This is actually a topic in Asimov's Foundation sequels. There's a galactic-standard hour, day, and year, and every plant maps their rotational and revolutional patterns to that. A main plot point was trying to find THE planet that had true 24 hour days and 364.25 day years, since that might have been the birthplace of humanity.

I use Brave too and am frustrated by that... I put an extension that exports my history periodically, so at least I'll still have it. History Trends Unlimited.

I wish they could make it a configurable option to turn off the trunctation.

While we're fixing history problems with Chrome, why not make it stop truncating history at 90 days. Many things in life happen on a yearly cycle. It would be great to be able to see things I was looking at a year ago (holiday gifts, items for a class I'm planning, etc.) as I'm looking for things this year. What a stupid policy.

I just threw one of my Roku devices in the trash. It looks like Apple TV is the only one that doesn't enshittify too much and I just ordered one. But they don't play from local media servers (DLNA) natively, so you need an app.

I feel guilty for the people I recommended use a Roku over the years. They used to be a pretty good product. At least Apple isn't likely to be purchased by a predatory private equity firm.

I've been a Firefox user for decades. But I'm tried of their updates breaking things and taking away functionality. I'm updating, but to Brave. Goodbye Firefox.

Same here. I only play table-top and boardgames online with friends (e.g. Lords of Waterdeep, Dune Imperium, Ticket To Ride) rather than low-latency higher action games. But even with these, if they manage to run on a default Steam install on Linux, they run really slowly and often have odd glitches.

So I dual boot. It's the only thing I use Windows for.

Sure, ChromeOS is based on the Linux kernel, but hardware compatibility is complicated. Here's a site devoted to hacking chromebooks and chromeboxes and the compatibility page tells quite a story: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.mrchromebox.tech%2F...

Basically, many of the components in many of these machines are custom and there are no Windows or Linux drivers available for them. For example, you might re-flash it to install Linux but the sound and touchpad won't work.

Several scientists in my field post about new publications, upcoming conferences, new developments, etc. on Bluesky now.

Indeed, if I recall, the drives are formatted ext4 and put in a raid configuration (if there are multiples). As long as they're not striped, it should be possible to just connect them to a PC running Linux and mount them to get the files off. If they're not in a mirrored config then it could be trickier since you'd probably need to get them all hooked up to the computer and get them mounted together (probably using mdadm).

I only ever set mine up in mirrored raid - but I also block their IPs from accessing the internet, so I don't get automatic updates.

Having been on both sides of this, this is a lovely idea in theory that often fails in practice. Having to rely on IT developers to write business-critical software in a timely manner is either cost prohibitive or takes far too long.

A good example from my own experience was from working at a large footwear & apparel company during the outset of the pandemic. Suddenly there were huge port congestion issues at various ports in Asia causing the system-predicted lead times to suddenly be far too short. The system didn't have the logic to match up specific ports to specific factories to be able to tell which products would be impacted by which ports. The lead-time tables in SAP were only at an "entire country" level. This meant that all the coverage and supply allocation logic coming out of SAP was tragically wrong. Even worse the port congestion was rather fluid and dynamic (e.g. we know it's 2 weeks this week but are predicting orders arriving next week will add 3 weeks), where our install of SAP assumes such lead times are fairly static.

We couldn't wait a year for IT to come up with something (and certainly didn't have the $10million IT quoted to partially fix the problem). So what did we do? Set up processes to download the data into Excel and augmented it with the factory x port x destination transit time information, and reproduced the reports that were normally coming out of SAP. The non-IT business users had this worked out in just a week and managed to run a multi-billion dollar business this way for nearly 2 years.

Was it ideal? No. Did it work? Yes? When did IT actually build this capability into SAP? July of 2022. We'll be ready for the next pandemic, I suppose, as long as we can afford to have these changes ported into the next version of SAP we have to upgrade to.

This is why Excel remains to prevalent and non-IT users build so much logic into their workbooks - it's either that, or do it by hand.

Hey Logitech CEO, if you want a good idea, bring back the Marble Mouse. It would be even better if you made it wireless. That is all.

Shared ownership (via stocks) is the core idea of capitalism, btw.

Is that very different than the system that uses HVDC to transfer power from the dams on the Columbia to California? I remember visiting this station in the 80s: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

I agree. As Google search has gotten worse, for quite a while I would add "Reddit" to my Google searches and would find what I really wanted there. But now even those results are becoming less useful and relevant.

The original margarine is a better example where "those who know better" made a "heart-healthy" replacement for cow-based butter. Turns out making it out of trans-fats made it far more dangerous than butter.