Yeah. I'm absolutely opposed to unnecessarily "smart" devices.
I have a strong aversion to voice activated anything. Smartphones have had voice assistant's since forever but whenever I've tried it I just find it to be a clunky awkward imprecise user interface.
Why do something in a few clicks when 10 minutes of miscommunication will do?
In-house toilet facilities are more or less a solved problem. These idiots un-solved it.
It looks like there's several distinct components to gpodder which confuse things.
Firstly gpodder seems to be a desktop podcast client.
Secondly there's the sync service / protocol. Gpodder.net provides this for free but according to antennapod doesn't have adequate resources and causes errors in your client (which I can confirm). There are other containers available which are not from the gpodder team but emulate the protocol.
Finally there's the recommendation / discovery service apparently provided by gpodder.net. I haven't been able to get this to work because my client hasn't been able to sync yet, despite 12 hours of trying.
In my own case, I already have a client (antennapod) and I'm not really interested in sync because I only use the one device. The recommendation / discovery service would've been cool but it seems broken for the moment.
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Time for today's reminder that financial hardship will not discourage loyalty to trump, rather hardships will fuel fascist agendas.
Yeah, as you've said it's not the complexity that's the problem, it's that dunning Kruger style overconfidence that you're smarter than everyone else and can manage data better than these silly accountants.
Queensland is a state of about 3m people in Australia. Their health service employs about 100k people. They ended up spending about 900m USD to develop their payroll software and fix the fuck ups it caused.
I'm an accountant by trade, there's a classic "techbro does accounting" style of development we see a lot. Like if you hadn't spent a career learning how complex accounting can be, it would be easy to look at a payroll system and conclude "it's just a database with some rules".
Yeah. I'm absolutely opposed to unnecessarily "smart" devices.
I have a strong aversion to voice activated anything. Smartphones have had voice assistant's since forever but whenever I've tried it I just find it to be a clunky awkward imprecise user interface.
Why do something in a few clicks when 10 minutes of miscommunication will do?
In-house toilet facilities are more or less a solved problem. These idiots un-solved it.