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On this day, 15 Oct 1940 Charlie Chaplin's first talkie The Great Dictator debuted in New York (while the US was still formally at peace with Nazi Germany). in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

Fun fact: Chaplin had to finance the film himself, because nobody in the US film industry wanted to fund it in order to not anger the Nazis and potentially lose the lucrative German market.

The salesman and the utterly unusable search feature in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Pretty accurate description of my experience with sales and management.

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The salesman and the utterly unusable search feature (sh.itjust.works)

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So we're having a meeting with a software vendor about a new ERP solution. Representatives of every department and the boss himself present.

Since all they know is some ancient piece of shit software that had the worst search imaginable, they keep yapping and asking about the search features.

Vendor's representative demonstrates and explains the different search options in depth and mentions the possibility of using wildcard search, the wildcard being an asterisk, as in pretty much any search tool anywhere.

This launches a salesman (who was specifically selected to be on this meeting for being the most IT competent in that department) into a tirade, wildly gesticulating and waving his open and running laptop all about the place while pressing random keys on the keyboard, about how unusable that is, because his keyboard doesn't even have an asterisk. (it does) Anyone who actually knows a thing about computers or two sinks into the ground in embarrassment. Boss keeps nodding in agreement and making supporting interjections on behalf of the salesman.

The end.

How bad is Ubuntu? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I know, but I don't have any half way recent experience with it, so I don't know whether I can recommend it. When I last checked it out some years ago, it still lacked functionality regular Ubuntu based Mint had.

How bad is Ubuntu? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I am in the same boat as you. I am still running Ubuntu (with snap removed, so I can't comment on its current performance overhead) on a few of my machines because I couldn't be bothered to do a reinstall with something less insane, but I'm not recommending Ubuntu to anyone anymore over the same concerns as you have.

If you want to recommend a system that runs decently out of the box and runs a lot of software, recommend Mint instead. Ubuntu used to be Debian with sane default settings that would run out of the box, nowadays Mint is Ubuntu with sane default settings that will run out of the box. Mint also doesn't subscribe to this snap madness and is continuing to maintain a few packages Ubuntu has migrated to snap as .deb package (for instance Firefox and Chromium).

France's 'Excalibur' sword vanishes from the stone after 1,300 years in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Indeed, but it only was widely popularised after it had been used to rid France of its king by ridding said King of his head.

France's 'Excalibur' sword vanishes from the stone after 1,300 years in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 53 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

I wouldn't necessarily want to claim the throne in a country that once invented a machine for getting rid of kings by getting rid of their heads very efficiently.

ich🐒❓❔iel in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Hubi hat freundlicherweise da was pfostiert und angeheftet: https://feddit.org/post/205879

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ich🐒❓❔iel (files.catbox.moe)

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ich🪦🥳🥳iel in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

keine Ahnung, bin nicht mehr auf Lases unterwegs und hab gehört, dass es drüben ganz schlimm geworden sein soll.

ich‼️iel in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Dann pfostiert hier niemand mehr, was die Moderation vereinfacht und die Zuhausis verleitet, stattdessen auf der neuen Instanz zu pfostieren.

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ich🐌iel (sh.itjust.works)

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Kreuzpfosten von [email protected]

Die Zuhausis von /c/europe haben den Umzug auf die neue Instanz schon vollzogen:

Warum sind wir langsamer, als diese Bürokraten von der EU? Können wir das auf uns sitzen lassen?

Javier Milei in Deutschland: Hoffnungsträger oder Scharlatan? - ZDFheute in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Das wäre aber schade um das Milkshake.

ich🪦🥳🥳iel in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Der Servierer hat aber einen sehr hohen Busfaktor, wie wir wiederholt beobachten konnten.

Wenn z.B. ein Verwalter seinen sichere-Muschel-Schlüssel im Bus vergissst, während der andere eine sehr weite und lange Busreise unternimmt, kann niemand was machen, wenn mal wieder der Stör vorbeischaut. Genau das ist ja gerade der Fall und der Grund, warum das Gewebevorderende seit Monaten immer noch nicht wieder geht.

ich🪦🥳🥳iel in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Wahrscheinlich hat ein Teil der Zuhausis sich schon einen Zweitbenutzer auf irgendeiner anderen Instanz angelegt, bevor es feddit.org gab. (So hab ich das gemacht) Nochmal nen Benutzer anzulegen, macht nur unnötig Aufwand, wenn man schon einen auf ner Instanz hat, die geht.