LibreOffice UI hasn’t changed in years and I love it, my muscle memory is retained.
Also while ribbon style UI might be visually pleasing and initially approachable, I find simple toolbars with icons in a line are actually easier to scan and navigate. Whereas a ribbon typically has dividers and buttons of varying sizes making them easy to miss.
The company now offers affected users two years of free three-bureau credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Equifax, which require enrollment by June 30, 2026.
Aka…sorry for this breach, as a consolation, please give your personal information to this other company that will also “misplace” it…
dialed.gg: a colour guessing game with a daily challenge
Several attendees also complained about payment arrangements at food stalls inside the venue, saying food counters were accepting only cash and not digital payments
These food stall vendors are probably selling real deal delicious Indian street food. Cash only places are the best
Yes, and not only is this project very generically named, searching for what I was looking to do was difficult because of the wide range of options in terms of what a home dashboard should be...
Many people want home automation integration, I don't have any (centralized) home automation
Many projects with UI designed for smallish touch screens (e.g. wall mounted info panels, where you need to tap to see info)
Many projects want a full fledged grafana type install, overkill for me/my tiny homelab
I was aiming for something more akin to those hotel lobby TVs which show useful local info and news on a fixed refresh cycle. This was also common on cable TV years ago: some channels would just show weather and news headlines 24/7 on a fixed cycle with music.
I think, all things considered, they handled this pretty well, and I'm actually more likely now to read an Ars article than before the article (when I had a neutral opinion).
If they need social systems to support them, I am all for that (its good regardless, and I'm not in China so I have very little voice for them/understanding of what is available)
But the article just presents the authors editorialized view, which is from a government planning perspective, not from the perspective of what is good for these young people (or what they think would benefit them). So I take with a grain of salt the authors judgement of their choices, satisfaction, or opinion of what is "right" for them.
The "us vs them" mentality that western media has pushed is backfiring.
In reality its not a competition but western media and government wanted to frame it like that, for 20+ years, and now, oh...looks like the west is losing.
...scrape by on minimal consumption. It’s a dark, sobering self-portrait of a generation...
Consumption != Happiness
The author channels a viewpoint of the government...if people can be happy and fulfilled without contributing to GDP, that's "dark, sobering." It's bad news for government planning but not necessarily bad for the people.
Its the "service economy." Instead of making things, industry (in the US at least) is heavily skewed towards providing services (aka things you subscribe to or need to buy each time you use).
LibreOffice UI hasn’t changed in years and I love it, my muscle memory is retained.
Also while ribbon style UI might be visually pleasing and initially approachable, I find simple toolbars with icons in a line are actually easier to scan and navigate. Whereas a ribbon typically has dividers and buttons of varying sizes making them easy to miss.