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Ah, makes sense. I rolled back to Windows 10. 11 is too scary for me.

Can you elaborate? I have been using GreenShot for ages now and haven't had a single issue with it. It works perfectly well on my 4K monitor. What issues are you experiencing?

Agreed! I also use DECT based headset (Poly i.e. ex-Plantronics - recently acquired by HP) and it is amazingly good. Range up to f*ckintillion meters (anywhere within the house or garden basically), up to 8 hours use on a single charge (I regularly forget to charge it overnight and I can still use it the next day), no delays, no weird disconnects in the middle of a call, great mic quality and it works both with my PC and home landline.

I was a heavy Google Reader user.

When it disappeared, I switched to NewsBlur.

NewsBlur is great but it lacks one particular feature: an RSS feed for a folder of blogs. (or a category of blogs, potato - potahto)

So I switched to self-hosted FreshRSS.

It has all the features I want (plus, unlike NewsBlur, it's free) but it is Docker-based and I am already like 10 versions behind and I am too lazy/scared to learn how to upgrade it without destroying the Universe.

BoredReading has a fantastic UI and I absolutely love the approach and organization of feeds. Key shortcuts are cool, too.

If there is ever a self-hosted version that I can feed with my own stuff from scratch (ideally via an OPML file), I'd go for it immediately.

My personal record is 11 months on Mint. I have also used Ubuntu, Fedora and (a long time ago) SUSE. But as you say, sooner or later something comes up that forces me to go back to Windows. Things like poor GPU performance for certain applications (like Obsidian for example) or GRUB acting up or WLAN/GPU drivers suddenly not working after a kernel upgrade and so on.

Would you mind sharing your Win10 setup? I use it too, but it's a stock version with just some basic cleanup.

So annoying.

Same here

> (...) in subsequent SELECT, DELETE, INSERT, or UPDATE statements

The annoying part is that certain RDMBS engines (MySQL for instance) require you to write the INSERT keyword before any CTEs.

So, your T-SQL or PGSQL query:

`with cte1 as (...) insert into ... select ... from cte1;`

becomes:

`insert into ... with cte1 as (...) select ... from cte1;`

I know the difference is minor but when you deal with many different DB engines, it is simply annoying.

> Which don't?

Redshift (a PostgreSQL derivative, more or less) can run an INSERT with a join, but cannot do an UPDATE with a join.

>> Unlike SELECT, these operations don't feature JOINs or subqueries or any other magic that brings together tables.

This is a false statement. Both INSERT and UPDATE support JOINs and subqueries / CTEs. At least according to the standard - not every engine implementing them is another story.

I've been using their 42 inch monitor for a couple of years now. Before that, I worked on a curved 50 inch Samsung TV but it was a bit too large. 42 inches is a sweet spot for me.

2-monitor setups suck. If I had to go multi, I'd always go with an odd number of monitors (so, 3 or 5) to avoid assymetry. With 2 monitors, your secondary monitor is going to be placed either to the left or to the right of your primary, thus creating assymetrical workload on your neck muscles, affecting your health long term.

The only exception from this rule is a layout where your primary screen sits in front of you, and your secondary is placed beside it but rotated 90 degrees (to vertical position) and used mostly for placing various toolbars to declutter the main one. I tried this setup once and it worked ok ish for me. It looks weird but is quite practical once you get used to it.

I faced the same issue. Turns out, you need to disable ad-blocker in order to be able to sign-up with a Google account.

I have both YubiKey and SMS 2FA active on my Google account. However, for SMS purposes I got an extra phone number that nobody knows (well, nobody but me, Google and my phone provider) and that is inactive except when (A) I need to use it for 2FA purposes or (B) I need to top it up to keep it in service (which is every 6 months, approximately).

Is there still a risk of someone cloning my simcard even though I did not, ever, share my phone number with anyone?

Kia Sorento suffers from a similar problem: after powering on, it shows a list of (up to three) profiles with the "accept" button at the bottom of the screen. Frequently the "accept" button is initially disabled (for whatever reason) and the correct profile is pre-selected so you simply wait 3-4 seconds for the "accept" button to become enabled so that you can touch it. But the millisecond the "accept" button becomes enabled, the profile switches from the one you want to a randomly selected - and you register the fact too late because you have already pressed the "accept" button. Now you either drive on a different profile, or you have to go to the settings menu and select the right profile. Worst case, it takes up to 35 seconds from when you power on the car to when you can actually drive it on the right profile. Very annoying.

Is this even turning-complete?

Same here, stopped drinking alcohol years ago, switched to non-alcoholic beers. There is a huge choice of them everywhere and local pubs are required by law to have them on offer.

Re social drinking, never felt any peer pressure, not now, not before. "The field where I grow my f*cks is barren". Don't care what others think about it.

I have been using Vivaldi for years now, on mobile (Android). Gave up after their recent update. Why? Because they changed the layout of the "reload" button. Previously, I could simply double-tap the "V" menu to reload the current tab. Now I have to either pull down (which is not always feasible) or find the "refresh" button in the far left part of the "V" menu, because double-tapping now brings the settings screen. Not sure what genius in their UX dept thought that opening the settings screen is more important than re-loading the current tab but they should change it back.

This vividly reminds me of "The Washing Machine Tragedy", a story in the "Memoirs of a Space Traveller" book by Stanisław Lem. Highly recommended to any fan of house automation.

This vividly reminds me of "The Washing Machine Tragedy", a story in the "Memoirs of a Space Traveller" book by Stanisław Lem. Highly recommended to any fan of house automation.

"The cost of an apartment in Shenzhen, China’s answer to Silicon Valley, was equal to 43.5 times a resident’s average salary as of July"

I stopped reading after this. There is no mention whether the cost means a monthly rental price or a purchase price, or if the considered resident's salary is monthly or annual, gross or net.

Buying a house that costs 44x my monthly gross salary is nothing unusual and well below bank mortgage limits. Renting an apartment that costs 44x my annual salary per month makes no sense.

Journalists should put more effort into data quality and focus less on the sensational part. Unfortunately, the latter sells better.

I agree - the list is truly impressive. I ran a quick spot-check and it looks like most of these blogs are of medium to low activity. Having 1000 blogs in your RSS reader with an average of 1 article per month per blog results in reading 3 articles per day on average - not bad.

As I work mostly on MSSQL Server, the sweet spot for me is SSMS with RedGate SQL Prompt.

For non-MSSQL things, it's usually DBeaver.

No need for a new IDE for me.

I am just reading it now and it is better than anticipated.

"Fiasco" is a continuation of "Tales of Pirx the Pilot", although the connection is loose. I love it, too. One of his best works.

I was recently evaluating Mermaid for one of my projects but I could not get mermaid-cli to work (one of 3rdparty npm libraries was broken) and I needed a way of automating graph creation.

Does anyone know if there is a decent tool similar to mermaid-cli allowing for command-line based generating PNG or SVG mermaid diagrams, but without having to install bazillion of NPM packages first?

I've been using TC since when NC was a thing. Got a proper license for it some 10 years ago, when I could finally afford it. One of the most irreplaceable bits of software ever (at least for me).

I do not agree. I used to work on a hybrid basis for about 5 years (until Covid). It was approximately 40% from home and 60% on-site but the employer was flexible.

Since Covid, I'm working 100% from home and while it has some advantages (commute time/costs, better work gear), I'm missing the hybrid model.

The entire debate is futile though. Some employees / employers prefer WFH, some don't. Simple like that.

To my understanding, as long as the job is done, up to standards, and within budgets, everyone should be happy no matter WFH or not.

I've been using NewsBlur since G killed Reader. Great service!

I started switching away from Whatsapp about 18 months ago.

I decided to go for Telegram (although I use Signal as well).

So far, I managed to convert... 17 people. Out of approximately 1200. It is a lost case. WhatsApp is practically everywhere.

Damn.