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Others have mentioned a few specific distros. There are also tools like https://github.com/RedBearAK/toshy or https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto which make the keyboard and other aspects of the OS behave more Mac-like.

For me, Toshy's out of the box config make it pretty painless to switch between MacOS and Asahi on the same machine.

This varies greatly by discipline and tradition - sometimes even within the same research groups. For example, some people put the senior person / advisor first, some put this person last, some go by alphabet.

In my experience, there is even more variation in the amount of work expected to be put into a publication by said senior person. To put it mildly. ^^

They are getting even cheaper. I have four modules with a total capacity of about 1800W (the inverter has a limit of 800W to comply with the regulations). Cost was about 370€ including delivery.

You could install another operating system on the phone. For example, as far as I know GrapheneOS (https://grapheneos.org) still has limited support for the Pixel 4a and apparantly does not include the new changes google introduced at this time (there are already a few threads about this in the GrapheneOS forums).

There is probably a Hackerspace or a Makerspace somewhere around and it's very likely that you will find people there who will help you with working on making your device usable again and with backing up your data.

I have, from time to time. It certainly has become faster but Sublime still seems to be more nimble to me. On the more emotional side, I've also grown used to Sublime and I - mostly - just like using tools made by smaller shops or individual developers more than what the big corporations produce.

To echo many sentiments here: Sublime does all I want in a text editor and I use it a lot. When VSCode became all the rage, I tried it but became annoyed very quickly with the loading times and wasted resources, so I switched back to Sublime.

It displays notifications fine which I find helpful for navigation. There are/were also some more advanced navigation apps around. For example this one https://apps.rebble.io/en_US/application/52e7521679f937c1820... or this one https://apps.rebble.io/en_US/application/666e80ff7568f7000a0...

Very cool! Looking forward to the future developments! :)

Even as it stands today, all the old Pebbles can still be used and are still great. On Android, it's easy using the Gadgetbridge app or even the original Pebble app. On iOS, you currently have to install the ipa-File yourself - meaning you have to have the iOS device in developer mode and re-sign the App regularly. Pebble apps can easily be installed via rebble.io. There is even still some developer activity - for example, there is a relatively recent Home Assistant app - so you can totally control your 2025 smart home with your 12 year old smart watch (even by voice).

I got my Time Steel used something like 5 years ago for around 35€ and use it most days. In a previous job, I could use different Apple and Android smartwatches as much as I wanted but I always kept the Pebble as my main and personal device.

Dude... 'If you believe X, you're stupid and here's a whataboutism about an unrelated but politically charged topic' doesn't really seem like a productive way to discuss research. May I suggest having your beverage of choice and a nice walk in your lunch break and to think back a bit on your university days when you presumably learned how researchers work and how to read studies? Also, maybe consider less insults and insinuations while you're at it.

That researchers found those percentages of men expressing some willingness to rape if they could get away with it in the cited studies. Not the same thing at all as being "closet rapists" or "abstaining only for fear of being caught" as you chose to frame it. Do you have some actual beef with the studies and their methodology or do you just want to vent about woke misandrists?

Nobody claimed what you claim they claimed - as I suspect you know full well. The relevant section in the original report is called "Sensitivity, anger and misogynistic beliefs" (beliefs, not behaviours) and cites a few sources:

"Speckhard et al. (2021) found that 13.6% of incels reported some willingness to rape if they could get away with it, compared to respective samples of ~35%, ~20–25%, ~19% and ~30% of men in the general population (Malamuth, 1981; Palmer, McMahon & Fissel., 2021; Hahnel-Peeters, Goetz & Goetz., 2022; Young & Thiessen, 1992)."

The functionality described by the person you are replying to is part of all Apple devices. It also works without being on the same messengig app and without having the recipient in your contacts in the first place.

Another example for AirDrop use cases is transferring large media files to another device. People use that all the time for moving recordings to their editing computer, for example. Even if you have all your stuff in the cloud (which not everyone does) - it‘s much faster to do a local transfer than uploading and downloading something like a high res raw video from a modern phone.

I dislike wired headphones for daily use and I've wanted small wireless in-ear headphones since long before the wireless earbud explosion kicked off. However, I still really, really want the headphone jack back. Mainly for connecting to non-wireless sound equipment, for easily attaching a microphone and for phone calls where sound quality is important.

Yes and no. Obviously, blind and religious faith is not reasonable when we are talking about science. However, a lot of structures in science are are about making "belief" or "trust" a bit more objective than what you could do as an individual. (Peer) reviews, academic journals and conferences and even things like SciHub are, in the end, to a large degree about trust.

What's the alternative? Following every single argument every researcher makes back to the beginning and replicate their work before you base any further work or thought on what they did or said? That's not really feasible in most domains.

And, personally, I'd rather call the basis of science curiosity and not (just) skepticism.

Does the outrage about parents' past failures help the starving children in the present?

I think our views are not too dissimilar and I agree with Jobs being exceptional. I also agree that the kind of (only) quantitatively driven science you are describing is not sufficient to predict innovation. However, there are also other, more qualitative, branches of science that work in different ways (I've chosen the phrase "grounded theory" which comes from sociology for that reason).

There has been prior work into multi-touch interfaces and all sorts of things related to ubiquitous computing long before the iPhone. Jobs/Apple was aware of this and built on it at the right time - just like they were aware and built on the work at Xerox PARC before.

When he said that, he knew well how much prior work had gone into touch- and multitouch-based interfaces, including lots of work outside Apple such as technical developments and a long tradition of HCI research into such interfaces with end users. However, "they'll learn" sounds much more catchy and visionary than "based on doing our homework thoroughly, we have built a grounded theory on how culture and technology have developed to the point where we can sell a newly and nicely packaged thing - and where we are able to mass produce it".

In other words: Apple's thinking process about what to build when and how to shape it are not prescience at all - they are science. They very carefully look at as much context as possible, including - but not limited to - what users (say they) want. Jobs was great at making those processes look visionary and magical which was (very) good for internal and external marketing.

Sounds like the "Handoff" functionality baked into MacOS. If it is, it is not the same cloud-based sync mechanism referred to in this thread and by the person you are replying to. You can disable Handoff system-wide in System Settings --> General --> AirDrop & Handoff.

When was the CCC not political?

OP literally said "I am mainly trying to save money on taxes"...

My 2 cent: Pay your taxes to support the infrastructure, services and development in the region you actually use most in your life activities.

Sorry to hear about your troubles.

How long have you been employed before you got laid off? If you've been an employee for more than 12 months (less in certain special cases), you can get "ALG 1" (Arbeitslosengeld 1) for a while which results in 60% of your previous salary. There are also quite a few of options for support in further training and education.

The steps you need to take for all these things can all be very formalistic, very bureaucratic, very German and very dehumanizing. They also can add up to a lot of cognitive and emotional load - in hard situations with (often) no mental capacity for such work. I'm certainly no expert but I have some experience in dealing with "the system" with/for people who just can't deal with that kind of mental/formal gymnastics for whatever reason. Feel free to drop me an e-mail if you feel that I can help in any way.

edit: Another person mentioned ALG 2 (Arbeitslosengeld 2 / Bürgergeld). That's the alternative to go for in case you haven't been employed long enough to get ALG 1. Of course it's less than ALG 1 but it covers the basics - especially basics such as shelter, food and health insurance.

Feels like https://freifunk.net/ deserves a mention in this thread. It's an association in Germany that works on broad, open access to the internet via Wifi (with optional Meshing functionality). They have, among other things, ISP status - so if you provide an open Freifunk Wifi based on their infrastructure, all/most potential legal troubles go through them and not through you.

Why wouldn't I? We talk on the phone, sometimes have video calls (usually in groups) and occasionally use SMS as a fallback if a call is not an option. E-Mail is also sometimes involved if it's a more in-depth exchange or something involving E-Mail anyway (booking confirmations and the like).

edit after re-reading: I didn't mean to make my original comment sound like there is only real life. Just that not liking and not engaging with more or less continuous modes of communication and notifications does not equal not interacting with people.

Do you mean the confirmation window that asks you to login with your online banking credentials after after putting in your credit card details in an online shop? The first time I saw that thing, I cringed as well and decided that I didn't really need whatever I was trying to buy at the time (I was lucky that there were no social factors invoved like in your case).

Thanks for the reply - makes sense. Just in the interest of sharing (not trying to make an argument here): I tried the "app only" bank account thing and didn't like it. My "fancy fintech bank account" lasted less than a year before I closed it, I think. As for checking my balance and transfers, I only do that every few weeks when I fire up my desktop banking software in order to pull all bank statements and archive them away. I don't think I've ever come across a 2FA thing that was app only (if I did, I probably would just refuse to use the service).

I'm curious: What's the use case for those two specific things? I personally don't even have a banking app installed on my phone - I use online banking and/or a desktop banking software. For 2FA, I have an OTP app installed that I simply open whenever I need to do 2FA.

How does not liking notifications and engaging with messengers, social networks and other sources of high-volume input translate to not interacting with other people? There's still, you know, real life?!

I'm on the same boat as quite a few posters: I hate notifications and have a hard time understanding how people who pick up their devices all the time get anything done and keep their sanity.

My personal phone is a device with GrapheneOS (no Play Store and no Play services, so not even the temptation to install attention grabbing crap - not that I even have social media accounts anymore). It is used mostly for audiobooks, music, navigation, phone calls, as a device for notetaking, information gathering / referencing - and to have a backup of my most important data near me at all times. The only app I allow notifications on this device for is the one messenger I have installed - which I only use to chat with my partner, a group chat with some of my oldest friends and the very occasinal message to other contacts (almost exclusively to coordinate some real-world activity). At the beginning of my work day, I usually chuck the personal phone in my backpack and only remember to take it out in the evening when I usually have a call with my partner - or when I'd like to listen to some music during a break. If there is an emergency, my partner, my parents, etc. know to call me at work.

My work phone is a bit different. I have it with me at all times when I'm working and have notifications enabled for Matrix/Element (which we use as our team messenger) and for the calendar. Not E-Mail, though. I check that when I'm good and ready.

My partner has a permanent exception to Do Not Disturb mode on both my phones.

On my computers, it's Do Not Disturb / disable notifications all the way. If I want to be informed about stuff, I'll keep the respective app open. During a normal work day, for example, I have Element, Calendar and E-Mail open on a second monitor for glanceability - and I even close those apps depending on the kind of work I'm doing.

Edit: I forgot: I also have my government's disaster warning app installed on my phones and it's allowed notifications - for obvious reasons.

https://openaudible.org could be considered somewhat Calibre-like. If it's more about self-hosting, media servers like https://jellyfin.org may be more interesting (although I wouldn't call those similar to Calibre).

I have RSI which led to an operation as well as a collection of different input devices. A few of them are trackballs (OTOH: Microsoft Trackball Explorer which the Ploopy is shaped after, Logitech Trackman Marble FX, Trackman Marble and MX Ergo but I've also tried others like the CST). I also have a few mouse variations and I've extensively used Trackpoints in the past.

Variation certainly helps but what I keep coming back to are Apple's trackpads. The modern versions (the ones using force sensing instead of buttons) in combination with turning the sensitivity way up and enabling more mulitouch gestures are really, really good for me. I've yet to find another input device that requires less wrist movement and less force to use.