No way. I reduced to 30 hours a week and I’m never going back to full time. I use the extra time for my own projects or other things that need to get done. Such a huge improvement in quality of life.
The butterfly keyboard was pretty terrible. They continued selling the model for years before finally removing it. Customers didn’t get any recourse until the recent lawsuit, but that only applies to certain US states. Apple still denies any wrong doing.
I got it to replace playing games on an Intel Mac, as Mac has become a worse platform for gaming (32bit dropped, OpenGL deprecated, no Vulkan support, and now developers would have to support Apple Silicon).
The plan was to use it mainly in desktop mode, but it has been really amazing for handheld gaming, that I game more on the couch and in bed with it than as a desktop.
Also Proton works really well and it is great to be able to boot in to a full Linux desktop environment. It’s so refreshing to have control of the device and to use it how I want.
I have been a Mac and iOS developer for 7 years now and am moving away. I feel like Apple treats developers really poorly from App Review process to forced updates of your hardware/OS/Xcode.
I don’t have any numbers, but some job postings will say full time, part time, or will have a minimum number of hours they offer. Some will also give a percentage range of hours they offer of part time to full time.
If the posting doesn’t say, I just brought it up during the initial call so we were on the same page before continuing the interview process. Most German companies didn’t have a problem with it, but I found that UK and US companies did.
Keep in mind working hours are fixed in your contract and it’s not unspecified like in the US.
It’s already common to work part time as a software engineer here in Germany. I work 30 hours a week (6 hours a day) and have 75% of a full time salary. I actually get the same amount of vacation as full time since the vacation is based on working five days a week and not working 40 hours a week. There is no loss of benefits.
I have a 2018 Mac mini and have problems waking it up from sleep. It was significantly worse when using the HDMI port on the Mac mini, I would get snow on the external display. Switching to USB-C eliminated the snow, but it still takes a long time for the monitor to receive the signal when waking up.
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro and had no problems on the same monitor.
I also had the opposite experience. I used Sourcetree for a while, but the performance became really bad, so I switch to Fork and have never looked back.
They changed their storage share (hosted Nextcloud) offerings as well. I had NX10 100GB for €3.45, which is now gone. The NX11 1TB is €4.64 and the base offering.
This worked. Funny that this bug will cause people to turn off the opt-out data collection. No one is going to turn it back on after the issue is fixed.
I hate this as a developer. I feel this is done to force you to buy newer hardware sooner. The SDKs could be decoupled from the Xcode version.
You can work around it a little bit by installing the iOS device support files manually without updating Xcode, but it only allows you to deploy to the device. If you want to build against the newer SDK, you have to update.
Going forward this is one of the reasons I don’t want to personally develop any more apps, as I don’t want to be forced to buy new macs every five years or so.