Jim @sullybiker@sully.site

The joke did not land and he waved me through, still not the correct signal but by that point I did not care.

I asked him what on earth that meant, and asked if I can go. He pointed at the road again. I said you have two possible signals and that isn't one of them, now am I staying or going? That was when he told me I had an attitude. I told him I just want to get to work so I can stand around doing fuck all as well.

My day started very badly, with an argument with a road flagger who told me I had a 'bad attitude'. I arrived at the lane he was controlling; he had his back to me (big no-no) flag down, and a phone to his ear. I waited for about 30 seconds, then grew irritable as nothing was happening (the road was clear). I put my window down and yelled 'Good morning!' He turned around and pointed at the road.

@Natasha_Jay hat Well it's not a rational number 😄

I don't have the issues with the snap ecosystem, by and large they are fine, but a browser really ought to be a perfect example of what you want your product to look like.

Snaps in particular: Canonical, this has been a known problem for years. Get your act together. #Linux

If you dogfood Linux you learn to deal with most problems but it is a constant reminder that trying to be something you're not is not going to work unless you put real effort and backing into it.

Now, I have seen this before (along with rest of Earth) and an update fixes it, but what a bad first impression. Along with the initial flurry of Ubuntu oops report dialogue boxes (again, just something you come to live with) it does not scream polish.

I have the good fortune through work to get to try a few bits of hardware here and there. Today's is the XPS13. I used the 2014 original for a long time. Build quality feels much improved (the original was pretty cheap'n'cheerful) but ordered this with Ubuntu as on OEM image, and there's problems with the Firefox snap almost immediately.

@wjmaggos I associate that more with the other place. People get way too excited about it. I think it's adolescent.

I'm surprised at the amount of Apple consoomer cheerleading on the fediverse. Maybe I shouldn't be.

One of my old PhDs is now faculty elsewhere and she's been in touch for a project. I always like working with these people. Best part of the job.

@feld The story of how that happened will be told, and it will be interesting. Hopefully it doesn't ripple out an destroy large parts of the sector, but they got away with 2008 so they'll probably get away with this, because we'll foot the bill. Again.

@claudiom Hope it goes smoothly!

@feld They'll just make us all go back to work

@feld It's an old story; overvalued assets with loans written against them, then translated into nuclear derivatives.