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I've been in Japan since 2015, but am from the US so that is where I had gotten most of my information. At the same time, I don't own a house and haven't been in a position where I had to decide solar vs. something else.

That's funny. I wish they'd use their better performance to not have the system lag at basic rendering over time. Last week I was watching a youtube video, and every time I adjusted the OS volume, the video dropped several frames because macos apparently couldn't render the liquid ass volume control and play the video smoothly at the same time.

A reboot fixed it, but it's just such amateur hour with things that have been solved for decades.

I use spotlight to search for the "spotlight" system preferences window. I open the "spotlight" result with the gear icon next to it (scrolling past the "spotlight.prefPane", whatever that is), and where does it take me? The "general" tab of the settings app, of course!

There are so many more that you'd be forgiven for thinking this is some new company's first release of an OS. But nope, just one of the most valuable companies in the world, fumbling basic software shit.

> on the software side they've already reversed the direction and its hopefully getting better

What things are getting better for you on the software side? I updated from macos 15 (sequoia) to macos 27 (golden gate) on a mac mini m1, and have mostly just received software regressions and worse performance.

> I am a total diva about latency

You should be! CPUs these days are so goddamn fast, there is zero excuse that things don't respond instantly to user input. Sure, you can't escape the latency of the speed of light, but so much software lags and feels like shit even on things that involve no network interactions. I have to use notion at work sometimes and it feels like trudging through a lake of mud. Absolute garbage latency because the devs (and their clanker handlers) apparently don't know any better.

I've been living in Japan for over 10 years. Everything is not perfect but the garbage cans are so far down the list that it doesn't even register for anyone who lives here.

The people living here seem to survive just fine without these garbage cans, so I guess it's not really an "issue for them to worry about" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> but what is truly barbaric is the social taboo on strolling through a park on a nice autumn day sipping your coffee!

Wait, what? Has anyone ever said anything to you when you strolled around a park drinking coffee? I've been in Japan over 10 years and do that all the time, no one has given a shit about it. The only time I ever hear about these "taboos" is when foreigners try to tell other foreigners how they should behave in Japan, like it has some mystique about it or something.

People get so hung up on garbage, I don't get it. Keep a single plastic bag with you, put your trash in it. Take it back and throw it away at home or your hotel or wherever you're staying. Most train stations have plenty of garbage cans, and if you're traveling in Japan, you're probably taking a train.

The toilet paper sucks, sure, but that's just cheap single-ply for public use toilets. People can and do buy the good stuff for their homes. Hardly an issue to worry about.

Yes please! I'm curious to hear this as well.

I saw your blog post on lobsters but don't have an account there yet.

I wanted to ask how you do sharing of immich albums to your family outside of your LAN. I'm setting up something similar and won't have any services exposed directly to the internet so I'm facing a similar problem.

> It also is clearly hitting CPU limits given occasional hiccups in audio processing

Can we talk about this more? I have spotify running on a 2nd gen apple tv 4k (the N-1 model), which goes to an LG OLED TV. I hear the buffer underruns, but I haven't bothered to dig into whether it's:

* The spotify app missing its audio callback deadline

* tvOS doing a poor job scheduling the audio callbacks

* Some fuckery on the LG side that is dropping audio samples

It's incredibly annoying to have "higher end" media equipment that can't even play a song without audible pops and skips in it.