> My last phone was a Samsung that tried to replace those [Google] apps... and they were still awful
I cannot agree more... on a Samsung phone you have all the google apps, plus all Samsung own version of browser, message, phone, agenda, gallery, music, pay, contact, password manager, notes, etc. and they all suck, I used ADB to disable all the samsung apps, but finally bought a Pixel phone. I will never be able to buy an android phone with tons of 3rd party apps.
When I worked for a broadcasting software company that had customers worldwide, everything was using TC (timecode), PTP, and of course we needed to support leap year, different timezone etc when a broadcast was scheduled between different zone around the world (it can be complicated) ; and we needed to support leap second by contract! Easiest thing was to add a 1s black frame after the schedule after reaching midnight. Supporting negative leap second would have been complicated...
Good thing we drop it I think.
My reddit account is 16+ years old, but for 3 or 4 years now, since the API backlash, I just lurk from time to time for specific thing I search, never post, never upvote.
My/. account is I think 29 years old and I come here daily.
Some SCADA stuff that monitor powerlines and water utilities and all are super old, those working with 3G modem are being replaced at least, it is sometimes 20 years old technology without security. For instance it reports by SMS and you send SMS to it to execute commands and all.