Are you talking about the ancient practice of dog sacrifice?

I’m actually surprised it’s as high as that!

Yeah, defintely not a swifty, but down voted. I don’t know a lot about TS but the little I do she doesn’t seem noticeably goofy. Distinct lack of a case presented by op.

Oh god, yes. I worked in a call centre for six months and it was dreadful. The combination of dealing with sometimes frustrating situations + the anonymity of a voice only call… People were regularly dreadful. Definitely at least 10% very rude people.

I also took it to be a sign of the ‘banality of evil’, that people having a nice time with their friends, eating some nice food, are generally pleasant. But put them in the privacy of their own home, speaking to a faceless stranger, and suddenly they can be awful. But I tried not to judge them to harshly. The design of call centres, with long hold times and staff with no real power to do anything helpful, is pretty much guaranteed to frustrate the most saintly of people.

Totally agree that eating at a restaurant doesn’t mean you see all the subtle ways people are douches. But the comment above was about people shouting, so I assumed that the “10% of people are rude” was meaning obviously and noticeably rude. If it’s just 10% of people are impatient / distracted / not very friendly / kinda annoying. Then sure, but I don’t think anyone would be surprised with such a mild claim.

And as I said, I was a waiter in a busy restaurant for over two years. And the staff spent a lot of time complaining about the job to each other (as you do) and while many customers were annoying, kept changing their orders, or were a bit drunk and laughing loudly the whole time, blah blah, I don’t remember anyone ever complaining about a customer being as rude as I regularly read / see on the Internet. I never encounter a “Karen”.

I’ve always assumed it is just that Internet focusses on the tiny number of extreme behaviours and makes it sound more normal. But then I hear people say things like 10% of people are awful to staff and it makes me think that maybe there’s a real cultural difference.

Maybe in some places. But when I go out to a restaurant, I’m often surrounded by a few dozen other diners, and no one is acting up or shouting at waiting staff. I have seen customers be obviously rude to staff but it’s very rare compared to the number of “normal” interactions. Sure not everyone is friendly and totally polite, but entitled, shouting or just being an ass is an absolute exception, like less than 0.1%. I also worked as a waiter in a couple of different restaurants over a two year period, and don’t remember any incidents either to me or my colleagues.

When I read comments like this it makes me wonder if I’ve been lucky enough to live and work in decent places, and the USA is just an nightmare hellscape, or if the reality there is much more normal and we just hear an unrepresentative sample of it.

Is that not a word you hear very often? Or does it sound like a dirty word or something?

Ah! Fair point! Yeah, I guess retried / has-been youtubers are going to be a weird demographic. I wonder if they’ll do nostalgia fuelled tours of student unions or coffeeshops as the kids that loved them become adults? The ones that aren’t already multimillionaires.

Is there some reference I’m not getting? Or is this just a “there are more things in heaven and earth, buddy, than are dreamt of in your philosophy” kinda thing?

The article suggests the February update adds these features. If I check for updates on my pw2 it claims to be up-to-date, with January security updates, and none of those features.

Is this just one of those roll outs where different devices get it at different times? Or is there something I can do to get the latest version. I hate the current app list, felt like a bit step backwards from wear os 3, so I’m glad they’ve changed it.

Edit: just found that “Tapping the “Your watch is up to date” screen (Settings > System > System updates) multiple times initiates the download”. Worked for me after about a dozen taps!

It’s maybe a niche thing, but I use Unifed Remote a lot. It runs easily as little server on my various computers, and let’s me use my phone and smart watch as a control for them. Mostly used to control media (watching movies, adjusting white noise volume for sleep) but also work (controlling presentation, etc). It’s has various remotes from keyboard and mouse to just a simple media start/stop/volume/etc up to a remote screen display.

I sure there’s other apps out there that are similar, but it’s always just worked for me and seems simple enough for what I do. I paid for the full version (not sure if I even use any paid features, the basic had most of what I use) but if there’s a good Foss alternative out there I’d be happy to try it!

As others have observed, a glottal stop on its own is completely silent. But the idea of responding to distinct weird sounds is awesome! I’d like to be able to whistle commands like Alexa is well trained sheepdog!

That’s a really good description. I feel like people focus on the highs and the lows of addiction. But one of the main reason it is hard to give up an addiction is it’s such a comfort. The ecstatic highs are fun, but the real appeal is having something so simple that makes you feel good.

You mean Christopher “that’s not the sound a man makes when he is knifed in the back” Lee?

Seems to be! Rolled out to the free tier, according to the article. But you need to install the app.

My parents grew up in working class 1950s Britain. My dad’s parents slept in the kitchen (with a curtain round the bed for privacy), which was also the room that most “living” was done. The three kids shared a single small room, with both teenage boys sharing a double bed, their older sister got her own single bed, and she stayed there until she married and moved out in her early twenties. I remember seeing that room and even as a child it seemed cramped, no space really for anything else once the two beds were in it.

While the whole the family was living, eating and sleeping in two small room, an immaculate “front room” / parlour was kept solely for the two or three days a year where they had “company” (a family event like a wedding or funeral, or the priest visiting or something). The front room was bigger than both the others. It’s hard to comprehend the priorities that led to this sort of thing, but it was apparently extremely common in that time and place.

Tbh, a stoned discovery that I still enjoy is chocolate chip cookies dipped in hummus.

But he didn’t say “this shower thought is the allegory of the cave” did he? He suggested a relationship between them by encouraging the op to familiarise themselves with the allegory of the cave. More of “if you liked this, you’ll love that” than “this is that”.

Earplugs are so tiny that carrying two pairs is negligibley different from one. I have used multiple pairs simply because I’ve misplaced one during the night (fallen out my ear and rolled off the bed) and I’d rather have a spare than have to turn a light on and search.

As to the eye mask, it depends how much you care about light. I find that many hotels have too much early morning light for me, so I use it more often than not. But even if it was only 10% of hotels, carrying a flat, compressable 200g item would still be worth it. Particularly because you often can’t tell until the dawn whether the light will be an issue, so having it available makes more sense than having to pick one up at a 7-11. But if you only use it 1 in 100 trips, or you’re OK with disrupted sleep, then it’s a different evaluation.

Does it do emoji predictions? I’ve got a few relationships that use a lot of emoji in chats, and the ability tomjusy type ‘salute’, ‘sad’, ‘kiss’ etc and get the emoji without scrolling through a library is what’s keeping me on Swiftkey.