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New comment by junga in "Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms"

junga — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:05:10 +0000

In Germany it's a common prejudice that people in southern Europe work less. Data shows otherwise: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/d...

New comment by junga in "Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)"

junga — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:34:54 +0000

> This is a bug in the universe!

Is it? Couldn't it be a bug in our society/economy instead? What if nature wanted us to take some naps through the day and not just one period of sleep in the night? Waking up multiple times at night wouldn't hurt too much then.

New comment by junga in "MacBook Air with M5"

junga — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:12:41 +0000

There's not much difference between the keyboard of the X13 Gen 6 and the keyboard of the MacBook Pro M1. I own both devices. The keyboard of my T14s Gen 1 on the other hand is noticeably better.

New comment by junga in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

junga — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:56:51 +0000

I can access the site just fine from Germany. Tried Vodafone and Congstar but I don't use their DNS servers.

New comment by junga in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

junga — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:19:36 +0000

Same. This is the first time I feel the urge to hit the AI in the face. Unfortunately it doesn't have one.

New comment by junga in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

junga — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:49:17 +0000

neofetch is outdated. fastfetch is the new neofetch now.

New comment by junga in "Amiga Pointer Archive"

junga — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:21:33 +0000

> "[…] or am I just going to get the obligatory “Switch to Linux”?"

You could try FreeBSD 15!

New comment by junga in "I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?"

junga — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:04:55 +0000

Same. Strong SAFe vibes. Hopefully I'll never have to 'work' in such a environment again.

New comment by junga in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

junga — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:43:47 +0000

Seriously can't tell if sarcastic or not.

New comment by junga in "Agentic pelican on a bicycle"

junga — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 11:17:05 +0000

Humans are super bad at drawing bikes: https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/

Does being bad at drawing bikes make a machine more intelligent/human?

New comment by junga in "Raspberry Pi Pico Bit-Bangs 100 Mbit/S Ethernet"

junga — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 13:50:00 +0000

> Raspberry Pi Pico Bit-Bangs 100 Mbit/S Ethernet

Per Siemens? I'd prefer Ohm!

New comment by junga in "Pop OS 24.04 LTS Beta"

junga — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:04:41 +0000

Yes it does. We could argue if it’s update or upgrade, but I think it’s clear what you mean.

New comment by junga in "Quicksort explained IKEA-style"

junga — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:57:38 +0000

I miss the default IKEA instruction to have two people for building even the tiniest piece of furniture.

New comment by junga in "Are touchscreens in cars dangerous?"

junga — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 20:22:29 +0000

Do you have a source for that five to seven years period? I skimmed your link but it does not seem to prove your point.

New comment by junga in "Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle"

junga — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:12:40 +0000

Sorry, this seriously is an honest question: Is there a typo in your post? Otherwise I must come to the conclusion that you suggest pronouncing JS as 'jiss'.

New comment by junga in "Creative Technology: The Sound Blaster"

junga — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:03:44 +0000

> Their initial Sound Blasters made them my default choice in the 90’s, but by late 00’s I vowed to never buy them again, their hardware became overpriced, unreliable and they were user hostile.

If I remember correctly it was a SB Live's drivers that kept on crashing playing Quake 3 on my dual Celeron 533 MHz setup (Abit BP6). Had some mails going back and forth with the Creative support about this specific multi CPU setup and they rejected fixing their drivers because it totally was a niche back then. 18 year old me swore to never buy Creative again and I did so. Today I agree with the support's response but it quite upset me back then.

New comment by junga in "I Hacked McDonald's (Security Contact Was Harder to Find Than Secret Recipe)"

junga — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:08:17 +0000

I guess they couldn't care less. A few people on a site called Cracker News read about this. Same on other platforms. There will be no measurable impact.

New comment by junga in "From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent"

junga — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 07:09:28 +0000

And even the T14s (gen 1) has a "cheap" trackpad with a plastic foil on top instead of a glass surface. The day before yesterday I did the upgrade from foil to glass on my T14s and it isn't the big leap I was hoping for. Sure, friction went down a bit but precession and gesture detection were good before already. The same upgrade on a T480s was a bigger improvement. Compared to my MacBook Pro (M1 Pro) the trackpads of my ThinkPads are always worse. Overall I'm in the same situation as the author of the article (if you substitute Arch for pop!_os with Cosmic) and totally agree with him.

New comment by junga in "Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption"

junga — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:08:52 +0000

I agree. To the downvoters: do you mind elaborating?

New comment by junga in "The AI bubble today is bigger than the IT bubble in the 1990s"

junga — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:00:09 +0000

Did so. According to Josh and Katie most of the day was spent eating.