Dojan
Software developer by day, insomniac by night.
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Absolutely. I went from a Roborock S4 to a Roborock S4 Pro Ultra.
I was super satisfied with the S4 already, it’s a few years old by now, but was performing really well. The only problem being the frequent maintenance due to the dog. If I didn’t have pets it probably would’ve been better.
Roborock has solid vacuums, and sells replacement parts so you can repair them should something break. I ran my S4 almost daily for 4 years though and nothing ever did.
The Roborocks all map out the house with LiDAR, and cleans intelligently, even the cheapest ones, unlike some other brands (like Roomba) that just ping-pong about randomly.
The mopping feature is also shockingly effective.
The dock is the big star though. It handles cleaning and drying the mop, emptying the dustbin in the robot, and emptying/refilling the mop water.
My maintenance basically consists of emptying and rinsing out the dirty water, usually once or twice a week. Along that I refill the clean water. I have it mop a lot because I’m pedantic.
Every two weeks I also clean out the water filter, and flip the robot to remove what few hairs have stuck in the brushes.
Every two months I also empty the dust bag.
None of the maintenance tasks alone take more than a couple of minutes. It’s such a small price to pay for clean floors.
Yeah that’s how I see it too. Then there’s a risk of the clean dishes living in the dishwasher for a bit but at least I have dishes, and it doesn’t feel as daunting to deal with. It’s like with the floors, pulling out a massive vacuum and dealing with the mop and whatnot is much more daunting than dealing with the dock every so often. Sure it doesn’t outright replace proper vacuuming or dusting, you still need to do that, but it helps a lot.
Would maybe a dishwasher help out in situations like that?
I have a really hard time focusing if the floors are dirty, and I happen to have a husky. When he sheds the floors are permanently dirty. A robot vacuum really helped that though, so now the floors are a non-issue.
I guess the important thing is to strike a good balance. My old robot vacuum required maintenance pretty much after every run, I recently upgraded and this one requires me to fill a water tank twice a week, and some light maintenance once every two weeks. It’s a lot more useful and lets me put my focus on other things.
Yeah the iPhone was definitely out a bit too early with aiming for webapps. Now the tools and APIs are really mature so webapps are more of an option, but back then? Goodness I dread to think.
Not being 16, I have different priorities and I like that there is an option in the market that serves those priorities rather well.
I feel this, and it’s in large parts why I chose to swap from Android to iOS when I got fed up with manually fixing my OnePlus One back in 2020. I spent 8 hours a day working with tech as it is, I don’t want to spend my free-time tweaking Linux or flashing ROMs to my phone.
Time will tell how the third party app stores will turn out, if they turn out at all that is. Apple might still find a way to severely limit them, like restricting API access to apps not installed through the first party app store, or something similar.
Haha I feel this. I have to say I rather miss early smartphone days. Just looked up the Dream G1 and it was such a fun design. There’s almost no innovation nowadays which makes sense, market segment has stabilised. At most we see those rubbish foldables with screens that break over a weekend.
I’m likely sticking to Apple too. I absolutely have my gripes with them, but when it works (which is most of the time) it works really well. I had an Android/Google smart TV box on my dumb TV, and it was okay. Super laggy, very unresponsive, crashed every so often, but once it worked it was mostly fine. Sometimes there were audio sync issues and whatnot. Got an Apple TV a while ago and it’s dreamy by comparison. It also slots in with the rest of the Apple ecosystem, so I can watch films and whatnot late at night, with surround sound in my earbuds, while my roomie is sleeping soundly in the other room.
My gripes are mostly with the platforms being so locked down. I wish I could get xbox game stream on the Apple TV, but because of the vetting process it’s not allowed on iOS at all.
Funny thing about upgrading phones, I was thinking about maybe swapping to the new phone this year, not because I strictly need it (though my camera has some sort of blemish) but the potential USB-C port is very tantalising. Now I’m thinking about holding off until the self-swappable batteries might come. Unsure if my XS would hold up until 2027 or beyond, but I wouldn’t be too surprised. The battery has under 80% health, but still runs at peak performance so I’ve not bothered having it changed. Changing it would also only cost about $70 so it’s not a huge deal either.
Sure, it’s a walled garden. A very well protected one at that, almost like a prison. But it’s a damned nice garden. I’m still entertaining the thought of buying one of the new ARM minis.
No m.2. I was overall okay with the speed, it just wasn’t completely keeping up. The way I see it, if I could’ve plopped out the CPU and swapped for something a few years newer, like 2017 or so, I’d probably have been much less inclined to build a new computer altogether.
I don’t like switching tech much. It’s such a hassle. I kept my OnePlus One around until 2020, at which point I replaced it with a second-hand iPhone XS because Apple supports their phones forever by phone standards. I work as a software dev, so I already spend 8 hours of my day mucking about with tech, it’s not something I’m overly keen on doing in my off hours.
Thus far I’m really enjoying m.2, it’s a lot smoother than running cables and stuff for a SATA drive. I have a few SATA ports I believe but I still have a m.2 slot open, so we’ll see! I think I’m more keen on getting a NAS for storage at this point.
I hate changing tech so I really just wanted to pop the CPU out and plonk in a stronger one. I figured it’d be a cheaper job than just building a completely new system, which to be fair it is.
My new computer is running on a Ryzen 9 7900X3D, alongside an Intel Arc A770 LE. The last-gen graphics cards cost way too much where I live, and the current gen I don’t really want to touch with their crazy power consumption and proclivity for spontaneous combustion, coupled with their ridiculous prices. Figured I’d give Intel a go, and I’m actually really satisfied with it!
My biggest “wow” moment was honestly opening up a project in Synthesizer V and seeing it all render instantaneously, whereas before I’d need to wait for some 10-15 seconds for it to build a buffer for a small part of the song. Doesn’t even matter how many tracks I have, it’s so speedy!
Feel like that’s a bit comparing apples to oranges. Apps weren’t originally acquired through some store on Macs, that’s a fairly novel thing. There were package managers and such before that but you’d more or less always get software from the vendor. Disregarding that the original iPhones didn’t have apps, as long as apps have been a thing they’ve always come from the app store.
Sure you can root it and get apps from Cydia and whatnot (if that’s still around) but I really don’t think many apps will migrate away, at least not fully. Users are lazy, and installing a separate app store or getting an app elsewhere is too much work for some. I don’t think you and I fall into that category given the platform we’re having this conversation on, but the fediverse is “too unapproachable” for a lot of people, even tech savvy ones, because you can’t simply download an app and sign up.
I’m in favour of third party app stores (or just the ability to install apps through the browser, no store attached) simply because I’m miffed my Apple TV cannot run Xbox Game Stream.
Well, no. The app store will come preinstalled on all phones still, meaning as a developer it’s in your interest to publish on the first-party store if you want as wide an audience as possible. It might be true that some apps will migrate away from the app store because of Apple’s draconian and unresponsive review system, but that’s really on them. I don’t think most people will though.
It does also open up for things like Microsoft’s Game Stream to get an official non-browser app, since Apple currently prohibits that from launching on the app store due to it not meeting their regulatory standards.
I had a 4670k in mine, alongside a 970. It did most of the things I wanted well enough on medium-high, so I was mostly content. For a while I contemplated getting a newer CPU and slotting that in to squeeze some more time out of it, but after realising that Intel only supports their sockets for like a fortnight or so, I swapped to AMD for the new build.
That’s fair, but also not really the point I was trying to make.
Excepting of Windows 11 (which even then you could just do registry edits), Windows will install on older computers. Linux sits in the same boat. Apple on the other hand has a tight lock on their software, and drivers, and arbitrarily decide “this hardware is too out of date” even though if you fuss around with it, you can get a newer version of MacOS running just fine.
This is less applicable now what with Apple’s transition to ARM, but it’s something I worry about down the line. How fast will your OS be out of date on the first generation M1s? In a year or two?
I don’t thing legislating them is the right thing to do. Politicians are not technologists, nor do they have any insight into future product roadmaps.
Without regulations we’d have child labour. Companies only care about profit, and will do their best to get that, and gladly sacrifice customer satisfaction and employee health as far as they believe they can get away with it.
Without regulations companies and employers would screw over their customers and employees left and right. We know this because that’s the reality we live in today.
I agree that politicians tend to be both technologically inept and slow as hell to act, but currently that’s the lesser evil.
I’d also that 3rd party app stores provide less consumer choice. Right now I have the choice of a platform with a walled garden or one with 3rd party app stores. The EU is trying to take away that choice.
This makes no sense. You can opt out of third party stores on both platforms. Adding a choice will never take something away.
It’s funny how Apple does offer decent support from a phone perspective, but their computers get dated fast.
I just recently built a new PC after having my previous one for ten years. I didn’t strictly need to but I wanted to upgrade, my old PC is still fine.
Apple doesn’t offer that kind of support for their computers.
It was originally going to be called twttr. Facebook was initially called FaceMash. Intel was originally going to be called Moore Noyce (founders being Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce) but the idea was scrapped because it sounded like “More Noise.”
It’s not just company names and products though. I work with the .NET stack and related technologies, and Microsoft has found like a billion different uses for the term “Razor” and derivatives thereof.
- Razor, a templating language used to generate HTML in C#, for example in ASP.NET MVC
- Also the name of the parser of said templating code
- Razor Pages, a MVVM approach to ASP.NET, typically uses Razor, but isn’t Razor. Could use something other than Razor too, but would still be Razor Pages.
- Blazor, a framework with which to build web applications, using Razor
- Blazor Server, an application hosted (and rendered) on the server using SignalR to push changes to the client
- Blazor WASM, an application downloaded to the client, running .NET in WebAssembly, rendering changes in the client before pushing to the DOM
- Blazor United, a mixture of the two above! This is cutting edge stuff and not out yet.
Now, you (can) write Razor Pages, and regular ASP.NET MVC applications using Razor, but a page written in Razor isn’t necessarily a Razor Page. You also use Razor when building components in Blazor, and you can embed Blazor components in Razor Pages, or even host Blazor applications on a Razor Page. However, a Blazor application isn’t a Razor Page, and while they all use Razor, none of them are Razor.
There’s also Blazor Hybrid, and the ability to use Blazor components in native applications. I’m actually doing this right now on a project at work; I’m writing a Blazor Server application, with a shared Razor Component Library, containing Blazor Components, which I use both in the Blazor Server application, and in the .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid application for Windows/iOS/Android.
It weirds me out that the discussion has moved to “quality of content” when that wasn’t the problem with Meta/Facebook embracing the “federation” (ActivityPub).
The problem that got people worked up is that there’s a history of big companies stepping in, benefitting from open protocols, and then essentially hi-jacking them. A common example would be Google doing it with XMPP, but similar things have happened, not to protocols, but to FOSS in the past. Like with Oracle buying SUN and essentially killing OpenOffice, causing people to fork it to LibreOffice to continue the product.
You also saw it a lot in the early days of the web, with the “browser wars” where Microsoft behind closed doors, added features to HTML and JS that other browsers then had to rush to implement. Companies have done it to one another too, Microsoft reverse-engineered AOL’s AIM to make MSN Messenger compatible with their protocol, so AIM and MSN users could chat. AIM didn’t like this, and it resulted in a long back and forth, until Microsoft uncovered that AIM was using a secutity exploit in the AIM client to authenticate, and eventually acted whistleblower on this.
Facebook/Meta doesn’t want the federation, they just want the users, or more accurately their data. They’ll happily federate and contribute until they feel like they’ve gotten enough from it, at which point they’ll pull the plug.
Aye, and the U.S. isn’t exactly known for its stellar workers rights or social support. I was lucky enough that I could change gears by leaving my job at the time and transition into a work-from-home environment.
I don’t have much wisdom to share I’m afraid. I’m really sorry you’re finding yourself in this situation, and I hope you manage to resolve it. Take care of yourself.
Burnout is super rough, and often something you’ll have to manage for a very long time, if not the rest of your life.
I was on the verge of burnout the other year, and a close friend of mine (who did burn out almost ten years ago and is still suffering from the repercussions) told me to stop everything and put myself and my burnout first.
“Managing your burnout is your full-time job now.”
I was lucky enough to be in a position where this was possible, and it’s helped.
Take care of your spoons, friend.
I think it might be some kind of expectation that since it’s a dialogue on a computer it’s automatically going to be something complex and technical.
A couple of years back the company I worked for developed a website for this other company. Our point of contact had previously worked with us at a previous company, so he knew people at our company already. He had the designer’s phone number (mistake) and would frequently just call her the moment he hit send on an email. “Hey did you see my email???”
He absolutely refused to learn how computers worked, at all, which was odd given his role was lead for digital marketing. One stand-out moment was when he emailed us “URGENT FIX NOW!!! WEBSITE BROKEN!” The designer and I both freaked out for a second, until we checked the site and everything seemed to be working correctly. We then asked him what exactly was wrong with it, and he sent a photo of his laptop screen. In the system tray, the internet icon was crossed out.
Dude had a laptop with one of those physical wifi switches. He’d switched it off, tried to access the website. Then gone on his phone to email us that it wasn’t working. The error message was along the lines of “You don’t have an internet connection.”
I no longer have contact with clients, and it’s a blessing.
Ugh, that all sounds really familiar to me too. Boggles the mind that people can’t plug things in, it’s just a case of finding what cord goes from where, and which port it fits in. It’s really difficult to get it wrong. I think the thing I hated the most was being called over to literally read a dialogue. “I was working on my document and this popped up!!”
Do you want to save your document? (Yes/No)
Like please, just read what it says instead of freaking out every time something pops up!
There are places it doesn’t reach. My sofa is pretty low for example, and it obviously doesn’t reach up on tables or baseboards to dust, but I’ve only done some light vacuuming once since I got it. Specifically to clean down baseboards and get behind the sofa and the TV stand. With the S4 I usually just used a dry mop to do some light sweeping in the areas it didn’t reach. Basically a 5-10 minute effort every so often.