Pc in question is a part of a 3000kg CNC machine. Yes, it can be removed from it, but it’s not a fun process.

I’m frustrated because this is a requirement only because Microsoft wants people to use their cloud services which I will never use

OK, let me address your point then:

Phone screening is skipped for most candidates, but for the few that we do want to screen it is mandatory to continue. Since this post is from potential employee perspective I should have used “extra” instead of “optional”.

1. For about 90% of candidates our interview process has two rounds: skill evaluation by a senior employee or employees (e.g. a technical interview for software devs) that doubles as “vibe check” followed by 2nd round with a manager that is more focused on culture fit, making sure both sides have matching expectation and ends with compensation negotiation.
2. For about 10% of candidates who don’t come with a recommendation from a current employee or from someone in our network, or from one of the recruiters we trust and doesn’t have something else backing claims in their resume there is a quick phone screening before all that - just to filter out resumes that are full of BS.
3. VP and up recruitment is more complex, but that is to be expected and I doubt anyone has a problem with that.

We manage to get a candidate from first round to offer/rejection in less than a week most of the time (2 if there is a screen) and have both high long term employee retention and very low percentage of hires who don’t work out.

I suspect that as company grows (we’re closing on 100 employees) and recruitment moves further and further away from “the trenches” and people doing the hiring are less and less capable of judging candidate competence managers start adding more rounds hoping they will filter out the ones that don’t meet the requirements.

Docker containers share host os kernel - can’t be used to run a different os.

Your options:

• Run windows in a VM. You assign some of your PC resources (ram, CPU cores, storage) to vm. That windows VM is going to be within 1-2% of a PC with the specs matching resources assigned to VM. You won’t get GPU acceleration unless you pass the entire GPU to VM, but it doesn’t matter for Lightroom. Will run perfectly.
• Run Lightroom with Wine. It runs as just another Linux program via a translation layer. It will get access to all resources your PC has and it won’t waste resources running entire 2nd os in a VM, but there is a performance impact of the translation layer. Performance impact varies depending on specific piece of software and sometimes it even runs faster.

Edit: it turns out it does like GPU acceleration, so performance impact without GPU passthrough will be noticeable at least when opening images. Running it on wine is possible, but a pain - it requires manual workarounds and it doesn’t run perfectly even with them.

Optional on our end. We skip it 90% of the time.

Phone screen is basically a 10 minute check if a candidate has any idea about stuff in their resume or is it complete BS and they are not worth getting one of the senior employees to interview them.

We do 2 rounds + optional initial phone screen if we can’t do initial vetting based on recruiter reputation or other info.

1. Because I shouldn’t have to. It’s purely Microsoft forcing it.
2. I only have 1 PC in my workshop, but there are companies in the same situation which have dozens.

Because I don’t need an internet connection in the workshop. I don’t want to install a bridge just to activate windows.

I live in the middle of nowhere and while my home has 10/1 Mbit DSL option my workshop 250m away has nothing and no mobile signal. Am I supposed to drag PC used for CNC home to activate windows or should I get 2nd starlink subscription?

AMD CPUs sip power compared to Intel. This is even more true for x3d CPUs. The temperature difference between a good air cooler and AIO is going to be around 2-3C and performance difference well under 1%. AIO will be significantly more expensive and much less reliable - it’s not worth it.

Edit: this is coming from someone who has a custom water cooling loop that is heavier than the rest of their PC (2 pumps, 4 thick 480mm rads outside PC case, etc - beyond silly)

Edit 2: the only valid reason to use AIO on AMD CPU is trying to squeeze it into a tiny case.

Your app / website is most likely not big enough to rely on icons instead of text for buttons. Same applies to most other unique UI choices.

To be fair it doesn’t run that great on Windows either.

Most slicers work natively on Linux. I’ve used orca slicer and lychee in just past 24h.

As for modeling software freecad, blender obviously; onshape is browser based, so it should work; fusion360 is hard to get running, but from what I’ve heard it’s doable;

SOLIDWORKS can run in wine, but just barely - I’ve found it easier and more pleasant to run it in a windows vm

Even PIS doesn’t dare suggest Poland should leave EU. They complain and grumble, and would likely want to leave but know saying it out loud is political suicide.

Nothing makes them talk about gun control faster than minorities arming.

While doing that for 80 companies is not feasible I doubt all 80 members are opposed. Valve and AMD could talk to video card, monitor, laptop and handheld makers to pad the membership enough.

As for the democracy question a quick skim of their bylaws suggests it’s close enough.

So far they managed to help Trump opposition in all those places

Good luck with that - Poland is one of the most pro-EU countries with over 80% of poles believing that EU membership is beneficial.

AMD has had the code ready to include in their open source driver for a while and has been trying to get HDMI Forum to let them release it for a long time https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected

Fewer than 80 members. 15k/year membership fee and very lax joining requirements. $1.2M gets you majority allowing you do to whatever even with 100% of current members opposing :P