It has become ridiculously cheap indeed.

It's way more diverse than Zurich. Well, if you mean "diverse" as "more brown people" as your comment seems to imply.

It's "just" immutable Arch that defaults to Steam's console mode interface.

Any citizen can go and check how votes are counted in their Geminde. Any citizen can check what is reported in the federal tally. I did several times. It's not rocket science.

Except the above virtualised lists, another case I hit was layered images (sprites for example). Not very hard to write my own, sure, but it’d be nice to have that out of the box as in eg. egui

I love iced and wrote a decent amount of code using it, but in my mind the biggest sponsor is system76 - and as awesome as they are they aren’t a major vendor yet :)

Why is this news? Is it because it can heat water to 85 degrees Celsius? Is it because it’s Samsung?

Thanks a lot!

There’s packages. You can write functions. You can write tests trivially (the output is basically a giant map that you just write out as yaml)…

I’m applying this to other areas too with great success, for example our snowflake IaC is “just python” that generates SQL. It’s great.

Source: am Swiss, live in Emmental

All of the games I play on a regular basis just worked out of the box with no fiddling at all (nVidia graphics card, X11, pop_OS - but I'm pretty sure any modern distribution would work just as well). Fresh OS install (nvidia drivers just worked), install the steam flatpack, click "download", click "play". That's it.

This includes "modern" games such as Borderlands 4 and e.g. Helldivers 2.

I guess it makes sense, I was curious why they would want people to work on e.g. Servo since Firefox is already available on Android... now I know :) Their team there made a pretty good impression for the record, they were knowledgeable and pitched their projects quite well (several of them quite interesting).

https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths

This doesn't take away the main point of your comment of course, you're right that keeping a vehicle longer is the most impactful decision.

Personally, I was fine with this: I had a laptop I was already doing open source work with, no reason for me to change (I did open source work with my same laptop, as usual, and got paid for it).

Of all the things I could criticize my ex employer about, this isn't one of them frankly. Could they give a lump sum at hiring? Yeah maybe. Could the frequency be increased? Sure...

They made up for that kind of stuff by a lot by flying you around the world a few times a year for a week or more, in my book.

They explicitly wanted you to buy a laptop in your country using what's available to you so as to artificially widen the laptops with good ubuntu support: the reasoning was that you being a Canonical employee means you're more likely to help get the bugs fixed.

In practice however I don't think the diversity of laptops in the company was that great, we ended up with the same bunch of thinkpads and dells you'd expect from any random group of nerds (with a few exotics thrown in perhaps, but not many).

One requirement was to use Ubuntu on your laptop. I think they relaxed that over the years, even if working on not-ubuntu would definitely get you looks and comments at get togethers.