gjoel

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[–] gjoel@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Does Google do that? Apple absolutely does it, but has Google ever done that?

[–] gjoel@programming.dev -2 points 1 month ago

Unless the title says so, this is news to me.

[–] gjoel@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

77" Samsung OLED.

Marantz 6015 running 5.2.4 surround

4 Tannoy XT-8F for front and surround

Tannoy XTC center

Fyne Audio F500 rear height speakers (Tannoy went out of business)

KEF q50a upfiring speakers for front heights

2 XTZ 12" 12.17 edge subwoofers

And an Nvidia Shield for good measure.

Ps5 performs disc duties.

[–] gjoel@programming.dev 16 points 1 month ago

I got a mail about that from my union recently... I think they had some talks about it.

[–] gjoel@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

My university mainly ran Solaris, pretty much everything also ran on Linux. In the rare case where Windows was required a remote desktop was available.

My university probably isn't your university though, so answers may not be worth much...

[–] gjoel@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

They probably didn't attend Wharton School of Business.

[–] gjoel@programming.dev 87 points 2 months ago (11 children)

To me, a Linux user, Apple is more of a jail or a pusher. I don't want to use it because of lock in. Oh, you have an iPod? It's much better with a Mac. An iPhone? All your friends should also have it, and now we have this special app you can only use properly with other apple users.

No thanks.

[–] gjoel@programming.dev 10 points 2 months ago

My guy, pasta drinking straws are for you!

[–] gjoel@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

I agree! Can we also get rid of politicians, mosquitoes and people who use their phone at the cinema?

[–] gjoel@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We have slackbots that post, for instance, who has vecation every day. Because it is configured to post this using UTC, the time of day this is posted changes twice a year.

I might have a recurring appointment for lunch in my calendar every day at noon. Now DST happened, so I have to wait until one to eat. That is inconsistent to me.

Timezones change. If I have to go to the theatre on half a year at 18:00, I don't want to be there at 19:00 because someone decided local time would be better if we moved it an hour. The show time certainly won't be moved.

What is local time? It's spacetime. When did it happen and if relevant (eg. a photo) what was the offset (because I would like to know the time of day)? When will it happen, and where? Online meetings across timezones are tricky, of course, but excluding the timezone won't improve that.

[–] gjoel@programming.dev 20 points 2 months ago

You don't need to actually write it, just raise your hand and we have registered your vote, either via your computer's camera, Google Nest, Google Assistant or inferred it by analysing the WiFi data returned by your Google Mesh network.

[–] gjoel@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It is? Without even mentioning it?

To be clear I believe it makes sense to do a lot of things in UTC, but future events should almost always be local time + timezone to make scheduling predictable and consistent to humans.

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