vpz

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[–] vpz@infosec.pub 3 points 7 months ago

Public companies are also in competition with their peers to attract folks (read enormous investment forms) to buy their stock. So they want their “shareholder value” to be competitive. Shareholder value is at a high level the appreciation of the stock price plus dividends. So public company management is given the goal of increasing shareholder value. Which is the number that must go up. Otherwise those enormous investment firms will buy their competitor’s stock instead.

[–] vpz@infosec.pub 0 points 7 months ago

I get a new Braun electric shaver about every 10 years or so. The shaver base lasts for a very long time. The Braun heads last about a year for me, so over 10 years they cost more than the initial shaver. I don’t buy the cleaning pods since to me a tap water rinse works just as well. I’ve not compared total cost of ownership against other brands as I’ve not had a reason to switch. I’m also interested in what others have to say. What is as good or better for their beard type?

[–] vpz@infosec.pub 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It isn’t simple. Most people I know who have moved to other countries hired an immigration attorney to help. It’s not cheap. Also, you can’t just show up in Canada and get a job. There is a legal process that must be followed. If you don’t have employment with a work visa ahead of time, you have to show proof you have the savings to live without working until you find a job to enter the country to look for work there. Many people don’t have months of expenses in an emergency account to lean on. Lots of impediments.

[–] vpz@infosec.pub 0 points 2 years ago

I asked this question on Mastodon and got some helpful answers. I haven't had the time to try anything yet, but here are some links. KDE: https://github.com/pjones/plasma-manager Gnome: https://hoverbear.org/blog/declarative-gnome-configuration-in-nixos/ Xfce may be similar to the Gnome article but using xfconf and xfconf-query to get the settings to apply. Again I haven't tried any of these suggestions. This is a summary of the info I got elsewhere.

 

I want to learn and experiment with fully configuring a single user NixOS installation that is declarative. I've found quite a bit on the NixOS system-land side, but when I go into Home Manager user-land I'm not seeing very much around configuring the Desktop. I usually use XFCE but in trying to work with it I kept running across posts about how it wasn't well supported. So I tried KDE but found the same.What is the best supported Desktop with Home Manager? Or do folks just do the basics with nix stuff, and end up pulling in the rest of the config info into the home directory (like from a repo) as a work-around? Basically use nix stuff to retrieve files and put them into the correct destinations.