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  • I think the us vs them mentality, while totally normal human behavior, is unwarranted here.

    I have tux tattooed on me because I make my living writing software predominantly for Linux, but I work from a unix system rather than Linux.

    My next gig doing the same work I will likely be required to use a windows computer as my workstation. It will be out of my hands.

    We use the tools we have, sometimes we can change our tools but more often than not people have the tools they have and ascribing your displeasure of their tool to that person is tech tribalism and part of the worst parts of human nature, even if it is over something so insignificant as which operating system someone else is using.

    I don’t feel personally attacked by you, and idk why your comment was removed.




  • “Just use this other thing instead” has never been a good faith solution for when people have a problem with something else.

    It doesn’t matter if you are right that tool a works better than tool b, especially when sometimes people are unfortunately not providing their own tools.

    So no, your take is wrong again.

    I say this from the position of someone who literally has tux tattooed on them.















  • When a 6 figure income has people living pay check to paycheck and that same paycheck would make others live comfy you have a problem.

    We have been pitted against each other.

    My salary is around 200k and to much of America I’d be considered a crybaby bitch saying how I live paycheck to paycheck and the shutdown might break me.

    My plight is closer to the plight of the underemployed worker in middle America who makes a quarter what I make working as many hours or more, their boss can up and fuck them over too on a whim.

    If we want the workers in middle America who don’t make near as much as the govt workers or workers on the coasts / in cities do then we have to go out of our way to lift them up too.

    Anyways. This shutdown is bullshit and I know of at least 4 projects that have already cost the government in excess of 2 million dollars that are just going to die because the funding is gone and the facility is closed and the product can’t be delivered. Everyone is being laid off, all the knowledge going away.