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I hope ladybird will take be the same type of successor to chrome, but this time not in the hands of a corporate organisation.

OP here: wondering if there is an alternative to this? I recently set up to be able to change the input and on/off state on my Samsung Monitor. For that I had to use their oauth, but that button in Apple home is not worth 5€/month for me. Is there any local, reliable method to do this?

I especially had issues switching to the USB-C input method, due to differences in their APIs (one was with the SmartThings CLI and the other I forgot, that homebridge first was using.

Was waiting for this one, glad it’s live now. Been using it on Linux for a while now, since I was missing spotlight/raycast from work laptop that runs macOS. Now I come full circle to replace raycast with it on the work machine

I tend to disagree, I think a lot more in our society has changed due to the commodification of basically everything combined with the capitalist tendencies to pervert and corrupt anything, as there is no limit to greed. I think the housing market, food pricing and many more aspects of live have started to outpace the average workers wage to a point where it’s hard to be optimistic about a brighter future. The dream of ownership, a car, a family has gotten significantly more expensive in relation to incomes. At least from the POV of an European

I guess a bit of both?

We live in such a capitalistic world by now, that most people’s happiness is, if they want it or not, tied to money. And I think society is moving further towards this.

Having kids would be a large financial burden and given my projection, would mean I wouldn’t be able to guarantee a decent living and the mental stability, because kids are brutal and societal pressures are very hard to free yourself from.

I grew up very poor and only very recently I was able to get out of debt i racked up just to survive (and sheer ignorance/living above my means, because I had nothing to lose and no perspective). I would hate myself of putting a child in that position myself.

If money wouldn’t be such a dominant force in current society, I’d very much consider having children.

Luckily there is ladybird in the making

I think the author was a bit confused on what „do social media“ means. This, like any other promotional marketing channel, lives based on building an audience that comes for that value OR is genuinely interested in your content.

Just creating some random videos about god knows what without any overarching context or value (entertainment) provided, leaves the audience clueless about what this channel means.

It’s like your uncle uploading random videos without any sort of narrative and each video being completely random.

Doing „social media“ probably means to either build a following by providing content that involves book or are around the topic books, that regardless of interest in the current book in question, will make the audience come back because they are getting some kind of value and/or entertainment.

Posting videos about a book and then next about a husband walking the dog does not really spark an interest to come back for more (unless I am personally interested to support a particular creator (which these followers also did)).

Unfortunately just trying to build a social media presence to promote a book is naive. The advice to „do social media“ is too broad. But social media IS a powerful channel to reach audiences, just not without either already owning a channel that covers the subject matter on a regular basis to attract the audience or without the willingness to spend money. Placing advertisements or striking deals with book related channels would probably be more effective.

Because browsers don’t just browse these days, they do all the heavy lifting and not just for the nerds like us, but actually make it accessible to the normies. They do all the compliance work to all the standards too. There is no standards of sending something to space yet.

I do so much in my browser these days, things I had to have 15 applications for back in the ie days.

Never argue with a customer. The customer doesn’t give 2 cent about your motivation, it’s not their job. When I saw the pricing I had a good laugh and moved on.

If the only motivation for this product is money, then it will die in no time. Comparing the value I’m getting to the 7€ / month on Amazon prime, or the 10€ for Apple Music – that’s the value perception you’re competing against.

If you tell me you need 120€ a year from multiple customers to maintain and improve a json app good luck. One time purchase – get access – done. You can later upsell me with even more features in a v2 or whatever. I also doubt this tool has a lot of running costs to warrant this much.

Maybe if you work in SF and you make 300k a year so 10 bucks don’t mean much, but for the rest of the world 10$ is a lot of money / month.

Why exactly is this a problem of OKRs?

Making your efforts focused on a thing seems like a good idea, given proper research and discovery is done and the metric to improve is measurable and meaningful.

I think the criticism you are voicing is more down to a management style rather than OKRs. I’ve never would isolate my team members in areas and prevent knowledge being focused in one person. Always let the group tackle the problem and let them decide on who is going to work on it. Encourage pair programming and especially during the problem discovery, involve the entire team (when tackling a large, new problem).

Smaller stuff can be picked up by the same engineer. A bug fix here, a small adjustment there. But as soon as you introduce a big chunk of business logic, it’s important to bring along the team. I feel like that’s not what happens to you, but I don’t see this as a fault of OKRs

I was actually thinking about exactly this when I read the headline. Reading this is disappointing