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I can’t comprehend why the highest executive at one of these places would get paid more than 250k. It’s a nonprofit in fucking ohio, MCOL in cities at best, LCOL in huge swaths of the state.

They wield tremendous power. Nonprofits should not be tools for oligarchs to shelter assets and defraud the public, but they are all over the US and probably the world.

$159,974,600 in “Salaries, wages, and related fringe benefits” for 2025.

Why would a nonprofit company that supplies databases of library metadata need to pay $160 million dollars to staff? You can run a midsized business for that. https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/annual-report/2025/pdf/2025_OCLC_Audit_Report.pdf

2024 executive earnings: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/310734115

Key Employees and Officers Compensation

Prichard David (President & Ceo) $1,347,322

Rozek William (Cfo, Treasurer) $832,584

Murphy Bart (Chief Tech. & Info. Officer) $765,667

Leeches.

WorldCat.org is provided by OCLC, a nonprofit global library organization that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs so libraries can better fuel learning, research, and innovation.

In what way does anna’s archive work contrary to their mission?

It doesn’t. It does their mission better than they ever could. They provide no value beyond the database that is being shared for free by anna’s. There must be some salaries or some soft power being wielded somewhere by someone who doesn’t want that to go away.

Oh hell no lol. I splurged on 64gb of ram a year ago because it was about $200. It’s overkill, but I do run VMs and game servers from time to time for friends and 32gb is kind of the base for ddr5 anyway. I swapped the work system standard for users over to 32gb around a year ago, and I try to keep my personal at home stuff to about double that since I use the stuff for a long long time.

The / partition is a bit too big, but this was my first time splitting out home after a migration from pop_os. Learned a lot from that. Also have a bit of unpartitioned space.

I have to swap bootloaders from systemd to limine or something since I have heard a lot of people mention at this point that it’s better btrfs recovery. Haven’t had the motivation yet.

I’m hoping we’ll get past 5% on the steam hardware survey this year. Very possible given the trend.

Too many of my younger friends are obsessed with bf6 or a handful of other live service stuff that will not come to linux any time soon, or refuse to because they think they’ll run an ai model or don’t want to figure it out for their dev projects.

I moved over a few months ago and don’t miss it.

Totally agreed.

Or bury the bodies in a mass grave

if you know what I mean

I use linux though. Cachyos right now.

I saw someone mention that if you find an old installer for windows 10, you can upgrade to that and continue on to upgrade to w11 still and keep the activation.

ymmv

Quick, find mike rowe and make him buy the MikeRoweSlop.com site!

Does remembering my starcraft cd key count?

m365 has done so much damage to computing. Same deal with google’s equivalent.

Wow, 9.999 sore Louisianan assholes!

That’s almost ten!

Reducing the valid time will not solve the underlying problems they are trying to fix.

We’re just gonna see more and more mass outages over time especially if this reduces to an uncomfortably short duration. Imagine what might happen if a mass crowdflare/microsoft/amazon/google outage that goes on perhaps a week or two? what if the CAs we use go down longer than the expiration period?

Sure, the current goal is to move everybody over to ACME but now that’s yet another piece of software that has to be monitored, may have flaws or exploits, may not always run as expected… and has dozens of variations with dependencies and libraries that will have various levels of security of their own and potentially more vulnerabilities.

I don’t have the solution, I just don’t see this as fixing anything. What’s the replacement?

Sir, don’t you dare encroach on those Lynx and W3M users. They don’t need no stinking images!

Sudo make me a sandwich

Works every time.

You dropped this: )

“steadily” as in… they complete one every couple of years? How long until they’re done? 10-20-30 years? They started this in 2014 and 11 years later they’ve accomplished next to nothing beyond creating a pile of bodies.

If germany took this long to take poland it probably wouldn’t have been world war at all.

Russia can’t even beat ukraine.

Not sure if… Blood for the Blood god… or all hail the god-emperor… would be better.

Hello Faith Based Code.

We’re going to be going with Faith Based Security next.