I share the same experience, but tbh, my almost every single laptop purchase was prefaced by hours or even days of searching the internet for other people's experience with Linux on a particular machine. Except the first one - and I got machine with broken ethernet, without having wifi at home. Have fun copying .deb packages over usb stick.
> (...) returned to ethernet cords in piles around the floor, random wires sticking out of walls, and motion-sensor lights that weren’t working correctly
I don't understand that part, maybe I'm missing something - what happened there? Why would the abandoned workplace not look exactly the same as they left it? Where did the ethernet cords appear from? Someone stole TVs from the walls?
The federal government is generally pretty efficient. They probably sold off surplus equipment. They definitely have been consolidating office space. It could be that the remaining leases were cheaper to keep than buy out, or that selling the buildings didn’t make sense.
Regardless, there’s no reason for them to hire facilities people to maintain vacant space. Leaving furniture in those places would attract vermin, ruin the furniture, etc.
> The federal government is generally pretty efficient.
Then either Musk and Trump are lying about needing to focus on government efficiency, or some of the brightest and most brilliant minds that the American people willingly voted for are wrong.
> I don't understand that part, maybe I'm missing something - what happened there?
It's hard to think, I know. But don't worry, I'll give you some ideas.
> Why would the abandoned workplace not look exactly the same as they left it?
There might have been some animals who came along and decided that the TVs were very important. Maybe there was a hurricane or a tornado which decided to fuck this place in particular, but only by taking the desks and TVs.
Or, maybe the workers who used the office weren't the last people in the office.
> Where did the ethernet cords appear from?
They were always there. Some people actually know how to have a reliable, secure, and fast data connection. Protip: it's not wifi. Usually when the TV or computer is installed, all of the extra wire is hidden in the wall. But after the TV or computer has been removed, the extra wire length is often left on the ground ready to be tested or installed with the next device.
It's just very annoying (read: time-expensive for little profit) to pull the wires all the way out of the walls to be taken, and even more expensive to re/install in a new location (it's significantly cheaper to just install new wiring instead).
> Someone stole TVs from the walls?
It's possible, but not likely. Those TVs were most likely g(r)ifted to the managers and/or executives. You know, the same people who actually own the building. That's not the same as stolen. Also, the missing TV can now be written off of taxes as a loss for the business. Everyone likes double-dipping, right?
It's been a few years. In that time, leases will have ended, and not been renewed. Refurbs and buildouts of new space will have been abandoned. Outdated and surplus equipment will have been decommissioned and scrapped or sold off or sent to other sites where it was required. I'm sure there are some offices that are just like how they were, but also some offices which _no longer exist_, and it's unlikely their replacements will have been fitted out if it wasn't expected that they would be imminently used.
So, this thing called Covid hit. It was a pandemic, and because it was infectious, a large push to work remotely was made (both in private and public businesses).
When employers realized that work was being done despite not being in the office, they started to shutter their offices (ya know, to save money).
I can't believe I have to explain to another adult why offices after Covid don't look the same.
What an insulting and willfully obtuse answer, that does not address any of these perfectly reasonable questions. When you leave your house on vacation, do you rip the cords out of the outlets and pile them on the floor, and dismount all the TVs?
The comment was demeaning; offense was clearly intended, to belittle the GP's intelligence.
To call a statement that is intended to insult, "insulting", seems to be accurate? It was not intended to indicate offense on my part, but to chastise for unnecessary hostility. Maybe I'm reading your reply wrong, though.
Some people just live under a rock; or they have never been impacted by god awful management decisions.
Sometimes I wonder what that life looks like? Maybe just sipping champagne at beach side (or on the couch) all day in ignorance. Watch whatever reality trash is on streaming services. All while the world burns around them.
What people did before was simple in my childhood case: your grandma/grandpa, who live downstairs in a multifamily home, drops you off or picks you up.
How that's supposed to work with just 2 parents that work 8h/day - idk.
Exactly how I just said? One picks up, one drops off. Not that hard, my parents managed it my whole childhood. And kids can make their own way to/from school after a few years.
Who gets to choose their own hours? This would get most people fired. You can’t just leave in the middle of the afternoon to spend an hour+ driving your kids around
That's why I like that I have 0 friends in tech and all of my friends reside outside this bubble. Like, recently someone asked me for help, because he didn't have enough money to pay the taxes. Like holy crap, this is unthinkable in tech, but totally normal outside.
Which doesn't make any sense, because people who walked or biked could just have done the same when working remotely - just turn around after 1/2 of distance to the office and go back home. Then repeat after work.
They didn't miss the "commute to work", they missed the exercise and the internal soothing feeling, that they are doing something good for the health in spite of that trip being required to get the paycheck, and that it's not a total waste of time when done this way.
> and just trying to run the company effectively and efficiently
The issue is, during covid, many companies thrived, the sales skyrocketed and everyone was happier than ever. Now, they backpedal and say that we need to go back butts in chairs for reasons, but there is zero mention of the previous prosperity and why can't we just keep doing the same.
IDK but the current convention makes it easy to see single-threaded bottlenecks. So if my program is using 100% CPU and cannot go faster, I know where to look.
I think IntelliJ blows out the competition on the out-of-the-box experience. "Open project" works with a regular folder, no importing dance, auto-detects Java build tools, for anything needing a plugin, there is a popup that you approve with one click. Nothing comes close.
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