It’s also a lot harder today.

Earlier:

a/s/l?

16/f/NYC

Now:

a/s/l?

Pardon me?

a/g/l?

400ppm/fluid/Insta

Which instances federate with threads? Is there a list?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donair

Interesting. The creation has a Wikipedia page.

Donair? What’s that? Fancy Doner Kebab made with Don Perignon and air?

Finally, a question where i can shine. You don’t have to do anything specific. Just do things.

Use a headset with your phone or laptop: You are on a call. Most people don’t speak much at online meetings.

Take a little nap? Thinking.

Want some time alone? Go to a meeting room. Works even better if the room has glass walls since you can see them and they can see that you are “busy”, but no one sees your screen.

Have multiple monitors. There’s always something work-related on at least one screen.

Have fields of interest that blend in. If one of your hobbies is vaguely related to work you are golden. You can totally read something unrelated to work during working time if it seems most your attention goes towards work. (See multiple screens and some switching back and force.)

Shift your working hours slightly from the norm, i.e. come 5 min earlier than others.

Don’t hide windows with non-work stuff when someone sees them. Too late. Act as if you have nothing to hide.

Do a reasonable work-life blend. Work overtime occasionally at odd hours and make managers know that you solved an emergency in your free time. Gives you an excuse to leave early or slack off the next day and any other day.

React to emails with a resonable delay. Of course, you can help, but not right now. You are busy.

Block your calendar and decline invites.

So what is needed to a reply?

If I follow the replies’ author, I will get it. Right?

If someone in my instance follows the author, will I also see it?

If someone boosts the reply?

Can you clarify this? As a normal user with one of the standard clients, who is on one random instance and follows people on other instances, we are missing Likes and Boost? I can live this, it’s just a number. But, are we also missing replies? I don’t expect OP to retoot all replies, but I do want to read them? At least i want the option the read them.

Memory leaks?

Possible, but much more likely is disk full. Not a bug, just something that happens…

You fill up the usable space. Or the visible space. No one will disamble the device and read from the raw storage.

I wasn’t a fan on the S10, just felt wrong, and chose to hide OneUI with a customer launcher non-Samsung apps.

Now, with S22/23, OneUI feels just right. It’s still a Samsung with their own apps, but the overall experience is very pleasant.

Without iMessage, right?

Most specialized software are web apps running in a browser hosted on the cloud these days. I’m sure they exist, but I couldn’t name any HR, ERM, CRM, … software that’s not a web app.

The desktop OS is becoming irrelevant. That’s why those who want a Mac or Linux notebook can make it work, at least from a purely technical point of view; i.e. if the company allows it. That’s also, why there will never be a year of the Linux desktop. (I mention Macs here, because while OS X gets some commercial software that you won’t get on Linux, it’s not that much outside of some niches)

There will never be a year of the Linux desktop because you gain very little from replacing Edge on Windows with Firefox on Linux (a different software that does the same thing). However, you loose some specialised software and your IT supplier, your IT service provider, half of your IT staff and some of your non-IT employees’ skills. This does not sound like a good business case.

Linux on the desktop never happened, because Linux on the server replaced desktop applications.

I don’t know if it is fair to call it a disaster. I don’t know enough from the inside, but I believe in retrospect the goal was maybe to ambitious or plain wrong.

They were attempting to port huge amounts of decades old Office macros to OpenOffice. That failed, but before the LiMux project they had already failed to migrate the same to a modern version of MS Office.

The goal for LiMux was to be a better Windows than the best Windows Microsoft would offer at the time. Literally impossible.

That combined with strong lobbying and users confused with a different UI and probably a lot of small day-to-day issues (which happens with any software, but can make an IT department look bad) made it politically hard to sustain an ‘experiment’.

The current IT lead of Munich, hired after migrating back to Microsoft, does not seem to be a Microsoft fan.

Also interested!

Never tried them, but people claim that they are great for anything but music. You can totally listen to music through your bone, but the experience lacks behind good headphones.

COBOL

in mill basis points?

Just to commenting to keep the knowledge: There are other projects that can de-drm audible. Amazon probably knows this and tolerates it. In fact, a long time ago all downloads on Linux did not have DRM. Those days are gone, but this https://github.com/mkb79/audible-cli should work.

As soon as you have ‘activation bytes’ many tools can play and convert the downloads.

Ok, so upstate means north of the capital or north NYC if in New York?

Short version: Follow the instructions you received, it will work.

Long version:

• Printed PDF on regular paper will always work. Just make sure that the 2D barcode (usually rectangular) gets printed. (Some countries may have other codes for domestic flights.)
• Mobile boarding pass with 2D barcode (usual square) also works on (practically all) airline/airports. (You don’t need an internet connection, but if you receive this via email make sure it’s available offline. If it’s an airline app, make a screenshot. If it’s Apple/Google Wallet or Passbook, don’t worry.)
• As you noticed above, the print and mobile versions look different. Both will work.
• Most airlines have kiosks where you can get a printed boarding pass whether you checked-in online or not. This is your back-up option if your phone’s battery is about to die, the mobile boarding pass does not work, or there was an operational change that requires a new boarding pass.
• Tiny airports that don’t work with mobile boarding passes will have staff to print the boarding pass for you.
• If you are checking in luggage with a human agent, you will probably get a printed boarding pass.

If I download the airline’s app to […], will the airline spam me with ads I don’t want?

Probably yes. Or the app just refuses to work. Airline apps deserve the bad app store rating.

Can I both print the boarding pass at home AND get the qr code to print the boarding pass at the kiosk?

With sane airlines, yes. Standard protocol is to use the last boarding pass generated. So, if for any reason, you get a new boarding pass at the airport, you will use this, not the one printed at home or on your phone. Some airlines will not accept the old barcode or it confuses their system.

Apparently there is something called ‘receive boarding pass by sms’. How does this work?

Old system. They will send you an MMS message or a link. If you don’t have internet at the airport, you must download the link before you get there.

Another short version: Always have three things with you:

• The booking reference, usually 6 characters
• a valid ID
• whatever you received from the airline during booking or check-in

Booking reference and last name are the magic code that will get you a boarding pass most anywhere.

You can just save your QR code as a picture on your phone, you don’t need internet.

This. OP says they won’t have internet and they don’t seem to fly often. Since most Airline apps are shitty, don’t rely on their app. It could disappear; crash; forget who you are; know who you are, but forget about your flight. This never happens to frequent flyers with the regular airline, but it could totally happen to OP. (And no, it’s not the super-low-cost budget airlines that have shitty apps)