Quebec, south shore of the St Lawrence, across the bridge from Montreal!

Around here they build shopping malls over the most fertile land we have access to instead of using it to grow food for the millions of people living right next to it…

15% productivity increase going from 2 days in office to 5 days remote across a department with hundreds of employees.

What more do they need??? Companies would spend millions for that kind of increase in productivity but they wouldn’t accept to save money by switching to fully remote!

Oh so I should quit my job because I need to use Excel because our tools are Excel based programs, that’s what you’re saying?

Dual boot: and we still come back to my tip being useful

Office: I look at my job and most of our tools are Excel based programs, you can’t use Libre Office or other alternatives to open an Excel sheet full of macros and thousands of lines of code and expect it to work

Source?

People aren’t satisfied with only their basic needs met though.

Some people need to use certain programs for work that just don’t exist on Linux, some people play games with anti cheat that will require developer support in order to work on Linux (which might never happen). Hell, Libre Office is nice and all but if you’re dealing with someone who uses Microsoft Office and it’s a professional setting you don’t have a choice, you need to use Microsoft Office because although you can save files in the right format, when they reach their destination the formatting will probably be completely fucked.

I’m so tired of Linux users acting like they know better than others what their needs are.

Dude, you’re the one saying it’s ok to replace paid artists with AI, you’re the one saying it’s able to do their job, you’re the one saying that it can take people’s job, you just don’t feel concerned because you can’t imagine you’ll be the one being affected, you’re the one sounding like a Trumpist “It’s ok, it will only affect others and they’re the people who I believe done deserve to make a living off their work!”

I’m done, this is idiotic.

Again, until your boss feels he doesn’t need you and can just rely on good enough shit regurgitated by AI.

You’ll keep saying that until you end up jobless because a computer can accomplish your tasks in a good enough way, not as well as you, just well enough, then because it suddenly affects you you’ll be angry about it.

It is relevant, free development/services is nice and all, but when you’re spending all your time doing it at some point you still need to eat and that requires money so what do you do? You either give up on the free stuff or reduce the amount of time you spend doing it so you can find a job meaning you lose practice and aren’t at good at it.

I’m sorry to tell you but the people who are the best at what they do don’t do it for free, the reason they’re the best is that they can afford to do it full time because they make a living off it.

And that’s the problem right there

Some people can’t use an alternative OS, in which case, my tip applies.

Create throwaway account that will never be used except for Windows 11 install and go on with your day, tada!

“The best art is the one created by people who get no recognition for it”

Do you also believe the best houses are built by people who have no training in how to build them?

“Stop paying artists and people will keep creating”

They will, they won’t be able to spend the time required to become masters at it unless they’re already rich enough not to have to spend time working. It’s also the same thing here, let’s stop paying plumbers, people who like doing plumbing will just continue doing it. Let’s stop paying garbage people, someone will keep doing it because they like it… Oh wait, no they won’t.

https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project

People deserve a form of compensation for their work if we want to live in functioning societies. If we go back to living in small tribes then sure, people will just do what they must without compensation because it’s required to survive, but then human population would be in the millions instead of billions and we wouldn’t be here to talk about it because the technology wouldn’t exist anymore.

Bull fucking shit, you know as well as I do that your point doesn’t make sense.

So the best books are the ones that never get published? The Best music is free on Soundcloud? The best movies are freely available on Peertube?

Your realize that in order to achieve greatness in a field it takes time, if artists can’t live from their art because anyone is free to just make copy of it and to sell it and keep the profit to themselves then instead of making art they’ll have to find another job instead.

You might believe that AI will replace them, but AI doesn’t understand what it’s doing it just regurgitates stuff until the person asking for it finds it good enough. It lacks the will to generate emotions in the viewer or listener.

Scale Lemmy to the size of Reddit and we’ll see if good Samaritans are still willing to host it for free.

Well, that’s one take I guess… Not a good one, but one none the less…