Teamspeak is self-hostable and has streaming.

Sometimes people ask others instead of googling things because it offers an opportunity to socialize. We all know google is an option. I get what you’re saying, but it’s sad to see this described as a burden.

Dude runs a tech youtube channel and acts like he knows everything about computers. But for some reason when he uses Linux we’re supposed to treat him like grandma with her first ever laptop? Don’t trust this guy on anything he puts videos out about. He’s not tech savvy, dude is an actor. Found it really funny he encountered two issues with running PopOS but didn’t bother explaining why or how he fixed either of them. If I had to guess, I’d say he called a crew member off camera.

This is great. If I can dumb it down a bit here, instead of trying to get someone to step out of those emotions just step in with them.

This is a wild perspective that is probably true in cases of smaller companies or instructions directly from poor ownership and inexperienced managers.

Managers that allow or encourage people to work off the clock in most cases are putting themselves at risk. God forbid somebody get injured or contact the department of labor. Great way to lose your job.

Sounds to me like she’s been given an order to cut overtime, which is going around at so many companies recently, and she’s probably stressed because the situations that OP describe make that very difficult.

Makes sense that she was going through picking jobs and cancelling them while trying to find something that would fit the reduced timeframe. Ultimately sounds like that wasn’t possible. Unfortunately it also sounds like she is unable to effectively communicate this to her leadership or has already tried and been dismissed.

OP, I’d recommend trying to express to her that you understand she is trying to abide by the directives given to her, share with her that you are also, and see if you guys can work out a better plan. Maybe encourage her to share the issue with leadership if she hasn’t already. Might be smarter to not assign any jobs post 16:30 and just eat that half an hour if the people above her aren’t looking. Maybe less gets done, but then she’s not getting in trouble for OT. Unless she’s the owner, safe bet that her emotions stem from the emotions above her or fear of repercussions to her own employment. That or she is just inexperienced and hasn’t yet learned what all middle managers eventually do, it’s somebody else’s money

This is a horse to water thing. You don’t have control of the outcome, you can only provide John the tools to keep his job. Most managers have a list of folks they tried their best with, but it didn’t work out. I look back on those folks with a great deal of sadness, but it’s about the team. If you told him how to benefit the team and he chooses not to that it’s on him.

As a manager and somebody who enjoys being able to pay my bills, wouldn’t mess with any of this. I have had subordinates take interest in developing a personal relationship with me. In some cases I share that feeling, but I still tell them as their manager it would not be appropriate to proceed due to the potential impact in the workplace. Quick way to get accused of giving special treatment and moved or terminated. Very hard to hide.

If you and Jane are in an equal level role or one of you is willing to quit or change roles, go for it.

John’s personal problems sound like they are effecting his work performance. If you are his supervisor you are responsible for handling that in some way. If you let too much slide because you feel bad for him, this will go from a problem with John to a problem with you. It is John’s responsibility to manage his personal life and be able to do his job within the expectations of the company. If you are sharing that the expectations aren’t be met in similar ways multiple times, cut the cord.

Regarding your expectation of John taking issue with you and Jane becoming a thing, kinda depends what Jane wants if you ask me. And I’m sure it’s scary how John would react being rejected but again, that’s on John to deal with. I’d just be straight up about it. Sorry man she’s into me and I’m Into her. That’s bad news, but if he can’t handle that in a mature manner that’s on him. He’ll end up quitting or getting terminated for an emotional outburst. It’s sad, but it isn’t your responsibility to control how he responds. Personal problems are personal problems. Generally, managers that are managing lower level managers understand when somebody on the team just doesn’t click or behaves in a way that wasn’t within your control or purview. They have been through the same shit themselves.

Ensure you are operating within the confines of your handbook/guidelines if you want to keep your job. That’s the biggest thing.

Expect this to become an HR issue if John doesn’t immediately quit. I would avoid moving forward with an attempt to terminate John after he identifies the you and Jane situation as that may look retaliatory. Either get HR or another manager involved to ensure John is clearly being terminated for valid reasons and that other people are involved in that decision.

If you want to go the more sinister route (some people do). Terminate John with solid documentation on the performance issues. Negative attitude possibly. Consult your handbook for options, but ultimately you can terminate him and wait on moving forward with Jane until he’s gone.

If you take nothing else from this, consult the handbook. If you want to keep your job all the information is in there. You can get it from HR in the event you don’t already have a copy.

Not typically what you’d think of when somebody says “mom’s computer,” but this is exactly what happens when my GPU overheats. Monitors stay on with black screen and no response from keyboard input.

This happens to me once in a while with Fedora KDE. Usually right after a kernel update and I can resolve by going back to the previous kernel for a few days. Always guessed it was the AMD GPU driver.

I manage a team and came to say this same thing. If the topic is a lesson the whole team can benefit from, I bring the whole team in. The more obstacles that can be resolved without my involvement the better. Sometimes that means bringing the whole team in on a mistake, too. I do my best to ensure it’s framed as simply as that though. A mistake to learn from. As well as ensuring the employee is in a good headspace to share that moment. It’s not a punishment. Mistakes happen.

This may not be the case in your situation, but something to consider.

I came here to say this also. First bad update and then both would be broken and pretty stressful for your friend…

Pile in if I’m wrong, but I dual boot win11 and linux it works fine. The only condition is it has to be separate physical disk. I wasn’t able to use the same hard drive with just partitions had to be completely different drives.

I tried, but could never find anything that would work as a VOIP subsititute. So now I have a pixel that does everyrhing except phone calls. Getting close to just giving up and slamming a sim in it because at least it’s a little better than stock android.

Did you try dual boot with one drive? Windows will fuck that up.

I didn’t have any intention of arguing…I was curious what you didn’t like about it. You’re entitled to your opinion.

What did Fedora do to hurt you so much?

If you have free internet in the area, like public wifi from the city, The shopping centre probably have an agreement with the provider to help extend the range. They put the dish up to connect to the existing network and then pump it out with repeaters around the shopping centre.

That’s wild, I’m on Fedora KDE and haven’t noticed any of these issues so far… Opens pretty fast, finds what I’m looking for. I didn’t see the UI bug he’s talking about with items being misaligned. I must just be lucky.

I so miss Voicemeeter since switching to linux. Pulsemeeter is good, but not quite as intuitive. I’ve had some good luck with something called Easy Effects I found just this week.

My usecase is just configuring input devices right now. Not sure if Easy Effects will do hotkeys which is what I really enjoyed in Voicemeeter.

Kernel 6.16.4 had a bug that caused packet loss. Patched in 6.16.5. Looks like Bazzite just updated (today?) from 6.16.4 to 6.17.5.

EDIT: Adding link talking about the bug

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/talk-kernel-6-16-3-causes-intermittent-network-issues/163344

Location could just be from when the account was made right? I’m sure it would be very difficult to create a new account while utilizing a VPN considering how active reddit has become in blocking connections from known VPN providers.