Ah, ok. I was barking up the wrong tree.

I tried a random Writefreely instance and it was extremely barebones and had poor markdown styling. It gave me the impression that Writefreely is more for publishing short stories, rather than technical content.

(Is that the point of Writefreely?)

I’ve been using LibreOffice more these days for writing, slides, and spreadsheets. I can’t remember now the last time I used a Google app for this.

there’s tons of mechanisms to stop that from happening

Those are fake. Laws are fake. Government is fake. Money is fake. Everything is an illusion. It’s not a physical law of nature or something. It all boils down to if someone feels like doing something or meh… and the people in charge here are more like meh.

It doesn’t matter if I’m a good person, if I don’t believe in god, I’m going to hellll.

Every time I go to Mexico, one of the first things I do is get tacos! I NEEEED EM!!!

Yeah, it’s a win-win. You get the person off your ass. The other person gets to continue their journey. If you were walking on the sidewalk, you’d move.

Has someone actually been on an interview panel, where you decide to hire someone because they’re black?

(I definitely haven’t. Although, I haven’t been in a position that was in charge of mass hiring.)

No earbuds, player only.

A MAGA I know told me this is all worth it because he doesn’t want his son to know gay people exist and wants revenge on the people who told him he can’t say “Merry Christmas” anymore…

In the US: Yeah, just about every barbershop I’ve ever been to only accepts cash. Sometimes they accept card, but there’s an extra charge and you have to wait until they find where they put the machine. And generally the barbers themselves seem to prefer cash.

Also, food trucks and food stands? Not all of those accept cards.

I might be having this issue. When I update an item the UI doesn’t get updated. However, if I refresh the UI by searching for something else, then go back to my updated item, I see the new values.

It’s really annoying.

I installed via pacman.

I also got mine recently! Definitely agree with the rough around the edges part. This is definitely an artisanal, hand-rolled, music player. It… doesn’t seem very durable. Mine rattles when I move it…

I bought it to support open source and because I’m hoping it’ll last a long time. (As long as I don’t move it too much.)

But I dont wanna use my phone. Usually, I try to keep that as far away as possible.

I wanted touch screen and Android

https://electronics.sony.com/audio/walkman-digital-recorders/walkman-mp3-players/p/nwa306-b

Standard Notes

Is Standard Notes owned/made by Proton??

surely you are not surprised that given a candidate that shows some interest, and a candidate that doesn’t care, the company would prefer the former.

Definitely. That’s why I lie.

if someone else is, then they will probably be easier to work with.

I actually really challenge this point. Specifically because I don’t care, I would say I’m very easy to work with. Example: Did the manager just order us to do something really stupid? Sounds good to me! I’m on it, boss! On the other hand, I’ve worked with tons of people who care way too much. Sometimes it seems like they think it’s their company. Those people are hard to work with.

The order doesn’t even have to be stupid, it can just be something the passionate employee disagrees with. At a previous company, we were told to make some app work because we had an important demo coming up. One super passionate dude on my team almost derailed us because he insisted that we fix the app the “correct” way. In theory, he was correct, however in practice he was dead wrong.

I didn’t care either way, so I just made the thing work.

I could say “I noticed you use MQTT for networking the pots…

Yeah, this is the same game I play. I avoid answering their question of “Why FlowerPot.ly?” and just give some generic answer that applies to any company, not specifically FlowerPot.ly. I would also throw in some lies like, “My brother owns an IoT flower pot. I think it’s so cool!”.

Probably nothing because I would waste the time thinking about what I should do.

Imagine you got 3 job offers … the interviewer wants to know why his company is the one you’d choose

Because you expressed interest in hiring me? And I need a job? So I’m here? I’d also be perfectly content picking the other 2 companies if it’s the same salary.

What caught your eye about this job posting?

The fact that you guys said you were hiring?

they’d prefer someone who is interested

I guess this is the real problem. I don’t care about your company. I’m here to exchange my time for money. I have my own interests and they don’t involve working at your company.

But, yes fine. I understand this is the game I have to play. I will lie to you and tell you that it’s been my dream since I was a little kid to work at your dumb company, selling shit that no one needs or tricking people into giving you money.

One company that asked me this made… let’s say IoT flower pots (something mundane like that)… I guess I’m supposed to say: OMG! I. LOVE. CONNECTED. FLOWER. POTS! How did humanity survive without internet connected flower pots??! My sole purpose in life is to help make IoT flower pots. Please allow me to join you guys! 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️

Is it not possible to have something like this?

• Job: We need someone who can build IoT flower pots.
• Me: Yep, give me enough money and I’ll do it.
• Job: OK.