So maybe I'm spoiled by linux package managers, where you tell it to "upgrade" and things continue to work... to me that is just a natural expectation.

Well, it seems the python package manager (pip) will happily upgrade all your project's required dependencies, but not your optional dependencies... yet the old (incompatible) version is still visible at runtime.

Consequently, it seems to be an excepted norm in the python world that things may break after a "pip upgrade", at least on a single tool.

How do python devs put up with this? Apparently there are a bunch of hacks scattered across countless projects to test at runtime for incompatible deps, even though they have already dutifully specified the compatible version in the dependencies list.

What a mess.

It seems like every third meeting someone is driving. Is it really worth the added risk to your life? Can you really contribute or take anything from a meeting when your attantion is so divided and you have none of your productivity tools?

There is always a LESS organized way to do something, but that's not what you want. There is also a more CLEVER way to do anything, and you don't want that either. The goal is to make things is as organized and stupidly simple as possible... so boring that opening any file at any level you sigh "yep, that's what I thought it would look like" instead of "WTF?!"

It's a feature.

I've noticed since being silenced from the lemmy[dot]world ecosystem, my sincere interest posts no longer receive all the random, bullshit, drive by downvotes they used to.

It's been rather and unexpectedly peaceful, and I feel also says a lot about the toxicity LW has potentially brought to the platform.

It seems to me that if there is going to be a hardware widget mounted on the wall for the sole purpose of humans fiddling with it, then it ought to be engineered and optimized from that perspective first (UX: user experience)...

I went to the store expecting to buy a pack of nostalgia, but instead found that Mother's cookies (apparently) have cut their product line down to just the weird circus animal cookies.

https://thewisebaker.com/are-mothers-cookies-discontinued/#Do_Mothers_Cookies_Still_Make_Oatmeal_Cookies

I'm sure part of it is that open-source hardware in general is "harder" to do than software, but perhaps there is something more to it... such as people generally not wanting to invest time creating a more-crappy version of a black box that already does it's thing well enough. Perhaps it is only after printers get significantly worse or more annoying that people will start investing their own time creating alternative firmware/hardware.