Let's be honest this is how it actually usually plays out:
Be a huge company
Make your employees sign an NDA
Make your code closed source
Use GPL code and not give a shit because you're a huge company with a legal team bigger than your Dev team
coffee cups
You want to know the ridiculous thing about that - the coffee cup thing is a complete con. They can't be recycled as paper/cardboard because they have a polymer coating to allow them to maintain their structure.
The problem is it's not that simple from a climate perspective. Solar and wind are great but are incredibly variable which is not good when you need a guaranteed baseline electricity production. There is no situation under which a large nation could reliably just use wind/solar to power the country. Currently nuclear is the only renewable, clean energy source that can produce a stable output.
The main issue comes when the game is using proprietary stuff. Like I found getting Kingdom Hearts to run at all was a pain in the arse because of it using a proprietary codec for it's cutscenes.
Proton is revolutionary but it still isn't a solution for every game. And that's not even getting into the lack of support Nvidia gives to anything Linux.
Then you find out nobody needs you and you get depressed.
Yeah I was going to say the reason there hasn't been significant progress on a HIV virus isn't because it isn't possible but because for the longest time the bodies that could provide funding for the research thought HIV killing 'the gays' was a desirable outcome....
I would presume because their work insisted?
So when I started in the current startup I am in, we did the anarchy approach of just give a feature to work on and a tool to track tickets for 3 years. Eventually as team leader we migrated to scrum development. And as the team has expanded I've actually gotten stricter about it.
The rituals of scrum seem pointless when you start out and with a team of less than 4 people but at 4+ people it's important just to keep track of what on earth is happening in the team. Like end of sprint allows us to work out if things are vaguely on track. If they are not we can identify where the weaknesses are. Someone took on a task estimated at 8 story points and it took 2 weeks to do, need to find out what the issue is (usually because either because there is a knowledge gap in that aspect of the system or because the task just simply hasn't been defined clearly enough and needs the product owner to give more details).
I never thought I'd be that guy who defends the scrum process but 5 years of being a team lead changes you.
Though because this system was one that evolved naturally as we grew and realised what we were doing as a company wasn't working we largely avoided the corporate bullshittery version of scrum. We don't have a scrum master, I'm the guy who is like "oi I need you in this meeting" to the product owners.
The depressing thing for me is that in my country access to COVID vaccines is now limited - you can only get a booster if you're part of the "clinically vulnerable" group. And whilst I kinda get it that the logic is the same as the flu vaccine that it's about reducing hospitalisations, at least with flu we have the option to get the vaccine privately... Which we don't with COVID.
Microsoft had to provide a separate edition that gave the user a browser choice for 10 years because the EU successfully called anti-trust on Windows doing IE/Edge as default.
I'm currently doing it mainly because I haven't worked out what I want to subscribe to yet.