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I'm not sure it's really snarky. In large parts of Germany stores have been closed on Sundays for most of my life (and where I live also after 20:00) and yes, going into town or to IKEA on a Saturday is actually a meme sometimes.

Both things can be true - I can be indifferent or appreciative of stuff being closed on Sundays and I can also be annoyed that 90% of the people have their only free day on the same day and thus bigger shopping needs to happen there instead of being spread over two days, unless you take days off.

I have a lot more computers than family members, so that's only fair I guess?

I know just as many people who have that title foisted upon them by HR and leadership of their company than others who have taken it up.

So I think it sounds more than actual people who would be happy to be called software developers.

Then you were simply lucky, because I see myself 90% agreeing with the person you replied to - but of course it can vary between orgs and countries.

That's an unfair comparison because while I have nothing bad to say about terminals on macOS.. on Windows it's just still a shitty experience that doesn't solve even half of my problems.

People don't really use push to talk in Teams (unlike Discord) and that's usually the dealbreaker because you can't have system wide keybinds.

"architecture by reading blog posts" is as an old boss of mine described it and I liked that better.

People at my supermarket still generally need longer to pay by watch or phone than me with using my card, so I'm not sure what to take away here.

They might just get a stroke if they'll hear what I use my smartwatch for. Hop on my bike, press start, and at the end of the ride press stop, then look at the result on my phone (sometimes). And if I don't forget to put it on I read the time. I have navigated with it once in the first week. But luckily it's not a Pixel Watch.

It's a bit weird and maybe more complicated.

I checked the area around Munich, Germany (where I live).

- one is an actual lake (correct shape) that went down to 0 from a bogus 1

- three are actual forests/parks which may have had some sorts, but 11/16/48 to 0 is a rounding error, but there is no filter for absolute, it technically is -100%...

- bit further out is another lake with 14 to 0

I'd love to have statistics on how many people can not work remotely because their partner can't work remotely. Maybe starting with how many jobs are office jobs that don't require f2f would be a good sample, but I've never seen such numbers.

"also"? :D

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amigo-Aff%C3%A4re (sorry, no English translation available)

I'm generally not zealous in either way of the good old time or everything old is bad...

But seriously, have your vinyl and be happy, I am buying CDs for home use (even in a car it got annoying fast).

But why would I ever go back to something huge, clunky, fragile like MCs (or MDs to a degree)? I'm not saying stop using a dedicated music player (although I've been team mobile phone for music (with mp3s) forever). But the only reason I see for exchangable media would be trading playlists with friends (I hardly did that with MCs or CDs, but ok) - but why not cheap small SD cards. Why do people want their Walkman back? I just don't get it.

Funny. I have about 187 posts titled 'The Stack' on my blog, but also none on 2013-08-13, so I'm not the training set it seems :P

A friend who doesn't live close had one season of a series I wanted to watch and I could stream it from his Plex. I'm not saying this could not have been solved in another easy way, but it worked without friction because he had Plex anyway.

I'm kinda over downloading gigabytes of files and then deleting them after watching. And I'm not doing this regularly so I've not investigated. All I'm saying is that it solved a problem nicely.

I dunno. I've worked with linux routers for years and I've had a lot less problems than with mikrotik.

I still like them but it's usually not the networking knowledge that trips people up.

There are dozens of us who went through the ordeal to use MIDI controllers for stuff because you just want to touch a button and not alt-tab 4 times. cf. https://f5n.org/blog/2026/hardware-mute-button/ (part 2 is not published yet where I replace the Korg software with my own app using a Rust midi driver)

But yes, mine was 55 EUR, is universally usable, and it was a fun project. There is a reason I didn't buy a stream deck and there's also a reason I did not buy a 3d printer, design a PCB and do it from scratch.

The problem is just if you don't want to replace stuff that is not broken.

My BT in-ears charge with Micro USB, my 2 bike lights do, my flashlight does. The only downside of my Suunto watch is the proprietary charger cable (USB A on the other end)

And yeah, adapters exist of course, but still.

Yeah. HDMI sometimes shows the same signs of whatever is happening as DP.

I still miss the old binary (works/doesn't work) nature of D-SUB and DVI. No autonegotiations or any "need to reset the power on the monitor"...

I didn't lose it per se but it was kind of an ordeal to migrate it from Mojang to MS back then and I had to actually involve support, but in the end it worked.

Have not logged in for years so maybe I have lost it meanwhile ;)

True, I had forgotten about UO, but for the sake of the argument I don't think it really matters. I don't have numbers ready, I had always seen EQ as the bigger mainstream success, could be wrong. Also was a bit before my time, I didn't pay sub fees for my games until 2004/05ish.

Edit: I didn't actually want to say that EQ invented it, but I had phrased that badly.

Not the person you replied to but they mentioned DACH + customers.

As someone from Bavaria... I have several stories of coworkers who speak and understand decent German but put them on a phone or a in a room with people who speak in a thick German dialect and they will understand 10%. Functionally useless.

See, you went the extra mile.

Like the person you replied to (I assume), I clicked on the home page, pondered why one would not describe the app's purpose on the home page, failed to scroll horizontally with a mouse and closed the page before noticing the about section.

They didn't even lose me with the original link I couldn't make sense of.

I'm not in the US but it's been years since I had a coworker with more than 2 kids (or they're so many departments apart I simply don't know). None of my closer friends has more than one kid (ok, that might be a bit of an exception). None of the families in my huge apartment building has more than 2 kids. I'm actually hard pressed right now to name 5 people I know who have 3 or more kids or 2 siblings (and the kids/siblings being younger than 30). (and I am including all my US acquantainces (sorry, no real friends over there for me))

I just don't understood what this has to do with "online".

You have your timeline slightly wrong because GW1 (if we take dev time into account) basically launched at the same time as WoW - and WoW wasn't the first subscription MMO. I suppose if this was a major reason, EverQuest would be the one to inspire it.

I think we're in the minority here. Or at least we absolutely were in the minority until 2020 when everyone started working from home, many kept it that way, and a somewhat dedicated (even if temporary) spot had to be found.

But I know so many people (who don't work from home) who put their laptop on their living room or kitchen table, or the couch.

People who game on PC are probably also an outlier, but many of those again use it mostly for gaming and not as their main machine.

It's really weird how smoke breaks are still more accepted than coffee breaks in some companies.

And for all the terrible chemicals they blast in the air, I don't remember ever having enjoyable small talk with strangers except when accompanying people to a smoke break, be it outside the office or a bar.

Which law though?

Which country/state/region? Does it even apply? We're talking about an open source project that is not being sold, with contributors from all over the world.

> Very common is the case of some person who sometimes uses linux on their machine telling a system administrator who has thousands of machines under his responsibility what's what.

I'm not sure that's a good argument because it goes both ways.

Sure, times have moved on but having dozens or hundreds of machines is now nothing compared to thousands, but at some point it was - and people have experienced it then.

And even without the number, I'm not really sure it's a good thing to count professional users (who often have access to support and resources) more than hobby users.

It traded one set of problems for another set of problems.

The people who are happy now don't complain (or are too new to init systems) and the people you hear are the ones who now have more problems than before. I suppose the majority either shouldn't comment because they never used anything before it to some degree, or they're just more, or they're really happier, good for them.

I count myself as part of the latter group (nothing was broken, now I have some problems) but it's not catastrophic. I'm not arguing systemd is worse, I'm just saying I've repeatedly have problems I didn't have for the first 15 years of using Linux.