But it would be a great motivator if they actually bothered to relocate you in case you showed remarkable performance and added value to the company.
"We just want someone to work for cheap without prospect of progress" tells me that job will have a low ceiling for someone that wants to progress further their career
As a web developer, I would really like to get involved in Open Source software and give back to the community a bit.
But the amount of options is overwhelming tbh, and the skills needed for open source projects are far from the backend API's the industry usually needs.
I had an interview a few days ago and I asked something similar. I asked about the possibility to travel to the US to greet my coworkers and work alongside them.
They said they won't raise my salary and they expect me to stay in my region (Latin America). They also said that if I go to the US or Europe, it would be though to live there with my remote salary.
It felt somewhat insulting tbh. As if they said "we want you as disposable cheap labor, not to become a part of the company" directly upfront.
Maybe it's a joke, but a problem I see in every "open source self hosted alternative" is that people tend to underestimate how much work is to self-host everything.
It's either paid hosting like AWS, some intermediate docker-compose solution or your own personal server machine. In every case someone has to do the gritty work. It's either a paid service, a volunteering open-source contributor, or you.
My entire experience with MOBAs is that people will rip you to shreds for not doing or knowing every overly specific thing people didn't know either when they had less experience.
Today's KDE can be almost identical to a MacOS desktop, if you customize it properly.
I'm a KDE user since 2010 and a week ago I purchased an M1 Pro (hopefully to install Asahi in the future). My desktop was basically a top bar with global menu, a few widgets and Latte Dock.
If I didn't know that Mac came up with the functionality before, I would think that it is Mac that feels like a skinned KDE
There are cases where the one that gets the promotion it's the one that sells themselves the most, instead of the "overengineer".
Being assertive, going straight to the solution and inspiring security is something that boosts a developer's career a lot.
Some people mistake that being a good professional is saying "yes" to everything and putting endless extra hours behind the code. And often that isn't the case.
Why paying a decent wage and have a nice work-life balance when there are people in the 3rd word working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and for pennies?
Worker's rights should expand towards the world, not the other way around.
Back then, an advantage of Linux against other Unixes was being able to run in a domestic IBM PC Clone. Which, at the time, was the "small fan computer" at least compared to big mainframes running commercial Unix
You think heat and power management is a pointless goal?
Technology should be made as a contribution to humanity.
But it should also solve problems and make lives easier for its users. A thin and light laptop that consumes a fraction of power and generates a fraction of heat does exactly that.
I love FOSS for its contributions to humanity and its capability to be practical. But open hardware is often not. It's usually terribly expensive, very inconvenient or simply badly executed.
At some point, being blind to the advancements from a closed platform becomes being blind to people's needs and ending up lost in a cloud of ideology.
My unsubstantiated guess is that the Kernel team has a lot of intelligent people but not on the emotional and empathy field. And some of them are really full of themselves, so you need to get them off their high horses
I even say that instability of the Linux desktop was a considerable contributor to the decline of Linux powered workstations.
People were getting used to the old reliable Gnome2 and the Windows-esque KDE desktop.
But there's always some team of developers thinking they are Apple and completely throw years of progress out the window by breaking compatibility because of some usability "feature" their own selfish conception of usability thinks is a good decision.
Some of then even go to the point of rejecting Merge requests to their supposed open source software because of that kind of Whim
But it would be a great motivator if they actually bothered to relocate you in case you showed remarkable performance and added value to the company.
"We just want someone to work for cheap without prospect of progress" tells me that job will have a low ceiling for someone that wants to progress further their career