Meanwhile I’m here skipping lunch because I have no sense of time when I’m solving an interesting problem.

Birds? You mean the last remaining dinosaurs?

It’s also far easier to do if you live in a walkable, bikeable city. I used to live somewhere where even the nearest grocery store was a 10 minute drive away, and I barely ever saw anyone. Now I’m a 5-10 minute bike ride from pretty much everything I need and I spend so much more time with friends.

Snap and KDE. Best of both worlds IMO.

Kubuntu.

Honestly? Get a large monitor and a sound bar.

If I were in the market for a new monitor and I could get an 8k monitor for under $1000 I’d consider it, but right now if one of my monitors broke I’d just be getting another 4k to replace it. The price isn’t worth it for me to have high DPI.

For TV my only justification for my 4k TV is that it was free.

Next you’ll be telling people their AI waifus aren’t real!

Lorryologist here. This is not cute. Trucks only do this when they’re in extreme distress.

Most sources are worse than Wikipedia.

Just the other day I was thinking we should use the currency symbol as the decimal marker. So something could cost 9$99

I initially read that as “stop using VPNs to watch child porn, ministers told” and was expecting a very different article.

Where’s the ragebait?

It does not “just work” for me and I love it that way. I got bored of using Kubuntu LTS because nothing interesting happened. Now I’m running prerelease versions of everything and get to file (and fix!) bug reports on the reg.

QWERTY keyboard. 2/10

Integer storage in spreadsheets… There are a ridiculous number of ways to store any integer, and I don’t just mean because you could theoretically store 1 and 00000001 and they’d be interpreted as the same thing.

I don’t think I’ve entered an IP address for a local device in years. Everything is accessible using <hostname>.local thanks to mDNS. Avahi has been doing this for… 20 years I think?

Do you even DNS?

Given that part of my job is evaluating applicants’ ability to do the job, and given that LLMs are very good at answering the sort of questions many people ask in interviews, AI is making my job significantly harder.

If someone could make a prompt that actually made an LLM write good code, I wouldn’t have nearly as much of an issue.

I would agree, except that every piece of it is significantly more complex than it needs to be. ODF is considerably simpler in part because it makes use of other pre-existing standards for things like dates and times. OOXML redefines so many of those things, and in many cases Microsoft Office’s implementation isn’t actually compatible with their own standard.