Those other applications come from an external vendor, we only provide the VM to run them.
We hate those even more than you do.

Sorry, those rules come from our cybersecurity insurance, or some compliance rules.
We hate them as much as you do.

IT guy here. If we give one user special rights, that login will get passed around like a blunt at a festival to “save time”.
Users are dumb and lazy, and that includes devs.

More like:
“IT people when software people talk about their requirements”

No, we won’t whitelist your entire program folder in Endpoint Protection.

My job is IT. Staffing is your job.

I promise you, in the real world, fights were just as much of a shield shoving match while trying to slash your opponents ankle as they were in Europe.
The idea of a one-on-one sword fight decided by individual skill is much more of a romantic idea.

The girl on the right definitely looks like someone living in a post-apocalyptic tribe, 1000 years after the break-down of human civiliation.

There’s nothing left from Russia anymore.

ToDo’s belong in tickets, not in the code.

“We used to have to get up at six o’clock in the morning, clean the tank, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!”

Any good alternatives that use the same engine, but aren’t just “Firefox after rustling the about:config a bit”?

look under the hood
They’re Gnome with extensions and a theme

origin of meme with this text:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B1jIa-TifY8/

origin of this version of the meme:
https://x.com/whoismonday/status/1529566283401834496

Oh no, your browser isn’t DIN compliant!

Can you please reformat your comment for DIN norm compliance, so I can read it?

Here’s a helpful guide:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_5008#/media/Datei:DIN_5008,_Form_A.svg

lunatic girl threatening me

The plastic problem is entirely separate from the climate problem.
Avoiding plastic cups does nothing for the climate, most alternatives actually release more CO2 during production.
Especially human skulls.

As a German, you have my permission to haul me to Kiel.

What it feels like to chew 5Beans