For me, a C# developer by trade, this is easily solved with a one command C# call. It’s possible you already have dotnet 6 or 8 on your distro as there are many C# Linux apps now.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/System.Text.Json/9.0.0-preview.4.24266.19

It’s Teams, now.

We are 90% there already. In many states, solar panels and usage have extra taxes. Most solar installations are grid tied and electricity sale prices to the company are fixed at a small fraction of their sale prices from those companies. Worse, if power goes out, you can’t use solar to stay electrified because electricity would leak out and potentially electrocute nearby line men.

Also, as the children become accustomed to having no freedom or privacy, it becomes easier to force it on them as adults.

This is pernicious totalitarianism. Anything you have ever done can be used against you if the state decides you are a threat.

Constant surveillance leads to more obedience, due to fear.

Reject and return all tax breaks, deductions or rebates - or you are affiliated with them and thus are impossible to trust. Oh, and return the government money you accepted for public secondary education. You government shill!

Okay, then every American who gets grants, welfare, or discounted education. Funding is funding. If you think 1% equals communism, or crushes integrity, there is no hope for you.

1% revenue support from Government is “state affiliated”? In that case every single media outlet is state affiliated by virtue of their tax breaks.

It’s what you can’t see that is problematic. The surveillance is turned up to 11. Ba-dum Tish!

Here in the USA there is apparently a glut of unemployed developers as up to 300k were let go between last November and July.

I’m typically competing with over 200 applicants, so they probably just keep interviewing until they get exactly what they want. Plus, ageism.

You are spot on. I’ve had Decades of experience and success in this industry. However this year I was laid off in one of those 6 to 10% staff lay off things. Since then I’ve applied to over 100 jobs I’ve had at least eight interview processes.

I go through two to four interviews some of them two to three hours long. And I get to the very end, and then I never hear from them again.

Some have me go through leet code type algorithm questions online with 20 minutes to solve the problem. For me, that’s pretty much impossible. Others have me spend several days creating a project from scratch, they review it and maybe they talk to me about it afterwards.

Others don’t do a very good job of hiding the ageism, e.g. insisting I tell them what year I got my CS degree.

Given the level of experience I have with new technologies as well as old, I find it hard to believe that I’m not fit to be employed all of a sudden.

First piece of advice, do not be over the age of 50. It won’t matter how good you are.

Second, even if you think you’re really good at interviewing and going through the application process take seminars and classes on the topic and keep tweaking.

Third, it doesn’t matter if you completed successfully one or more multimonth projects in a particular technology. If you don’t know every little detail when they interview you, you are immediately written off.

I had one not even bother to interview me because I did not have enough years writing React code.

Another wrote me off because it has been a few years since I tech lead an Angular project. My most recent company used React. The one before used Angular.

Apparently we must spend all our personal time continuing development on technologies not in use for our jobs at the expense of our families or we aren’t worth the trouble.

Oh yeah, and we must be able to succeed solving random algorithm problems in under 20 minutes on the spot. That means we basically need to be able to solve them all because we’ll never know which one will get.

I use the ppa because the snap version does not let me use the keypass XC Plug-In or my VPN plug in.

O.o

Think of it this way: freedom is a threat to his business model.

I heard about it. I am a fan of Marketplace. It’s just insane that he tried to silence it after all that free speech bullshit he sprouted, while he removed the notice on media literally owned by authoritarian states. He’s a wingnut. Up is down, good is bad, etc…

NPR. I shit you not.

You are right, i misread your text. I haven’t tried sharing.

I’m using Wayland with Gnome and have no problem with screen capture.

In my case, KeePass and ExpressVPN could not function. For KeepassXC, this was the reason:

It is impossible to support native messaging when a browser is running as a sandboxed snap. This is a limitation in snapd not keepassxc.

It appears they found some work-around with an extra script after installation as of 2 years ago. Basically, snaps are sandboxed, which is a feature. That wreaks havoc with certain tools, though. ExpressVPN’s browser plugin was having similar problems, and on Linux, that’s you’re only GUI interface for ExpressVPN.

I just checked, and I was updated to the Snap version, and I had no problems with either extension, so they did solve the problems. Therefore, I’m not outraged. Ubuntu has the right to standardize their deployments on a system that makes their work easier or less chaotic - as long as it does not screw over their customers.

Edit: i was mistaken. I still use the Mozilla PPA, so the problems migjt remain.

I can agree with that only if they solved the problems with extensions and a few other features that were not working with the snap version. If they did not, then they are assholes.

I use keepass to fill login forms, and that does not work with the snap version.

I found this amusing, personally, but apparently about 50% of readers hated it… I wonder why? (And as important, why so many?)