On the bright side, you are not working for those a**holes anymore. Hope you find a good company to work with.

Be careful I think the TV is trying to swallow your laptop

The good part is that it should make web development simpler.

I spent a certain amount of my time on side projects related to embedded systems, usually making my own PCBs with a microcontroller in it and then programming it.
When I was a student it was rather easy to access the right resources such as 3D printers, quick PCB prototyping (usually milling machines) and scrap components from departments' abandoned projects.
Now that I am not a student anymore that is a bit more complicated and I usually have to spend some money if I want those services. So I am more likely to abandon or really delay my work.

You could print the official responsibilities of your department so you can easily get rid of off-topic or abusive requests.
I also feel that there is a risk in these types of meetings that people get more emotional than factual so enforce that people bring facts to the table when they want to make a point.

Well at least it's not ambiguous.

Well it depends on you. Why are you staying in your current company right now? Is it for the ownership (do you have shares), the salary (I guess not), the training?

If the answer to all of these questions is no, then I'd leave personally.

Very accurate indeed

Are you using gnome? It has a known memory leak that has not been solved yet if I remember well. You can see that by minimizing a maximizing a window repeatedly.

Arch + xfce desktop

@duckWit That's a classic one. Unfortunately it might be more or less difficult depending on your motherboard manufacturer again.

1- Make sure that the safe boot/secure boot is actually disabled.
2- Make sure that the boot order in your bios is correct. You should point to the drive Ubuntu is installed on. Or more precisely the drive Grub had been installed on (which should be the same unless you changed something). Grub will allow you to boot windows later.

If you still struggle with this after checking that I could send you a screen of my configuration parameters.

Your error message (the one mentioning "nouveau") is indicating that there is an issue with your gpu driver.
In the Linux world, "nouveau" is the open source driver for Nvidia gpus, and "nvidia" the official one. The latter usually has greater performance and I expect that "nouveau" might be struggling with your SLI setup as shown in this post:

https://techpowerup.com/forums/...

So you probably should disable the sli in the bios just for the install process to complete.

Check your motherboard model, and follow instructions on their website. It is a Bios setting.
Usually you'll find that under the "boot options" or "advanced options" in the bios that you can access by pushing F7/F12 when you turn on your computer.

I had the same issues as you when I was using either KDE or gnome. But with xfce everything is super responsive. Same for lxde.
Try to monitor your system while it's being slow.

Is it some sort of virus? Why is everyone losing their minds at the same time?

Internet is slowly turning into TV. Fewer publishers, more commercials, more barriers of entry, more centralization every day.

"our students suck at this very popular programming language. Let's make sure we do not teach it"

Why do you inflict this to yourself?

What could possibly go wrong?

"British cops want to use AI to spot porn"
Tax money well spent

@shahidcodes I understand your point. You are probably more aware of the situation than I am as they are your friends, but I would suggest you to talk about it with them rather than punishing them as long as they do not start taking advantage of you by not paying their rent for instance. Hope you get my point too.

Just invert the screen colors

https://askubuntu.com/questions/...

I do not want to disrespect you or anything but what about letting them play their video game if they want to?
Plus if you are sharing the flat you might want to keep a good relationship with them. Pretty sure they will not appreciate it.

I need to like both the company's product and the people working on it (ie my colleagues). If I'm going to spend 40+ hours a week on it, I don't want to build garbage with idiots/douches.

As the varied previous answers suggest, you have to ask yourself:
- what is this person going to do on a daily basis exactly? (what do you need to complement your team?)
- Based on this, what skills does this person need to be successful in this job?

That should get you started.

This is a cool DE 🤩

That executable name tho 🤔

Looks much more modern than my xfce, I like it. I might try it today, does KDE still come with a lot of bloat?

My chromium does not seem to have that. Is it Google Chrome only?

Who even came up with this?? :o