Well they don’t know know, but there are signs. For one, we fill in timesheets, and lying on them is a no-no. I could probably get away with stretching the truth a little, but if they notice I only commit between X and Y time, or that I’m seldom available for developer questions at a particular time, they might get suspicious and investigate my hours.

As for overtime… Well I think how companies handle it is they don’t actually ask us to stay late; they just give us unrealistic targets that kinda require overtime unless you’re a god if we ever complained they’d say they never asked for us to stay late.

We used to be able to accumulate time indefinitely and take time off according to the bank of extra time we’d worked, but once, someone accumulated hundreds of hours and just left on an unplanned vacation for nearly a full month and they really didn’t like that. So now, you need to work your quota (which you can have them adjust to your capabilities; 30, 35, 40…) on average every month. So, sure, I can work only 20 hours one week, but that’s 15 hours of extra time I need to do within that month.

And if you have extra at the end of the month, well, that’s lost.

Which sucks, because I used to use those as sick days over the legally required two paid ones we get per year; my health isn’t exactly resplendent.

This is so common in Quebec that I have trouble believing it’s illegal. I think it might be a loophole.

I have a salaried position. I don’t clock in. But it’s typically only used to deny us overtime pay. If I work 35 hours a week, I’m paid 12.5% less than my colleagues who do 40. And if my lunch break is too long, I’m expected to stay late sometime within the month to compensate.

And while I do have a shit job (save me) I’ve never seen someone whose employer didn’t mind their hours as long as they got shit done.

Another fun thing you can do is look at the sky (not the sun!) on a sunny day and start seeing your blood circulation and blind spot.

Car-centric urban design.

Shoko sounds like something you’d like. It tracks that you watch and auto-sorts your downloads into folders that your library can easily work with. Works well with Jellyfin and Plex.

They’re still not done pushing their new, actually good, version to stable, though, and the same applies to the docs related to it. So I’d recommend going with the Daily version and joining the Discord for help with getting it to work.

Janky to install every time, but it’s a godsend when it works.

I used to get so angry at my dad for trying to pull that trick. I didn’t expose his lie but man was I not cool with being dishonest to save a few bucks.

On mobile, it’s very bearable. You can skip them quickly.

On TV, oh boy. It’s super long and now you have to skip several times in an ad block to reduce your ad duration to the minimum.

As for desktop… Idk I only sit at my desk for work.

I’ve always wondered. Is there really a benefit to a ton of redirects like that? Like, do they gain anything by making it harder to back out?

Or is it just extremely incompetent website programming?

Ugh, don’t remind me of how the transition to LEDs was handled. Should we use yellow LEDs to make it non-obnoxious? Nah, just blast everyone’s eyes with cool white LEDs.

As a pedestrian often struggling to see what the heck I’m doing when walking along a road at night, I’m not sure I agree with it being not such a big deal. I mean, true, I can’t really cause an accident that big considering I’m not a multi-ton death machine, but…

As for brighter = safer, I’m not sure either. Wouldn’t people see better in the inevitable area outside of their headlights if headlights weren’t so bright as to set their eyes up into “daylight mode”?

I thought it would be simple: just make the mono/stereo/etc mixes easier to understand, and leave the advanced stuff to people with a million speakers.

I guess that’s too simple?

Interesting. I didn’t know. Maybe my glasses will explode one of these days.

Although as long as it doesn’t turn into tiny knives that I’ll still occasionally find under my feet months later, I wouldn’t mind much.

I’d be worried about microwave compatibility, as well as a metallic taste in my water. How are things, really?

For glassware, try buying tempered glass. It’s more resistant, but most importantly, when it breaks, it tends to break into cubes rather than into a million little sharp knives.

Advertisements should always say what the thing is and what it does.

Disney + show ads on YouTube are like, two dialogue lines, and then “Stream now on Disney Plus”. Only thing more annoying than an ad is an ad where you don’t even understand what the hell they were trying to sell you.

Would you allow long dates?

For example, Jan. 11, 2022, or 7 September 2010.

Most sewn tags I don’t have much of an issue with, since I can remove them if they’re annoying.

But some, often the most annoying ones, are sewn with the same thread as the garment itself, meaning you will unravel the garment if you try to take it off. Argh.

But what about pedestrians, cyclists, etc.?

My trick is printer paper! 1 layer suffices for most LEDs, but the most intense ones need 2.