I really wish that browsers natively supported some sort of "402 Payment Required" HTTP status code (or any other well-known specified indicator) that users could pay with micropayments, so that they wouldn't have to drown us in this ad garbage. I would gladly pay small but justified sum for an article without setting up payment method on each site and be able to return to it. I would be glad even to donate some amount of money to some authority that'd pay for viewership of those less fortunate and not being able to afford reading quality news.
So sorry to hear your story, in some ways I can relate. Others have already given great advices, I don’t have to repeat them by myself.
Just one specific thing regarding the “brain fog” you mentioned: check your vitamin, iron, and ferritin levels in your blood. And, of course, rest more, apparently you are holding a company on your single shoulders, you can say no from time to time.
For me, personally, FB just became boring and uninteresting at some point. I sometimes open FB for Marketplace and, I think, this is it. Had no need to go cold turkey and delete the account.
I still have it for Messenger which I use as an app both for desktop and mobile because I don’t want to lose touch with my friends, esp. during these times.
How well is this handled from the accessibility point of view? I imagine that wrapping text in consecutive “p” tags is semantically clearer, however on the other side it shouldn’t be too hard for any accessibility software to recognize this pattern described in the article.
Re: black screen when using Teams from browser.
Check you have environment variables set correctly: XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland and XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=sway.
I set up them in my .zshrc before starting sway. This helped me to fix the black screen issue. Hope it helps you too!
If those env vars weren't set screen-sharing with xdpw would be broken as a whole because pipewire wouldn't invoke it, which wasn't the case. Other applications like that one python gstreamer script could access xdpw just fine, and Firefox and Chromium could screen-share in other websites (like Mozilla's gUM test page) just fine; the only one broken was Teams.
From my experience: they end in a situation where nobody is happy - they both try to figure out what is the best for the other person and in the end they both end up in a situation that is not good for both of them. I know, twisted.
Which version are you using right now? I have the latest one and it does not allow me to share anything else than a white canvas.
Do you launch zoom somehow differently? For me it behaves like a regular XWayland app
Sadly I'm not able to test this since I'm not running Fedora and GNOME. I'm using sway.
Interestingly enough, Zoom change log does not seem to mention anything related to Wayland support: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/205759689-New-Upda....
Thank you for your comment, will try this in GNOME some time.
I cannot express in words how much I feel I relate to this post. Big thanks to the author of the article and OP for posting it here.
A few thoughts:
* Don't compare yourself to others, nothing, absolutely nothing, good comes out of it. Ever. I know this is especially hard in times when anyone can brag about their accomplishments in a blink of an eye on Twitter, Facebook or anywhere else. Follow those people, learn from them but don't compare yourself to them.
* Even if you did not finish your projects you still have learned something which makes you a better programmer.
* Programming is just a tool. Nobody will care much about your code as long as it does its job - be it a great application, service or a useful library.
* Your job pays your bills, if you earn more than others (a very common case if IT jobs), donate money to charity, to a good cause.
* The author has taught a person to program and he created a website. This is not something to be jealous about, the author should be proud of himself. It sounds to be that the author is a good tutor, maybe there's an opportunity to participate in local meetups, organize workshops or start a career in that direction?
* As others already mentioned, programming is not the only thing in life. Maybe there can be other hobbies like painting, carpentry, or gardening?
I think this is very good news. Fast fashion leads to resource and people exploitation. This is great that people use their old clothes and refrain from buying new ones for no other reason than the old ones have become unwearable.
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> I think this is very good news. Fast fashion leads to resource and people exploitation.
Not a fan of fast-fashion, but what does "people exploitation" mean?
Should a Bangladeshi factory worker go back to begging in the streets instead of working a job at a factory? They provide value in terms of making a product that you buy.. what's the problem with that?
When foreign companies open a factory in a third world company the companies economy benefits significantly less then if a factory owned by citizens of the same country open up. The profits leave the country instead of stay inside, where the money can exchange hands many more times. First world companies can outbid foreign companies on labor, land, resources and bribes. This makes it harder for domestic manufacturing to start.
The jury is really out on if foreign manufacturers help third world economies or hurt them. One major benefit that is hard to quantity is that foreign manufacturing is a sign of a stable government and can increase the stability of the government.
This isn't a choice between foreign-owned factory or a locally-owned factory.
This is a choice between a foreign-owned factory or no factory.
Also, why would you expect the profits to stay inside? If Nike opens a factory in Bangladesh, wouldn't the profits go to Nike? I don't understand your "local profits" statement?
And the jury isn't out on the benefits of neoliberal globalization. It's been shown to clearly reduce poverty among the global poor. It's why Bangladesh went from 41% extreme poverty to 14% extreme poverty over the last 25 years...
In Bangladesh citizens own a factory then Bangladesh benefits much more then if Nike owns a factory. By "Local profits" I meant when locally-owned factories operate more money is kept internally then when foreign-owned factories run.
Globalization as a whole benefits most people, and this is not up for debate. I will agree with that statement.
