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  • Nah @exu is right: non-IT focused companies do not have the skills or desire to reliably set up and maintain these systems. There is no benefit to them creating their own server stack based on a community distro to save a few bucks.

    Smaller companies will hire MSPs to get them setup and maintain what they need. And medium to large size companies would want an enterprise solution (IE: RHEL) they can reliably integrate into their operations.

    This is for a few high value reasons. Taking Red Hat as an example:

    1. Standardization (IE: they can hire people with RedHat certificates and they will be a few steps ahead in ramping up to internal systems)
    2. Vendor support (IE: if something critical isn’t working they can get quick support from a Red Hat technician and get it resolved quickly)
    3. Reliability (IE: all software is backed and tested by Red Hat and if anything breaks from a package update its on Red Hat to fix)

    When lots of money is on the line companies want as many safety/contingency plans as they can get which is why RedHat makes sense.

    The only companies that will roll their own solution are either very small with knowledgeable IT people (smaller startups), or MASSIVE companies that will create very custom solutions and then train their own IT operations divisions (talking like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon levels).

    Not to say what Red Hat did is justified or good, because hampering the FOSS ecosystem is destructive overall, but just putting this into context.


  • Yeah, management positions are often filled by people who:

    A) Want to get a higher paying job and don’t care about the product or the industry necessarily (MBA-circlejerk types).

    B) Are Devs/Artists/Creatives that wanted increased compensation, and the only way up was as a manager where they have less aptitude.

    Executive staff needs to better integrate management as “servant leaders” within teams, and compensate EVERYONE better







  • Yeah, I have a Grandpa in the same boat - older “conservative”, but is disgusted by what the party has decided to embrace: climate change denialism, fear-mongering, rage-baiting, anti-LGBTQ, anti-science, weirdly pro-Russia for some reason? etc.

    Not trying to view the past with rose-coloured glasses, but even looking at the past 10 years you can see and feel a sharp directional shift of the CPC towards regression.

    I am a Liberal through and through, but it would honestly be refreshing if Conservatives just wanted to debate tax policy, spending, and free market economics instead of actively spreading misinformation and hate.

    We need a sort of “internet enlightenment” era where we re-calibrate humanity back towards reason and empathy.


  • As much as I like my Steam Deck, replacing the battery is not as easy or clean as it should be because of the glue.

    Yes I know there’s a reason they glued it, and yes its good that it is “user replaceable” to some extent, but I hope this pushes for easier replacement in the future.

    I would imagine that the battery cell manufacturers also play a role here, although I have absolutely no way to back this up so take it with a grain of salt. Because 99% of consumer mobile devices have glued in batteries, it is likely that Li-ion manufacturers have adjusted their supply chain to accommodate and make it less expensive for device makers to buy batteries that need to be glued. So it would be reasonable to assume if more companies need to switch to easily replaceable (read: not glued), the suppliers would shift to accommodate and stay competitive.


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    11 months ago

    Interesting article let’s read through…

    In fact, according to odds on FanDuel, the Tories are favoured to win the next election at -143 while Trudeau’s Liberals sit at +110.

    Ahhhh, Toronto Sun back at it again with the hard hitting journalism. Disgusting and disingenuous crap, glad The Star avoided the Postmedia merger




  • For anyone looking for a chair that doesn’t want to spend >$1000 or get a gaming chair, I recommend looking for an office furniture reseller in your area.

    There are a lot of shops that buy used furniture from companies either going out of business or moving.

    I was able to get a new Steelcase for like half the price, still had its tags and packaging. Granted this was during covid where a lot of businesses were dumping their in-office supplies, but still worth a look.



  • Yeah, the essential and irreplaceable nature of healthcare is one reason for it to be a public service.

    Another reason that public healthcare is much better than private is that most healthcare services are “Credence Goods” where the person receiving the care cannot determine the value/quality of the service received.

    Example: If someone gets hit by a car and needs surgery, how would they determine the surgery was the best possible surgery? If it was unsuccessful was it due to the lack of skill of the doctor, or was it because the accident was too severe and could not be solved by any living doctor on the planet?

    If the value of goods cannot be determined, it is hard to fit it into economic models for competitive markets.

    This is on top of the other obvious benefits:

    • single payer systems driving down total costs for everyone
    • maintaining standards across clinics
    • a healthy population is more productive, pays more taxes, drives innovation, etc.
    • a healthy person is more likely to contribute money into the economy vs. take money out of the economy (through welfare, disability, etc.) – this is definitely not to say that welfare and disability benefits should be reduced in favour of healthcare, they are both needed. Most people would prefer to actually get treatment and get back on their feet than not get treated and be on EI or welfare until they die young.

    Here is an Unlearning Economics video that goes into this more.






  • Lemmy truly is like to old internet sometimes, obvious troll.

    Early Canada saw, by and large, equal contribution across the entire population… you need me as much as I need you.

    This is SO true, everyone TOTALLY contributed equally to industry and got fair compensation for their efforts: British colonists, native Canadians, Black slaves, and the Chinese immigrants who worked on our railroads. It was just so efficient for the rich to also massacre entire populations of people, force people to work, and pay either nothing or next to nothing. I totally agree with you here, you are such a scholar with a clear understanding of Canadian history 🙇. I also hear that after a hard days work the rich colonists and workers (the ones who didn’t happen to die that day when building infrastructure) would all go out for a cold beer and have a jolly old time!

    The HEAVIEST of sarcasm, jesus fucking christ. I won’t even continue with the rest of the post, but let’s just say I might slightly disagree with you 😉