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    I don’t think we want to close the recruiter & c-suite containment system

    It does a great job of keeping them all in one place so we can leave them to their fart sniffing and occasionally visit like it’s a zoo

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    In case you’d like to know just how fucked the entire Linkedin edifice is, now is once again the time to trot out this piece of trivia.

    Windows users only: Hold down all four modifier keys on your keyboard, Ctrl + Alt + Shift + Win, and press L.

    You can never unlearn this piece of knowledge. You’re welcome.

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        I don’t use windows. Is this serious or are you joking? If true, this is pretty much like TV remotes that have a Netflix or Hulu button.

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          Its true, its how the weird special keys on certain keyboards functions. Its just a convoluted keybind integrated into Windows.

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          Yeah it’s real, Microsoft has built keyboard commands into the keyboard for awhile. Windows Key + E opens Windows Explorer. Think that existed in XP.

          Ctrl shift Esc opens task manager.

          Win r (run)

          Then obviously all the basics Ctrl x,c,v,p,z,y,f Ctrl t and Ctrl shift t for browsers

          (All of those last set should match Mac OS, just substitute Ctrl for Cmd)

          Most of them work in Mint and Debian as well.

          Although a good feature was updating Ctrl V to Win V which allows you to paste from your clipboard, so all those times you copy data, then copy something else and forget you did and try to paste, you can hit win v, and paste which selection you needed.

          I use Linux for Home, and Mac/Windows for work…

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    LinkedIn is worth many billions of dollars. No lottery would pay out enough money to buy it.

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    This is one of the few good things having the same job for 20 years has been. Never needing to create a linkdin account. I’ve been told in the past it’s still good to have, but i think that period of time is long gone. Glad i never gave them my info and time.

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    it’s the only social media I have that still has my real name attached. I use it to keep in contact with old coworkers, keep and host my resume, and I like their daily games. It also makes it easier to spitefully apply to other jobs at 2am but then those jobs actually call me and I realize I don’t want to have to learn 30 new people’s names and a new set of nightly charting requirements all over again. Doesn’t mean I don’t threaten my boss occasionally anyway.

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      It’s not that it’s more evil than other social media, it’s just such a shit platform. Everybody is posting their performative BS to try and look professional, it’s a massive circlejerk. Nothing of value posted there

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        Dealing with that level of performative bullshit is genuinely agonizing to me. LinkedIn is like my idea of personal hell – everyone, everywhere, up their own ass and completely full of shit, all the time – and I have resolved to never have a net worth or job title that would necessitate using it.

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        Posts on it are mostly garbage, but it still seems the best place to find jobs, at least in my own engineering experience.

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      Eh, it’s Facebook in a suit-and-tie. Rarely does anything get above the level of watercooler talk, job-fair friendly material, and hiring/training/talent influencers strutting their stuff.

      Also, like Facebook, the most useful part of it is the built-in chat. It’s hard to stand out on the “feed” if you’re not a company, and most of your networking and job hunting happens in chat. The latter is crucial since recruiters use this to screen out robots and invalid candidates, and it’s your best opportunity to do the same. And you will get feelers from crafty LLMs pushing all kinds of sketchy “opportunities.”

      Meanwhile, the slop that hits your feed is inreasingly AI-generated nonsense, awful infographics, techbro/ceo-bro influencer nonsense, and just straight-up corporate PR advertising. It would be better if people posted things, but nobody wants to say or do anything that would cost a job now or in the future.

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    I honestly forget I have a LinkedIn account most of the time. I think I’ve logged in maybe less than 5 times just to update things. Only emails I get are the usual Facebook things of asking if I know some random person in a different company or a higher up at the one I work for. Maybe a couple informing me of places hiring several states away for a decent pay increase, but it usually just falls into spam in my mind.

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    Never used LinkedIn and when I’ve been pushed to I couldn’t explain why I couldn’t . After seeing few posts I’m glad my gut instinct is working well :p