They've done something with the printer system in Tahoe. Brother removed support for native drivers on certain label printers on Tahoe (!!!) when you go searching you find other printer issues.

Like, why. Why would you need to change the printer system? It works.. has worked for a very long time, there's no reasonable need to change it.

This might've been a side effect of removing support for third-party kernel extensions rather than something changing with the printer system specifically.

I have an old (~10 years old) printer that Cannon stopped supplying updated macOS drivers for several years ago. The installer for the drivers failed so I had to extract the files from the package and install them manually. In the end only the network drivers work, the USB drivers are kexts which won't run.

Oh man! I came here to complain about printing! I just discovered yesterday that you can no longer drag and drop print jobs from one printer to another. Apparently you can move a print job via some command line stuff but it just ended up deleting the jobs entirely. The only reasons I found this out is because the printer which had been working fine moments before just stopped working after replacing toner. No amount of deleting and re-padding the printer or power cycling either machine fixed it. One time the whole OS just froze and I had to force reboot. I spent a good chunk of the afternoon trying to get one 3 page document to print. To be fair, I haven’t had problems with this setup for 10+ years but when it went south it also went to the remote frigid corners of Antarctica.

They overhauled CUPS and replaced chunks of it.

Yes. Queens English countries it's the phrase used (New Zealand - that's what we use).

Chunks of NZ are becoming very expensive to uninsurable, and extreme impact weather events are getting more frequent.

It would be fair say a good portion of the population don't understand the maths of a weather event just how astronomically expensive a sudden flood is.

In our small town in the last 5 years, we've had 2-3 different "1 in 100 year" floods within 30km of each other (highly localised dramatic flooding and slips). To the point "1 in 100 year" is now a standing joke.

When did the council last revise your flood models? Up here in Queensland, it caused a real stir when the council released updated flood models and lots of "1/1000" year flood houses turned into "1/10"

I don't know. Certainly the frequency and severity is just eye opening. We had 2 1 in 50's with 1 in 100 in 3 weeks (!!!).

I know you guys have also had it bad over there.

I expect the insurance companies will start removing flood cover soon. Which then becomes a bit of a shit show with mortgages. Or will raise the premiums so high that they're effectively uninsurable.

Brisbane had cyclone Alfred that caused a major panic with ~100km-ish winds.

A friend went to visit NZ and 100km/hr winds was just another day...

In New Zealand we have an absolutely shit employment law process where the company has to 'propose' a restructure (in a formal fashion). Then 'consult' with employees for feedback. Then 'consider' the feedback. And then 99% of the time it's all just the same and people get made redundant.

It is absolutely brutal as it invites the chance of hope during the downsizing - and implies staff will be able to provide alternative suggestions. Which is quite plainly bananas.

It's enshrined in law and if you don't follow the process as an employer you can get taken to task by the governing body around it.

It's just far easier, and less harmful emotionally, to rip the band aid and provide a good package.

> ...and implies staff will be able to provide alternative suggestions. Which is quite plainly bananas.

Why is that bananas? When covid hit my country, the national airline fired ~90% of flight attendants. They had been willing to be put on leave with 0 pay until the airline needed them again, but the airline wasn't interested in that. They were very happy to have an excuse to get rid of these long-serving employees and hire fresh-faced 18-25yr olds on starter salaries in their stead.

Having a mandated process like you mentioned (maybe for companies with more than 50 employees) could have made a massive difference in an instance like this.

The flight attendants in my example eventually all got their jobs back, but only after a years-long legal battle during which some lost their homes and most had a very tough time.

Might it not depend on the industry?

I've heard of unionized factory workers negotiate lower salaries to keep the shop open. Granted that was Europe.

To be fair EV's can have some very high initial torque delivery, and are heavy = tyre shredding beasts.

I know I know, people aren't supposed to be taking off from every light at full chat, but, given the capability some people can't help themselves.

The biggest problem for new EV drivers, in my view, is that EVs generally have extremely good traction control systems that prevent chirping due to the ability to cut back power to the motors much more quickly than you can with a gas engine.

What this means is that you can push tires to the absolute limit and not chirp them (which, is best for traction anyways) which absolutely roasts them. Most people associate chirp = too fast, but with EVs you can never hear a chirp even when you stomp on the accelerator so they might think everything is ok.

Nobody should be shredding a set of tires in 10k miles in any EV unless they’re super low tread wear (poor tire choice, hard to do that bad), there’s an issue with the car suspension, or they’re just being idiots.

You can absolutely get them to chirp, you just have to be, uh, brave. Or stupid. I deposited my tyres along my daily commute over four months - it’s like having one of those racing line markers in a game.

Although I may drive a bit more sensibly for now as €4K a year on tyres wasn’t in my budget.

I went through my first set of tires in 10k miles. By doing car racing (on official tracks!) every month or so.

Though it might fall under the "being idiot" category.

I guess I should have caveated it as 'you won't go through a set of tires in 10k miles unknowningly'.

If you're track racing, it should be obvious you'll blow through a set of tires much faster than the treadwear ratings would suggest.

> Something about the side hustle continues to lure people into thinking it’s a way out, until they burn themselves out and sabotage their day job while doing it.

Sample size of 1

- Side hustle #1 funded my toy habit for a long time and gave me the confidence "I can build & support something from start to finish".

- Got to C Level working for 'the man' (aka the board). But regardless of level you're never in control of your destiny, especially with the eventuality of PE. For some that's okay, for others that's not...

- Which lead to Side Hustle #2. Left my day job 3 years ago....

Now have some of the best in our wee niche using our product, a number of team members, gradually growing it in bootstrapped fashion.

No investors, no funding rounds, no chasing growth targets. As "pure" as it can get - adding features, capturing more market, getting positive word of mouth, picking up new countries, finding new edge cases, adding new package upgrades. I think we're around 40% of new clients are referrals/word of mouth.....

In the first 6 months of turning billing on you're going "what the heck am I doing...." now I'm "oh I wouldn't give this up..." immensely rewarding bringing other new people into the business, and seeing that flow through to the finished product for our clients.

At least in NZ, side hustles are the genesis of a lot of tech companies.

Oooo thank you for mentioning that. Looks quite feature rich !

How does Anrok charge? is it based on a per filing basis or %age of rev? If %age can you share broadly speaking what it costs?

Fascinating. I'm wondering how the app manages to control notification behaviour & gatekeeps other apps. Obviously the APIs to do it must be there, just surprised Apple (of all ...) let's a 3rd party app do that..

Neat idea

When disabled, the app icons are greyed out, similar to when screen time restrictions have kicked in.

Echoing this, loved the product feature callout diagram. Immediately 'view source' to figure out how it was done.

Yeah, that feature callout diagram is really cool!