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Johan Bové

Wondering how many Europeans know where the origin of the "black friday" promotions come from? Weirdly I haven't seen a single "black friday" here in Germany wishing us a happy Thanksgiving ... I guess any excuse for sending out more spam to promote doubtfully lucrative discounts is worth it?

Johan Bové

Hey Apple, it's 2023 - about time to start supporting the content indexation of markdown files in Spotlight out of the box, don't you think?

Johan Bové

Got my flu shot for this year!

Johan Bové

Really annoyed that the Apple MacBook does not have a USB Type A port anymore as now I cannot even connect the Iphone to it as I forgot the adapter in my other bag. This is a €2000 plus device that cannot connect to a €700 device just because of a stupid dongle.

Johan Bové

It would be hard to explain to anyone, some fifty years ago, how I accidentally bought apples grown in South-Africa at the supermarket here in Düsseldorf yesterday.

Johan Bové

Without cheating, how many text / code editors do you know and have you used until just this monent, excluding web forms?

My list:
Notepad, Notepad++, UltraEdit, Vim/Vi, Sublime Text, Brackets, Eclipse, Geany, VS Code, Visual Studio, Word, Frontpage, Dreamweaver, Netscape 4, Nano, Gvim, TextEdit, Wordpad, IntelliJ, Xcode

Johan Bové

I have a Steam account - of course - and it's still there even-though I haven't played a game for over ten years... Amazing how it's all just still there somewhere "in the cloud".

Johan Bové

I've been playing with Lego with my son and this evening we collected all his little Lego people and he was amazed to see just how many we collected already

Johan Bové

Grateful for my little family and being able to enjoy life as much as possible over the weekend. We have our own problems, but fortunately nothing we cannot handle. Standing still for a moment to reflect that. You never know when the table gets flipped over.

Johan Bové

"An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth" just ends up with blind people starving to death.

Johan Bové

Reading "In-distract-able" by Nir Eyal - thinking to make a small "distractor logging" app using Earthstar Project as the storage layer.

Johan Bové

I love the sound of my son laughing at loud. He has a great sense of humor.

Johan Bové

And just for kicks I booted into Windows 10 again on this same PC and noticed immediately just how slow it is compared to Fedora on the same hardware.

Johan Bové

It feels like the uphill battle to not be totally siloed into big tech is getting harder and harder to power through. It's just taking too much of my time NOT giving into Google's and Microsoft's whims and demands, especially on a mobile device.

Johan Bové

At least once a month:
```bash
git branch list
git branch -D list
```

Johan Bové

Having two large cats has the advantage that both my feet are comfy warm when they both cosy up to me.

Johan Bové

The problem with Obsidian on desktop is that it is an Electron based application and that it therefor comes with the usual Electron related problems and bugs. For example - due to GPU acceleration issues in Electron, Obsidian is starting with an unusable black screen on Fedora VM running on Apple M1. The most frustrating part: it worked for a while, until it didn't. There doesn't seem to be real attention to this issue from Obsidian's side. So good thing that machine is not my main PC.

Johan Bové

Why are music streaming rights still bound to geographical, economical and politicial boundries? I cannot listen to a song on Deezer because it is not licensed to be streamed in Germany, yet it is in Belgium. Music is for all the people. How is this not hurting the artists instead of helping them?

Johan Bové

If humanity had to be digitally "rebooted" for whatever reason, what software would the survivors need to install after a fresh start? Thinking of stuff like Linux, Git, C compiler, etc - Let's say that they have a working PC with

Johan Bové

Is it possible to fall in love with a note taking app? I think I just did with Obsidian. Seriously cool how fast I was able to reorganize my messy text based notes were. I even managed to identify a bunch of duplicates. (the result of different trials with naming schemes caused that)