I see a lot of love for Komoot but for me that died when their "top 10 ride in <region>" had a bunch of auto-generated routes linking points of interests, that tried to take me through horrible paths or 4 lane roads.
Yeah; though I've always just ignored that and used it to create my own cycling routes and sync with my Wahoo bike computer. With this news I'll switch to Ride with GPS for that.
Yeah author congratulating themselves at the end because their note app is only using hundreds of millions of cycles every seconds, to do essentially nothing...
I remember doing it on a thinkpad. I didn't break any cables, I didn't need a guide, and it got significantly quieter afterwards. Macbooks are pretty, they've got a great CPU, but the repairability is just rubbish
I wonder if something will change for the better in the future, given that the EU will force (from 18th February 2027) every computer sold in the EU to have removable and replaceable batteries.
Same with most dell laptops I've owned. Pop off the back panel and everything is there, easily accessible, standard screws. Just did this on an Inspiron I have, just about 8 screws, pop the heat sync off, repaste, reassemble and done. Took like 15 minutes. Plus the RAM and SSD are also easily accessible and replaceable, as is the battery in a matter of minutes.
The part I have a hard time with as a corporate purchaser is that the failure/repair/replacement rate on our small number of Dell machines is upwards of 50%. We've only got about a dozen in use, and less then half of them have just worked reliably. At a certain point I don't really care how repairable the Macbooks we buy for almost everyone else are/aren't because the failure rate on those is so low by comparison.
I'm glad the Dell repair guy who gets sent out has a pleasant experience when he replaces the guts of a machine but my team still has to spend time and money shipping around replacements and dealing with warranty repair at a rate we just don't see with the Apple gear.
Once upon a time our entire corporate fleet was all Macbooks but the only thing we had worse luck with than these Dells was training nontechnical users on how to get to their Excel or specialized actuarial/compliance software through virtualization
No argument there. Where I work (I'm in infrastructure, not a dev) we've switched almost entirely to MacBooks and experienced the same when were a Dell shop. Horrible reliability. We've been on Macs since ~2023 and I've yet to need to send one off for repair or RMA.
I keep them for use at home as Linux machines because of the repairability and ease of upgrading, but my main machine is still a Mac.
I'd love MacBook level of hardware quality combined with easy access to repair and swap parts.
IBM saw their internal tech support requirement plummet when they switched to MacBooks.
I've never understood companies that cheap out on laptops. Even if you only pay someone minimum wage (€1800), a high end laptop is ~1 month wage, and you get a tax write-off on it too.
Even if that person only works there for 2 years, that's 4.2% of the cost of employing them.
Even worse is when management doles maxed out iPhones and MacBooks Pros out to themselves, but the main workforce has to make do with €650 craptops and cheap Samsung phones. For me that's always a double red flag because it tells me management is both inept and greedy.
Slack is a constant garbage fire where clearly all the devs have a fast desktop and don’t care about performance or battery use in the slightest. I wish my org would move away from this junk.
My org hasn't moved away but I use localslackirc to connect via my preferred IRC client.
I get perks like not seeing reaction emojis, gifs, and being able to mute the constant flow of @channel notifications by configuring a list of people or channels from which I am not interested in getting these generic notifications.
Also most importantly, since my company recently shifted from treating us like adults to telling us we must only work on the assigned tasks and for no reason go out of task, I configured it to not join general discussions channels where people ask for help and such things. In theory I'm on them, but from the point of view of my IRC client I'm not.
It re-joins automatically if someone mentions me specifically. Unfortunately it won't fetch the history when this happens so I might need to open the real slack to get the context before I can answer.
Anyway, it has worked mostly fine for me… I can have decent battery life and I don't get most of the useless notifications.
Yeah.. seems like a great opportunity for Discord to start a Discorp whitelabel brand. :-) Just remove all the fun/spammy/nitro features, add SSO and an SLA, and slab on a steep per-seat price.
It's always been like this as well. Back when Slack first started gaining prominence ten years ago it was the only webapp that made my laptop's fan spin loudly. We actually migrated to HipChat because of that.
Same with how much space the entire thing wastes: it's clearly designed by people with 8K 30" monitors and perfect vision.
I have many more gripes, but that would be too off-topic. I don't understand how it got so popular.
I agree. I put in a ticket with them in 2015 that was basically “every time I compile I have to close slack because it uses more memory than my compiler”
haha wait do you actually read long commit messages( more than a line) all the way through? like line-by-line, imo commit msg = tweet, git note = blog post.
In my line of work a bug could cost multiple millions. I do read them. I write long ones. I would love if my colleagues started writing longer ones too.
Most of the times, the commit message is 10+ lines while the change itself is -1/+1.
We use GitHub for repo hosting and a separate issue tracker to coordinate changes. It bothers me a lot that GitHub UI doesn't render markdown for commit messages. We all write really detailed and nicely formatted commit messages, and had to work out a commit message sync so the issue tracker can display related commit messages in full Markdown glory.
That seems more complicated than just adding the info in the commit message. It's not like Git doesn't have flags for trimming commit messages when reading them (--oneline).
Open-source code has been known to have back doors and versions with security vulnerabilities.
I would never use AI code gen I don't understand fully and typically made amendments to get what I need the tooling to do. So yes I prefer personal simple scripts I maintain and understand 100% : )
