I did not exactly demote myself, but I did turn down jobs with better salary and other compensations and benefits for shorter hours and remote possibility. Also helps that I switched to a lead dev role where I have a lot of input and trust, I guess.
Working conditions and time with my family are extremely valuable to me. I refuse to be an absentee father to my children. I’ll take the days off for kids shows or when they’re sick, thank you.
We’re talking 2% of revenue, not income, so just straight up pre-expense money-in. That Meta fine was literally 10% of their net income for 2022.
I bought my Steelcase Leap V1 from a guy who did just that - bought chairs from office sales, replaced bad cushions, cleaned and greased them up, then resold them out of his garage. Bought mine early pandemic. Still feels as good as when I bought it.
Some apps let you create an email account first then link socials/OAuth providers on top, so there’s that. But other times it’s indeed a good solution. Unless the site uses validation that doesn’t allow for subaddress extension.
To be fair, GDPR fines can go up to 2% of worldwide revenue. Meta was hit by a $1.3G fine just this year, which for 2022 fiscal year ($116.6G) accounts for 1.1% of their revenue.
But yeah. Most fines are mostly just the cost of business for those billionaire companies, and the ones that may not be, the army of lawyers they pay a fortune to have on payroll to fight tooth and nail against them, that must logically be cheaper than what those fines really end up costing them, should give a hint.
Not always so simple either - wildly depends on the specific feature. Take Web Environment Integrity. Yes, Brave, Vivaldi or Edge could take it and refuse to roll with it. But with Chrome having a de facto monopoly, all it takes is some industry buying in (most likely banks or similar), and it would mean a browser not implementing this new API effectively cuts itself from a bunch of users cause their bank website won’t work (and will tell them to download Chrome).
The point they were making is about the underlying browser technology. Chrome and nowadays pretty much every major browser except Safari are based on Chromium. Except Firefox. Chromium is technically an open-source project and has external contributors, but in reality, it’s still very much controlled by Google. See the BS they constantly pull off, leveraging their monopolistic position to cram in non-standard stuff nobody asked for except Google: Manifest V3, FLoC, Web Environment Integrity, etc. Edge, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi, and a bunch of others, they all ship Chromium with their own features sprinkled on top. You’re still effectively using the Google product, just indirectly.
I do have fond memories of jQuery in a sense. It was a necessary evil, a much required level of abstraction over the mess of mainstream browsers and very unequal feature support at the time. But I don’t really miss it either.
If you’re Catholic it’s either Joseph or Mary by baptism around here.
Now I can’t do anything but imagine a bunch of patched biker dudes slinging Scentsy on the side
You’re basing all this on a whole lot of assumptions:
We all gotta appreciate how being “eco-anxious” got weaponized. Kind of like “woke” was, too. It’s a major global event that’s very obviously been happening in front of our very eyes for a long time now. We’re still at the stages of fighting over it being a thing or not in the first place, as far as policymakers and industry goes. To top it off, things aren’t getting better either. Of course it makes people anxious. Who in their right mind wouldn’t?
Not OP, but while I’ve seen a little more of them in Canada, I haven’t seen that many either, so I’m curious too.
Oh, a lot of us with two functioning brain cells or more are worried about that.
I have to ask. I launch new terminals with Super+Enter, I barely have time to release my key chord, and kitty is already opened. I understand “slower”, but 100% slower than a couple tens milliseconds is still a couple tens of milliseconds. My WM/compositor popping up the window and shell probably take longer by themselves than the difference in launch times between those two.
YMMV depending on what you consider to be noticeable delay & latency, I guess?
Some offer specific features like tabs/splits, or Quake-like drop-down. Others are just focusing on being fast to launch, or have performant rendering. Having barely any features can be a desirable feature in itself, depending on who you ask lol
Same as the other commenter, I was born in 1990. I type fast, and more accurately than one would think looking at my technique, but that just happened through sheer time and exposure. I basically had to relearn how to type when I switched to ergonomic split keyboards. And having gravitated around tech related circles, and having been the defacto tech guy around me since the early/mid noughties, I’d say most people are pretty inept with computers and only know how to do the basics of what they need to know, for the most part. Most don’t know how to type properly or how to efficiently search on Google. I don’t think it’s a new phenomenon.
Dunno about that. There’s nothing I feel “fine” with about having the working memory of a goldfish, being stuck in decision paralysis at the mere idea of taking a shower or brushing my teeth, or not being able to do anything I don’t feel like doing if there’s no urgency. No neurotypicals involved in any of that. Just my brain making my own life harder than it could be.
Dunno if you know about it, but Kitty scratches most of the same itches as Alacritty for me (fast launch and rendering, text config, no UI to deal with), and supports ligatures.
I… don’t want other people to see me pooping. What the fuck?