I work too much :(
I'm new to mastodon and twitter-like social media websites. I created this account to vent about work and post information and snippets that I or others might find useful later. My workweek ends on Thursdays in theory :/
I just discovered that Null Island, aka PIRATA Station 13010, aka Soul buoy, was decommissioned in 2021 and no longer exists.
I know this is irrational, but I've always found real comfort in the thought that, regardless of what was going in life, there was a small buoy silently floating at geo:0,0 half way around the globe.
I hope someone replaces it. Null Island. should exist.
It may not be the fanciest but it does the job and keeps people safe. Because of that I like it.
Other light houses in Kuwait: https://ibiblio.org/lighthouse/kwt.htm
Having worked with enterprise systems for most of my career, I am unable to fathom businesses voluntarily locking their core business functions behind google maps APIs and not falling back to GPS coordinates when those APIs eventually break.
Most global online stores work tirelessly to grind down friction in their checkout process, but here we apparently increase friction for reasons beyond mortal comprehension. The culprit here is #hypermax app. #kuwait #google #googlemaps #ecommerce #android
#Philips geofenced me from downloading an instruction manual for a cooker I bought from an official store in #Kuwait. There was no printed manual in the box.
Lesson learned. Do not buy any #Philips product unless you download its instruction manual first. If this advice sounds absurd to you, it should.
All I wanted was to easily prepare myself a warm meal after a long day . I don't have energy for this shit.
Ever wished for a "Convert to PDF" option in Explorer to quickly convert MS #Word files, but you don't want to touch Adobe software?
For the three of us who answered yes, here you go: https://codeberg.org/spindle/workahol-winshell-word2pdf/
Basically, it's a short #PowerShell script and a few Windows Registry changes wrapped in an #MSI, overall about 150 lines of simple code and most of it is boilerplate.
Also, it's #FLOSS and #OpenSource too. Used but not fully tested (didn't test ODT yet) so use at your own risk.
