This is a great point that too few people think about. I like to take travel time and mandatory lunch breaks into account when I'm figuring out my 'adjusted' wage, and I use that number when thinking about getting a different job or taking time off. Your time isn't ACTUALLY worth $20/hr (or whatever), its more like 16, or less if you factor in taxes.
#blender got hit too, tho interestingly enough, not any of the sub-channels (none of which had 'libera.chat' in the topic) were hit.
This seems like it is very bad timing on the part of freenode staff... with many communities already on the knife edge about switching, this is likely to push plenty of people over.
Am I the only one who thinks its crazy it has taken them this long to do anything about this? This has been a real problem for well over 20 years.
Anyone else remember internet explorer toolbars? So many installers would include these, and avoiding installing them became progressively more difficult over time. They started with a simple checkbox that was enabled by default (bad enough if you ask me), then progressed to hiding the checkbox behind a button labeled 'Advanced Settings' or similar, then progressed to popping up another dialog that looked like another step in the install process, but required you to press 'cancel' to not install the toolbar and go back to the regular installer. There are probably many more worse examples, but this is all that springs to mind at the moment.
To an advanced user, these didn't seem like much - until you tried to use your grandma's computer and realized there were 10 toolbars installed...
Most consumers really don't care since they can just buy an iPhone and call it a day, largely distancing themselves from most dark patterns (which doesn't eliminate them). Maybe leadership or culture in the agencies involved has changed to the point where they'll actually look out for consumers before they start complaining on such a large scale.
Thank you for posting this! Looked into it, and on my Nissan, holding the unlock and lock buttons together for 3 seconds turned off the beep!
I had assumed that this was a 'feature' that could not be disabled, akin to 80s cars having the requirement to hold the handle up when shutting the door to keep it locked. I have a suspicion that this led to more cars being left unlocked and stolen than it saved people from locking their keys in the car.
This is no snipe at you personally, as I'm not yet all that good with it - but I'm surprised how nobody ever seems to read manuals for stuff, especially stuff they plan to use on a regular basis, and then live with problems that would never be an issue if they did read the instructions.
When I first realized this, I made a decision to always remember to RTFM, and I mean actually read it. Since then, it helped me in many ways. Some random examples:
- At one of my previous jobs, there was a proprietary source control / issue tracker / timesheeting system that the customer forced on us. Everyone absolutely hated it, considered it clunky and super confusing. One day by chance I realized there's an user manual in the Help menu, which I read end-to-end. And suddenly, I saw the system as easy to use, quite intuitive, and even somewhat likeable. Did wonders for my job satisfaction.
- My ability to use GDB went up an order of magnitude after I read the small book's worth of user manual it ships with. Ever since, I've learned to appreciate Info pages that come with GNU software, and prefer that to skimming man pages.
- When we bought our current car, my wife printed out the manual and I read that cover-to-cover too. Discovered a bunch of tiny little features we would've never thought to look for otherwise.
At this point, I consider the skill of reading a manual end-to-end to be my little superpower :). And I'm deeply disappointed when a product (be it physical or software) doesn't include a proper user's manual.
My parents have been running Zorin OS lite for a couple years now, they have not had any problems with it. It's based on ubuntu and the lite version has xfce as the desktop. Runs great on their older computer, looks enough like windows that they jumped in without any issues, and it has a pretty basic interface.
Ah, I actually didn't know about the ctrl-tab shortcut in 2.79, tho the ctrl-1,2,3 seems nice now.
And the transform orientation, you mean the alt-space in 2.79? Another bad one removed... tho looks like the shortcut is unused in 2.8, so it could be set.
This is a highly detailed and interesting story about what happened to the sequel. This article is almost as amazing as the original post!
Also... am I the only one who finds it amusing that essentially 'Bureaucracy' led to the demise of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy sequel? Makes me wonder if Douglas Adams specifically avoided working on the sequel just so that could be the case...
Thank you for this! I was disappointed to not even find mention of pebble on the website.
Looks like this is still in the early stages, but I'll be keeping an eye on it.
Very cool, I particularly enjoyed the wormhole trip. Reminds me of 'Real Time Relativity', a fun program for exploring 3d worlds at relativistic speeds: http://realtimerelativity.org/
I'd love to contribute in some way, I have experience with 3d modeling (tho very little with characters), music composition, and some python programming... not sure how much time I would be able to contribute to it, but it sure sounds like fun!
