Peasants / farmers / Joe Schmoes

we went on a bunch of homestays in very remote parts of Fiji earlier this year. These are villages you can only get to by small boat, and then on an island there's only rough walking tracks between them.

The govt had a programme going to install solar in all homes, so most villages we saw had one panel installed per house which just connected directly to one outlet. It was really common to see integrated panel/light setups just where it was needed. More enterprising villagers installed a couple extra panels (and in one case we saw even a battery) and bought a freezer - they used this to buy meat to sell to other villagers. But mainly houses like this were the central point for villagers to charge their phones - there'd often be like 10 or more people hanging out just charging their phones.

What was interesting was visiting ad hoc 'shops' (just peoples houses who bought extra food to sell) - you'd go there to buy 3 potatoes and then do an electronic transfer for payment via cellphone. It worked really well.

Bit of a digression but it was quite eye-opening overall coming from the 'first world' to see them getting on with it - I guess it'd be roughly the same in Africa. I did worry about the electrics in some of these places but they are generally powering 3 or 4 lights max, and maybe a fridge if they're rich. Totally different world.

Yes it is anti semantic

same it's a really good product, and model. But I thought they already were commercial (?), as in you can buy 'enterprise' plans including hosting and support etc. The reassuring thing about these recent moves in Europe is that governments seem to be specifically talking about the value of open source, not simply about moving away from Microsoft. Hopefully that encourages products like nextcloud to just keep doing what they're doing.

haha yes - the 'serving suggestion' disclaimer.

in this application may I suggest 'living suggestion', or even 'house suggestion'?

socket.dev does most of that.

that'll be nobody then. These poor Jeep owners will now have to walk home from Walmart with their bread and milk.

Oh really?

I'm genuinely curious - why would you repeatedly use a semicolon instead of more recent innovations like full stops or commas?

I honestly gained nothing from reading the full article compared to the slashdot summary. What did I miss??

You're not wrong but also what is the point of a 'presentation'? Images, words or more usually a wall of text the presenter reads to the audience.

Impress is fine, the real issue is that the 'state of the art' for presentations is bullshit.

..and get a slightly different delusional answer in only 7 hours!!

So you've never had to deal with an excel file containing dates or times or values which could possibly appear to be part of a date type??!

if your employer is taking all that effort to analyse emails, scroll times, docs access, then there's honestly a different, bigger problem.

yeah I don't know why people put up with this shit

I started a new job recently - requested a laptop with a geforce GPU so I could finally play BG3, I leave it in the background and have a fight every now and then. Conversely I spent most of the weekend trying to diagnose Kubernetes errors.

I could definitely get paid more elsewhere but a culture of trust and respect is priceless to me. YMMV.