John Sullivan @johns@librem.one

I'm not sure if it was supposed to or not, but eliminating the penny has not made my life easier.

We've taken to turning the reader backwards so that customers can't insert chip cards without assistance, for the *sole* reason of preventing people from inserting the Apple card. It is only the Apple card.

I have a new reason to shake my fist at Apple: their credit card (the physical card) breaks the card reader 100% of the time, causing a 10 minute delay to reset and reconnect everything. Except for the time when it never came back at all and had to be replaced.

@xor Happy first crossword ever published in a newspaper day

Also, "We grow small trying to be great."

@bkuhn can't export to CSV and diff?

Every time I read this quote I think about how important it is for nonprofits "The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."

@luis_in_brief It's a lot of work, but it's working out -- and it's been fun to discover the FOSS & stationery geek overlap. It certainly satisfies my apparently primary career requirement "make December impossible."

Cold calling brick and mortar stores in the middle of December suggesting they change their point of sale system is a brilliant business plan that I'm sure is very successful and doesn't inspire any negative feelings at all.

I'm glad they are making it easier to move your data around, but there is only one side of the equation that is in the end making it hard to switch between Android and iPhone, and that's Apple, who won't let you install Android on iPhones you "own" and would in fact describe you as a criminal for attempting it.

https://lifehacker.com/tech/google-and-apple-are-making-it-easier-to-switch-between-iphone-and-android?utm_medium=RSS