I’m actually quite successful, but it was pure luck. My professional rivals keep disappearing under mysterious circumstances. (This is obvious satire.)

One must ask themself: where did all the money go?

It sure looked like it chartered a private jet to Venice Italy to rent out entire city blocks and get married in utter opulence, to me.

I think I deserve more, but I accept less anyway, due to the ever present threat of unrecoverable retribution against myself and my family if I negotiate too hard

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That’s really not true though. If Satya hadn’t guided Microsoft to their current cloud services model, their loses in various anti-trust cases could have ended the company as a penny stock.

These huge companies aren’t immune to consequences.

SEARS was untouchable, and is now nothing.

Yes.

My conspiracy theory is their end goal is a full database of everyone’s children’s photos and locations, to they can window shop which of our kids they want to grab and take to Epstein Island 2.0, next.

I can’t wait till these companies start falling over so I can stop hearing about their ridiculous shit

If you have a 401k, selling “Large-Cap” indexes or “Full market” indexes can help. (and buying something else, don’t leave it uninvested, obviously).

Am I missing something?

Just fear of missing out on the bubble rising higher before popping, assuming magical luck to get off the ride at the perfect moment.

In other words, idiocy. Idiocy is what you’re missing.

Wise to keep missing it, if you can.

And… I sure wish we could stop them.

Most 401k plans have some options that can reduce or eliminate stock owned in the biggest tech companies, at least.

Selling any “Large Cap” or “Full Index” stocks, and buying into a Mid-Cap Index should drastically reduce ones 401k’s risk from and participation in the current tech bubble.

A popular option is to use vibe code to help run the place into the ground while looking for the next job.

Pretty soon the wave of vibe-shit code is going to be too much to clean up.

Interesting times ahead.

Closing tickets faster is pointless if you’re introducing a bunch of new bugs.

Objectively true, but if my bonus reflects tickets rather than bugs, I’m gonna close so many tickets, anyway, because I don’t own the place.

Which is also why wise companies grant their employees stock.

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Any thread remotely about operating systems turning into a “Fuck windows” Linux cicrclejerk is just annoying as fuck.

Haha. Fair enough.

But also, fuck Windows though. Really. Microslop could have made a good OS, they have in the past.

Today, they’re just choosing not to.

Edit: Oh it’s free, I just googled it and it came up.

Haha. I often forget to mention that part!

A ton of really good software is also free. I found the hardest part was choosing which software was right for me.

If Linux users could stop being so hyperbolic in their superiority,

FYI, we’re actually substantially downplaying how superior Linux is.

That’s part of the message we’re trying to share, now that it is ready. You’re allowed to use Linux as a shit-free alternative to Windows. For some people, that is enough.

But that’s barely skimming the surface of all the cool shit happening on Linux today.

Right. Yes. It’s the mascots on track toward this contest. Sure.

No sir. I didn’t hear anyone say CEO.

Right. It’s pronounced ‘Merika! Fuck yeah! Hold my beer and watch this!’

Midnight Suns is one of the few games I never skip the cutscenes in. Everyone is so cozy and delightful!

Thank you!

I really want to play this, but I cannot in good conscience give money to Ubisoft.

Sadly, Ubisoft’s godlike digital rights protections are perfected in ways that my meager search engine typing skills could never trivially counter on a boring afternoon, assuming I don’t find a free pack-in copy before then on some kind of random mall kiosk plug and play TV game device.

Woe is me that I’ll have no choice but to ignore this game until a copy literally falls into my lap through random chance because software wants to be free.

The dumbasses in Ubisoft’s leadership ought to relearn that the paying games industry runs entirely on good will.

Edit: Anyone have recommendations for great indie pirate games?