Joker

joined 2 years ago
[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It breaks if you install AUR packages because they keep their main repository behind Arch. It’s an awful distribution. They add a nice looking custom desktop but otherwise add no value. They are a bunch of amateur clowns too. There’s no good reason to use it over Endeavour if one is looking for an easier Arch.

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 years ago

No. Why would they do that? There’s no money there. Poor people are on the hook for hardly any tax anyway. The people who cheat generally own companies or are self employed and often have access to cash. It happens a lot in small businesses. It’s a crime of opportunity. Hard to do it when tax is already deducted from your check before you get it. Easy when you can put yourself on the books for a modest salary and pocket a bunch of cash under the table.

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

Probably using the only fans site to launder the payoff money she got to stay quiet.

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

Good to go. My last career was as a CIO and I did plenty of hiring. If you came in dressed like that and had a good attitude you’d be an easy hire. Don’t stress it.

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Git and GNU stow.

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 years ago

Probably live on a million- maybe 2- and spend most of my time giving the rest away.

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Trial lawyers often work with fairly large datasets and some specialized applications. There’s a ton of discovery materials for a case like this one and it’s all indexed and searchable. They will have deposition transcripts that need to be searchable so they can check them while a witness is on the stand. They will also be running presentations and playing weird video formats. They usually need a good CPU and a nice chunk of RAM because the last thing they need is a laggy computer in court when everyone is watching.

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago

Exactly. Attorneys leave their big firms and start their own for clients like him. No serious firm is going to take him. She doesn’t have any IT people. She went to Best Buy looking for a laptop with HDMI out and they sold her that thing.

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Almost zero chance she is with a serious firm right now. No large firm wants Trump as a client. She’s most likely operating a little boutique firm. This happens all the time when a lawyer wants the client and the firm doesn’t due to a conflict, negative attention, etc. A handful of people and maybe an office manager with no other admin staff. There’s no IT. She needed a laptop with HDMI out for presentations in court and wanted it to be fast too. She probably went to Best Buy asking for that and walked out with a gaming laptop.

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The impact is negligible. It’s a few extra seconds during boot. You won’t even notice during use except maybe for specific IO-intensive workloads. FDE on a modern computer isn’t like the junk from 15 years ago with third party security apps. There’s no reason not to use it.

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Things could be better, but it’s a far cry from the IE monopoly days. It’s amusing to hear Microsoft complain. DDG and Kagi are both very good search engines and DDG is a built-in option on iOS. Kagi even requires a fee and it’s still blowing up in popularity. I think the real issue for Microsoft is nobody chooses Bing.

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