In the same game, I just ran into another one where I turned over the six of diamonds from the stock pile, and when I tried to move it onto the 7 of spades, it also refused that move.

I guess part of why I'm asking is because I've set up virtual machines in UTM on Apple Silicon before, and I never had to go through all of this just to get Linux installed and configured. The post makes me wonder if there's something I'm maybe missing, but it doesn't give any explanation for me to be able to figure out if that's the case. Maybe the post is meant more just as a checklist for the person that wrote it, for their own reference? But the way the post reads doesn't quite sound that way.

Hmm... that's all coming out sounding more critical than I mean to. I just want more info and I am curious about the approach.

That's a really great and simple idea. Change is hard and it takes time for people to adjust, even if they requested change in the first place. Things like muscle memory and habit can cause a lot of up front discomfort, but basically requesting that they take the time to allow those things to catch up can really shift their perspective of the new normal.

For the workers that are capable of working from home, my workplace asks us to be in the office only on Thursday morning each week. This gives us a consistent time to do things like having our company-wide meetings or social events like company sponsored meals, fun events, etc.

During COVID, I was perfectly happy working at home. My workplace ensured that I had a desk setup that matched what I had in the office, and my home "office" was removed enough from the chaos of the rest of the house that it worked well.

My decision to start going back to the workplace was in the middle of 2022, when all the COVID related stuff finally started calming down and things like mask regulations started to relax. Some of my decision was due to needing to work in a location where I couldn't distract myself by going and doing things around the house. I had started to do that more and more frequently, mostly due to my ADHD and the fact that the novelty of working from home had worn off.

But another really big part of my decision was because I REALLY did miss seeing my coworkers in person. I'm in this rare unicorn situation where I absolutely love what I do, I love the company I work for, and I love the people I work with. Being there just makes me happy at all levels. This isn't even about an "ideal office setup" in the strict sense you're thinking of. I'm currently in my own office, but I spent the first 3.5 years working in an open office with 3 to 5 others, and that was just as good.

I know a lot of people that have that "Sunday Dread" about having to go to work on Monday, but I honestly get almost giddy Sunday evening knowing that I'll get to go to work the next morning. The really funny thing is that I consider myself to be a pretty extreme introvert. But all in all, I'm well aware that this whole outlook is extremely uncommon, so it's probably not truly considered a "blind spot" on your part, but more that I'm just an outlier.

It's been a few years since I've used DB Browser, so I forget exactly what I didn't like about it. Maybe I should download it again and try it out one more time and see if I still feel the same way.

[0] https://www.bitecode.dev/p/relieving-your-python-packaging-p... [1] https://www.bitecode.dev/p/why-not-tell-people-to-simply-use [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35379008

Agreed. And in some cases the issues almost feel like they're on purpose in order to drive people away from using the self checkouts.

For example, when I use self checkout at my local grocery store, I have to hit a button to tell it I want to use my own bag, and then put the bag in the bagging area so it can presumably weigh it, and a moment later it allows me to start scanning items and placing them inside.

That's fine, but the problem that I run into _every_ week is that the first bag works fine, but after that, when I hit the button to say I'm using another bag, once I place the bag in the bagging area, it flags me for putting unscanned items in the bagging area. It "lets it go" after a moment, but when I need to move on to bag #3, it complains again, stops, and forces me to wait while a store worker comes over and has to watch overhead video of me placing my empty bag in the bagging area for both bags 2 AND 3!

I have tried so many ways of being extra careful about how I'm placing the bag, but no matter what I do, it complains about every bag after the first one. I've tried leaving previous bags in the bagging area, I've tried removing them after each bag is filled, I've tried standing or moving differently, being quicker or slower about placing my bags, and no matter what, every other bag after it starts complaining, it stops and I have to wait for the store worker to verify and let me keep going. I've even tried just putting my bag on the floor and bagging items there, but then it complains after every 10 "unbagged" items since they're not hitting the scale in the bagging area, even if I hit the "don't bag this item" button after the scan.

While the whole thing is a major inconvenience, it's STILL better than waiting in a line for an actual cashier (and sometimes an additional bagger) who will feel the need to chat me up just because I'm standing in front of them, and inevitably not pack things into the bags the way that I want.

I used BeOS around 2002 and 2003, and it was so cool. One of my favorite things was when I figured out how to use file system metadata to essentially turn files and folders into a database. Having emails essentially be plain text files, but with all the OS searchable metadata of subject, from, time sent, etc. that could be viewable in a Tracker window was awesome. And at the time, it was one of the few systems I could get to work with my dual processor system.

Unfortunately at that time I was struggling with things that I needed to use via Windows that I couldn't do in BeOS. Even though I didn't use it a ton, I love it and I always wished it had taken off better. Every so often I load up Haiku for that hit of nostalgia, but it feels like a lot of modern software is missing from it. Even just being able to run a modern Firefox on it would be enough to keep it on my home computer for most things.

Before Yabai I was using Amethyst, but like your experience with Yabai, I felt like it would suddenly stop working and needed to be restarted. Maybe your experience would be flipped.

https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst

https://ianyh.com/amethyst/