I’ve got this move coming up - my plan is to dual boot and slowly wean over.

Game crashes in Linux, try for a fix and if I get frustrated, boot into windows and enjoy the game.

Might be a rocky year, but the dual boot will likely take the stress off!

I’ve seen a lot of fedora-based distros pushed for gaming (mint is Debian based), apparently these can work better. Still looking into it, but no definitive answers there yet!

There is a added bonus here as well - some researchers will not only send the paper, but also offer to answer questions AND send other related papers.

Some academics out there are just really friendly people.

Short Answer - Universities

Long Answer:

To get and hold a job as an academic, you must continually produce “high quality research”. To get the job, in the first place, you must also be seen to do this.

“High quality” is often metriced by universities to mean “published in high impact journals” and “well cited”. This metric is known to be faulty, but universities really dislike change.

So, to get a job, you have to give up your rights to your research, and to keep your job, you have to do likewise.

Worse, in the current financial climate, academia is seeing unprecedented cuts, which further entrenches this issue.

“Choofy”

Ah yes, surveillance laws surrounded by references to CSAM to lock it in.

Ultimate way to protect your children from online harm - learn how to use a computer and actually keep an eye on them!

I’d say a lot of people think they can, and this I have witnessed all to well (and too often), yet rarely (never in certainly) have I seen those who can.

No worries, life is busy. Thanks for clearing that up.

The OP made a good point.

Sounds like an excuse to move my community elsewhere!

Please point out “female” in my post - I’ll wait

Really, at full efficiency? If so, my hat is off to you!

[Removed] - a little too inflammatory on reflection.

Sounds ok to me (male).

“The male wakes up at 7am, so he can prepare for his office work; he’s tired and being worn down, yet somehow remains resolute. In this way, he channels the spirit of the emperor penguin and endures.”

Remember folks, the gender wars distract from the class wars we should all be engaged in!

“The leprechaun of consequences”

Tricky one to weigh up there. It might not be that you’re lazy, you may well just be burned out, not working effectively (i.e. overworking yourself), or it could even be imposter syndrome. On the other hand, yes you could just be lazy, or you might just really hate your job. Hell, there have been times where I’ve felt unmotivated because our leadership team were just arseholes - sometimes a lack of motivation goes beyond just your own choices.

There just isn’t enough data in a short post.

Take some leave, go get checked out by a doctor, talk to a friend/partner, take a look at job ads to see if anything sounds better than where you are.

Either that or medication!

I abandoned hope long ago when I learned that excel was turing complete.

The darkness has already consumed me, there is no salvation from this sin.

Worse - pulling data from a web page, then using the power of pure jank to parse this input, and then invoking a sheet of reference string builders to construct formulae and execute them using too damn many @indirects nested into vlookups before finally adding in date aware data reveals, because no excel abomination is complete without trying to parse dates.

Or false regret, either or.

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