They day of the presentation was probably their first day using Windows.

Chinese technology

It’s also a lot harder today.

Earlier:

a/s/l?

16/f/NYC

Now:

a/s/l?

Pardon me?

a/g/l?

400ppm/fluid/Insta

Which instances federate with threads? Is there a list?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donair

Interesting. The creation has a Wikipedia page.

Donair? What’s that? Fancy Doner Kebab made with Don Perignon and air?

Finally, a question where i can shine. You don’t have to do anything specific. Just do things.

Use a headset with your phone or laptop: You are on a call. Most people don’t speak much at online meetings.

Take a little nap? Thinking.

Want some time alone? Go to a meeting room. Works even better if the room has glass walls since you can see them and they can see that you are “busy”, but no one sees your screen.

Have multiple monitors. There’s always something work-related on at least one screen.

Have fields of interest that blend in. If one of your hobbies is vaguely related to work you are golden. You can totally read something unrelated to work during working time if it seems most your attention goes towards work. (See multiple screens and some switching back and force.)

Shift your working hours slightly from the norm, i.e. come 5 min earlier than others.

Don’t hide windows with non-work stuff when someone sees them. Too late. Act as if you have nothing to hide.

Do a reasonable work-life blend. Work overtime occasionally at odd hours and make managers know that you solved an emergency in your free time. Gives you an excuse to leave early or slack off the next day and any other day.

React to emails with a resonable delay. Of course, you can help, but not right now. You are busy.

Block your calendar and decline invites.

So what is needed to a reply?

If I follow the replies’ author, I will get it. Right?

If someone in my instance follows the author, will I also see it?

If someone boosts the reply?

Can you clarify this? As a normal user with one of the standard clients, who is on one random instance and follows people on other instances, we are missing Likes and Boost? I can live this, it’s just a number. But, are we also missing replies? I don’t expect OP to retoot all replies, but I do want to read them? At least i want the option the read them.

Memory leaks?

Possible, but much more likely is disk full. Not a bug, just something that happens…

vi, gcc, and LaTeX

Let them learn the hard way.

“What if she was gone?”

Not a native speaker. That’s what I was taught. Subjunctive wasn’t a thing in my English lessons. Common phrases like “I wish I were you…” were introduced as a non-standard alternative…

“This is key” (in business speak)

dialects

French?

You fill up the usable space. Or the visible space. No one will disamble the device and read from the raw storage.

My cat lectures me.

I needed a second to remember whether this building has an elevator. Never used it.

Many smaller apartment buildings have no elevator. Above 4 floors that’s certainly annoying, but not unheard of.

So, yes, I don’t mind it. Never buy more than what fits in a bagpack plus one shopping bag. Easy if you don’t have a car and all supermarkets you go to are in walking distance.

This is heaven. It’s like a looser hotline for business. No one gets my mobile number. Let them call the front office. And it happens I’m always in a meeting or on a business trip.

Without iMessage, right?

Most specialized software are web apps running in a browser hosted on the cloud these days. I’m sure they exist, but I couldn’t name any HR, ERM, CRM, … software that’s not a web app.

The desktop OS is becoming irrelevant. That’s why those who want a Mac or Linux notebook can make it work, at least from a purely technical point of view; i.e. if the company allows it. That’s also, why there will never be a year of the Linux desktop. (I mention Macs here, because while OS X gets some commercial software that you won’t get on Linux, it’s not that much outside of some niches)

There will never be a year of the Linux desktop because you gain very little from replacing Edge on Windows with Firefox on Linux (a different software that does the same thing). However, you loose some specialised software and your IT supplier, your IT service provider, half of your IT staff and some of your non-IT employees’ skills. This does not sound like a good business case.

Linux on the desktop never happened, because Linux on the server replaced desktop applications.