> Even if office space were as comfy as home and more fun than free beer, a couple hour drive would be a deal-breaker.
Private offices on a spoke with a collab/whiteboard room for a hub are the most tempting form of office space to me, but that still presumes that
1) my entire team is in one location. If we are going to have at least 2 people remotely, in order to not treat them as second class citizens, we all should be remote and only use remote-capable tools, which kills whiteboards
2) my commute is not crazy. It's really, really hard to compete with zero commute at all every single day. Nothing more convenient than doing the quick laundry / lunch prep / seeing family tasks
Coming back to the ~~bullpen~~ collaborative open plan office where we have nothing but L desks and nerf guns is not that tempting to me.
I use the multimedia and handwriting touch capabilities of my tablets and phones. Since Joplin does not have handwriting support, nor image embeds, nor file embeds. This is not to single out that tool, since most cross-platform notetaking applications have the same problem or a similar permutation.
I choose to be stuck with OneNote 2010 because:
1. It has local files I can back up and sync, no cloud account or online requirement (also more privacy from cloud scanning)
1. It supports embedding files so I can back up the notebooks and not have to go find every file scattered all throughout my hard drive in order to make those up two
1. I can hand write and have text be searched or OCRed
1. It has embedding support for images and audio and have them be interactive (you can see the image, play the video, listen to the sound right in the program)
Writing such a program is a very difficult problem. If it were easy, we would be having all of these features and not just another round of markdown text file editors.
Xournal++ is considering moving to a file format that would enable you to embed files that would be zipped up as part of the file format, since it already supports handwriting recognition and has basic text and good enough image display, I continued to watch it to see if it can take over my onenote use cases, but it's just not there yet.
What are the chances that type of story could be repeated today? Seems pretty unlikely, but corporations are in some ways 'dumb' and we do base a lot of our society on trust.
At Apple? None whatsoever. It was a surprising fluke that even in the Apple of 1993. It only succeeded because so many people helped. That Apple was beleaguered at the time may have given employees a certain devil-may-care attitude towards their own job security and a willing to cross certain lines to assist us or look the other way.
I agree. I picked signal over deltachat to replace group MMS threads because it was less startup friction than getting everyone to login to their email accounts on a mobile account since they got SMSes for free.
Now? Delta chat is looking plenty fine for doing private group chats.
My threat model is not nation states watching my metadata, I have horrible opsec for that. My threat model is discord and whatsapp etc. tossing me and my chat groups off a cliff at their sole discretion.
Signal gave me control over chat groups, and integrated with SMS as a bonus. Now? If I'm gonna have to deal with a separate SMS app anyways, I might as well use delta chat where I know my messages are automatically backed up in my email account.
I'd like Microsoft Project Silica to come to the market. Basically laser burning your data onto a cube of glass, like CD-Rs it is write once read many, but it can store so, so much more, and also once the bits are 'drilled' into glass...there is nothing to delaminate or stop reflecting. Is the glass scratched? No? Then a reading laser can see the bit state.
It feels like everyone keeps repeating the same dialog tree that 'but thou must store their contacts list' and I don't see why.
Solution? Store your contacts list on your device. Back it up with your offline chat backups (android does external chat backups now, IOS should be enabled plus give em icloud backups to boot).
with a new signal app on a new phone, you restore your chat backups and poof your contacts list gets loaded back. your new signal instance reconnects with the other clients and poof, Signal's excuse for using phone numbers and storing your contacts list on their servers is demolished.
It seems so simple to me, but I feel like I'm failing to understand something about why this is so hard.
Because you forget that you need to build your contact list (if you don't use the phone numbers), which for 99% of users (including me) is a major pain.
Then your backup idea works, but kind of sucks in terms of UX (at least in Signal's point of view), and therefore they decided to go with phone number first, and work on going towards usernames later.
Don't worry, you haven't invented anything. It's just that your idea is not at the level of UX provided by WhatsApp/Signal, and the solution is more complex than you think.
I was about to say, wikipedia by citations was a big help to me. I just had to do Words citation feature to make it look right and poof the teachers were happy.
I agree. Yes, Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE have been the big 3 for a long time, and I doubt they will go away, but Cosmic Desktop is currently the main thing I'm watching for a post-C-dominated-desktop-linux.
Ubuntu is trying to go centralized control with Snap.
Fedora is like a sibling comment says, doing just enough to coast on a desktop.
I'm using openSUSE right now, so can't complain there.
The failure to adopt Inferno in its day showed we as an industry got stuck on the unixy API and we've never managed to advance beyond that to this day.
Private offices on a spoke with a collab/whiteboard room for a hub are the most tempting form of office space to me, but that still presumes that
1) my entire team is in one location. If we are going to have at least 2 people remotely, in order to not treat them as second class citizens, we all should be remote and only use remote-capable tools, which kills whiteboards
2) my commute is not crazy. It's really, really hard to compete with zero commute at all every single day. Nothing more convenient than doing the quick laundry / lunch prep / seeing family tasks
Coming back to the ~~bullpen~~ collaborative open plan office where we have nothing but L desks and nerf guns is not that tempting to me.