> In that sense technology is becoming a feed back loop of society itself.
I had a discussion recently with somebody about how it feels as though the 70s, 80s, 90s had a distinctive style but from the early 00s onwards there appears to be no distinguishing character to the recent most decades.
Their conclusion was that it was due to 'the increase in technology use, less creativity - more sat about consuming media in one way or another'.
I wonder if that's true - we no longer have to suffer silence or boredom thanks to an endless stream of 'content' available to us.
It prevents rumination and leads us to have every thought impressed upon it variations of patterns from the past.
Sure - it sucks doing self-learning and working in your own time but when else are you supposed to polish your skills beyond what work projects give you latitude to do?
For example I was in a tech company where XMPP was the core of every one of our products. There were almost no REST based APIs in the company and we had our own protocols and APIs which made much of what I did very specific and non transferable. Day in and out I worked with XML, asynchronous messaging and increasingly niche tooling as XMPP became less and less relevant and HTTP based APIs like REST-JSON and WebSockets displaced it.
It wasn’t hard to move jobs but it wasn’t easy either. I had to spend a month or so in my own time learning REST, JSON, WebSockets and Spring MVC in order to pass interviews.
I think constant productivity culture leads to burnout but there’s got to be a middle ground between doing nothing after hours and hustling non-stop.
Windows. I haven't tried installing Linux yet because I wanted to make sure it works with the factory OS first. Other people have issues with GPU drivers in Linux. There's also the issue of the removal of the S3 sleep option in the uefi.
I have a T14s Gen 3 and whilst it's a fine laptop it has minor quirks which make it a compromised experience vs a Macbook Air.
Screen resolution caps out at 1920x1200 which feels blurry coming from the 2560x1600 a Macbook provides.
Its speakers are awful - they use EQ under Windows (provided by the Lenovo Vantage software) to sound vaguely reasonable. Under Linux no such EQ exists (even though Linux is supported by Lenovo on this laptop) so the speakers sound like a smartphone (not exaggerating).
The trackpad is so-so, to get a trackpad in Lenovo's lineup comparable to a Macbook Air you'd have to buy their Z13 which costs £700 more.
Pluses are the AMD CPU and graphics are good enough to actually play games, like Flight Simulator 2020 at 30 fps on low settings, or older titles like Witcher 3 or Arkham Knight on high settings also at a constant 30fps.
The laptop itself is good value, I picked it up on sale for £1200 with 1TB SSD and 32GB RAM for £1200. A comparable Macbook Air (M1) is £1600.
For context running Slack with a medium sized company workspace:
* Slack takes 6.5s to load on my 2021 Macbook.
* Slack consumes 366MB of RAM - if I browse around that rises to 744MB of RAM.
For the longest time Slack would kill my machine if colleagues posted gifs in messages. I'm no fan of Teams but I think there's plenty of shame to go around living in a world of eight core CPUs running large Electron apps.
They made a lot out of the fact that they'd be launching from the UK, pandering to governments desperate to somehow prove that the country isn't backsliding after brexit.
As an aside the article title is sensationalist to say the least - according to the article the US saw a 18% rise in pedestrian deaths in the same period.
Out of curiosity I looked up cancer rates in Islamic countries (which typically) have far lower rates of alcohol consumption. Seems there is a significantly lower rate of cancer there by as much as 2-3x compared to countries in which alcohol is more widely consumed: https://jenci.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s43046-022-0...
There are doubtless other factors at play but the data at least seems to correlate with the WHO's recommendation.
AFAIK only the founder of Ubiquiti worked on Apple's Airport product and quit (2003 according to Ubiquiti's incorporation date) well before the Airport lineup was cancelled (2018).
I had a discussion recently with somebody about how it feels as though the 70s, 80s, 90s had a distinctive style but from the early 00s onwards there appears to be no distinguishing character to the recent most decades.
Their conclusion was that it was due to 'the increase in technology use, less creativity - more sat about consuming media in one way or another'.
I wonder if that's true - we no longer have to suffer silence or boredom thanks to an endless stream of 'content' available to us.
It prevents rumination and leads us to have every thought impressed upon it variations of patterns from the past.