I just cannot comprehend why macs hate certain Dell monitors.

They work fine with windows, Linux, even android. Yet if connected to a Mac I need to physically unplug and replug the power of the screen before it is detected by the Mac and before it will display anything. After that it works fine.

I need to do this dance every time I lock the Mac. Since the screen goes into sleep.

One of the many papercuts that make me find the platform super frustrating to use.

#macos #apple #rant

Als Softwareentwickler sehe ich es als meine Aufgabe, Komplexität zu bewältigen und möglichst den Code zu vereinfachen.

Leider sehe ich bei uns im Team* haufenweise Methoden mit mehr als 10 Parametern oder über 100 Zeilen Code.

Ich wünsche mir ein Team, wo nicht die erste scheinbar funktionierende Version des Source-Codes veröffentlicht wird, sondern über Code nachgedacht wird und der möglichst minimal gehalten wird.

*das soll auch kein Angriff auf Einzelne sein. Ich nehme mich da auch nicht aus. Trotzdem finde ich es traurig und schlimm.

#Rant #Work

I am SO fed up with #youtube , their #ads, their so-called "bot protection", their #trackers , the almost obligation to create an account to slightly minimize #captcha ...

I used to download their vids with #ytdlp to watch them a bit more comfortably, but now I must play with their #cookies !

It would be OK that they safeguard THEIR content, but it is not!

#rant #enshittification #google

As I’ve been working on the Kickstarter campaign for OpenSky, I’ve realized that there’s almost more work involved in preparing the campaign than in making the game itself... and not the fun kind of work.

Kickstarter was meant to help indie developers with cool projects but no money. It wasn’t supposed to become a whole secondary industry of campaign builders and expectations of a multi-million-dollar enterprise from day one.

#Kickstarter #BoardGame #IndieDev #GameDev #Rant

How on earth can anyone call lemmy.world, wizard.casa, and gotosocial.social anything but absolute rubbish? They’re a total disgrace, a complete waste of time and effort. It’s astonishing how these so-called platforms can still be allowed to exist when they’re nothing but worthless, ruined excuses for social spaces! Absolutely infuriating!

#Fediverse #Lemmy #GoToSocial #SocialMedia #TechFrustration #InstanceDown #SoftwareCritique #WebDevelopment #UserExperience #OnlineCommunities #Decentralised #TechThoughts #Rant #SocialPlatforms #FOSS

Why I Dislike the Royal Pop

(and it’s incestuous cousins)

Yes, this is a hater post. So what? I’m allowed to hate the Royal Pop, just like you are allowed to inexplicably love it.

Why do I hate it?

First off, it’s plastic. It’s designed to not be durable; to not last. In a world that is growing ever more lenient of the disposable and temporary (which apparently includes people), do we really need another god-damned knick knack destined to end up in a land fill?

Second, it’s an expensive piece of plastic shit. $400/$420 for these bag charms? You can find and buy multiple watches made out of actual metal for the same price. Actual metal watches that will potentially last decades and generations. But I guess the rich need something to waste all the money on that they refuse to pay employees or in taxes after already being able to actually afford a $20,000 Daytona they’ll rarely use to it’s full potential. Not fake afford, actually afford.

Third, last & most importantly, to me; Swatch seems to be going all in on the plastification (it is TOO a word! 😉) of their watches and brand, and even other brands! It feels like they don’t care that they are allowing Omega to rot faster than the organic material surrounding their disposable watches in the world’s landfills. By devoting money, design effort & resources to these bIOceRaMiC Happy Meal toy abominations of watches, they are just killing off an iconic brand. Is it any coincidence that Omega has slipped to third in the Morgan Stanley report behind Cartier after the introduction of the MoonSwatch & just before the Swatch x AP collab? I think not!

Comment or not. Makes no difference. Too many people are too distracted by the hype machine to actually think past the end of their fucking noses. Keep telling the Emperor his non-existent clothes are great, folks. Are watches THAT boring to you that you go ape shit over a little color? Or are people just that uneducated about watches to think these are worthy of the hype?