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  • There's also no accountability for companies and it has been like that for way too long. Look at Starbucks... some stores unionized so they just closed the stores and fired everyone. Completely illegal, but no consequences for the company. They succeeded in scaring the rest of the baristas, though, so mission accomplished.

  • This is a meme community, so it's time to get serious!

    This happened around 6 or 7 years ago. The company in question only has two work groups that are unionized -- Pilots and Dispatchers. Mechanics, Flight Attendants, Ground Service, etc. are not unionized.

    Flight Attendants have attempted to unionize many times, but the vote always fails.

    The poster included in this post was for Ramp workers -- the people who load baggage, marshal the planes into the gate, fill the potable water, etc. That vote ultimately failed, but these posters were only a small reason why. In my opinion, the biggest reason that other work groups don't want to unionize (they absolutely can, nothing is stopping them) is profit sharing.

    Years ago the pilot union negotiated an extremely excellent profit sharing agreement, and it was negotiated for pilots only. Depending on the amount of profit for the year, employees can expect 10%-%20 of their yearly income paid in a lump sum. The company in question is typically very profitable (I can already see the "profit should be illegal" type of comments coming, but please spare me. I'm just trying to explain how it works).

    Over time, other work groups started to catch wind of how much profit sharing pilots were getting. Naturally this sparked talk of unionizing in other work groups, so in order to calm things down the company extended the same profit sharing to all workers, not just the pilots.

    This sort of reversed the desire to unionize for a lot of people (I disagree with them, but this is their thinking)... Now if the ramp personnel do unionize, they'd have to negotiate their own profit sharing as they would be excluded from the company wide payout. That's not to say they couldn't negotiate to keep the profit sharing, but the fear is real and people don't want to lose the big fat checks that come almost every year.

    In summary, the workers aren't unionized but the company pays a lot of money to them to keep it that way. Would they be better off long term if they unionized? Yes, of course. But this poster, as ridiculous as it is, is not the only reason that work groups aren't voting in unions.

    Here's a link to the AFA page talking about it a little bit https://deltaafa.org/news/profit-sharing-2025

  • Excellent. Backups are key.

    I've heard good things about Borg but I've never tried it. I use restic which sounds like it has similar features, but it supports S3 storage which is what I use.

  • Good news, you can use someone else's. Backblaze is pretty cheap. It adds up to about $5USD per Terrabyte, and it's pro-rated. So 500GB is $2.50,etc.

    Hetzner recently introduced some S3 compatible object storage, too.

    Object Storage and "S3" are just ways to refer to a certain type of system. To interact with it, you just need tools that have S3 support built in.

    Restic is fantastic. If you'd like some help coming up with the command to use, let me know.

    Pretty much every popular backup solution supports S3 type storage.

    Anyway, backups are good.

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  • That's another side effect of acetaminophen.

    /s

  • I went to maga.place and it's so edgy! Some 13 year old is having a good laugh at their own jokes.

    I know it's brand new, but as of right now it seems like a waste of time to even talk about it.

    Could be a different story a week from now, but until then who cares.

  • Ah, maybe the max was 20GB for zip. I'd just do the max available for zip.

  • In the context of leopardsatemyface the mayor's political leanings are quite relevant. It could even be said this whole post isn't relevant to the community.

    But yeah, keep on with your singular attitude.

  • Do it again, but select 50GB chunks. This will produce fewer files.

    Use immich-go to do the importing.

  • I've never had to restore a backup (yet), but to me this is the best feature of Restic.

    I used Duplicati for a while (I think it was Duplicati, not Duplicacy) and although the backups seemed to work, I kept reading about people having trouble during the restore process.

    Restic is a slight chore to get set up with the environmental variables, figuring out which directories to "--ignore", etc... but man once it's set up it's just great.

  • I'm not sure I fully grasp what you want, but Restic is excellent. I use a cronjob to back up on a schedule. It's command line only. I think there's a tool to make it a GUI but I haven't tried it. They have a Docker image available but it's weird, you have to pass commands to it, it runs, then shuts down when it's done. I love Docker but that didn't quite work for me.

    I use Backblaze B2 for storage, but any S3 will do. Restic supports all sorts of storage targets.

    Credentials and things go in an .env file, or you can put everything into the command line every time.

    When it's time to restore things, you can fricken mount the whole backup you want and browse the files, copy and paste what you need, etc. That part is really cool to me.

    Backblaze is $5 or $6 USD per TB per month, so 500GB will be about $36USD a year.

  • You are, correct.

  • Finding the Center of Gravitas.

  • Linux Mint

    ... or maybe it was Ubuntu, but it didn't last long so I don't really count it. Linux Mint stuck for a number of years.

  • Why not now? Do you use the computer for school or work?

    Linux is very easy to try, without even installing it. You can load Linux Mint on a USB thumb drive, then the hardest part is setting your BIOS to boot from it.

  • The survey in question is in regards to personal computers, so it depends on how the question was asked, and how people answered it. If people consider their Steam Deck to be a personal computer that runs Linux, I suppose they could answer that way. But, I don't think that's very likely.

  • Good question. It's an actual survey (not analytics data) which asks specifically about PCs, not handhelds. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

    Survey data isn't always the best data. Linux users might be more likely to take the survey in the first place, for example, while Windows users might not care to.

  • It's recommended to not begin boarding until it's finished, but one person moving around, gusts of wind, etc. don't bother it.

  • I've been trying to think through how it would determine longitude based on rotation of the earth and I agree, that's not really possible. I wonder what other tricks it uses to find the initial location.