m_gloeckl

The 100% figure is coming from the comment above mine, actually. As for the rest of your comment, your assessment is noted.

Example from Germany: Employer also pays a share of health insurance, unemployment insurance, public pension and elder care insurance.

This is not visible on your payslip, i.e. if you earn 5k€ brutto, the employer has to pay these shares on top of that.

There is a toggle in Settings -> Battery -> Power Mode called 'Adaptive Power' which does exactly this. It's out in the open and has been for a while.

>> I keep thinking of writing something that detects the top-most app window and draws an obvious box around it.

I would use this in a heartbeat. With Windows 10/11 I usually have the option to apply a garish accent color to the active window active. Nowadays, more and more apps don't use native window frames anymore, so that option works less and less.

The W11 task bar with its barely legible indicators doesn't help either.

On a big ultra-wide display with a few windows open, I sometimes struggle to see which one is active.

I've heard about the show on an episode of the podcast "Endless Thread", where the creator Joseph Bennett talked about how the show came to be and how his creative process worked.

It was very intriguing and I started watching it on the same day. This would have really deserved a renewal for another season, but sadly it got cancelled.

My plan advertises "up to 50 Mbit/s" on a 4G connection. I was getting less than 1 Mbit/s a lot of the time. Websites and videos would not load properly.

I downloaded the app of the german ministry that allows you to take speed tests and file a complaint. After multiple weeks of measuring connection speeds on the cellular network, I was able to file a complaint.

You can file a complaint with the "Federal ministry for digital transformation" (formed this year). It does actually work, but it's a lengthy process.

I did force my cell phone carrier to grant me proper 4G speeds last year, after spending many hours with their help line and ultimately complaining to the (then) ministry of transportation and digital infrastructure.

* get up at 6.30 am

* quick breakfast (cup of coffee + piece of fruit), get ready, get dressed

* out the door by 7.05

* commute to office / customer office, arrive at 7.45 - 8am

* check mail, check JIRA tasks, write down what I want to do this day into my notebook

* productive work (requirements analysis & software specification mostly) from 9am - 12

* lunch from 12 - 1pm

* afternoon is usually more meetings, conference calls and less productive work

* leave at 5.30 to 6pm

* arrive home at 6.30pm to 7

* go for a run / work out at the gym / meet with friends

* shower

* dinner

* read book / watch netflix / play games

* in bed by 11pm

IIRC those animations have been introduced with the current version, Office 2016.

I think they make it really easy to follow, especially when someone else is editing and sharing their screen.

Wow, that looks great. Thanks for the link!

This sounds great, indeed. With a listening history on last.fm that reaches back to early 2009, I always thought it would be great to have a service to use the last.fm data to build dynamic playlists for spotify.

I'm in the same boat. Some weeks I simply do not have enough work to fill the 40 hours I should work according to my contract. I'm just sitting around, looking busy, and billing those hours to the project I'm assigned to. If I report fewer hours than that I'm in trouble, because my billable hours go down and that means I'm getting a smaller bonus at the end of the fiscal year..

Yeah, the system isn't really working.

Vanilla Google Maps is not a lot slower on Firefox than on Chrome for me, but third party apps that build upon GMaps, like Garmin Connect (Running / Biking tracking tool for Garmin GPS watches) are definitely much slower and less responsive for me on Firefox than on Chrome.

I guess most folks do know the difference between their own local timezone and UTC. That would have really saved me a couple of seconds to find out the difference between PST and UTC first.