you. I for my part would consider working on SpaceX rockets a dream job but I know I need at least 16h of downtime every day and a weekend, so that is just not gonna happen.

And even if other company cultures are not as mercifully transparent, IMHO complaining about having to mutilate yourself when you could have just as well simply quit and not mutilate yourself is a bit much.

edit: And I’m not saying a company with this sigma grindset bullshit work culture is perfectly fine. It’s not! That’s why it makes even less sense to me to pour your lifeblood into it when this crap doesn’t suit you.

zacher_glachl , (edited ) to explainlikeimfive in What's the deal with Linus tech tips?

But honestly, explain how this makes sense please. Why would anyone physically harm themselves to be able to stay with a company that’s apparently filled with assholes anyway. Money? There’s no paycheck large enough to make me slash my leg for it (edit: well, of course not none whatsoever…but nothing within an order of magnitude of a realistic salary). And surely unemployment benefits must be a thing in Canada too to keep you alive while looking for another job (in case you really feel you have to leave before finding something else).

zacher_glachl , to explainlikeimfive in What's the deal with Linus tech tips?

Sorry but that sounds like bullshit. There is no logical sequence of actions leading from “your employer being an asshole” into “you having to slash your leg open” which wouldn’t first pass through “handing in your notice”. Unless you are a literal slave.

zacher_glachl , to asklemmy in How long does it take for you to fall asleep?

Well I certainly don’t feel tired during the day or exhausted at the end of it. I also sleep in on weekends and basically feel the same as during weekdays so I think I’m good

zacher_glachl , to asklemmy in How long does it take for you to fall asleep?

Like 5 min. But then I typically only try to fall asleep when I’m actually getting sleepy or when I’m edging close to some 6h of sleep until the alarm goes off, at which point I’m usually already pretty tired even though I hadn’t been aware before.

zacher_glachl , to asklemmy in If you could alter one notable incident in history, what would be it?

Eh, I don’t know. Maybe have Putin think twice before invading Ukraine. Possibly lock some dude in 2019 Wuhan into a closet for a week.

Any significant change to the timeline further back than like 5 years might 1) mean I’m never born or 2) might really change my life, and I really like my life. So Unless I can wish for my 20 year old self to lock a thumb drive with 1000 bitcoin into a bank safe until today, I think I’m otherwise good.

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