I HATE this. Got absolutely shellshocked by this on a work computer recently.

Luckily, you can “just” change your locale! This is a process that took me a whole hour to figure out, required admin access as well as a system reboot. And it didn’t even work properly.

The same day I ran into a quirk regarding the filename field. Fun fact: Word pulls this directly from the OS. This almost makes sense, except if you want to decide whether or not the file ending is displayed (ie .word). Then you need to set this IN YOUR OS?! There is no other way to set this, and it is broken. When you finally figure this out and set it back to not display the file ending, word keeps doing it, seemingly forever. Yes also through reboots. This issue was fixed over 10 years ago, and then promptly reintroduced and never addressed again. Libreoffice just has another field, this took me all of 30 seconds to discover. But then you have to save in odf, because the word format is ass apparently.

I came here to see if anyone else suggested Simon Tathams puzzles - it’s a real gem! Perfectly dull, all-quality puzzles with no bullshit!

Not to say that they’re somehow clean, more so that the energy demand is insane enough to warrant considerations like this

I don’t have a source for numbers, but I’ve read a handful headlines about tech companies building nuclear reactors for their datacenters.

One of my most radical opinions is that all cars should be blackboxed and outfitted with sensors for said blackbox. If the car honks or brakes too sharply, the sensor data is recorded a time prior to and after the event, and a police report is filed. If you want to un-file the police report, or report it as some sort of triviality, this should be done on the website of the traffic police, and is not guaranteed. This way, insignificant events have an out, and repeat “trivial” offenders can be statistically correlated and be fined or have their license revoked.

Whether your insurance company should know these stats… IDK. I know this entire idea is very surveillance-state, which I don’t like. But I am really thoroughly bothered by how expensive, dangerous, and otherwise harmful motorism is to all of us.

Can’t believe they lumped the Scandi countries into “other”. Denmark uses “Vuf” ( pronounced almost scarcely like woof) and “vov” about equally, and Sweden + Norway might too.

What incredibly enough hasn’t been brought up yet, is the distinction between gender preference and genital preference. In heteronormativity they’re assumed to be the same, but in reality they’re not. This way of thinking also lends itself to the flexibility you’re describing; note the word “preference”.

No it wouldn’t. Imagine a hyper-small version of Spotify with two artists and two subscribers. The fee is 10$ per user, distributed fully to the artists (to make the math easy).

User A only listens to artist A, user B only listens to artist B. BUT: user A listens to artist A 30 times a month, while user b only listens to artist B 10 times a month. Artist A gets paid 15 of the 20 total dollars - user B is paying for some of artist A’s fee, even though they’ve never listened to them.

My Spotify subscription is paying for the artists most put on large playlists, the ones most played by fitness centers and cafes, and for botfarms. I want it to pay the artists I listen to.

The real problem with the way Spotify distributes the money, is that they distribute it per play. This seems reasonable on the surface, but I think it’s pretty shit. I want my subscription fee to go to the artists I listen to. Right now they’re going to what most people listen to. This effect is worsened by the per-label deals: imagine if Beyonce wasn’t on Spotify, that would be bad for Spotify right? This gives her label (and by extension all major labels) massive leverage over how this works. It massively favors big artists.

The per-play model also enables playfarming as an economically viable scam.

Where I live we have a bunch of small holidays in the spring. Winter only has the one big one. Spring seems more the season for them

Seconding Obsidian - it’s not FOSS, but the files are just markdown, nothing special, so you’re not locked in. Self hosting is real easy, you just have to Sync the files, and everything follows. I use syncthing between my laptop and phone and am having a good time with it.

I read a travel guide to another European city I was visiting, and the guide was aimed at Americans. It’s a major really walkable city, with car access as good as nonexistent (wonderful). It surprised me, that some Americans walk so little, that the first advice in the guide was “start by trying to walk around your house”