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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Devices that are “certified” will be unable to find it on the store or install it via the store.

    I’m a bit confused on how that’s supposed to be the case. All apps on the play store already have to be signed with developer credentials. This won’t change with the new requirements, those impact apps outside the play store. I don’t think it’s possible to push “uncertified” apps onto Google Play. So what am I missing here?



  • Die Softwareagentur in der ich arbeite steckt tief in der Krise. Bin schon seit Wochen fast nur in Kurzarbeit und so langsam ist es schon frustrierend. Selbst bei den Projekten die es noch gibt bewegt sich alles nur in Zeitlupe. Vielleicht müsste ich mich nach einer neuen Stelle umschauen, aber ich bin nicht optimistisch im aktuellen Jobmarkt eine zu finden, die mir auch nur annähernd so gute Bedingungen mit Homeoffice usw bieten kann. Naja, dafür habe ich jetzt jede Menge Freizeit. Habe über’s Wochenende das Spiel “Tainted Grail: Fall of Avalon” angefangen, eine überraschend gute Indie-Version eines Open World RPGs im Elder Scrolls-Stil.


  • Sure, I’ve had both good and bad experiences. The contractors putting a new heating system into my house did quite a good job for example. They even took the time to explain to me how to do some troubleshooting myself if there are any issues.

    On the other end of the spectrum are the people who were supposed to put solar panels on my roof, as they decided that they didn’t like my roof when they were about a quarter of the way done (no panels installed) but still wanted me to pay like 3000€. Did not end up having to pay anything, but only after threatening with a lawyer.



  • For me, getting to know and like it took some time and I’ve unfortunately seen some people bounce off it immediately after using it for a few minutes. There are definitely some really nice aspects to it - like the reading statistics and the shortcuts along the screen edge. But in terms of UI/UX-Design, I’d say there is a lot of room for improvement. Like how when you press the bottom part of the screen, the bottom menu comes up - which makes sense - but when you press the top part of the screen, the top menu and the bottom menu come up simultaneously on top of each other and you have to close each of them separately. Or how there are like four separate options menus, located in different submenus. The home screen is a file explorer rather than a simple library of ebooks as you’d find it on most e-readers. It’s all very “designed by programmers”. It doesn’t follow established design best-practices and wouldn’t be intuitive to the average e-reader user.





  • I’m currently on a trial month of Qobuz and I think it’s pretty good. It’s from France and it has a similar price to Spotify, but you get actual hi-fi music quality. They also pay the artists better than Spotify. Plus you can also just buy the music as DRM-free downloads and you get a discount for that on the higher subscription tier. The music library is a bit smaller than Spotify, but it still has like 90% of my library, despite my taste not being very mainstream. Works with Android Auto as well.






  • It seems to be highly dependant on culture, context and age. I feel like my generation (millennial) uses emoji the least, as we grew up with digital communication but without emoji. I basically use emoji in a similar way to you - sparingly and rarely more than 1 in a message. Younger and older generations both started using digital means of communication when emoji were already established though, and they tend to use them way more in my experience.

    In regards to “wrong” interpretation of emoji, they can also have different established meanings for different cultures. 😪 for example is sometimes used to represent having a cold in the west, but in Asia it represents being sleepy (which is its intended meaning). Or 😉, which is considered suggestive/flirty in anglophone countries, but is used for making a lighthearted joke in Germany.