90s UIs are fast. No fluff, mostly text.

I got pretty good at pulling sql data together from multiple tables using joins at a prior job, but no job before or since had data that easily accessible.

Don’t believe his lies

I draw the line at using just “Engineer”. The word Engineer has baggage, it means something pretty specific already. If you engineer something other than physical structures you should list what that something is, like Software Engineer or Network Engineer.

Train Engineer is a bit confusing because they also have historical claim to “Engineer” but no longer have the same electrical and mechanical education afaik. Correct me if I’m wrong!

Hey this is really fun you should buy it now.

It’s like the Dudley rule. I need one more every year.

I use my pockets to hold stuff. That stuff has triggered emergency mode on my phone at least five times so far this year while driving. You know, the one time I shouldn’t be futzing with a phone to turn off the blaring alarm to avoid calling five-o

By android 14 they mean pixel 8. No love for the P6. So far the only “feature” I’ve found is that persistent notifications are no longer persistent.

Is this different than messages.google.com? Because that seems to require my phone to be online.

It’s weird. Slower for individual text messages but faster to create new group texts. Google wants me to group text more; too bad.

“hello beautiful”

old timer

10 years

😬

I used metal previously and the bugs go to be too much. Friendly and Frost are more recently updated but both have their own bugs as well.

My Pixel does not have any meta services running. It did not come with any Meta apps preinatalled as I recall.

I run Facebook via Friendly (if someone has a better/more recently updated Facebook sandbox I’d love to know).

As a 40 something who’s used Linux exclusively a few times before but always came back to windows for one reason or another, I now use a MacBook as my primary. I hate the ads served in windows and the poor handling of focus.

MacOS to me has been like a more polished Linux with broader support for applications.

I know some of these words