... know that a bunch of private companies are making their national currency open source?

... to promote illiteracy.

After all, people who can't use the fastest way to absorb information - since no youtube influencer can beat the density of well written text - will be less educated and more likely to click on ads.

... that i noticed ... ... was to replace the native cllient with a "modern" Electron abomination with less features, more CPU consumption and that never syncs properly across devices.

... i'd very much like if the western world got over their fear of subtitles.

I stil remember the dvd for sci fi channel's Dune that had no subtitles whatsoever. Afraid they'll exercise the viewer's brains too much?

Also, there are the stupid Netflix movies that have english subtitles because they're in a non english language, but the second someone speaks english the subtitles magically disappear.

For one, accents vary and crap like that. For two, I don't watch movies with the volume up like i'm at a rock concert. And for three, I don't care about mistranslated subtitles in my native language - at least for languages I do understand. Please do full subtitles in english.

The setting is choosen to be very low budget, props wise. All you need is a few metallic looking rooms and some screens.

And the idea has been done to death since ages ago. Especially if you can read.

I mean if a friend shares a piece of news, maybe. If it's something selected by their engagement algorithms it's probably worthless.

And stop calling them Meta. Don't fall for the rebranding.

It's not the CEO's decision if it's for sale or not.

Where's the sugar free version? And how do the rest of the ingredients mess with the taste of coffee?

I bet there's nothing "AI" about their language. They're working on a python alternative and marketing changed direction.

They've always encouraged ready to paste answers instead of teach the man how to fish answers.

And now everyone trains their text generators on them and because the answers are enforced to not require understanding it works great. For the text generators.

... that put out "free" applications.

I'm too poor to afford free apps anyway, so I'm totally unimpressed.

Can't edit so:

Being a part of some group that does sports/hiking regularly is also a good idea. You'll also make new friends to hang out with that way :)

... it's not like I was considering working at Microsoft anyway.

On a more serious note, three pieces of advice from someone who has been working from home for a while:

1. Have you considered going out and meeting friends after work? All that time you're not commuting at peak traffic can be now put to good use.

2. Don't work on the couch - get at least a corner with a desk. I have my own home office room but that's because i set up for working from home 20 years ago.

3. If you care about career advancement in the same company, move to places that are 100% WFH or you'll be left behind. Job hopping for raises also works though.

That makes sense, could actually be useful. Never tried a 3rd party keyboard so had no idea.

On the other hand... it does make me a little paranoid.

Why would a keyboard need to read my mail anyway? Shouldn't it be given access just to the current edit field and enter... text... in it?
And shouldn't it have access to the current edit field because... it can't -ing work without that?

I don't get what's going on here.