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End of the day, nothing you can do will change what's happening half way across the world, so why let it change you?

I beg to differ. Here are a few things you can do. I agree these won't make an impact, but if enough people are willing to do these, it could work:

• Donate money if you can afford it. (Just carefully check where you're exactly donating to.)
• Promote non-propaganda, factual information. Muscovy spreads disinformation through social media and propaganda websites using their trolls. So why can't ordinary people step up and upvote, share, publish, and promote factual information? Sure, the algorithms of social media platforms favor the disinformation, but again, if enough people are willing to overcome what's happening, I believe, it could make a change.
• Promote education. Only stupid people can be influenced by the far right propaganda. Unfortunately there are way too many stupid people.
• Just do what you're good at. If your profession is irrelevant, that's fine. But if you happen to be a hacker, or want to become one, go ahead, and fight online scammers and trolls. Are you a software developer? Wanna be a web developer? Create something that has an impact if you have the free time and interest. Make it open source. Encourage others to join. Again, if you have no affinity for this kind of stuff, it's totally fine.
• Do your research and vote on elections.

In my opinion, this kind of mindset of "you cannot do anything, get used to it" is a very demotivating and harmful piece of advice. Because that's what's been going on all this time; everyone being ignorant, while evil people never stop doing what they're doing.

Hmm that's unfortunate. Wherever I worked so far, ThinkPads didn't break, even after the warranty expired.

Well, I wish you better luck with your Framework laptop(s) then.

Check again.

At least the T580 I worked on was the best quality laptop I've laid my hands on. My current M1 MacBook Pro is close, to some extent. It's a great machine too, and obviously better in performance as it's newer, but in laptop keyboards, ThinkPad's is still no.1, not to talk about the track point that, to this day, no other manufacturer could properly reproduce. I worked with a Dell Latitude (a couple of years ago they were great), but the track point is shit on it.

Regarding maintenance, Lenovo provides detailed disassembly and repair guides, plus you can get replacement parts anytime.

Of course there are shit decisions on the ThinkPad line as well, but I still only can recommend them.

Exactly.

Also, besides the fact that over this time PHP transformed into a whole different language, most of the concepts the author is dissatisfied with, are just nuances.

There are a few valid points as well.

Overall, if I were to use a scripting language for web development, I would 100% pick PHP, as that's the best suited language for the job. Nowadays, however, I go with Rust because I wanna squeeze out as much performance as I reasonably can.

For single use scripts and smaller tools on my desktop, I used Python in the past, and then I learned Ruby. I'm sticking with Ruby for these use cases.

Well, I guess it depends on the use case. For me, mine was a damn good investment for sure.

I know. Still, that's the best hardware out there for laptops. I have to add though, only the T and P series are worth buying, the rest are trash.

Buying HP products is bad investment.

I only had the chance to two of their inkjet printers and one of their office laser printers, plus an elitebook laptop. In short, all of them suck.

Much better (to me, the best) alternatives, that I can safely say are good investments: Canon for inkjet printers, ThinkPad T and P series for laptops. Those are quality products. Unfortunately I don't have any experience with other office laser printers, so I cannot recommend one.

Edit: specified which series of ThankPads are still good.

Just as a mildly interesting story, I thought I'd share:

The best self checkout experience I had so far, was at a Japanese clothing store in Germany. There was a box at the checkout station, and each clothing item had an RFID in their labels. You just toss all your items in the box, it detects which exact products you're gonna buy, and if the list of items shown is correct, you just pay and go.

A few years ago I heard of a similar concept for groceries, but that one was experimental and I don't think they've implemented it ever since. But this one at the clothing store was not a test, and it worked flawlessly.

I feel sorry for the author of the article for working at such a company.

This person happens to be working at a company, where they're not even taking Scrum seriously. What they're doing, is in fact, not Scrum.

When it's done correctly, it does make the team very productive and even enthusiastic, but - since it's a teamwork - a great team is needed for that.

It's true that it isn't easy to do Scrum right. It is in the Scrum guide too: easy to understand, but hard to master.

I did have a chance to work in an amazing team at a great company, where the leadership, as well as our Scrum master were determined to stick to the Scrum guide as much as possible (way too many "Scrum" teams make an alternate "Scrum" for themselves, with which they're essentially ruining it).

In our case, we didn't start out perfect either! We failed most of our sprints, but the management still believed in Scrum, and sent the whole team to a Scrum elevation training each year. Even as an introverted person, I have to say, they were really fun and they were good as team building events too, besides the training itself. We always returned to the office with greater enthusiasm after each training, and our enthusiasm always lasted longer and longer. At the end our team was like a "rock star" team at the company, the management, the leadership, our scrum master, all of them were proud of our achievements. We never failed a sprint again, and we also put the necessary overtime in when it was needed.

Those were the good times. Unfortunately I haven't managed to work in such a Scrum team again, and everywhere where I had an interview, they always had their own version of "Scrum".

Most likely the author of the article won't read this, but my message is, if you think, Scrum sucks, then in reality, your team (and maybe your company too) sucks.

"Carry a laser" - Mr. Mister

Oh. Someone at the EU Commission started to use websites? 🤔

I guess, any website served by Google Cloud wouldn't work either.