I don’t think it is common at all - I think we need to make it common, by asking all the time - especially those of us that are less easily replaced.

Woosh.

Well - we have a saying in German: “Fragen kostet nichts” - asking doesn’t cost anything. At least you tried then, worst they can say is “no”. Expect that, and who knows, maybe you get a surprise.

Maybe they’ll let you work with a “technical device” that you administrate yourself, while for access to company resources you still have to use the corporate vanilla computer.

Pull them all.

In any case, I am a software engineer and have never had the ability to negotiate my contract to that extent.

Have you ever tried? This kind of negotiation unfortunately typically requires a job change, employers are really really bad at understanding how valuable it is to motivate employees at little to no cost to them.

Teachers are educators, but not all educators are teachers. Also, the person I was originally responding to may have options in other fields.

I’d say such a statement can’t be made in general. There are a couple hundred countries on Earth and dozens of types of teaching jobs.

Well - I hope you are exploring your job options as they are with that technical know-how. Even if no more than what you already shared, you’re miles ahead of most IT managers. I negotiated my contract so that the company gives webmail & an email signature, but I procured the computer, sent them the invoice & set it up myself. Since I have no need for intranet resources or office space, they have no reason to complain about (lack of) security oversight. In a teaching position you might be working under similar circumstancea.

I have questions:

1. why do you have the technical knowledge to use a linux live ISO, including disabling secure boot - yet you still use microslop’s data stealing malware?
2. what has you being on your first period got to do with any of this?

(One of these questions may be in jest)

in theory. Need reviewers for that, though.

They are. Their decision put the responsibility squarely in the hands of the submitter, with no need to even declare use of slop assistants.

As a programmer, I can always run stuff without installing ;) As a user, however, I wish to have 3D acceleration capable graphics drivers for the occasional game.

Could have but

1. I somehow doubt they did
2. patches flow back into stable, too.

I had to freeze rsync because of that :(

Torvalds losing his marbles is not new, sadly.

as a Debian user: I wish they had chosen a distro that didn’t just decide to accept slop contributions.

Let’s hope they never dare to try.

so we’re hoping for incompetence of fascists to save us? :(

Not sure what you mean - I don’t see anyone daring to invade China in the present or foreseeable future.

Are you saying you could free us? I feel like you need what you have to defend your southern border :/

Thank the corrupt and elitist fucks of CxU and SPD for a couple of decades of cutting access to education and ignoring the problems of those under their rule. And fuck you, Frotze, in particular!