25 years ago, a recently hired junior accountant would just run a cost accounting report and hand it off as if it were golden. Those of us who knew the system(s) would check the results and often provide some interpretation or even hold a report back so as not to mislead.
1) As I saw Rossman recommend the other day, once Android phones are locked down, just get an iPhone. I’ve had a Pixel 8 Pro and was considering the upcoming 11. If this lockdown goes through, I guess not.
2) I hope the lockdowns don’t strangle tethering. My other consideration is to use whatever phone for calls, texts, and “secure” apps. The rest I’ll do on an unrestricted device that just uses the phone as a data connection. More crap to carry, but crap that does what I want and need and not what “they” insist upon.
P.S. And that may mean spending less on future phones. Especially if I also switch my higher quality camera image needs to a real camera. Sigh, yet more physical crap, but I’m pissed enough to do it, and then each individual device would be less of a feature compromise than what a phone provides — other than size and portability, which are indeed quite significant.
One bit of very simple feedback. Keep the prior/older versions online. 1) There’s value in older (e.g. pre-AI) perspectives and tools; 2) Different presentations/wording may click better with different people; 3) Links to them won’t break.
Mechanics are a "cost center". Modern "Management" does not like paying for "cost centers".
The rest is atmospherics.
(The US has, in general, taken a similar attitude towards public education, while simultaneously making it responsible for "everything" regarding children's upbringing. Compounding the problem.)
His prior dishwasher videos rescued my parents' 30-ish year old dishwasher -- one they had previously been advised to avoid replacing as long as possible, as modern units don't have the same construction quality.
Following his cleaning instructions and, subsequently, his usage advice, did the trick.
Regarding the latter, notably adding the recommended prewash dose of detergent in addition to the main dose, and running the kitchen sink's hot tap until the water is fully hot before starting the dishwasher. Here in the US with our lower power capacity, resulting in dishwasher heating elements being restricted to lower power to avoid circuit breaker trips, when the dishwasher is correctly connected to the hot water line (typically, of the kitchen sink), doing this results in a hotter prewash and often also wash.
This all really does make a substantial difference.
Take the time to watch his dishwasher videos. If you struggle at all with the performance of yours, you won't regret doing so.
This is what I expressed considering, in another recent thread. Phone does phone things and "necessary" apps. Otherwise, it's a hotspot for the "unhindered" device.
I'd enjoy suggestions as to suitable unhindered devices.
P.S. I just hope we can continue to access / create unhindered devices -- and programs/apps (cough Manifest v3 cough).
I recently bought an iPhone (Pro Max, on a secondary number) to have one on-hand to better tutor and troubleshoot for my parents. I just had to provide an instance of that this weekend on a phone call.
My daily driver is a recent Pixel Pro. If Google takes away the already limited additional flexibility it provides me over an iPhone, I don't see the need to provide them my money nor my attention, going forward.
Actually, I've been thinking about carrying some sort of Linux device and relegating the phone to being a hot spot for it, plus traditional calls and texts (and "necessary" apps, I guess). I don't really want to schlep more around with me, but even less so do I want to be squeezed into the box of BigCo corporate approved activities.
IIRC, I saw some reporting that Hungary was spending (far) more on ads targeting other European countries and those elections, than on ads targeting their own.
In other words, an instigator, agent, and/or vehicle for right wing propaganda Europe-wide.
Close to 20 years later, people still complain about the ribbon. (1)
I think that says something about it.
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1. And not just "grumble, grumble... get off my lawn..." Many of its controls are at best obscure. It hides many of them away. It makes them awkward to reach.
Many new users seem as clueless, or even more so, than pre-existing customers who experienced the rug pull. At least pre-ribbon users knew there was certain functionality that they just wanted to find.
(And I still remember how MS concurrently f-cked with Excel shortcut keys. Or seemed to have, when I next picked Excel up after a couple year hiatus from being a power user.)
> I've found them indistinguishable from the OEM ear pads.
Thank you. I was doubtful about the third-party replacements; I'll give them a try.
I still think it's scandalous that Bose ships them with such a crap failure rate.
(If they're expected to fail like this, then at least ship them with a few replacement pairs included. At least that would be honest, and at the price they charge, probably still profitable. /s )
Their ear pads are terrible. I was extremely careful with mine, keeping them in my home office and carefully setting them down with the ear pads uncompressed when not in use. Nonetheless, the ear pad leather came apart in about a year.
Same with the pair I gave my father.
German friend visited with some 700's. (I think that's the model number; the sleek but uncomfortable redesign of a couple of years ago.) When he visited again the following year, their ear pads where likewise blown out.
In contrast, I have multiple models of inexpensive Chinese ANC headphones whose ear pads have survived significantly longer.
And, the official Bose ear pad replacements are $40 on Amazon (if they're even real...).
One year was insightful, when in a meeting we watched our management rewrite their own performance plans on the fly to pass them. They even threw in the minor only partial success or two, so that the results didn't look too perfect.
Another time, at another job, while we had hiring and expense freezes, my manager walked up to my cube with a 12% raise -- out of the blue. Because my previous management had screwed me (causing me to accept his internal hire offer) and I was "doing the job" he'd hired me for.
Performance reviews, of themselves, are bullsh-t and serve primarily to generate a record that your management and HR can use to accomplish and "legitimize" whatever they want.
Once you know this, and if you're still in a position subject to them, it feels like a hostage situation. Any information you provide to them is subject to use against you or someone you care about (and/or just in violation of your own ethics -- "s/he's not my friend, but this just isn't right" -- if you have them).
Mr. 12% and I learned, through experience, to trust each other. No management process is going to replace that.
P.S. And, in my experience, if you don't "provide them enough ammunition", they will actively "guide" you in rewriting it until you do, refusing to accept otherwise. They are not really soliciting your feedback. They are soliciting your tacit endorsement of what they are hoping to accomplish -- regardless of how and whether that aligns with their and the business's public statements and objectives -- internal and external).
Sorry, my language went a bit into the weeds, there. Stated shortly, I've had managers insist I write what they want, contrary to my own actual opinions and feedback. The process was entirely rigged. Glad I don't work for them, anymore.
What the parent says. I'm hoping this HN thread will help clarify this.
Currently, I view the entire paradigm as asking me to trust resources (software, hosting, etc.) that I am not ready to trust. Both from a knowledge standpoint, or lack thereof on my part, and out of experience. Re the latter, third party resources die, go bad -- technically or morally -- and... just observing the nature of "online" resources over years and now decades.
After being a heavy Excel user for a few years, I was away from using Excel while this change took place. It's been a long time, but as I recall it, when I then sat down to do something more intensive in Excel, I found a bunch of "muscle memory" actions failing; they'd also changed a number of shortcut key combinations!
Serious Excel users could work the keyboard like an experienced Vi/m user. For example, when extensive manual data entry, editing, cleanup was necessary.
A curse on those responsible for these interface changes.
Serious Excel users, for one, bitched for good reason.
I don't have Pi 5 to check this, but from what I've read, it does not support PPS. And such support is required; otherwise, even with a source that supports PPS, the connection will behave in a non-PPS fashion.
Apparently, cable quality is also demonstrating itself to be a significant factor in the Pi 5 power supply environment.
Does anyone remember the Firefox extension Scrapbook, from "back in the day"? I used to use it a lot.
Look "back" 5 - 10 years, or more, and it's striking how many web resources are no longer available. A local copy is your only insurance. And even then, having it in an open, standards compliant format is important (e.g. a file you can load into a browser -- I guess either a current browser or a containerized/emulated one from the era of the archived resource).
Something that concerns me about JavaScript-ed resources and the like. Potentially unlimited complexity making local copies more challenging and perhaps untenable.
Plus ça change…