Of course it is. Even if we actually start sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere – which would require investments in the order of trillions of dollars – the damage has been done.
Not sure why this was downvoted. Everyone is in a perpetual state of "we should start worrying about this". People knew about this problem in the 70s. Many of us would not have been born when actions should have been first taken.
From here onwards it is damage control. It is not the end of the world, we just require intellectual honesty about the situation.
It's possible the origins of this reside in the first Industrial Revolution.
I can identify with the way she describes her day. Technology, news, social networks and notifications fill up too much of my day, without much or anything to show for it. It's easy to get lost in your phone. It feels like a drug. I almost can't watch a movie anymore without fiddling with my phone.
In the end, as the end of the article suggests, it's all in our heads. We can set limits if we want, and your coworkers will adjust their expectations, if it's a healthy workplace, of course.
I have used Apple Notes since I got my first iPhone, there's still notes from back then in there! Mainly for quick lists and things I need to remember, ideas, shopping, etc. Haven't really found any issues with it.
Yes I use Apple Notes for actual notes. It works well enough for everything I do with the only draw back (to me) being it isn't available as raw text. Although copy/paste works just fine so not a huge deal tbh.
For anything that I find lives in Apple Notes a bit too long I move it over to plain text and use iA Writer. I try to keep anything in Apple Notes as short term notes. Anything I plan to keep around as more (small) documentation I switch over to iA.
A few years ago I just got tired of trying out all these different notes apps. I figured I have iA Writer and Apple Notes and that works well enough so gave up trying every new note taking app that came out and haven't had any regrets.
Recently I tried out Notion and god it was awful. I felt I spent longer arranging things in Notion than I did working on things.
These days I find a more limited and simpler solution is better for me. I switched back to Things 3 a year or so ago as I found Todoist overwhelming after a while. Sure Things is more limited but I like that. It is basically a post-it note and I realised that is all I needed.
Sure, there's a lot of things wrong with Apple's operating systems. I would love for them to be more open, and the ability to install non-signed apps on my iPhone (although they've added all the features I used to jailbreak for.)
But what's with the weird tone? iMonsters? 10 year old news articles?
And why's it so bad that other applications can do malicious stuff on your computer? Shouldn't the author be happy that there's still enough openness on the Mac for this to occur? Isn't that what they want?
They could, and I might be wrong here but Apple also disallows you to mention that a cheaper version of the service is available elsewhere on the app. So the user has no idea what the actual price is or where they could avail the price. All they see is a button that unlocks an ad-free version for $2,147,483,647 (Assuming you're using a 32bit signed int).
The "120hz dance" reminds me of my "drag my 2 external monitors around in System Preferences every time I dock my MacBook, otherwise they switch places"-dance.
It's amazing that all these display bugs still exist when Apple has presumably invested so much into their $6000 Pro Display.
Dear Apple: Why not spend a little time making the software work, too?
Using an actual, proper IDE instead of text editors with plugins that have so-so language support.
Learning how to operate a computer efficiently. Use keyboard shortcuts. Set up scripts for commonly used tasks. Configure our environment and operating system so it's less annoying.
Being efficient at using a computer also makes you annoyed at poor UIs, and as a result, better at building great apps.
The ability to write things down, and finding joy in writing documentation. I'm continously surprised at how many people will have a 3 hour meeting and just not write anything down, or never make any comments or READMEs in their projects.
Understanding to use the right tool for the job. You don't need to use the latest and greatest container orchestration, library, or whatever.
Not caring about non-business effecting minutiae, like spending time doing code-style nitpicks in pull request comments (when automated tools can do the job), has made me more efficient and less tolerating of the tendency programmers have to focus on non-important things.
