This sounds like another device that will end up in a drawer, as an experiment it looks good but not sure what you are going to do on a 4" inch display that cannot idle at low milliwatts
Yeah that's a problem, I "want" a lot of tech too but I also know I would never use it on the regular. Gadgets are cool, but it's more of a "I want to have it" than a "I really need to use it". Same with e.g. the Flipper Zero, it's a cool device but other than some fiddling I'd never use it.
I have a bunch of Raspberry Pi's in a drawer, lol. Although I did pull one out the other day to set up a PiHole.
Seems to be the case with most of the Pi projects left these days. It's turned into a bit of a "oh cool, thats neat" thing that nobody is practically using day to day as there's better alternatives that are cheaper and/or better.
Your favourite job board will have a tag for Ada. There are jobs out there. Some in lower level things like finance, reliability testing, embedded software. Some in higher level things like gaming, AI, web services.
There are fewer, and they do tend to be more demanding, but they certainly exist.
Many people around me are doomscrolling even on family meetings. Any downtime people have it goes automatically to the phone.
More than a newsletter what it really takes to stop that behavior is to shutdown access to the device for a couple of weeks. But that takes a lot of willpower because of the addiction.
So there’s clearly stuff being done to train a younger generation to speak English better than was the case previously.
The problem is that even with that, the mindset still appears to preserve the notion of Japanese supremacy over everything irrespective of data to the contrary. So improvement isn’t happening.
Take the Shinkansen as anotherq example. Impressive if you look at the train specs and reliability/punctuality. What isn’t seen so readily is the manual process of booking seats at stations with limited options for booking online. That manual process is often so inefficient that you might as well travel by a slower train given the loss of time involved.
Similar inefficiencies are observable throughout Japan. The people are typically oblivious because they are indoctrinated into following the process without questioning things. True of the younger English speakers as well from what I’ve seen. Not entirely sure if that’s blind deference, fear of conflict/group judgement or the result of brainwashing into a collaboration over competition mindset. Maybe it’s a mix of all of the above.
So I see very narrow examples of personal excellences where that obsession and perseverance doesn’t involve getting others on board. But innovation or improvement involving groups is more dysfunctional than anything I’ve seen elsewhere by a wide margin.
You can book Tokyo-Osaka Shinkansen tickets online now. The lines owned by JR Central all have online booking now. You can also connect your IC card to your ticket, so no paper ticket is required.
The people are typically oblivious because they are indoctrinated into following the process without questioning things.
If you speak with Japanese people in a private, psychologically safe setting, they will open up about all sorts of things, including continuing to use fax machines!
It's not just we have alternatives for some services, the entire Internet looks like "our" thing from this side. Everything is either perfectly localized, or built and run by local entities, or dominated by local users. In rare cases that none of above are true, social graph of users are still completely closed off from the outside world.
I mean, it's even the case offline. Have anyone seen or used the omnipresent NCR made ATM, with transparent green card slot? There are lots of Ingenico Lane/5000 lately, but that green plastic cover still isn't a thing here. I think there are very few regions that you could live without ever seeing one in life. We're isolate as that.
> Everything is either perfectly localized, or built and run by local entities, or dominated by local users.
People who are tied to the English-speaking net are often totally unaware of how many areas are dominated by local companies even in markets that are linguistically much closer and more used to using English.
And that's not really a criticism - it's hard to keep up when you're not immersed in it.
I'm Norwegian but live in the UK, and I keep being surprised by Norwegian or Scandinavian online services I was unaware of when I go home to visit family, for example, despite following Norwegian news, and visiting twice a year. It's not that they're necessarily more advanced (though sometimes they are) or better, but just that often you find local companies better entrenched than you'd expect.
I just publish via blogger. In the past I have checked other options but I always spend more time looking for interesting ways to deploy content than writing content
When I was shown BioPerl I was tempted to write a better, C++ version, but was overwhelmed by other university stuff and let it go.