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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • Damage@feddit.ittoLinux@lemmy.ml•Being Forced to Say Goodbye
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    1 day ago

    I was assigned the installation of a whole industrial line for food packaging, multiple millions worth, on and off I spent like 8 months abroad forcing badly designed machines into working (I was the top tech and I resigned after this job), even ended up in the hospital, likely due to stress. Few months after I left, I go out drinking with a former colleague who had been on site with me, he says: “Well, I’m happy to inform you that, the customer hasn’t called us for months! Means everything’s working, great job!” and shook my hand.

    The following morning, another former colleague sends me the screenshot of a mail from the customer saying that the business opportunities didn’t work out and they’re decommissioning the line. Literal blood, sweat and tears, completely wasted.

  • Damage@feddit.ittoLinux@lemmy.ml•CachyOs vs PopOs vs others?
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    3 days ago

    I use Nobara on my desktop and Fedora on my laptop, they both work fine, although I’ve had a few audio issues on Nobara, but it could be the different hardware. I don’t play emulators, but every game I’ve tried on Nobara worked with no fiddling, just recently: Cyberpunk 2077, Subnautica, Horizon Forbidden West, X4…

    I’ve been using Fedora for I don’t know how long, over a decade I’d say, and it’s hard to overstate it’s stability, it just works, and has great repos. My main annoyance is the frequent major version updates, it’s a quick process anyway, and I never had problems.

  • Damage@feddit.ittoWorld News@lemmy.world•French citizens fail language tests for foreigners seeking residencyEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Thanks a lot! I’ve been an avid reader as a kid, I use it a lot online, and I also used to travel quite a bit for work, although that probably hindered me more than helping, as, aside from a bunch of visits to the US a looong time ago, I rarely visited English-speaking countries; everywhere else I always had to adapt my English to the local accents and common errors.

    The best was visiting other romance-language-speaking countries, where we started off with English, then began incorporating each others’ language until every time we ended up with weird mixes that I liked to call Desperanto.

  • Damage@feddit.ittopolitics @lemmy.world•Bill requiring posting, teaching of Ten Commandments fails in South Dakota House
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    7 days ago

    You might enjoy Fabrizio De André’s song, “il Testamento di Tito”, or Modena City Ramblers’ excellent cover

    Surprisingly good Google Translate:

    spoiler

    You shall have no other God before me,
    often made me think:
    different people coming from the east
    said that in the end it was the same.

    They believed in another different from you
    and they did not hurt me.
    They believed in another different from you
    and they did not hurt me.
    Do not name God,
    do not name him in vain.
    With a knife stuck in my side
    I shouted my pain and his name:

    but maybe he was tired, maybe too busy,
    and he did not listen to my pain.
    But maybe he was tired, maybe too far away,
    I really named him in vain.

    Honor your father, honor your mother
    and honor their staff too,
    kiss the hand that broke your nose
    because you asked for a morsel:

    when my father’s heart stopped
    I felt no pain.
    When my father’s heart stopped
    I felt no pain.
    Remember to keep holy the holidays.
    Easy for us thieves
    to enter temples that regurgitate psalms
    of slaves and their masters

    without ending up tied to altars
    and slaughtered like animals.

    Without ending up tied to altars
    and slaughtered like animals.

    The fifth says you must not steal
    and perhaps I respected it
    emptying, in silence, the already bulging pockets
    of those who had stolen:

    but I, without law, stole in my name,
    those others in the name of God.

    But I, without law, stole in my name,
    those others in the name of God.

    Do not commit acts that are not pure
    that is, do not waste the seed.
    Make a woman pregnant every time you love her
    so you will be a man of faith:

    Then the desire vanishes and the child remains
    and hunger kills many.
    I, perhaps, have confused pleasure and love:
    but I have not created pain.

    The seventh says do not kill
    if you want to be worthy of heaven.
    Look at it today, this law of God,
    three times nailed in wood:

    Look at the end of that Nazarene
    and one thief does not die less.
    Look at the end of that Nazarene
    and one thief does not die less.

    Do not bear false witness
    and help them kill a man.
    They know the divine law by heart,
    and they always forget forgiveness:

    I have perjured myself on God and on my honor
    and no, I feel no pain.
    I have perjured myself on God and on my honor
    and no, I feel no pain.

    Do not covet other people’s property
    do not covet their wife.
    Tell those, ask the few
    who have a woman and something:

    in other people’s beds already warm with love
    I felt no pain.
    Yesterday’s envy is not over:
    tonight I envy your life.

    But now that the evening comes and the darkness
    takes the pain from my eyes
    and the sun slips beyond the dunes
    to rape other nights:

    I, in seeing this man who dies,
    mother, I feel pain.
    In the pity that does not yield to rancor,
    mother, I have learned love".