I am also enjoying this beer. Hang in there. Yours will come.

Title. Basic duties. Salary. Upload resume.

My team of engineers and I were laid off on January 2, after spending a year replatforming a medical SaaS product. We were told the company was heading in another direction in order to to go to market faster.

That direction is the Product Designer and Claude Code, rebuilding everything from scratch.

Professional, industry-standard applications running natively on any major distro.

I use Adobe and Ableton products every day. I simply cannot use Linux as my main OS until these products can run in a real Linux environment, no matter how much I want to.

Argue all you want about Linux alternatives being just as good. The point is, they’re simply not what what the majority of professionals use.

Some CalDav servers also do notes. As others have noted, Joplin has a self-hosted option. If you’re willing to go with a service, Obsidian is .md based and multiplatform.

I cannot recommend soma enough. They have a channel for everyone.

This is my niche comfort genre. If you’re interested in newer artists who share that BoC aural flavor, you should check out PBS73, Midday Static, Cylan, and Ghostwerk.

The ol’ Hug of Death has brought the site to a crawl. Dark Lord willing, someone will produce a torrent and link to said torrent.

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That’s a novel idea, I’ll give you that. However, I’m not looking for more of the same, if you know what I mean.

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Third Pynchon mention. This dude is my guy.

Great reply and questions.

I’ll look into Sharpe. I am not easily offended, and can understand humor within historical context.

I do have a preference for contemporary and current authors, but only because I’m interested in modern/popular culture.

If I had to narrow down what I’m specifically looking for, it would be works that are less fantasy/sci-fi and more “What the fuck did I just read?” To me that’s the appeal of authors like Ryu and Haruki Murakami and Palahniuk: they’re masters of absurdly crazy and impossible scenarios, that somehow still feel plausible. While the Murakamis are more serious, they are more fantastical. Palahniuk is great about keeping things based in reality, but with copious amounts of gross-out moments and ridiculous characters.

Sounds like you might be smelling what I’m cooking.

Oops, wrong God. I’m adding this one to my list. Thank you.

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SCP is definitely a fun project. Great recommendation.

You’re the second person to suggest Pynchon. Sounds like I really need to check them out.

Thank you!

Admittedly, I have not read Discworld yet. Thank you for the reminder, adding to my list as we speak.