But… America is literally Europe 2.0… so, you’re saying Europe is Europe 3.0?

Caveat: I don’t know you or your manager, so your experience may be very different.

But as someone who has ended up in management in three previous roles (not currently) your post brought two thoughts to my mind:

1. For me, I’d far rather people in my team came to me and were open about things. Don’t bottle it up and hope that they’ll somehow guess - they won’t. They’re not psychic and they’ve probably got 101 other things to worry about. Think of it like this: Could you do your job if nobody was ever honest with you about you previous days performance.

2. If you’re tempted to default to thinking of line manager’s as the enemy, consider that in most cases they are just trying to do their best while shouldering 10x the shit from their manager than is making it through to you.

Not saying there aren’t bad and/or narcissistic managers about, but I suspect most of the time they only appear that way due to the screws in their back from above.

I get that, and it was almost certainly Booking.com who leaked it as I have had shady messages through even their own messaging platform before…

I think what baffles me is that this gets so close to convincing (if you’re not internet savvy), and then they throw in something so bizarre like having a username of “Rus Education” 🙄

Unfortunately, I just don’t have the social capital to move people off of Meta messaging services… A good 50% of my friends have ditched FB, but somehow saw WhatsApp as the solution 🤦

Embrace the analogue radio.

Do take rest stops - you won’t realise you’re tired until it’s too late.

I’ve got a relatively new Fedora install and I think I’ve seen this too - not had time to fully investigate, but have found on occasion if I leave it for a day the monitor brightness has wound down.

Single GPU with scripts that run before and after the VM is active to unload the GPU driver modules from the kernel.

I think this was my starting point and I had to do just a few small tweaks to get it right for my setup - i.e. unload and reload the precise set of kernel modules that block GPU passthrough on my machine.

https://gitlab.com/Karuri/vfio

At this point from a user experience p.o.v it’s not much different to dual booting, just with a different boot sequence. The main advantage though is that I can have the Windows OS on a small virtual harddrive for ease of backup/clone/restore and have game installs on a dedicated NVME that doesn’t need backing up

I’ve been 100% linux for my daily home computing for over a year now… With one exception… To be honest I didn’t even try particularly hard to make gaming work under Linux.

Instead I have a Windows VM - setup with full passthrough access to my GPU and it’s own NVME - just for Windows gaming. To my mind now it’s in the same category as running console emulation.

As soon as I click shutdown in windows, it pops me straight back into my Linux desktop.

I had some hard to track down intermittent network issues when I upgraded from LMDE5 to LMDE6 - the solution was to get a newer kernel from backports - its fairly painless…

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=413995#:~:text=You get the kernel updates,using with command uname -v.

Nice reference: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000005725/wireless/legacy-intel-wireless-products.html

I guess my point is that it isn’t a particularly important part of the design of Wi-Fi - they included it in the very first iteration in 1997 and realised by 1999 they didn’t need it. Therefore Wi-Fi would likely have been born regardless of the invention; Bluetooth would not.

Great to recognise this invention.

I was surprised by the choice of ‘Mother of Wi-Fi’ though - Wi-Fi hasn’t used ‘frequency hopping’ as such since 802.11b was released back in 1999 - so very few people will have ever used frequency-hopping Wi-Fi.

GPS only uses it in some extreme cases I think, but I’m not an expert.

However, Bluetooth absolutely does depend on it to function in most situations, so ‘Mother of Bluetooth’ might have been more appropriate.

Yep, especially surface mount lithium batteries - they’re very sensitive to the solder reflow profile being juuuust right