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I’m 20min by public transport and still much prefer my 3 days at home than my 2 in the office. I think the thing people miss about RTO is that management are more likely to be extr…

Being able to join an instance with its own culture, while still being able to connect outside that culture, is the only reason I use any social media at all. I understand it can b…

Joplin is quite good; I still keep it around for longer form writing. For everyday note taking I switched to logseq about a year ago. They're in a weird phase technically (in tye m…

Well, we already use password managers for all their benefits: autofill, syncing, password generation, passkey storage etc. For a while we’re using `pass` which doesn’t have an eas…

That’s… not how software works, no matter how it is produced. Complexity is the enemy; always.

We use Vaultwarden and Bitwarden to share passwords with the family. My wife has my master password and I have hers. The bigger issue if I drop dead is all the nontrivial tech crap…

I agree. I’m using copilot more and more as it gets better and better, but it is getting better at the fun stuff and leaves me to do the less fun stuff. I’m in a role where I need …

As somewhat of an AI-agnostic, I disagree. Writing tests is one of the things I find most useful about copilot. Of course you need to review them first correctness, but (especially…

Out of interest, what sort of products/systems are you building?

Thanks for putting in the effort with that comment. I understand what you’re saying, but it seems like a local optima problem to me: enshrining race differences in corporate policy…

> A well serviced rolex in 2026 with laser cut gears drifts +/- 15sec per day. Modern Rolex (and Omega et al) are more like +/-2s.

Maybe this is a generational thing, but that first sentence is nonsensical to me. DEI wants to enshrine race differences, so mocking DEI is… racist?

Of course naturally “trim” people don’t count calories - they don’t have to. Just like I don’t have to monitor my blood glucose level, but my Type 1 diabetic friend does. You can’t…

There’s a whole field of research on this (look up Floyd Toole) - while any one individual can have skewed taste, on aggregate people prefer speakers that are as close to neutral a…

Often for me it’s not about not liking the book, but not wanting to read it right now. This is particularly true with philosophy, but also true of fiction (I’m currently reading an…

The point about not setting a goal rings true for me. A few years ago I set a book-a-week goal and it definitely had a large influence on the books I chose to read. I tend to read …

I use Manet as a music player an tailscale to have access to my home server. Before I tailscale set up, I’d just download what I wanted to my phone before leaving home.

Bandcamp, and when what I want isn’t there, qobuz usually has it. A couple of times I’ve had to buy the CD off eBay and rip it.

That probably depends on how you listen to music. I still have a qobuz family subscription but barely use it. Mostly I listen to new albums on Bandcamp, and if I like them enough, …

That’s fine, but with something like Jellyfin you get multi-platform apps (including tvOS and android tv etc), tracking of progress within a movie or tv series, play next etc.

I use Manet on iOS

Not the GP but I don’t think they were talking about “building something to make some guy richer” - they was were talking about building a life and relationships that positively im…

When you say transactions, what are you thinking of? I was thinking of your usual VAT/GST - in that case any sort of progressive tax would be hell for small businesses (or large on…

I in principle agree, but it’s very hard to implement a progressive tax system if the basis is consumption (or “financial transactions”)

This is something outraged rich people tell themselves to feel better about their outrage.