| lotuspsychje | good morning | 01:43 |
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| lotuspsychje | https://9to5linux.com/firefox-105-is-now-available-for-download-brings-better-performance-on-linux-systems | 13:16 |
| rpnx | Does anyone work for Canonical? What is it like? | 18:16 |
| leftyfb | rpnx: I used to. I enjoyed it very much | 18:17 |
| rpnx | I read some reviews of people going through the screening process at Canonical and they were very negative. But I am not sure that I agree, since I think there are a lot of less than stellar programmers out there, I feel more understanding of the review process. | 18:21 |
| rpnx | But what I am curious about is, how is working there compared to elsewhere? Do you focus mainly on writing open source in areas that you like/enjoy? | 18:22 |
| rpnx | Like, is it more developer driven or is it more bureaucratic? | 18:23 |
| rpnx | Do you get to work on small codebases or only large ones? | 18:25 |
| leftyfb | rpnx: to be clear, I'm not a developer and wasn't really part of that process. I certified server hardware | 18:25 |
| rpnx | ah | 18:26 |
| rpnx | Was the company competent at providing work laptop/etc | 18:27 |
| rpnx | my company im at now seems to be unable to provide working infrastructure | 18:27 |
| rpnx | I spend a lot of time dealing with problems cause by their bloatware and network mangement | 18:28 |
| rpnx | Which is really unfun | 18:28 |
| leftyfb | rpnx: when I was there, after a certain amount of time I was given the ability to upgrade my laptop. I forget the details though | 18:28 |
| rpnx | Did it have a bunch of crapware installed on it? And did you regularly have issues with connectivity? Or did it "just work" most of the time. | 18:29 |
| leftyfb | rpnx: it wasn't provided by the company. I bought it with I think some discount and loaded it up myself | 18:30 |
| rpnx | Hardware you buy, so they don't micromanage your machine for "security"? or do they install a bunch of stuff on it? I'm assuming you can work on a Linux laptop? | 18:31 |
| leftyfb | this was over 6 years ago though so things could have changed | 18:31 |
| leftyfb | they didn't install anything. I installed ubuntu on it | 18:31 |
| JanC | were you a contractor or an employee? | 18:31 |
| leftyfb | employee | 18:32 |
| rpnx | That's nice. My work only allows us windows/macos | 18:32 |
| JanC | seems weird that they wouldn't provide your work equipment then | 18:32 |
| rpnx | Even though 100% of the code I work on only runs on linux .-. | 18:32 |
| JanC | or at least pay for it | 18:33 |
| leftyfb | JanC: as mentioned after a certain amount of time working there, I recall getting some portion of the laptop paid for. | 18:34 |
| JanC | it's still weird (and would be a violation of labour law in Belgium) | 18:35 |
| rpnx | I guess there isn't much need for security if you're working on open source projects... | 18:35 |
| JanC | assuming you need that laptop for work | 18:35 |
| rpnx | Oh no, the laptop was stolen and our source code was leaked... oh wait | 18:35 |
| leftyfb | I always FDE my laptops regardless. Always have even before working there | 18:36 |
| JanC | not everything Canonical does is open source of course, and there are DNAs for unreleased hardware & such AFAIK | 18:36 |
| JanC | NDAs | 18:36 |
| rpnx | Makes sense. | 18:39 |
| Bashing-om | UWN: Issue753 now available: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue753 :D | 20:18 |
| ogra | 👋/ | 20:20 |
| ogra | yay | 20:20 |
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