I'm not sure if it was so rare, perhaps it depended on your role or location. I suppose developers in engineering used MacBooks less than those of us who worked in consulting, where they were quite common for customer work. We had a choice, though, and there was no judgment about which work tool we preferred.
I'm not sure on what's going on today, I left the company around the IBM acquisition.
I’ve never received a debit or credit card in Norway without a magstrip. One of the points of having one is to use it in places abroad where chip or contactless isn’t implemented. It’s become thinner but the stipe is still there.
I've rented beamers with Sixt at LAX and O'Hare, the latter just a couple of weeks ago. I didn't have any issues connecting to bluetooth so that I could use CarPlay. Could it be inconsistencies in how their BMW fleet is set up?
I ususally set up the bluetooth connection before driving off the lot, just so I can get staff assistance if it doesn't work - not being able to connect to the car is enough for me to insist on a new vehicle if they're unable to fix it.
I've been using Wallabag for articles I want to deal with later, with the Frigoligo app on iOS for offline reading. For bookmarks, I've been using the Floccus extension with the Nextcloud Bookmarks app.
I'm missing the social aspect of bookmarks on del.icio.us though, so I'll check out Omnom and the other mentions in this thread of what people are using.
I'm pretty close to OP's age, so pretty much within what most people would called middle aged (if lucky). Sometimes I do feel like time is sort of running out, not in a dramatic mid life crisis sense, but as a realization that time's going by pretty fast now. Seeing the potential remaining time visualized like this refreshes my perspective on this a bit, and that there's still time to complete some tasks on the life bucket list.
Week numbers are very useful for static holiday periods like the kid's school fall vacation and winter vacation. In my area, they are always in week 8 and week 40, and as such it's easier to plan accordingly. And my summer vacation is usually weeks 28-30.
Just make sure to turn on week number in your calendar applications, then it might be more useful to you.
The queues are one thing, another is the terrible ventilation inside the devrooms. I ended up most of today listening to talks in the Janson auditorium, as it at least has breathable atmosphere.
This might be due to road standards where major roads and highways usually have road lights when it’s dark. Most of Oslo’s internal roads are lit up too, as it makes them safer in terms of traffic safety and crime suppression. But this does have a cost which became even more obvious with the wartime energy price spikes.
One option for getting coverage in metro tunnels may involve deploying several Base Tranciever Stations (BTS), usually in technical rooms connected to stations. These BTSes can be from different operators. Then they are connected hub and spoke with fiber to radiation cables that stretch through the tunnel up to around 2000-ish feet, perhaps even longer nowadays. The BTSs connect to the mobile operators through their Radio Access Network.
Yeah, the article refers to EU/EØS which includes the non-EU members of the EEA, of which some union regulations may apply and be ratified into national law, like on food safety, energy markets or data privacy, while others can be vetoed and do not apply, like on fishing where Norway wants to control quotas in its own waters.
Nevertheless, in cases where EEA countries are part of union law, decisions can be appealed to EU courts, and decisions there will apply to the whole area.
At least I think that’s how it works, it’s a bit messy at times.
My dad had a ton of 123 files on a secondary laptop with an ancient Windows version, just because these had important information that he still needed to look at from time to time. I was a bit worried about the resiliency of this setup, to put it mildly.
Recently I realized that LibreOffice could convert Lotus files to ODF/ODS files, even in the CLI, so I made a very simple bash script to convert them all, and bulk uploaded them on my Nextcloud with Collabora, and gave my dad a login and a crash course. So now he can look up his files online, and they get properly backed up as part of my normal routine on the server.
Big tip of the hat to data archeologists like OP and the LibreOffice contributors.
While it's true that some subreddit mods might not be the most qualified for the job, and may be in it for the ego boost or as a perception of entitlement, it's also important to remember that being a mod is not exactly a glamorous position - for many it has been a thankless janitorial role that involved dealing with spam and abuse on a continuous basis, with a very limited toolset available from Reddit to do this. The third party apps were the ones to introduce features that made the mod tasks much easier to handle efficiently. The official Reddit app got these capabilities much later.
If Reddit wants to force open protesting subreddits and find a way to recruit new mods to more than 7000 subreddits, then I assume this is within their right, it's their site after all.
We've been working on platforms in sensitive environments that cannot run in public cloud due to compliance requirements, so we have been transitioning our traditional on-premises solutions to private clouds with modern capabilities where the goal is to provide a great developer experience. We had plans on using Gitpod's on-premises solution, but with this change it is no longer an available option for us.