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I'd like to be more positive about this change but it was extremely disruptive to existing workflow. Oh that channel that had third party people? It's now in the ether. That project that only existed in one workspace? Mixed right on with your everyday channels. Want to context switch? Too bad! Impossible to prioritize that stack of notifications at a glance. The limited clarity I was able to build around is now a fog. Its making me find email as the best communication path since nobody else is using it.

What my favourite is managers creating whole new lists for themselves so they can say they are at the front of the line. Then are baffled that this is insufficient prioritization that 7+ top lists can't all be top. It really helps highlight who are the do somethings vs the do nothings in an org.

I just wonder when the dam is going to break. Part of how Google spun money for so long is because they had high quality search to run ads on, but some of these latest changes have completely lost the plot. I don't need an animated ai response to my basic question: I want an answer. Especially when a bit ago on a different device I asked the same question and got the answer the first time. I haven't been so inclined to entertain what if I just did it myself thoughts for search in at least 15 years but it has become very an increasingly loud thought.

Yeah, I was a LXDE user for the longest time but with hidpi displays it started falling apart. Cinnamon ended up being the right amount of utility as a baseline and it has felt like a stable place to be since I swapped.

I recommend Debian + Cinnamon right now over KDE for people who want that Windows + searchable start menu now get out of my way. Right now for me KDE is a bit much.

I would say any topic that isn't covered by stack overflow tends to start bleeding badly. Now that GitHub has prevented searching source I am having less success searching for error messages, as I used to be able to extract the static string and land in source. For go specifically how many times are you landing on search results that aren't gotour, stack overflow, and go docs? If stack overflow was not so gracefully indexable things would fall apart pretty quick and in lots of areas it does.

I would say searching for businesses outside major metro areas has gotten increasingly bad. I had a situation in the last few months that a business would only appear when they were open (barbershop) but if they were off that day they were not even on page 3.

Finding materials suppliers local to you has been a nightmare, I've been resorting to Yahoo-grade business directories to actually find businesses. These are places where Google has them on their maps but they never return in search unless I force my location to be away from home. Historically I never had to do this kind of manipulation.

I am having better luck driving around or hand scrolling around maps to find places then I am with search at times. It feels like after the first ten results Google completely gives up. E.g. I look for lumber yards and I get 20 ace hardwares and maybe two of them are actually lumber yards, but it completely misses some local sawmills that are specialized and amazing

I am whiffing Chinese restaurant near this town, state. I know the place is there but I cant remember the name, I can find it manually on the map.

In the olden times (e.g. 1999) you would write HTML by hand (notepad.exe) the same as people write markdown today. It then works as a single thing to move around, I don't need to bring a second thing with me so reorganizing simple HTML files is easy. So if I am just going to write a one off document HTML with images and tables was the easiest (see very many professor websites, geocities, angelfire, etc). Once org-mode became the better version of this because it could export plain HTML I shifted to that personally but if org-mode didn't exist I probably would still be writing HTML directly when it comes to just typesetting tabular data vs dealing with Word/Google docs tables.

Automating writing HTML is also easy as you can just write to stdout directly, and if you are comfortable writing HTML by hand directly this is a simple uplift to automate things you did by hand.

This is why jQuery was so popular because you could just add it in to this vanilla HTML in a nice way. You didn't have to stand up some JS scaffolding and toolchain to get there. Even jQuery can get you to a situation away from WYSIWYG because you don't just need to render the DOM you now have to have a JS runtime evaluation. In some contexts you have something that can write a DOM from HTML but you have no JS, it was only when chromium embedding became popular and normalized you got both the HTML and the JS together, for a long time you only got the HTML.

Finally, direct HTML will work as-is forever but JavaScript is a moving target. Some terrible websites I wrote in raw HTML work today after 20 yrs (admittedly 1024x768 optimizations didn't age well) but many JS things I have written have not had that longevity or require standing up a long dead development framework to get going again.

People really underestimate how much time is available to qualify whether a feature that on paper that sounds problematic is benign or functionally helpless without $XYZ other things by a security team. Saying use MDM to 'fix' it is dev time they might not have, and the only ethical thing they can do is remove the new unknown risks from their list of risks.

Much like your SLAs are not my SLAs your risks are not my risks. iterm2 inserting a mechanism to talk to a new class of component is not a minor change.

What I think I am waiting for from Mozilla is instead of this enrich the suggest experience just go full Yahoo like Microsoft did with Microsoft start. Make an organic 'good' home page, and let people who want to not use it switch it out and capture interest that way. Make links people can share so you can convince them to try Mozilla. You have to FIND Mozilla nowadays, and in comparison I look at what Opera has been doing lately in actively helping people find them. I am at least seeing a path for Opera to grow more than Firefox right now.

I'm finding the adoption of Win11 especially awkward because some programs that were built for earlier versions seem to draw blurry. I also am getting a lot of weird playback issues in Firefox for video on both arm64 and amd64. It feels really rough for something that is supposed to be the replacement for win10 and feels similar to when win 8 first came out levels of awkward.

I have 2 win11s and 2 win10s I use more or less daily so the playback/UI draw issues really stand out.

My favourite is when you did click don't recommend channel it sometimes still comes back after a year or two like a bad relationship on Facebook. I try and maintain a few browsers with different recommendations streams and it's always wild when I have a new PC and I get some really toxic recommendations.

I agree, Unity did disrupt the game engine experience for the smaller dev and earned their goodwill. Since then they really had provided little reason to continue with Unity other than tradition, and other engines made it easier to engage with or over time simply improved enough to meet the standard that Unity provided. Even before this pricing change you kept hearing the questioning of Unity and their 'edge' was quickly becoming paper thin.

The thing that's actually standing out to me lately is of the OSs I use (win10 win11 osx and Linux) win11 seems awful with all the browsers I've tried having video playback bugs of the severity I've not seen in years. That is with edge, Firefox or chrome. I just don't know what's going wrong in win11 that's leaving things in such a bad way.

I unironically miss my cube. They were natural sound breaks and sound absorbing so you could talk and not intrude horrifically on people adjacent. I had a place for my things so I didn't have to shuttle them in and out every day. I had a phone that worked, an Ethernet jack that was not temperamental, and a whiteboard that was ready to go. I also had a few different ways I could sit at my cube so I wouldn't get the same pains I get sitting in an open office plan because there is no way to customize anything for comfort in many cases. I have seriously considered packing a drill and a set of bits to tear off idiot things like keyboard trays (when nobody has an external keyboard) but I am resisting only just.

In a moment of clarity the real thing about open office plans is that most times when you show up it has the vibe of a floor being fired and everyone's desk wiped clean. There are no remnants of those who are there, no photos of family or the odd dollar store fun thing that kicks around a desk, every desk is wiped clean more austere than a hospital room.

This is part of what I hoped would evolve as part of the full remote pandemic stuff. I left my home area because it was obvious my salary ceiling would be about a third of what I am making now, and I still have room to grow where I am where I would otherwise be stuck. With full remote it would have been possible to at least move back home, but attitudes seem to have shifted for the worse in a lot of cases so being within an hour commute of a tech hub (US) is the only way to get the salary parity.

This is where I've been stuck. I have enough money and income to buy and support an EV charger, but the network isn't there yet for an EV to be a primary vehicle. I also would get punished for ptax as well vs stretching the life of a random used car.

So what is your opinion that you are trying to present here? That it's wrong because it isn't following the definition you expect income tax to fall under or schools don't have the ROI you would hope for? I just don't know why schools were even brought up.

Sometimes it's also abuse too depending on the product. If you have a product that can get twisted into a phishing mechanism or injecting crypto miners somehow that can be the worst for whack a mole. I still think in many cases this is solved by just discontinuing new free plans and dealing with the population you already had.

A/AAAA records are a special sort of hell to debug remotely. "My browser can find it but I can't ping it! What do you mean ping6?"

In some environments that is maddening and I don't blame people for just deciding not to either at all or only translating at WAN.

I think you missed the point where they were saying most infra dev might not know how to do on prem and cloud so it becomes less of a choice to use cloud if cloud skills are the only skills in your org.

It's a curse of writing to an unknown audience for me. I have no problem with blogging but stepping back to write a good draft for that 'first time reader' is just is extra effort. I write constantly for myself to myself and I just don't see value spending that extra time to provide context. I also have the advantage of writing to myself and being able to grep for anything I am looking for or better structure the file layout in a way that is more meaningful for me. A blog doesn't really improve upon this amazingly

I'd also say that $8 a month is a great price to astroturf for a month. Also why is the idea of Twitter monthly even sensible? Who plans their Twitter identity as a power user month to month? Why is it not just $100 a year?

I kind of hoped this was a laptop instead of an all in one. I have a Lenovo x13s and I really like it. The windows on ARM experience with win 11 is almost surprisingly good compared to early arm iterations.

I agree, it's a lot harder to logically/visually move through comments. The grey-black-black-with-underlines is a lot easier to read then the bold-black/black/thin-hl. It's kind of why I hate the new reddit style too.

I also don't like having to hover to see the icons for reply. Why are you hiding the parent/context buttons for navigation in a dot-dot-dot menu when you drill into a comment chain? Where's prev/next? Upvote/Downvote/hover UI covers stuff, and no alt tags anywhere to be seen.

Also why does it need perms to firebase and extensionpay again?

It just feels clunky even as a redesign.

I really hate how there's no alt tags or anything like that to actually tell you what any of the sliders mean.

And to add on there's lots of people can afford a three bedroom house but it's just too much house which I think was the original sentiment. Of the people who are buyers that I'm directly associated with I'm seeing people who can practically pay cash for a house but they are just not seeing new construction that is appealing to them. It's too much house for a lot of people especially when you think about the long term expenses of owning such a large structure. If there wasn't a demand for good+ quality smaller buildings for people that have the ability to buy the concept of 'downsizing' wouldn't be as much of a thing. These people would happily buy new construction for full sticker but the long-term logistics of managing that property just is not what they want. Even when I was home buying none of these cut-and-paste mansions fit what I need it for and they were so expensive that doing modest customization to them to make them suitable for my needs priced me out. While there are many issues in the US housing market the build/reno as an investment vs. build to suit or reno to suit is certainly a slice.

My favourite 'home server' board for a while was J3160DC-ITX, which runs at 6W TDP and runs off a 12V brick.

I think the things missing from this anecdote are secondary sources like glassdoor or personal references. If a company is large enough to have a high enough headcount you can often find it through secondary sources so the salary range is not a 'surprise' or at least you know what the floor should be. The floor is the real problem with a lot of postings where the salary range that they are expecting to spend is just not even a close match.

I would say that for a lot of daemons OpenBSD ends up with more interesting and cleaner versions than some of the ancient BSD ilk or with some of the complexity of the GNU replacements. It's often a lot easier to port part of/some of an OpenBSD daemon with just a little bit of hacking around instead of figuring out a bigger autotools chain.

The worse part is when you see translation rights being bought and then the translator never following through to the end even if I put my money into it. I feel that's why I'm mostly ambiguous to the whole situation on what could be done better. I just know I would not be exposed enough without the pirates.