@rene@social.fouquet.me
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rene

@rene@social.fouquet.me

#iOS #Developer at Techniker Krankenkasse in Hamburg, Germany.

Besides software development I enjoy #photography, #woodworking, #hiking and #3DPrinting. I am just one podcast away from being a stereotypical nerd.

I usually write in English, but may occasionally write in German if the topic is only interesting for German speakers.

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fahrni, to random
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It could also feature a laser beam. https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/112455881578043377

rene,
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@fahrni Could run Android!

rene, to random
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Outlook on Mac is a POS software.

That’s it. That’s the toot.

rene,
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@jxrxme Company policy.

rene, to random
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Sometimes I wish I had the average person’s ignorance towards IT issues. Every time I tell my wife or friends who are not in It about some new problem, like AI training on user data, or companies doing cross-service tracking for detailed user profiling, they just shrug and keep scrolling through Instagram. Ignorance is bliss.

rene,
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@nicklockwood I use Kagi and tried to get my wife to use it too. Switched to a family plan, installed the search extension on her phone and let it use Kagi by default. After two month or so I found out she used the “!g” query every time to redirect the Kagi query to Google, because “they have reviews for stores”. I don’t even.

phranck, to random German
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Jetzt ist unser Geschirrspueler schon ueber eine Woche defekt, und wir haben noch keinen Neuen in Sicht. Die Wartezeiten liegen ab Bestellung im Schnitt zwischen 1-4 Wochen.

Aber ganz ehrlich: Ich gewoehne mich langsam dran. Es ist unglaublich bequem einen zu haben, ohne Frage. Aber brauchen…? Nicht wirklich. 🤔

rene,
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@phranck Manuell Waschen verbraucht halt unfassbar mehr Wasser und Strom…

rene, to random
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How relevant is the new @atpfm member’s special for Europeans? Just asking before I sink time into that 🥴

phranck, (edited ) to random
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Gut, dann bin ich ganz eindeutig kein so genannter "Durchschnittsdeutscher". Wenn(!!) ich mir mal ein Sixpack kaufen sollte, dann dauert das gut und gerne mal eineinhalb Jahre, bis das alle ist. Meist schuette ich den Rest dann sogar weg, weil’s mir „zu alt" ist. 😃

Und beim restlichen Alkohol schaut es ähnlich aus.
https://ard.social/@DasWissen/112443377287126531

rene,
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@phranck Ich finde solche Statistiken immer wieder erschreckend. Ich trinke auch so gut wie keinen Alkohol, vielleicht mal ein oder zweimal im Jahr ein Bier bei einem Grillabend, oder zu Silvester einen Vodka-Red-Bull. Aber wenn man sich die Durchschnittswerte so ansieht: es müssen wahnsinnig viele Alkoholiker da draussen sein.

rene, to random
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Unless they cut the price to < 1000€ I’m afraid I‘m not interested anymore 🤷🏻‍♂️
https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/112434677675347042

rene, to random German
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Hobby YouTube in a Nutshell: „Heute bauen wir $holzprojekt. Total einfach für jeden machbar. Ihr braucht nur eine Formatkreissäge, einen Abrichthobel und diese zehn anderen Werkzeuge die in jeder Profiwerkstatt zu finden sind. Hobbprojekt also. Zum Verschrauben benutzen wir natürlich Würth-Schrauben, ist ja klar“.

rene, to random
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“Quiet quitting” has been creeping back into my timeline in the past few days. I stand by it: it’s the biggest toxic bullshit since the invention of the fruit basket as a “job perk”.

daniel, to random German
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Ugh this morning I found cat barf on the floor AND I had to block a domain full of Nazis. Let’s hope the rest of the day is nicer.

rene,
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@daniel Cat barf is a daily occurrence here 🤔

rene, to random
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While I was at the car mechanic today, waiting for my regular vehicle inspection, I overheard a fascinating discussion between two gentlemen who worked there. The first one was doing something on his iPhone and apparently immediately force quit whatever app he was using. The other one then told him that he saw on TikTok that force quitting apps was actually bad (no shit!) and that Apple recommends against it. The other one then told him nonchalantly that of course Apple would recommend it, since they want to “keep listing to you”.

Dude they make the device and the operating system. If Apple wants to listen to you, quitting apps won’t stop them.

rene, to random German
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Ich frage mich ernsthaft wie sich Menschen mit geringem Einkommen Haustiere leisten können. Unser Kater Fiete war krank und hat das gesamte Programm Röntgen, Blutuntersuchung, Urinuntersuchung, Ultraschall etc. durch. Ingesamt gut 800€. Am Ende waren es “nur” Struvitsteine, worüber wir sehr froh sind. Finanziell ist das für uns glücklicherweise kein Thema, aber wie machen das Menschen die von Bürgergeld leben? Augen zu und durch? 😳

rene, to random
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Thanks to the people recommending @davx5app for my Android CalDAV sync woes. It works perfectly. Now I just need to find a way.to disable (and not just hide) the Google calendar in the calendar app 🤔

rene, to animals
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We spent the Sunday visiting our new puppy, which will move in with us in about a month 🥹 He‘s a Finnish Lapphund and we will call him “Fenris”.

A sleeping light brown puppy
A light brown puppy playing on a shoe
A light brown puppy standing next to a wooden box

rene, to random
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About half a year in I gotta say the iPhone 15 Pro Max is the nicest iPhone ever, at least comfort-wise. And it seems to be the most durable too. I use it without a case or screen protector and it still looks brand new–no scratches, neither on the screen, or the titanium sides or the back. I don’t tend to drop my phones though, so that’s a factor. And it just feels very secure in my hands, even though it’s the biggest iPhone. So A++ would buy again.

rene, to random
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I got some “feedback” about my latest Android endeavors via private message that I want to comment publicly on (without disclosing the source).

One was “since when are you such a Google fanboy, I followed you for iOS content” to which I can only say I’m sorry I didn’t match you content expectations, feel free to click the next unfollow button near to you.

Another one was “Kinda doubt you really used an Android phone OR you are maybe a paid shill because last time I used one (which was not not long ago) it was full of bugs and literally unusable compared to iPhone”. Look I’m not trying to doubt your experience or something, computer software always has bugs. But I didn’t really experience anything critical during my time trying it out.

On the other hand, just this morning, I had to press the sleep/wake button on my iPhone because tapping the screen didn’t wake it as it normally would. It does that sometimes. Or yesterday when my iPhone was still in sleep focus, the lock screen was literally black. Nothing there. I could swipe it up as always, but it was one huge black block. Trust me, iPhones have bugs too.

As for the paid shill thing…really?

rene, to random
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I‘m working in a team called “Sirius” now and guess what happens now every time I say that name.

rene, to random
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I do use my computer a lot and the thought “man I wish I had a dedicated AI button on my mouse now” has never crossed my mind.
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112285384761297018

rene, to random
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I've been using an Android phone as an exploratory "how's the weather over there" test kinda sorta full time for a few days now. I'm going to write a more comprehensive report later, but let me just say this: Apple should be incredibly nervous and much, much nicer to third party iOS developers because from my (granted, limited) experience the only thing that truly sets iOS apart from Android these days is third party apps. They are simply nicer in every way on iOS, and so far I haven't seen a single native (cross platform apps are by definition equally shitty on both platforms) app on Android that was on par or better than an iOS equivalent. But apart from third party apps, I could just pick up an Android phone tomorrow and barely miss a thing. In fact there are some things on Android that I would love to see in iOS as well. So Apple should be on their hands and knees and humbly thank third party developers for their hard work. Instead they alienate devs and act as if people buy iPhones because of Apple. Morale among iOS developers is deteriorating at an ever faster pace. Apple and the iOS platform can't afford this, but I'm afraid its leadership is so far up their own buttholes that they won't realize this until it's too late.

rene,
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@julianwki The apps that I know are cross-platform (e.g. Amazon, the Sonos app) are really bad on both platforms. I haven't used something like Flutter myself really. I have always been firmly in the "native" camp.

rene, to random
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Writing this from Mastodon for Android. What's a good Mastodon client for Android? Because the official one is not one of them.

rene, to random
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🙈

rene, to animals
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This good boy is four today! Four! Time flies.

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