Outlook.

Thankfully Thunderbird, although most folks here just use the Roundcube web client.

With a giant signature that includes an embedded image.

They are auto-generated and enabled for everyone. Typical corporate bullshit I guess.

Also the image is a 2400px image that has been resized using width and height attributes.

It’s a portrait (that thankfully has been downsized and compressed so much, that it’s barely recognizable (thank goodness, because it’s a horrific photo)), as well as a photo of my physical signature. Oh god do I hate emails and email signatures. And fuck my company for wanting emails to look “authentic” and including this stupid ass signature.

This is beautiful. I’ma send this to my coworkers.

That kinda reminds me of my job, except that we build the unserviceable hardware and install Windows, as well as our proprietary software. Then we charge our customers shitloads of money for technical support. We’re a government contractor btw

It’s actually a pretty nice company (from an employee standpoint), we use a lot of Linux internally, as well as other FOSS software. But porting our products to Linux is hopeless, we have decades of C++ code that either relies on Windows APIs directly, or on our custom libraries that rely on Windows-specific stuff.

several of our suppliers have been pressured to offer Linux support

We just got our first oscilloscope with Red Hat preinstalled.

This is so cool. Really great to hear. I wish more companies and other institutions would do this. They have to realize that using Microsoft software won’t benefit them in the long term, and actually start pressuring hardware vendors into pre-installing Linux.

It’s not the “AI nightmare”, it’s a nightmare of capitalism, proprietary software and user-hostile behavior by a greedy, profit-extracting Big Tech corporation.