turbojet1321

Thanks for newsminimalist - other than what comes up on HN it's the only news I read these days. It's usually just enough to keep me in touch without any of the outrage.

That's a false equivalence which is at the heart of the issue. You seem to be be assuming that "being informed" makes you better placed and/or more willing to take right action, but I'm not convinced that's the case

Yes but unfortunately that doesn't make it false.

> too young to lie or corrupt

In my experience, youth has little to do with honesty or corruptibility.

It's the circle of life

> I wish to see a FOSS incremental reading application in the very least, such an underrated concept.

There's an Anki plugin[0] though I know almost nothing about Anki or incremental reading, so I have no idea who good it is.

0:https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/999215520

I recently ditched Spotify for Qobuz. Spotify has always been a bit of a letdown, even though I've been using it since Rdio went bust (so ~10yrs). The thing that finally pushed me over the edge was the amount of shit content they push at my kids.

I want to me able to give my 10yo an app on their phone to listen to music, and not have to check to see if they're actually watching videos, or listening to (possibly wildly inappropriate) podcasts - or worst of both worlds - watching video podcasts.

Qobuz isn't perfect in terms of UI, but they seem to care about, and only care about, music. I trialed Amazon Music, but it (unsurprisingly) is an ad platform, too. Apple Music was a contender - the only reason I didn't end up with it is because (also unsurprisingly) it doesn't integrate well with network streamers.

Qobuz is a bit more expensive, but so far it has been worth it.

This looks cool, but I'm not 100% sure what it does. Is the "music server" part just a backend for the web UI, or does it serve via other protocols like DLNA?

> What do you think happens once a company knows you are looking for a job and then you don’t get the new job?

Maybe it depends how useful you are. IME, they're grateful to have you say a while longer.

One of the guys I work with had accepted another job and was virtually out the door when the new job fell through. My company gladly welcomed him back, kept giving him challenging work and eventually promoting him.

A couple of months ago I told my boss and my boss's boss I was going to start looking for other jobs. They tried to see if there was something that'd make me stay, and when there wasn't, they were 100% supportive. If I said tomorrow "actually, I've had a change of heart, I'd like to stay" they'd be genuinely pleased. This has basically been the story my whole career.

Sure, if your boss is an arsehole they'll do arsehole things. My advice is not to work for arseholes.

It's a job; not a cult. People come and go. If I were working somewhere that made me feel like I couldn't leave without being super secretive about it, that would be a huge red flag.

The big thing that got me to move off passwordstore to BW (and self-hosted vaultwarden) was sharing passwords with family. The app and browser extensions are nicer, too.

> No one is going to let you talk to your current manager and let them know you are looking for a job.

What on earth do you mean? Who is going to stop me from talking to my manager?

Over my 20+ year career, in all-but one case my current manager has always been one of my referees and has known that I'm looking for other jobs.

Maybe this is a cultural thing. Here (Aus) references from colleagues are basically disregarded and all that prospective employers are interested in is referees from current and former managers.

It's not at all false IME, though I'm not in SV or the US. Most job want up-front references from at least 2 people, one of whom must be your current supervisor/boss (or someone else higher in the chain of command). You can occasionally get away without it, but it's difficult.

The question to ask yourself then is: why is it that the behaviour that brings you pleasure/meaning/satisfaction happens to align exactly with what the company wants?

I spent most of my career with a similar attitude to yours, and TBH it's still my default. The question I find myself asking more and more is: can I maintain/increase my level of satisfaction while giving less of myself to a company that simply doesn't care?

This is a good point. I have a backup strategy that includes cloud and offline HDDs, but at some point, when I'm not around to keep it all running, it'll probably just be family getting them off my laptop.

I should probably look at writing to bluray at some point.

I thought that was a strange approach, too - I'd have thought it'd be far quicker to cull post-scanning. Plus, then you have the whole catalog digitized in case someone else wants to come along and make different editorial choices later on.

I take a ton of photos. I cull probably 80%. The remaining ones are all pretty good/interesting/meaningful. I end up with maybe 1000 for a year, then pick maybe 100 of those to make into a photo book for the year, which is what the kids actually look at.

The best solution I've come up with is jpgs in a yyyy/mm folder structure + EXIF metadata. I know it's not your ideal, but it'll be supported and platform agnostic for the forseeable future, and there are plenty of apps that can search metdata tags.

That said - I used to rigorously tag photos for the event, place, and people in them, but it's just too much work. Some tooling around batch and auto tagging would be great, so long as it wrote back to the original image EXIF.

That's like asking "is there a building industry" just because every industry uses buildings. Every (well, most) industries use software; but the production of that software is itself an industry.

> I'm curious why you are confident they would be more intelligent than a modern toddler?

Because we have intellectual artefacts from that time that show us. Artefacts that underlay much of modern society, and that in many respects still hold up, even though we've built upon them for 20 generations.

I think you're under-selling your point. Forget highschool students - some of the greatest thinkers in human history lived 2000+ years ago.

I used to work somewhere that had a similar licensing model. I believe it was perpetual access to all updates (minor or major) released within 12mths of purchase, along with free support. Once your 12mths were up there were no further updates.

Last I heard, they were still successfully running a (small - 3 or 4 dev) business on this model.

Look, I love FWWM, but that's a brutal way to start. Firstly, it works a lot better if you know TP. Secondly... it's a brutal film. I've seen it a bunch of times and still find some of it hard to watch.

It also happens to be just a beautiful film.

There are a bunch of hifi brands that are making great products but don't have great name branding: SMSL, Topping, WiiM, Fosi (I own 3 of those 4, lol).

The upside is that they mostly seem to care about making good products rather than branding.

I've been really impressed by how they keep pushing features out to old devices. Like, there was no reason for them to give the Mini 10 band PEQ - they could have made people upgrade. But no, the working (seemingly quite hard) to get the performance out of the chip in the Mini to do it, and pushed the update out to everyone.

Conjecture on the wiim forums is that they ran into licensing issues so their two flagship products (Amp Pro and Ultra) don't have airplay, but weirdly all of their lower-end devices (Mini, Pro, Pro Plus) do.

> The home-audio market is consolidated into a tiny number of manufacturers masquerading under once-proud brands they bought. The crippling incompetence of the products themselves is depressing.

There's quite a rise in Chinese HiFi companies that are making some great equipment. I've found audiosciencereview.com an excellent resource for getting back into hifi and avoiding much of the nonsense. I recently picked up a Fosi amp which, to me, functions at least as well as my NAD from the 80s. It cost me half of what I just spent on getting the NAD serviced.

> All I want to do is play the same shit on ALL MY SPEAKERS. My living-room ones, my patio ones, and my backyard ones. All I need is A, B, and C speaker switches. But NOPE. As far as I can tell, nobody makes this. Nobody addresses the 99% use case for multiple "zones." There are at least NINE AMPS in my receiver, but I can't play the same source on three pairs of speakers.

Look into WiiM streamers. Cheap and quite impressive IME. Multi-room streaming from digital or analog sources, PEQ, room correction etc.

I have 3 - they're awesome.

My favorite recent discovery in the HiFi world (after losing interest about 15 years ago) are the WiiM network streamers. Connect them up to any old system via RCA, toslink or coax and you can:

- stream from a wide number of subscription services

- stream from your own DLNA server or samba share

- cast from Chromecast or AirPlay

- with multiple devices, you can do multi-room synchronized streaming

- apply parametric EQ, including (in the higher end models) auto room correction

- hook up a digital source (eg, TV) so you can apply EQ

- hook up an analog device (like a turntable) and stream it to the rest of the devices in the house

The app's surprisingly good, the firmware updated regularly.

The cheapest version is under $100. They're like Chromecast Audio's on steroids. When (eventually) they die or get superseded, it's easy to replace without needing to touch the rest of the system.

I have 3 at the moment, the main one hooked up my amp and speakers from the 80s, which I picked up used in the 2000s.