@Nic said:

reminds me of that poor sod on reddit who was all excited to get a job at google. they posted all these pictures of their uniform and other stuff and then google fired them for breaking NDA.

Yeah, that one was worse because it was all positive. There was real potential for just having a good talking to him about what an NDA means and how anal Google is. That was a potentially awesome Google employee that they let go because they are terrified that anyone find out what it is really like to work there.

Although honestly, no one who WORKS at Google is excited about it, only people who HOPE to work at Google. So once he was inside his sudden loss of excitement is probably something that Google feared too.

@IRJ Exactly! And with a $99 printer and $82 savings per refill (wow, that's an extreme example) even if third party ink ruined printers nearly every time, it would still be a savings! That they only do it rarely makes it a huge savings in a case like that. No way OEM ink would be worth it.

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"In any team you need a tank, a healer, a damage dealer, someone with crowd control abilities, and another who knows iptables"
– Jérôme Petazzoni (@jpetazzo

@thanksaj said:

I won't deny that if you have 1 bad batch of ink that ruins a printer and it happens to be after 9 good batches that saved you a ton of money, that's fine. But what if that bad batch is on the first or second round? It can happen.

Wearing a seatbelt can kill you by trapping you in a burning car, it happens. It's rare. But, on average, wearing a seatbelt saves lives, a lot of them. You don't put your life at risk 99% of the time in the fear of surviving the one rare case where the seatbelt is what endangers you. Same here. You take the path that, on average, saves you money.

It's like Best Buy insurance. Everyone knows that it is a rip off. Sure, your equipment might die and it might have saved you, but on average it costs you an arm and a leg. You have to look at the average, not the fear factor.

Both crappy insurance and OEM ink rely on emotion and irrational thinking to make sales by scaring people into not doing the math. It doesn't matter if you get hit with your "bad ink" on the first or tenth time, it's the average over all ink that you ever buy that saves you the money. If you buy OEM ink, you are guaranteeing that you will lose, just not necessarily on day one.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/23/michael_thomas_appeals_conviction/

Interesting court case, worth following.

This was actually a real thing at my last job. They called "premeetings" a "meeting pregame" and expected every meeting of any size to have a premeeting before it. It was ridiculous.

Of course, for that price and specs, you could just get a Chromebook and put Linux on it.

My favourite is Telltale Games "Strongbad's Cool Game for Attractive People"

@AVI-NetworkGuy said:

You should look into the solutions from Scale. It's pretty much exactly what you want without the complexity.

I was literally on the phone with Scale when this thread popped up. Pinging them back now.

@IRJ said:

It's nothing against AJ, but starting a business in the US is difficult enough when you consider all the paperwork and budget keeping aspects. I would imagine that starting a business in a different country is much harder.

Well they aren't calling him Crazy AJ for nothing!

I have found time and again that the incredible cost to managing and ensuring compliance for Microsoft licensing, rather than the actual cost of it, has been a driving factor for businesses choosing UNIX, mostly Linux. With most Linux options all of this complexity just melts away. You don't need to think about licenses at all, you just deploy what you need. With Windows you spend more time figuring out the licenses than it takes to manage Linux.

This is awesome. Apparently Texas is a term for Crazy in Scandinavia.

That's the question there. We mention it from time to time but how many people have looked into it seriously enough to really have done a side by side comparison for a real world company to see what the reasonability of using Linux would be? Does not have to be a specific Linux desktop but something like Linux Mint or Ubuntu would be likely.

Has anyone done tests to see if they would have adequate compatibility? What about replacement applications? User acceptance testing or feedback to see if they like the option?

If so, how did it go? What did users think? What was the final decision? Which distros did you test?

@coliver said:

No stupidity tax? That seems like a missed opportunity.

That is one tax that should never go away.

There are systems that do this with version control. You could do this with GIT or Mercurial, in theory. But eventually a human always has to sort things out.

@MattSpeller said:

Exactly - there's no points or things to win it's just purely about how good is your contribution to the discussion.

Good point. I often forget about the points.

When you can, within reason, you want to have SELinux or AppArmor turned on. They are there for a reason, they provide rather a significant amount of additional protection.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

about to install a CentOS VM to test faveo-helpdesk-v1.0.7.8-16

Screenshots or it didn't happen.