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pbueckle··on People who use Notion to plan their whole lives
I've been using Notion at my new workplace and was excited at first, but having used it now for many months I came to hate it. They constantly announce new features but are completely neglecting the basics:

- Copy and paste is completely broken. Good luck trying to paste a table.

- The drag & drop feature is equally annoying, it just never works and doesn't select the things you intend to select or drop them in the place where you want them to be.

- The basic table is very limited (e.g. no pictures/formatting inside cells, no ability to reorder/sort - vs a Google Docs/Sheets based table)

- It grinds to a halt in long docs and databases over 100 rows. Can't stress this enough.

- Timezone support is completely messed up (you can e.g. create a database with a time column and specify the timezone, but the calendar view will always map all events in the timezone you're in, making it useless because events are getting shifted to other days)

pbueckle··on Sorry, your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you
For what it's worth, I specifically remember that a rental contract I once signed in London (Southwark, in a council housing building) mentioned that it was specifically forbidden to cook curry. I laughed at the provision back then, not fully understanding why it's there, but of course now this all makes sense.

I always thought of it probably not being enforceable anyway.

pbueckle··on Download offline maps in the Google Maps app without signing in
Pro tip to make it even easier: just type "ok maps" into the search bar of Google Maps, crop to fit the view and press download :)
pbueckle··on Using a magnetic string to fish for a lost iPhone 12 in a Berlin canal
"geplumst" is the funny part here, it's very colloquial, kinda silly-sounding, playful – similar to "plumped". Just makes the whole sentence more delightful.