Have multiple sandboxes in both my home and work Firefox installations. Amazon, Twitter and Reddit each get their own sandbox while google, gmail and gdrive get to share one. Have 8 sandboxes on my work PC and I believe 13 at home. I *almost* cancelled the gmail account I've had for about 15 years but decided to sandbox that in with the rest of Google.

So - google, Amazon, Twitter and Reddit can read their own cookies all day long :)

I don't use DuckDuckGo, preferring startpage as I feel it's a little more secure.

...I participated in the hardware beta for this device. The test device was interesting to say the least in that it was considerably taller than a standard mouse and had two 1/2" square hardware buttons on the thing in addition to the regular two mouse buttons so we could test functionality.

It wasn't anywhere close to production and I had to return the device to Microsoft but it was pretty cool back then :)

After looking at the picture it took everything I had not to make a goatse joke. :)

You don't deploy technology to address a people issue.

1. Buys domain.
2. Redirect users to redtube.com
3. ???
4. Profit!

My twitter feed has probably 30 news sources in it from MSNBC to Fox and everything in between. I just read the feeds and develop my own conclusions.

I don't tweet much myself but using twitter as a news aggregator works pretty well for me.

Agreed, and if Indian companies are violating US labor laws there should indeed be consequences but I thought for this discussion we were talking about legal hires. Illegal hires is a whole 'nother matter :)

I can only speak to my own experience but we're seeing a fairly large departure of talent mainly because the company doesn't quite pay market and even the H1B holders are moving on to greener pastures. I've been here for five years and am paid slightly above market, but my company has decided that employee retention isn't all that and hiring freshers is the best way to increase their bottom line.

I don't agree with that at all. Talent attrition appears to be part of their business model :)

I'm an American working for an Indian company - one of Infosys' competitors. You really can't blame the Indian companies as it's the onshore CIO who's outsourcing this stuff and the executive team who makes the decision to outsource to offshore. I've said it a buncha times - all we did was respond to an RFP. It's not Infosys' fault - since the standard of living is lower in India than it is here salaries are also lower. If you don't want Infosys, Wipro, Accenture and the like running your IT perhaps it's the American companies that need to consider hiring American. The other thing is that if offshore resources arrive here on an H1B visa they're free to seek other employment. IME onshore salaries are generally competitive or you lose people.

I disable both baloo and akonadi (I use no KDE PIM apps). I'm running v5.7.4 on Debian Unstable and telepathy is still busted if you need to connect to a skype for business resource, but perhaps that's fixed in 5.8. Also, I have no love for network manager; my requirements are simple so I use wicd-kde. My Plasma 5 desktop uses about 100MB more RAM at idle than my openbox/compton/tint2/pavucontrol/wicd/conky/pcmanfm desktop did, which means it takes about two seconds longer to boot. But - customizable? I have a desktop service menu with my most-frequently used applications (this was really the only thing I missed from *box) and if one was to look in ~/.config there are enough text files in there to keep me entertained for months.

I'm probably the exception rather than the rule but I'm an American working for an Indian company with > 100k employees. The spousal unit got very ill and spent three weeks in the hospital, after about the third day I called my boss, told him I was setting my out of office and that I would keep him informed. Long story short I took three weeks off without getting charged one day of vacation or sick leave and when I got back to the office the boss insisted I work from home for a couple weeks. I finally had to tell him that I *had* to go back to the office, that my wife wasn't being neglected and that the spousal unit's daughter was pitching in and I wasn't needed at home 24/7. A lot of the time this company pisses me off but when I really needed some help they didn't hesitate. I can forgive a whole lot of stupid if I'm sure people are taking care of me :)

KDE has been my preferred desktop until four or five years ago when I discovered #!. I run Debian Sid, and in the past few years have taken *box about as far as I cared to and decided to give Plasma5 a spin - and was pleasantly surprised. I found a service menu on kde-apps that gave me the right-click application menu I missed in *box and I still have to edit .kickoffrc to get it to display the way I want, but my seven or eight most-used applications are just a right-click away now. Not a fan of the flat theme either (or the fact that the KDE team doesn't love any color but blue) and fixed both of those - here are a couple of screenshots, one clean and one dirty. Linked images are kinda big - 1920x1080.

clean screenshot

dirty screenshot

Jumping on the Dell bandwagon - I have a Precision M4500 laptop I bought off-lease from dellrefurbished.com.

I run Debian Unstable on this machine and everything works except for the fingerprint reader, for which there is no Linux driver.

Never let a hostile agent know his operations were successful.

First generation i7 (i7-740QM), 8GB ram, 1GB Nvidia Quadro 1800M, 15" 1920x1080 screen, 240gb Crucial SSD.

OS is Debian Unstable.

Nice to meet you, AC. Former Linux sysadmin and current Sid user here; I've been using Debian for years. ;-)