itsthejb (u/itsthejb)

itsthejb commented on Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever mavericksforever.com/... · Posted by u/Wowfunhappy

Raed667 · 5 days ago

running a funky chmod command recursively on my root dir and then learning how to fix it, probably taught me more about how linux works than any tutorial or article i've ever read.

have fun! break things!

itsthejb · 4 days ago

Disk Utility used to have a Repair Permissions tool, at least back in the 00s. Not sure when it was removed

itsthejb commented on Tipping: How Gratuity Replaced Fair Wages in U.S. Restaurants 7shifts.com/blog/history-... · Posted by u/madpen

vldmrs · 4 months ago

As a European, I can safely say that tipping in American restaurants is one of the most unusual things I remember about America. The amount of tips is huge and they are demanded of you everywhere

itsthejb · 4 months ago

You will no doubt have noticed that with the proliferation of mobile Epos, tipping is increasingly being crowbarred into daily life over here too. For godssakes Just Say No

itsthejb commented on Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line soranews24.com/2024/12/21... · Posted by u/edward

idlewords · 7 months ago

If you haven't been to Japan, it's worth lingering over these pictures and noticing a few things:

- The complete absence of vandalism

- How generally clean everything is

- Accessibility strip for blind people (bumpy yellow stripe in train stations and sidewalks)

- Nothing is broken or out of service

- How safe and welcoming the public transit system feels.

Japan is worth the journey if you ever want to step into a high-trust other dimension.

itsthejb · 7 months ago

Yes. However there are downsides to Japan’s intensely high trust (and high shame) culture as well. Death by overwork is the one that’s most known in the west, although there are plenty of others that outsiders would never usually learn about

itsthejb commented on Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line soranews24.com/2024/12/21... · Posted by u/edward

Kwpolska · 7 months ago

The depots for this train seem to be in areas that are much more populated (Wikipedia says Mitaka and Toyoda [0]). If Otsuki Station is the station of despair, this would suggest the trains ride empty from Otsuki to the depot. Why couldn’t they allow passengers on that final ride to the depot, requiring them to disembark at Mitaka/Toyoda at the latest?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Line_(Rapid)

itsthejb · 7 months ago

It’s possible the last train simply parks there for the night. This would mean that you ride the same train back after this misadventure

itsthejb commented on Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line soranews24.com/2024/12/21... · Posted by u/edward

itsthejb · 7 months ago

I’ve never ended up in this situation myself, but I have many times lived on similar commuter lines. Hearing the names of those end of lines stations becomes a big part of your every day routine. In most cases I never even visited them, which looking back feels like a pity, and even disrespectful of their incidental importance

itsthejb commented on Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals ft.com/content/1201f834-6... · Posted by u/kvee

dpeckett · 9 months ago

I think this is the fundamental cultural difference between countries like the USA (and Australia) vs most of the EU.

Folks here expect and trust the state to provide for the future, private provisions are easily dismissed as unnecessary. As a result of this the median household wealth of the area I live in is 5x lower than my home country of Australia, despite incomes (adjusted for purchasing power) not being drastically different.

Whether that trust is wisely placed we'll have to wait and see[1]. However I do need to narrow that down a bit, it's not the whole EU, mostly France/Germany. There are other nations moving ahead with private pension schemes etc and much higher household wealth (Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands).

1. My main concern is government investment is inherently slow, politically charged, and pathologically risk averse vs the private sector. This means in the aggregate, over the long term, private household investments will out perform.

itsthejb · 9 months ago

This is entirely a problem of putting all of eggs in one basket. Or rather, only having one basket in which you’re allowed to put your eggs. The German pension system is already insolvent, and I suspect it’s not the only one. European welfare states are great n’all, but it would seem they were set up when the going was good and populations were growing. Now with stagnation, they don’t look much like staying solvent and populations don’t have anywhere else to turn

itsthejb commented on Matrix Client Tutorial uhoreg.gitlab.io/matrix-t... · Posted by u/whereistimbo

alwayslikethis · 9 months ago

The lack of good clients is really holding Matrix back. Element is rather bloated, and most of the other clients are missing significant amounts of features.

itsthejb · 9 months ago

Very very true. I self host synapse, and generally speaking the ability to bridge my ~3 most used messengers into one app (ElementX) adds value. However, the lacking features and bizarre feature disjoints between Element (supposedly EOL) and ElementX (suppose next gen) are jarring

itsthejb commented on Future Music magazine is closing after 32 years musictech.com/news/indust... · Posted by u/austinallegro

copperx · 10 months ago

No. It's always interesting to me how music apps were the only ones adopting hardware copy protection wholeheartedly. Multi-thousand dollar scientific apps? nope. Music apps.

itsthejb · 10 months ago

That’s not surprising at all. I don’t about the scientific apps you’re talking about, but I assume that their user base would be accessing them through academic site licenses. Music apps, however, would be predominantly used by hobbyists, a few of which would later make it big. The problem was/is that the price tags assumed studio budgets. But if you wanted those studio sounds at home, well the price is a big challenge until you start making solid money. Which is even fewer

itsthejb commented on Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations spliit.app/blog/spliit-by... · Posted by u/scastiel

pentagrama · 10 months ago

I tested the app and found it awesome that it doesn't require account creation! You just get a private link, share it with the group, and when they open the link, it asks who they are to 'log in' as themselves. Of course, users could game the system by logging in as other members, but I think it's a compromise the developer made, knowing the user base and how frictionless it makes the user experience. Neat.

itsthejb · 10 months ago

kittysplit.com has had this feature set for a decade. I try to promote it whenever I can

itsthejb commented on Boxxy puts bad Linux applications in a box with only their files github.com/queer/boxxy... · Posted by u/icar

demomode · a year ago

FYI. There is a XDG checker called "xdg-ninja"[1]

> A shell script that checks your $HOME for unwanted files and directories.

> When xdg-ninja encounters a file or directory it knows about, it will tell you whether it's possible to move it to the appropriate location, and how to do it.

1. https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja

itsthejb · a year ago

Indeed. Although this tool looks like a way to work around those holdouts which refuse to provide an official customisation point