OP you are now a grey rock until you can get out. Good luck, if you have great worker protections as an EU worker, even better, just do your job, keep your head down. You can choose how you respond mentally and how it affects you. Don’t try to control what you can’t control. Take up mindfulness and meditation and a side of therapy if you need to while you work on getting a better job in the EU.

Torx for the win.

also relevant Bonus xkcd

I just manually search tenor.com or whatever gif site and send a link or download and send as an attachment. Annoying extra step but I’m using futo due to privacy/degoogle, so I don’t mind the extra work.

https://keyboard.futo.org/

The Tummy of Theseus

Yes, hiring is really at such a bad state right now that it’s not worth my time filling out another application through Workday, ICIMS, Taleo, ADP, eightfoldAI, OracleCloud, SuccessFactors, ADP, those stupid slow application chatbots that ask you one question at a time while and make you wait an excruciating amount of time while it loads the next questions (seriously who thought that making an application form into a chat bot questionnaire was a good idea, that PM should fired and blacklisted), and all the horrible ATS I have yet to encounter.

• Why waste my time when I can apply for more jobs without the headache?
• Workday is currently under investigation for AI bias.
• I’ve applied to 1000+ jobs globally over the last year and haven’t had a single interview through a company that uses a shitty ATS.
• I wouldn’t want to work for a company that uses Workday, etc and disrespects its prospective employees.
• Companies that use applicant friendly ATS like BambooHR, Ashby, Greenhouse, Workable, Lever, BreezyHR, LinkedIn Easy Apply, are more likely to value my skillset, are the ones actually interviewing me, and I would rather work for those companies too.

There’s an entire subreddit dedicated to how shitty the job search is right now, a lot of gems like this to commiserate in our trauma bonds.

is that hiring really at such a bad state right now

Yes, people are losing their houses, cars. I had to move back in with my retired parents. Tons of long term unemployment. Job posts get 100+ applicants in the first day and thousands of applicants in the first week.

They’re Skipping Car Payments; That’s The Final Warning Sign

Trump tarriffs, Muskrat DOGE layoffs, several years of tech layoffs and LLM induced layoffs. Its rough out there.

Why do you make baseless claims like that? They refunded everyone when they didn’t meet their funding goals, and also committed to creating a special edition phone in the next campaign for everyone who supported. You can see the campaign here on indiegogo

Edit: Librem and Purism the controversial ones, not Liberux

This linux phone by Liberux seems like the most promising option in the near future. The crowdfunding campaign failed this summer but the project is still moving forward, just waiting to hear more from them @Liberux

Also GrapheneOS but not sure how far along any of this is: “We plan to partner with OEMs to have devices produced meeting all our requirements, providing additional privacy/security features beyond them and ideally shipping with GrapheneOS rather than massively lowering our standards.”

Edit: here’s a recent post from GrapheneOS from August 2025:

We’re working on GrapheneOS support for future generations of a subset of the device models provided by a major Android OEM. Their current devices don’t provide the updates and security features we need, but they’re capable of doing it. We’re working with them towards providing this so we can support their devices. They may end up officially selling devices with GrapheneOS as an option but that’s not the bare minimum and it can be successful even without initially having that.

Ugh. My Obi-wan moment or something. ‘You were the Chosen One Proton!’

Agreed on the stupidity. He should have had PR running his accounts or at least approving his posts. But now that the cat is out of the bag I’m really conflicted about being a Proton Visionary subscriber, and try to use other services like Filen, Cryptpad, Bitwarden, Aegis, etc, so I’m not all concentrated on Proton like I was on Google Suite.

I just made a Tuta mail account for if I do decide to move away from Proton.

I have similar conflicted feelings after being a long time Visionary Subscriber.

https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

There’s a lot more nuance to it than just ‘Proton CEO supports Trump (and therefore all of Trump’s policies)’

From the comments: “Andy’s statement was to recognise the choice of the Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust division at DOJ. This is someone who has history of going after tech monopolies and allowing room for the little guys (startups) to have a fair chance to grow and innovate. This was not a political endorsement.”

And at the very least the CEO controversy reveals all the issues with America’s two party Sith or Jedi system, there’s no room for nuance or discussion, just rage. Look at all the other top comments here.

Their recruitment practices are also profit-seeking. Job applications require your salary expectations and they don’t post their salary range.

I don’t have a videogame addiction… I have a videogame buying addiction.

Start with

• Linux Mint Cinnamon

OR

• PopOS

For all your gaming needs, there’s a Steam app you can download from whatever app store or flathub, or download/install directly.

• Heroic Games Launcher

• Lutris

• Piper for changing gaming mouse settings

I went from Windows to Mint Cinnamon, to PopOS, to PopOS Cosmic Alpha for the last year on both my laptop and desktop. PopOS and PopOS Cosmic Alpha have been great, minimal issues for me on Cosmic with gaming but there were a few hiccups or delays with newly launched games, more so an issue with Nvidia drivers than the OS. For example I had to wait a month or two after Starfield launched because there were bugs with the Nvidia drivers.

Protondb is a great resource both for checking if a game runs well on Linux, and also checking troubleshooting steps if you do run into an issue, there might be some advice on what worked for other people to get a specific game running.

Also avoid Razer or Corsair gaming mice or do your research on the specific model before buying unless you want headaches with not being able to edit the RGB settings. Best if you still have access to a windows machine if you want to own anything Corsair (or are fine with not being able to edit RGB settings). I have a Logitech G502X without RGB because of all the headaches I was having with my last few Razer and Corsair mice.

Edit: OpenRGB is another resource if you have an RGB device and need to change some settings, there’s a list of supported devices on the website.