@matigo Lack of travel also has something to do with it I think.
Have been eating way too much licorice and aniseed candy lately. Insatiable craving. Partly because I really want salted licorice, but can't get anything other than Ikea's rubbish in HK.
@matigo Well, I suspect their priority in this case was making something pretty to get people locked in to the system. We didn't even have a way to build reports for about 3 months and I'm pretty sure some of the relations were established without full consideration for future expansion.
Sigh.
// @streakmachine
The developers of the ERP we use at my day job don't consider batch processing functions to be a priority. At all. "What's wrong with the GUI?" (How about no keyboard navigation, for a start — not even spamming the escape key to close a popup, or enter to submit a form?)
After a bit of digging, I wrote a few JS functions — about 200 lines of code — which can be executed in the browser console, and these implement batch updating for probably 80% of everything that could be batch updated.
This platform might as well be a shared spreadsheet for all the good it does anyone; clearly their only reason for using SQL Server was to put a few thousand lines of JS on top to make a pretty GUI that taxes my browser even more than Youtube — no small achievement considering there aren't even any large images, let alone audio or videos, on this platform.
@matigo Well, quite. And of course in a demo video the insane amount of Javascript on an ERP's web UI doesn't show, and it's not obvious to the person who will go on to sign the contract without consulting anyone else that even the form fields and buttons are generated by JS and that all the heavy lifting is done client-side. But enough about my day job.
@matigo Adjustable. You can have a range of settings going from slow refresh with high contrast and minimal ghosting to high refresh (enough to watch a video, sort of), low contrast, and lots of ghosting. There's a "clear" button to force a refresh when the ghosting gets too much.
For my daily use, I have it set to the second-slowest refresh rate. Most of what I do is in a text editor and spreadsheets.
Using eink as my daily driver has basically eliminated the headaches and dry eyes I used to get on a daily basis. I still have a 1080p monitor as a secondary display — a lot of websites won't display properly on eink due to ridiculously low contrast etc. — but my 4k 30" gets very little attention these days.
The dream would be to have a 30" 4k–8k colour display in conjunction with a similarly sized eink display. Dasung does make a 25" eink display but it's pretty expensive, I might need to wait a few years to go down that route.
One thing sorely missing in MacOS is a visual indicator for which pane is active (I don't mean textboxes). For example, using Mail.app in column view: if I click on a message in the list, then the contrast makes it obvious that I'm focused on the message, and if I use the arrow keys then I'll move to the previous or next message. But if I press tab, the focus goes into the message contents pane; I know I'm no longer focused on the message list, but I also can't be sure that I'm focused on the contents pane.
I'm halfway to building a NAS (acquiring parts second hand) and that means I'll be in a good position to use multiple computers as daily drivers in the near future. In practice that means I'll probably stick with Apple for portable computing and photo/audio work, but when this Mac Pro wears out I'll probably build a nice budget Linux desktop of some kind for everything else, with an emphasis on finding a case with proper dust filters since I'm getting quite tired of taking a leafblower to this Mac Pro every 2 months (not an exaggeration).