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This has been my strategy. I've had location history turned off since they introduced the tabbed inbox because for some reason the only way to turn off the tabs was to never save my location history. Not sure how those features got co-mingled but...One inbox feels much nicer. I don't get a ton of email though.

For me there are 4 emojis: :), :(, :/, and :D. Anything that uses fancier characters is needlessly complicated and looks like clutter to me. For me this means that whenever I use one of those in Google Chat I need to type Esc before i can send my message lest what I typed be replaced by a goofy yellow face.

As someone who has been somewhat involved with this I'm disappointed and but not terribly surprised this goes even deeper than Dunwoody public spaces. There was a lot of community engagement on the Flock contract renewal but the vote was postponed twice. It seemed like once community engagement died down (because asking people to stay vigilant constantly is exhausting). Council seemed upset but when it came down to it they voted unanimously to continue and expand the Flock contract.

I feel like it really does a lot of harm to public trust. But also most people, even people pretty engaged in the community, just don't know or care about the consequences of being surveilled constantly. It's very hard to convey to them the potential harm this is doing to them or their kids.

This must be why, when I have a folder in Win11 full of files with GUIDs as names, they are never in the order I expect. Windows seems to sort them randomly but there must be some sub-sequence of numbers that it's deciding are the important ones and sorting off those. For me I'd much rather just sort left to right alphabetical.

GitHub personal access tokens could be a lot better. It'd be nice if you could assign tokens at the team level or you have more fine grained control over token permissions.

And yes, I know "Fine Grained Tokens" exist but they don't seem to be usable almost anywhere and the fine grain level of control isn't actually very fine grained so they kind of suck.

Pretty much all the pinch points encountered were things visible and could have been through about at the start of the project. They've done this 9 times before, you need a wrench/pliers to put the hoses on. It needs to drain (also that drain cover likely needed a only a flathead screw driver to remove. Drilling it out leaved burrs and usually they are designed to be popped out with a little force.) They lived in 9 places and don't have a drill that can chuck in a small hole saw. Seems surprising. But I guess the point is you don't know what you don't know.

I noticed this gradient and knew it didn't used to be there. I thought for a long time there was something wrong with my TV. I would walk around the room looking at the TV from different angles and would move the progress bar to different points in the video. I was looking at the color settings and other known-color images. Ultimately I'm glad I saw this article and I can stop thinking I've gone crazy out that my tv is broken!

I use a corded electric blower (it's also the motor for a shop vac). It works very well for the driveway, blowing out the garage and, for the very rare times I've done it, leaves on grass.

I am seeing this post minutes after feeling fed up with all the scam ads on YT and finally reporting a bunch of them. Reading all these comments makes me feel rather deflated. Like there is no hope.

I guess I didn't think about it like that. That my bottom of the line car is more serviceable because it doesn't have all the bells and whistles.

Personally I think it still has very good cruise control (adjusts speed based on traffic and can come to a complete stop, makes an attempt to stay in the lane, maintains a safe following distance) and errors on the more conservative side (will turn off the lane maintenance feature if the lines become too difficult to see). None of that is "self driving" I guess but I find it impressive and useful still.

I'll scroll through my Google News app and it's riddled with articles describing the approval cost of charging vehicles, of they reliability and cost.

I've been driving a Nissan Leaf for almost 2 years now. Charging is annoying but still dirt cheap, both at home and in the road.

I know I've had this car for less than 2 years but it works fine. It's been great so far and it's probably the worst full EV you can buy in the US.

I find it strange that there are so many alarmist articles saying how EVs aren't the panacea they're cracked up to be. But that was never how they were advertised.

Sometimes I feel the opposite. A condition might be described as affecting "only 1% of people" as if to say it's rare and I'm thinking that's so extremely common. I could walk into a highschool and there would be multiple people affected. Or maybe someone in my office has this right now.

Even 1 in 100,000 type conditions mean that multiple people in my city have it nevermind the region.

A single time zone seems like it creates a lot of problems. Like if I'm on the east coast scheduling a meeting with someone on the west coast what's the fastest way to convey to me I'm about to schedule a meeting that's way to early. Right now I can see that the meeting will be at 5am for them and I can intuit that's to early.

How do people in Western China feel about this situation, which they live right now?

“ours” and “theirs” while merging or rebasing

This was always super confusing to me. I'm happy since using fork.dev that instead of "ours"/"theirs" it just names the branches. So much clearer. I know that's a GUI and not command line but no other GUIs I've seen have done so. 0