Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 14/9/2023
Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 14/9/2023
Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
So, yesterday was a first for me. I had an online interview scheduled at 8PM (yes, PM because the interviewer was based in the UK), so had my dinner, got all dressed up (ie, put on a business shirt on top of shorts), turned on all the lights in my room (a rare occurrence since I prefer dim or natural lighting), and dialled in. And waited. And waited. And no one turned up. The interviewer was a no-show. An hour later, I received an apology text from their HR and they asked if I was free to do the interview. At 9:30PM? After being stood up already? Uh...no. They rescheduled it for today evening instead. I mulled over it and figured this was a bad omen, a sign of things to come if I were to proceed further, so this morning I declined and withdrew my application.
On the positive side, I got a job offer from my old old workplace. On one hand, it feels nice to be sought out and knowing that my old company still thinks of me, and if I were to accept the offer, the job is almost guaranteed to be in the bag; on the other hand, it's my old old company and some of the reasons I left are still valid (like the cringy corporate culture). On one hand, it's a different role to what I did previously, this one is an actual engineering role where I get to design and play with new toys and not deal with BAU stuff; but on the other it's not the dream Linux job I've been after... guess I'll have to go with whatever pays the bills, again.
Congrats on the job offer!
If it's not going to be detrimental to your mental health, then you could take the job. If you don't like it, try to stick it out for a year then start looking for another job, but this time there's less pressure, and it's always easier to find a new job when you already have one. And easier to put up with a not-perfect job if you have an exit plan.
I've changed jobs every 1-2 years my whole life. Short stints aren't really frowned upon anymore.
Had a visit to The Warehouse to check out their new grocery section. It’s a "normal" Warehouse not an overly big one. They’ve changed the store layout to now sell fresh fruit and veggies, plus pantry items, cooking oil, flour, dried fruit, yeast etc. The veggies were nice quality and certainly at a lower price than the local supermarkets.
That's cool. I recently tried out our one, it didn't have fresh fruit and veggies but it had bread and milk in addition to grocery shelves. I didn't notice a large price difference though, things seemed to cost about what I'd expect.
Which Warehouse is this btw?
Waipapa, Kerikeri
I think I'm on day three of thumb-key, and still haven't broken 20wpm yet. I am getting more familliar though.
No idea how a question mark wasn't important enough to make the main layout but * is.
Oh neat, I'm using MessagEase but an open-source alternative, especially one that isn't abandoned, is well appealing.
How are the configuration options? Here's my current main layout- would I be able to recreate it easily?
There are lots of keyboard layouts available, including some MessageEase ones. However, I haven't found a way to customise it, and none of the English layouts seem to have letters with macrons.
They say they take pull requests with keyboard layouts. Maybe we should contribute an en-nz language version that has vowels with macrons in addition to a standard english layout.
So with all the nostalgia for Web 1.0 lately I signed up for an account on eternal-september and now I'm trying to remember all the usenet groups I used to be obsessed with oh, about 25 years ago.
I’m very experienced with usenet, still using it since around the early 1990’s. Nowadays, the old chat forum style has basically gone, and it is now essentially just binaries used for movies/tv/audio/magazines/xxx
Indexers list the contents, and providers give the access. I get downloads from Europe at 50-60 MBytes/sec. There are automation apps to auto download what you are after as soon as it is posted.
The old text forums are still there, but are mostly just full of spam.
I never got into usenet. Let us know when you remember the good ones 🙂
@d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz I saw that! We created a post at the same time!
I actually think yours was first by seconds 😆
Oh? Your post appeared before mine on my client (Sync) so I thought you beat me. :P
Oh sorry, you're right, I did beat you! By about 20 seconds. I got mixed up because I edited the title to remove a typo, which happened after your post.
(I can still see posts after they are deleted - yes even when removed I still see all the spam 🥲)