Close to 20 years later, people still complain about the ribbon. (1)
I think that says something about it.
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1. And not just "grumble, grumble... get off my lawn..." Many of its controls are at best obscure. It hides many of them away. It makes them awkward to reach.
Many new users seem as clueless, or even more so, than pre-existing customers who experienced the rug pull. At least pre-ribbon users knew there was certain functionality that they just wanted to find.
(And I still remember how MS concurrently f-cked with Excel shortcut keys. Or seemed to have, when I next picked Excel up after a couple year hiatus from being a power user.)
Its a system. I think Frontline did a episode about it. There are even consulting companies that will teach police what to look for to maximum asset forfeiture gains like types of cars, best with out of state plates (so its harder for them to come back to the local courts to appeal), etc etc. None of it was about preventing crimes, all of it was about maximizing profits - much of which they can keep and spend as they like without any oversight.
I used to spend a lot of time hanging out in forfeiture court in Chicago. On the first day for a new judge she brought the State's Attorney's to the bench and said (loudly) "You guys win almost every case here because nobody can even figure out the paperwork to dispute your claims. That ends today. I won't allow that in this courtroom."
That same day they had a case where a son had taken the keys to his dad's brand new SUV and got caught driving drunk and the State were trying to sell the car. The judge said "Did this man know his son had the keys? No. Does he have valid insurance and license? Yes. Give this man his car back. Refund him all his costs and fees."
(for info, most of the time if you even file the most basic paperwork to challenge a forfeiture the State will drop it since they have a thousand easier cases to work on)
Their ear pads are terrible. I was extremely careful with mine, keeping them in my home office and carefully setting them down with the ear pads uncompressed when not in use. Nonetheless, the ear pad leather came apart in about a year.
Same with the pair I gave my father.
German friend visited with some 700's. (I think that's the model number; the sleek but uncomfortable redesign of a couple of years ago.) When he visited again the following year, their ear pads where likewise blown out.
In contrast, I have multiple models of inexpensive Chinese ANC headphones whose ear pads have survived significantly longer.
And, the official Bose ear pad replacements are $40 on Amazon (if they're even real...).
> I've found them indistinguishable from the OEM ear pads.
Thank you. I was doubtful about the third-party replacements; I'll give them a try.
I still think it's scandalous that Bose ships them with such a crap failure rate.
(If they're expected to fail like this, then at least ship them with a few replacement pairs included. At least that would be honest, and at the price they charge, probably still profitable. /s )
I've kind of standardized on Bose headphones because even though I hate crap like that, they're so popular that there's a big ecosystem of replacement parts, batteries, etc.
It helps that the earpads have been unchanged across multiple generations: QC25/35/45 and I think their new ones as well. Everything but the Ultra and NC700. So I expect replacements should be available more or less indefinitely.
One year was insightful, when in a meeting we watched our management rewrite their own performance plans on the fly to pass them. They even threw in the minor only partial success or two, so that the results didn't look too perfect.
Another time, at another job, while we had hiring and expense freezes, my manager walked up to my cube with a 12% raise -- out of the blue. Because my previous management had screwed me (causing me to accept his internal hire offer) and I was "doing the job" he'd hired me for.
Performance reviews, of themselves, are bullsh-t and serve primarily to generate a record that your management and HR can use to accomplish and "legitimize" whatever they want.
Once you know this, and if you're still in a position subject to them, it feels like a hostage situation. Any information you provide to them is subject to use against you or someone you care about (and/or just in violation of your own ethics -- "s/he's not my friend, but this just isn't right" -- if you have them).
Mr. 12% and I learned, through experience, to trust each other. No management process is going to replace that.
P.S. And, in my experience, if you don't "provide them enough ammunition", they will actively "guide" you in rewriting it until you do, refusing to accept otherwise. They are not really soliciting your feedback. They are soliciting your tacit endorsement of what they are hoping to accomplish -- regardless of how and whether that aligns with their and the business's public statements and objectives -- internal and external).
Sorry, my language went a bit into the weeds, there. Stated shortly, I've had managers insist I write what they want, contrary to my own actual opinions and feedback. The process was entirely rigged. Glad I don't work for them, anymore.
What the parent says. I'm hoping this HN thread will help clarify this.
Currently, I view the entire paradigm as asking me to trust resources (software, hosting, etc.) that I am not ready to trust. Both from a knowledge standpoint, or lack thereof on my part, and out of experience. Re the latter, third party resources die, go bad -- technically or morally -- and... just observing the nature of "online" resources over years and now decades.
After being a heavy Excel user for a few years, I was away from using Excel while this change took place. It's been a long time, but as I recall it, when I then sat down to do something more intensive in Excel, I found a bunch of "muscle memory" actions failing; they'd also changed a number of shortcut key combinations!
Serious Excel users could work the keyboard like an experienced Vi/m user. For example, when extensive manual data entry, editing, cleanup was necessary.
A curse on those responsible for these interface changes.
Serious Excel users, for one, bitched for good reason.
Legacy keyboard shortcuts are still supported in Excel for menus long gone. For example Alt EAF is clear all formatting, and Alt EAA is clear all (values and formats).
I don't have Pi 5 to check this, but from what I've read, it does not support PPS. And such support is required; otherwise, even with a source that supports PPS, the connection will behave in a non-PPS fashion.
Apparently, cable quality is also demonstrating itself to be a significant factor in the Pi 5 power supply environment.
Well, as it turns out, although a lot of stuff out there implies that the Pi uses USB-PD, it actually doesn't negotiate anything; it's just a dumb 5V peripheral. It can measure its own power (current/voltage) and has a current limit setting that the PMC will use to adjust clocks, etc. and alert on overcurrent conditions. If you hook up a higher amperage supply you have to change your boot config to the higher current limit. Everything is on you to make it work its weird not-quite-standards-compliant way.
The "Official Pi 5 USB-C Power Supply" is USB-PD compliant and as it is advertised as such in conjunction with the Pi5, I think that is where the confusion originates
The things I've been searching in the last few minutes suggest that the Pi can negotiate 5A but only if the power supply explicitly offers it as a PDO, which almost nothing does.
But even if that's right, it's almost as bad as not doing PD at all.
Edit: The documentation states "If the Raspberry Pi 5 firmware detects a supported 5A-capable supply, it increases the USB current limit for peripherals to 1.6A, providing 5W of extra power for downstream USB devices, and 5W of extra onboard power budget."
It also confirms no PPS, but it's not entirely dumb.
That may indeed be correct at least in some circumstances; maybe it at least works with some capability of the offical supply. In my experience I have had to use usb_max_current_enable=1 and PSU_MAX_CURRENT=5000 to get it to shut up and work.
Here's the thing though; the simple fact that we have to even have this discussion because the Rpi5 continues to be super damn weird is enough evidence for me that the platform has jumped the shark. I don't know whether to blame Broadcom or the Pi Foundation, but the Pi 5 suuuuuucks. Man, I wanted to love it though; it's the only board I have even been been able to buy from them in the last FOUR YEARS
Agreed, I'm very annoyed it doesn't support PPS. A whole host of issues made me buy a small pc instead recently and the price difference was negligible.
(replying to myself since I can't edit) In retrospect, I wonder if [the person I'm replying to] was referring to a different link in this thread, such as the rimstar one, which is pretty bad.
Does anyone remember the Firefox extension Scrapbook, from "back in the day"? I used to use it a lot.
Look "back" 5 - 10 years, or more, and it's striking how many web resources are no longer available. A local copy is your only insurance. And even then, having it in an open, standards compliant format is important (e.g. a file you can load into a browser -- I guess either a current browser or a containerized/emulated one from the era of the archived resource).
Something that concerns me about JavaScript-ed resources and the like. Potentially unlimited complexity making local copies more challenging and perhaps untenable.
I think that says something about it.
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1. And not just "grumble, grumble... get off my lawn..." Many of its controls are at best obscure. It hides many of them away. It makes them awkward to reach.
Many new users seem as clueless, or even more so, than pre-existing customers who experienced the rug pull. At least pre-ribbon users knew there was certain functionality that they just wanted to find.
(And I still remember how MS concurrently f-cked with Excel shortcut keys. Or seemed to have, when I next picked Excel up after a couple year hiatus from being a power user.)