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I say this as someone who has done an unfortunately large amount of work in the python packaging and python package distribution space and still get bitten every few months
This is not saying you shouldn't, it doesn't really matter to me. But I think a lot of the time this is driven by engineers who feel like they need to do this rather than a financial decision to save money
The big red flag here is that they didn't catch it for so long! How did they not notice?
Other headsets are more difficult to buy yea but the meta one is very much available
It never drops off, it feels great to type on. The lighting and everything is configurable, and will even light up the hot keys you need for a specific game!
It's a great experience. I have no interest in a customizable keyboard, I just want one that works.
Some services need it, like a backend intake platform of some sort that needs to have radically different performance characteristics than a user facing frontend. But for most services it just does not make a lot of sense to do this.
There's a reason why, despite being almost 20 years old, Nix has at best a small cult following. It just doesn't solve the problems that most people are looking to solve, most other solutions are simply easier and in many ways better
I was also on some basically unmoderated boards and saw some stuff I wish I didn't see.
I think this is more indicative of the communities you were a part of than the actual behavioral norms of people at the time.
However, it's also bizarre because it seems to not just contain an explanation of this weird tech but a lot of vitriol. This guy seems to have outlined what was a dysfunctional place where a lot of junior people got a nice start to their career. This doesn't seem to me to be a good reason to badmouth the place. You as a senior engineer should be helping people to be better coders, not shitting on them for being junior developers. (And yes the owner was bad but that's no reason to shit on the juniors!)
I think if I were interviewing this guy and saw this piece I would immediately slam then Strong No Hire button.