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Seconding this. I had it today as well, and it was slightly annoying. It's only a minor thing (for me) though. I love this app, I've tried other ones, but none of them felt as familiar and clean as Connect.

I use mostly pure GNOME on my PC. The missing system tray is very annoying, though I really don't care about the missing dock or desktop icons. I start programs by searching for them, not by clicking on a desktop icon or in a dock. That's my preferred method. And the alt+tab menu of GNOME is nice enough to find anything when I need it, together with having workspaces to organize everything.

I tried KDE, but it just felt more messy to me. For instance, I tried to move the bottom bar to the side of my screen, accidentally moved something on the bar itself, and then everything looked off and I couldn't figure out how to get it back. It all felt a bit janky and unrefined. On some systems I also use i3, but that's only for productivity. For daily use I prefer GNOME, where everything just seems to work.

As someone with a huge intrest in machine learning, it kinda pains me to see all this empty hype. All the buzzword fetishists seem to have picked AI as their next big thing, without properly understanding what it does. Most businesses don't need AI. For them it'd be a huge money and time sink. They could maybe benefit from existing tools like Copilot or ChatGPT, but they don't need their own AI features in their apps. Once their post-nut clarity kicks in and they find out how much money they've wasted on something that was barely useful to their products, they'll probably start hating AI for their own mistakes.

AI/ML is a very cool and useful tool. But most products don't need AI currently. It's not worth it in most cases, appart from maybe using off-the-shelf solutions that are easily Integrated.

Here in the Netherlands I hear quite often that the province of Drenthe doesn't exist. As someone who lives quite close to its presumed location I can neither confirm nor deny that it exists.

Wtf is this racist shit. Get a life

I'm noticing the same. Maybe the chill people are slowly having enough of the more toxic people and are going somewhere else. I'm not really enjoying the constant barrage of far-left biased news and opinions. I just want to chill but it seems to permeate everything. Things aren't always great in the world, but personally I come here to not be reminded of that.

I'm all for legislation to fix scummy practices in areas where something is essential, i.e. transport, connectivity, food, etc. Or to counter predatory practices like gambling or lootboxes that prey on addicts or children. But in this case I feel like it'd be a bit too much. Nobody needs WoW, nor is it really (in my opinion) preying on addicts in the same way as gambling or lootboxes. If enough people are willing to pay such a ridiculous amount of money, then apparently this is really the value.

Ah you're the kind of person for whom the Hades devs created the shop item that guarantees a fishing spot in the next room. I never thought I'd find the reason why they put that in

I guess it depended on how many others did it. I've gotten a few of them here in the Netherlands, though in my case they never provided info that I didn't already have. Nevertheless I did see the value of it, in some cases it could be very useful

I'm not a native speaker and I very naively just read it as first-hand without seeing anything wrong. I read the whole article before I went to the comments and found out what was wrong lol

Because I have nothing to share that I find important enough. I'd rather comment on something

Hmmm there's definitely a correlation. If the countries without a lighthouse just build a lighthouse, they should get ample access to the sea

This matches at least my personal behaviour. I'm a programmer myself, so if a game or application has a bug I'll instantly start thinking about what could've caused it and what data would be useful. It's advantageous for me because the bug may be fixed, and (hopefully) advantageous to the Dev because they get the information they need to fix it. It doesn't always work though. At one point I sent an entire stack trace and all kinds of debug info to an app developer. I got the response that they'd look into it, but nothing ever comes of it. I'd accept it if they just admitted that it's not worth their time, but somehow that's also too hard to say.

$500 is still insane to me. I'm Dutch and I've been riding bikes pretty much daily for my whole life. I don't think I've ever used a bike that cost more than €200. Almost every bike I've used is either secondhand or a hand-me-down. My current bike has a front wheel that has been folded into a 90-degree angle and back (which is noticeable), has only one working brake, and only 2 of the 7 gears work well. Yet for the past 2.5 years I've reliably and comfortably driven trips without issues. Whether it is a 10-minute trip to the supermarket or work, or a 40-minute trip to the next city over for some party, it always gets me there.

I don't really understand the sentiment in this comment section that a bike should always be a fancy new bike of $500 or even $3K when a trusty old rustbucked could also get you the same distance for a hundred bucks or even way less.

Hmmmm weird, I know both languages but I never considered that. The See/Meer being Lake/Sea situation is much more confusing to me, especially since it's the inverse in Dutch.

I bought Cities Skylines 2 under the premise that I'd refund it if it ran like shit. On my PC it runs about the same as the first game. Which isn't great, around 30-60 fps, but also not unplayable. I haven't played a lot yet, but so far I'm enjoying it. I did get into a fight with the UI thingy that lets you designate an area for landfills/farmland/etc. It feels very counterintuitive when you build the respective building and then try to mark the area. But when you finish the building and then edit the area again it suddenly works a lot better. Maybe my brain is just weird

Interesting how college ruined your love for programming and work got it back. For me it's almost the complete opposite. Studying Computer Science constantly fed me with new interesting ideas, and I still had more time to play around with those ideas. At work I'm just implementing some button or some boring logic 40 hours a week and after that I'm too drained to explore any of my (many) ideas further.

I guess it's a difference in incentive. I don't care whether anyone will use what I wrote, I just want to learn something new and explore ideas.

I'm Dutch. Usually we just say something like "2 in the afternoon" instead of 14:00 or 2 PM. But digital clocks and writing etc will use 24 hours. Every now and then people will use it though, saying 14:30 as "fourteen hours thirty", but that's quite rare and sounds a bit formal (or goofy).

I think my driving issues are more related to autism. Driving just presents so much information in so little time that it, at times, completely overwhelms me. I got my license, but since I can basically cycle or use public transport to get anywhere I haven't driven a car in years at this point. I really dislike driving on public roads and nowadays I think I'd need a few courses again before I'll climb behind the wheel. I do like sim racing though.

I would not let that doggy that close. Seems like there are some strong forces at play. If the dog gets stuck under the forest floor when it goes down it might not end well