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@tripu or just let me use your website or give me email notifications to serve this purpose instead.
what really grinds my gears is newer HP printers seeming to need a damned mobile phone app to get everything to work. I had to troubleshoot one for my mom and it wouldn't give me anything useful without the app.
she wound up buying a different printer that didn't need such nonsense. the printer is connected to a computer already, it should not need a separate computer (smartphone) to work.
what really grinds my gears is newer HP printers seeming to need a damned mobile phone app to get everything to work. I had to troubleshoot one for my mom and it wouldn't give me anything useful without the app.
she wound up buying a different printer that didn't need such nonsense. the printer is connected to a computer already, it should not need a separate computer (smartphone) to work.
I'm so annoyed by the _appification_ of services…
No, I won't install your stupid app just to book a haircut, to see the balance in my meal card, or to be notified when my vehicle is ready to leave the garage.
Especially if your stupid app needs a ton of irrelevant permissions, weights 250 MB, keeps itself always busy in the background and bugs me with notifications!
Develop a fucking universal web app which can be used by pretty much anyone anywhere immediately and without leaving a trail of binary droppings.
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@tripu I was only half-joking. But I suspect any way of deciding would be controversial and would generate polarising protests each time the current taboo trends change, which seems to be weekly nowadays. I think learning to accept (some) (harmless) traditions might be easier than forcing "improvement" without understanding what will happen.0
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That's me (or who I aspire to be) right there!
> _“I didn’t expect you to be interested. I’ll just be standing over here in the corner in case you decide you like truth and goodness.”_
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@tripu Asciiflow reminds me of good ol' TheDraw back then. I had a lot of fun with that software in the old BBS times.
Note to self about #online #diagrams and #charts:
1. [`excalidraw.com`](https://excalidraw.com/) for sleek hand-drawn diagrams (just a few shapes, but great UI)
1. [`app.diagrams.net`](https://app.diagrams.net/) for blocky, corporate-looking diagrams (plenty of clipart, bloated UI)
1. [`mermaid.live`](https://mermaid.live/) for auto generation of diagrams belonging to a handful of types (computing, engineering, business), similar to #Graphviz (very limited, but declarative and text-based)
1. [`asciiflow.com`](https://asciiflow.com/) for the lolz, basically
After a load of stats and surveys from different sources, starting in the 70s and spanning half a century:
> _“Men are more committed than women to the pursuit of #truth as the_ raison d’être _of #science, while women are more committed to various moral goals, such as equity, inclusion, and the protection of vulnerable groups. […] #Men are relatively more interested in advancing what is empirically correct, and #women are relatively more interested in advancing what is morally desirable.”_
Two thinkers I follow and respect, @jonhaidt and @profgalloway, are now advocating the need of some kind of ID for users of online social media. It's an idea I always found intuitively repellent, and I fear the negative consequences that would have — but their arguments in favour are making me doubt.
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RT @SpacChad
This is how techno is made if you didn’t already know
And #stats like these:
* _“Men account for just 24% of K-12 teachers, down from 33% in the early 1980s.”_
* _“Only one in ten elementary #school teachers are male.”_
* _“In early #education, men are virtually invisible. It ought to be a source of national shame that only 3% of pre-K and kindergarten #teachers are men.”_
* _“There are twice as many women flying U.S. military planes as there are #men teaching kindergarten (as a share of the occupation).”_
— [Richard Reeves](https://ofboysandmen.substack.com/p/men-can-heal)
THIS.
> _“We need a massive […] effort to **get men to move into jobs in the growing fields of health, education, administration, and literacy (HEAL)**, equivalent to the successful campaign to get women into STEM.”_
> _“There are three pressing reasons to get more #men into #HEAL.”_
> _“First, given the decline in traditional male occupations, men need to look to these sectors for jobs. Blue collar jobs are disappearing. There will be more STEM jobs, too — but these are much smaller occupations. #STEM accounts for only about 7% of all jobs, compared to 23% in HEAL.”_
> _“The second reason […] is to help meet labor shortages in critical occupations. Almost half of all registered nurses are now over the age of 50. […] We face labor shortages in two of the largest and most important sectors of our economy — health care and #education. But we are trying to solve them with only half the workforce.”_
> _“The third argument […] is to provide a better service to #boys and men. Many would prefer to be cared for by a man, especially in certain circumstances. Consider the case of a man in need of help using the bathroom in a hospital or care home, or the middle-aged man needing a therapist to help with his addiction to pornography, or the fatherless teenage boy needing help from a psychologist with their substance abuse. It is not ideal if most substance abuse counselors are women (76%) when most substance abusers are men (67%), or that most special education teachers are women (84%) when most students being referred to special education are male (64%).”_
> _“Getting more men into HEAL occupations would be good for men, good for the professions, and good for clients — a win-win-win.”_
— [Richard Reeves](https://ofboysandmen.substack.com/p/men-can-heal)
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