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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023
  • Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoFirefox@lemmy.ml•Open Letter to Tim Cook: Sabotaging Web Apps Is Indefensible
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    4 months ago

    PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) are their own categories of websites and they do indeed have the ability to behave like an actual app. They are much more than just a shortcut, which apple is reducing them to.

    On android, my PWA that I developed for fun can go full screen and appear as though a browser isn’t wrapping the page, I can send notifications, I can access the microphone and camera, I can do nearly everything you could expect an app to do, I can support offline mode, I can store data locally, and I can manage my PWAs permissions as well as uninstall my app at an OS level. My entire family uses my PWA, and they see it as an app.

    Are there some things native apps can do that PWAs can’t? Absolutely, but that is not the point. PWAs are an open and clearly defined technology to the web. Windows supports them as well.

    Apple is refusing to accept that though. They are removing notifications, badges, etc, and reducing them to what you have described, just a shortcut to a Safari window. They are citing security concerns even though other operating systems are able to implement security around them just fine.

    The real issue is Apple wants more control over how you use your device and is acting against the consumer.

  • Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Workplace well-being initiatives don't boost employee mental healthEnglish
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    6 months ago

    If the company actually means it

    There’s the key phrase. I’ve worked at 5 different places during my professional career. Not once has any “wellness seminar,” “wellness week,” or wellness-what-have-you has been as fruitful as you’re describing.

    I’ve never gotten a wellness day nor a bonus for wearing a pedometer or being active in any manner. At absolute best, in all the places I’ve worked, I went to an optional meeting that had an interesting breathing exercise. But the rest of the meeting was dumb fluff like “don’t work more than 40 hours,” “tell your lead that you are over stressed,” “don’t spend money on stuff you can’t afford.”

    Absolute worst case scenario so far, a week of mandatory 1 hour meetings each day required from HR. Every day was repeating the same garbage as above and could’ve just been an email. Also, even though HR requires the meetings, your manager still requires 40hrs of “project effort.” Meaning required overtime. I did not stay long at this job.

    Something like what you are describing would be a breath of fresh air.

  • Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMechanical Keyboards@lemmy.ml•I didn't choose the ortho life. The ortho life chose me.
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    7 months ago

    It goes deeper than that. On some of those keyboards, you’ll see that there aren’t even number keys and other somewhat common keys such as ()$&! And more.

    These types of keyboards are almost always programmable. If you’re familiar with the FN key, then these keyboards have more advanced FN keys.

    Press one programmed FN key, the entire keyboard might turn into a functional number pad. Press a different programmed FN key, asdfghj might turn into F1 F2 F3 etc. Press another programmed FN key, you can control media playback, control your mouse, and maybe even have a few macros!

    These keyboards are ortholinear keyboards, that’s what this grid layout is. The firmware to achieve this level of customization is called QMK. It’s not just ortholinear keyboards that have QMK ☺️.