Speaking of unsubstantiated accusations, do we have actual, reliable information about what is really going on? Any link in either French or English appreciated.

Er. Some country stats are as old as 1999. Not only is such data utterly meaningless in 2025 (just think about what role China had in the world stage back then and compare it to the current one), it is straight up dangerous to compare between countries like that.

Too lazy.

Exactly. I always joke, even at work, that if I was a dictator, I would be a pretty eccentric one. Jailing political opponents? What a waste of time and energy. Repressing minorities? Couldn’t care less. Curtailing women’s rights? Nope. Centralising the economy and giving friends and family juicy government-backed contracts? Nah, that’s not me. But I WOULD make EVERYONE work from the command line lest they’re willing to die at the stake.

A command line is WAY faster than using the mouse, provided you can type fast enough. A thing I’d like to add is that, to me, all those shiny pointy-clicky interfaces are little more than a distraction: they literally slow me down and prevent me from doing real work. Of course, this last bit is a very personal opinion and YMMV.

Totally not a bubble. At all.

…though I’d like to add that, in the original post, ‘at work’ == ‘at someone else’s company’

Good point, thanks for the insights

That’s … THE one argument that (mostly) vindicates my theory. It is a friggin’ ‘requirement’ because it makes you replaceable/disposable. If you think otherwise, I’m legit interested on why you think companies have your, not their, best interests in mind.

My point is (almost) exactly the opposite: I’d argue that any of those non-specialists can be replaced at any time with other non-specialists (best case scenario), or with bootlickers, nutjobs and yay-sayers (worst case scenario). In other words, you shouldn’t aspire to be the one your boss delegates every shitty piece of ‘work’ he can think of, rather, to be THE one everyone else in the company has to wait for if they want X or Y done.

I have ZERO sympathy for companies whose services are affected by this. Because seriously, fuck Amazon.

…and 99,99% of middle managers ‘’‘working’‘’ in tech be like yeaaaaaaaa daddy just cram that shit down my throat like I’m an abused goose!

Reminds me that, at least according to Wikipedia, one of the biggest allies of the ‘Aryan Brotherhood’ US prison gang is none other than… the Mexican mafia.

Funny, just a couple of nights ago, I was wondering if this distro still exists. I tried it some 5 years ago and I found it sleek, but its reliance on systemd made me migrate.

I always thought not being able to use it’s and its correctly was bad enough…until I saw people confusing those and does in the wild…wtf.

I bet it tastes like cheetos.

NetBSD. This box seems to have a vanilla x86 processor and it has plenty of resources (for NetBSD, that is). You can’t use this as a daily driver, but it should be good enough to learn UNIX and/or self-host some stuff.

I’m very proud of you, for that simply means that you don’t want to become a modern slave, and therefore, that your brain still works.

Anyone here in the mood for a tasty, crispy, roasted Compsognathus?

Biebian.