Ever since Bush extended DST, we've been on it for about 8 months of the year. In large swaths of Canada, the days are so short that it barely matters which time is chosen in December or early January. It'll be dark in the morning and dark after work either way. So there are maybe 2 months out of the 12 where standard time provides a noticeable benefit.

People hate switching clocks. It is known that switching the clock is bad for human health. Getting rid of switching clocks will be a net benefit to heath, even if we choose the "wrong" permanent time. Since there are pros and cons to choosing either time, with the debate often coming down to whether people are morning people or evening people. So picking the time we're already using for most of the year seems to make the most sense.

Prior attempts to stop switching the clocks got derailed because people couldn't agree which permanent time zone to choose. Much of the population prefers DST, but the experts end up lobbying for Standard Time. This conflict led to neither side winning, so the clocks kept changing even though people hated changing them. This time the politicians just jumped without worrying about debating it, so this discussion is now about whether they made the right choice, rather than the debate stopping the choice from being made at all.

Lately I've encountered a bunch of Windows 11 machines were the task manager shows you an empty list. Just one of the many places they've managed to break parts of their OS that used to work just fine.

True, but the companies that sell us hammers don't pretend that hammer technology will someday advance so they become sentient entities.

That said, I'm not sure that has much to do with the MCP protocol, which is a fairly useful thing for interoperability between tools.

Car manufacturers ended up being a bit conservative with their estimates about how batteries would degrade, since there wasn't a lot of good data on it. They were not predicting that vehicles would get 80-90% of the same range 10-15 years later. They projected more degradation than that.

I know some of the FUD suggested people would need to replace them completely well before 10 years was up (at nearly the cost of a vehicle), Some was deliberate anti-EV nonsense, and some was people comparing it to their phone batteries and not understanding that they're not the same thing.

The online versions will continue to gain parity with the desktop versions, or if that does not happen, the desktop versions will get crippled and/or be replaced by the web versions in a thin EdgeView wrapper (like Outlook, Teams, etc).

It almost seems like utilities infrastructure should be a public utility instead of a private monopoly.

For the open source world it'd be better if it could open and import OOXML formats, but the default formats for new documents should be ODT.

However, I imagine they'd get complaints when they start sending around ODT files that a lot of people can't open.

"... confirms that there's real appetite for premium quality at accessible prices"

Gee, who would've thought? Did Dell really need Apple to release a laptop to figure out that little nugget of information?

https://c.tenor.com/LpXwdwaxq1...

We're now in an era where you can ask a question in plain language and get a good response. Back when it debuted, computers really struggled with that.

Bingo. Until recently, vendors implementing exFAT required licensing from Microsoft. Now that those patents have expired, there is no reason to arbitrarily limit FAT32 anymore.

From a science perspective, this orbit provided a lot more. They were far enough from the surface that they could orient themselves, allowing them to make observations of key areas that scientists wished to collect data on.

Because they could see the whole moon rather than the small portion near them, they also got to experience a solar eclipse.

Except that it wouldn't be unpaid work for TDF. LibreOffice code is part of Collabora's product, so they'd be contributing code to their own software.

Now they could choose to fork the code, but then they're taking on a bunch of project infrastructure and maintenance themselves. Plus the two projects could still grab code from one another since they'd still be under the same licenses. They can't really take their ball and go home since the ball is open source.

Sometimes it is cheaper for groups to collaborate even when they're not getting along.

Best I can do is a browser written in WebAssembly, running inside of another WebView control.

Just recently there was an editorial from a tech author who prefers OpenOffice precisely because it isn't changing. It is stable and works, and the UI won't get redone.

That is great if you want a desktop client that just works. Not as great for the EuroOffice folks who want it in a web browser.

LibreOffice only just recently restarted their online version, though they only provide the software and not a hosting mechanism. Perhaps that software could've been a base for EuroOffice, but it isn't in production state yet. OnlyOffice is quite a bit ahead there.

I think one of the reasons LibreOffice hadn't been working on their online version before is that Collabora is a major contributor to LibreOffice and they already have a product that does what LibreOffice online will do.