It’s ok in some salads and things pickled in vinegar are good. I don’t like apple cider vinegar though.

But salt and vinegar chips are amazing. Best way to destroy your mouth without going spicy.

Some of these choices are a bit weird. I selected cybersecurity expecting to see my instance but it returns sh.itjust.works instead. But infosec.pub does appear in general technology sometimes so the site knows about it.

Yeah it’s not a great example, the difference could be on whether you’d have to do y and z before getting there or they’d give you the materials to do them on the spot. Say signing a form they provide vs finding it, printing it and bringing it with you.

A parentheses-like mark to group parts of a sentence when it’s not clear which part a word belongs to. An example I saw lately that may not translate very well: “You are required to arrive an hour early so there’s time to do x, do y and do z”. Are you required to do y and z or do you just need the extra time to do them? You can usually tell from context but this type of mixup does happen sometimes.

My spotify stats every year disagree

After seeing the edits, it seems we have wildly different use cases/priorities. I’ll check the blog too, it seems interesting, thanks.

Typography and page layout was once a thing. It was considered kind of an art form even.

Honestly I’d love to see that because it feels pretty rare right now.

About half of those issues are solved by drm-free ebooks (or piracy). True, a phone comes with extra work (charging, updating, upgrading every few years) so if you’re not already maintaining one you obviously won’t do it just to read books.

The rest is up to use case. I do need to look up words a lot (usually in other languages) and a bus stop after dark will never have enough light for reading. If you read at home I guess these aren’t issues, but pocket books are meant to be read on the road.

About the formatting there are some books which should absolutely not be read as ebooks cause you’ll miss out on things. But most books are a block of text split in chapters and paragraphs. A phone can absolutely support that.

Anyway, it’s mostly up to use case and preference as you say.

I’d argue phones are actually better pocket books. Assuming looking at a screen does not bother you:

• it’s much more compact, can be held in one hand and you can carry multiple 800 page books. I’ve never actually seen a pocket book that can fit in a pocket.
• you can adjust font, text size and brightness (some font choices in printed books are just terrible)
• does not need an external light source
• you can quickly look up words and take notes without needing external items

Requiring a battery is a downside but most reading apps consume very little power compared to other apps.

On a similar note, action cameras, which can be even more portable than a smartphone.

Maybe the Disney/Pixar stories that are not based on Grimm’s tales? Do we still tell fairy tales to children though? The only ones I remember from my childhood are Aesop’s Fables told by my grandma, which are even older.

We were in late high school, it’s not like we had no responsibilities. Pretty much every year after that has been better than middle/high school for me.

You should be enjoying the school years cause they’ll be the best of your life. Said by someone who very obviously peaked in high school.

That would be amazing timing, this use case came up a few days ago. I’ll check if there is an update, thanks for the info

Sorry for hijacking this, I have a similar issue. When you say similar to outlook, is there a way to see shared (group?) calendars in teams like in outlook? I feel very stupid for not finding this.

Tbf the people who find it annoying usually have no say in what the company uses. The problem isn’t that there are more features but that each feature doesn’t work correctly in isolation.

So basically Microsoft demands using their whole ecosystem if you want their services to actually be useful?

• I have a Linux laptop that Microsoft apps seem to hate. Both Skype and teams refuse to let me share my screen (both app and web version)
• The teams app kept putting itself on startup and I had to change folder permissions to make it stop
• The whole click on link to open app thing that doesn’t always work
• I’m current having issues with showing calendars but that could be on me

I know we like to hate on Google here but Google Meet is much better imo.

I think the eye stuff are normal just take a bit of practice. If you have good control of your focus you can see “3D”. Try merging the two circles here. Once you get it there’s a bunch of interesting things you can do

I have something similar (but days, not weeks) and was always the designated tester in my family but half the time they eat the food anyway.

Nah I live in a medium sized city and it’s not everyone. There are many people with headphones sure and some are doing things on their phone. There are also many people not doing anything or looking out the window (when in busses). It may have to do with demographics, it’s mostly older people who aren’t doing anything and teenagers in groups who spend the whole ride talking and that’s a big part of public transport users so they affect the general image.

For what it’s worth I probably bring the phone usage up cause I read on my phone but you can do that with a physical book and there are some people doing that too.