American servers: clear the table when everyone is done. Not before.

And don’t ask me if I am still working on it while I am eating. I am not “working on it” to finish my lunch.

If asked how you are:

You are doing well. Not good. If you really are doing good, it’s an active thing that makes a difference.

Otherwise, you are doing well.

I wish they would quit calling it AI. It’s not.

I have a friend that used this concept: He called it the 10 minute rule.

Anytime you want a cigarette, you know it wont actually do anything it just kills time. So in ten minutes (approx the length of time to smoke a cigarette) you would be right back where you are now. So if you could just wait, just ten minutes you would be in the same spot but didn’t have a cigarette, and surely you could have one then if you still wanted it.

And when you wanted it, you did ten more minutes.

Eventually, those ten minutes till you want one gets longer and longer, and eventually you just don’t at all anymore.

Are you sure intuitive or is it just “previously learned behaviour”?

By the way, I forgot to mention that in traffic theory (yes I have a friend who works with Traffic as their job) they tell me that two studies are very interesting with gps traffic routed maps:

Up to 60 percent use and traffic flows better, but once adoption gets to 90% of people using apps the traffic gets worse for everyone.

I mean that’s where this conversation started: osm works fine if you already know where you’re going.

Except in places where I know where I want to get to but don’t know how to get there, OSM most of the time is better than Google. So many examples of this for me, over and over again. It is just more up to date.

Specifics too, things like trails, parking, alternative routes, all better.

The traffic is a thing I suppose but every where I have been like I said it rarely saves any time.

Maybe it is because I travel through a lot of different places and countries.

I don’t think that is a straw man argument at all.

Traffic doesn’t do me much good if the roads are not correct in the first place, and OSM is usually more up to date. I noticed traffic data is not as significant as people seem to think it is, and since everyone is rerouting it ends up being a wash most of the time anyways.

Search works fine for addresses, and you don’t have to use maps, it could be anything: reviews, blog posts, nightlife calendars, whatever.

OSM works because YOU add data to the map. I agree that I would like vendors and even cities to update OSM so add data and make it more valuable for them to do so too.

It is a trade off though.

I may not be able to see the “nearest restaurants with reviews of 4 stars that are open now with no wait times” BUT I have been so many places where google or apple had not updated the map yet and only OSM got me where I was going.

So maybe it is fine to open a commercial map or local review site, or blog, or web page, that is not tracking you for store discovery, then put the address in OSM to actually get there.

And take the time to use street complete when you can, it is really easy and fills in things like hours open, accessibility, etc.

and the kids don’t have phones.

So just the two of you?

Also, if you do end up sharing a digital calendar on a device you already have, what is the fridges for?

I was trying to say there is paper. That’s what we always did.

And still do for that matter.

The fridge is a very inconvenient location though.

My tablet sits on the counter where I am prepping food when using mealie, or where I am standing to cook when I am talking with someone over Jitsi.

Tablet batteries last far longer than any session I am at in the kitchen so after words it just goes to the charger for tomorrow.

No need for wires during use, and its charging station is where ALL my devices chargers are.

We already do all of that (except the weather) why would I need a screen?

Uh huh. And my only option is to sign in. It doesnt think I am a bot, it just wants to harvest more information and track me.

Youtube can go fuck themselves.

All of this? What is this? Not believing people when they tell you something?

And the most interesting part, like I said, was that it doesn’t bother when it is google docs. So what is google protecting exactly? That is the main point.

So weird you should argue about this. Do you always tell people “that doesnt happen to me so it doesn’t happen to you”. Why would I lie about it?

Why are you such an asshole?

This is my constant experience with youtube. which happened today while I was checking on the hurricane in Jamaica.

Star Trek seems pretty good in this regard. Discovery went ary but it was fun while it was good. Strange New Worlds is fantastic, Lower Decks takes a very different view of the universe for fun, and Picard was a decent enough story with some good stakes.

The movies suck ass though, particularly Abrams.

Star Wars on the other hand could just go away and I would not care. I saw New Hope in 77 and loved it. Looking back; not a great movie. And it was downhill from there.

Which is it shouldn’t have been. There have been better books than anything produced by Lucas or Disney.

How does that work when I remote into a Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure and use that for teams? This is probably 80% of my teams use.

Or use a Linux device? Will it tell teams my networking information?

I simply won’t go. I won’t stream their live shows either, because charging for that is also very lame.

There is still plenty of live music to be had, by decent performers at a local scale. Although even then, lots of small venues use AXS to sell tickets which is the second largest global ticket company so it is not much better.

It is harder and harder to find $10 at the door in cash, but they are out there.

Small venues maybe, but Ticketmaster owns all the larger ones.