I'm really into the Dresden novels as well. Also read all of the Cosmere, and I highly recommend. 1/3rd of the way through Wheel of Time right now.

The Wheel of Time series is intimidating to me. I have a bad habit of putting books down midway and forcing myself to restart them later on. I think it would take me a decade to get through Wheel of Time!

I'm on book 5 of Wheel of Time right now. Honestly I haven't liked it as much as anything Cosmere so far but I'm hoping that will change.

If you don't mind me asking, what fiction have you enjoyed? Maybe some people in here can help out.

> Make sure your todo system is a keybind away at all times.

Can you access your todo system from your phone? I'm always torn on this, and why I keep my todos in google keep.

I'm using todo.txt via the CLI [1] with my TODO files in a Dropbox folder syncing it with Simpletask [2] for Android.

[1]: https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli [2]: https://github.com/mpcjanssen/simpletask-android

A college professor taught me about Zotero during my last semester. Awesome tool, but I wish I learned about it years before. I try and teach every student I meet about it.

I'm not sure if you posted it anywhere, but would you mind sharing what technology you used for this? I would be very interested in contributing if it became open source.

Well this was over 200 words, so congrats! One day down.

Is Ghent car free? I don't know anything about the city.

The center is car free and around the periphery you can drive, but even on the outskirts there are still fewer cars than one might expect if you are familiar with similar sized American or English cities.

Just to add my experience, I feel like it's hit or miss. It seems like I get notifications with zero issues. Then I'll randomly have a week or two in a row where I don't get notifications or get 50% of them. Not sure why this happens, but I use Discord as my only means of contact with multiple people.

Interesting. For what it's worth I am using Discord on Mac Safari (not TP), Win Chrome 69 (dev channel), and iOS. In one year I have not had any of the issues mentioned above. Perhaps using the desktop app can introduce problems.

Yeah it just doesn't work well for me or my friends we are always complaining. I don't know why and I don't really want to have nerd out with my chat app (just want it to work!).

As for using Slack, I am too scared of dropping 3am Friday/Saturday messages in my work chat instead of my group chat so keep separate apps.

So do you work remote to live in a low cost of living area? Just curious how many big salary opportunities are in low cost of living areas.

I work remote because I demand flexibility. I live within 20 minutes of one of my org's offices, but prefer the ability to work from where ever I want. I just happen to enjoy the low cost of living locale I live in.

I completely agree there is no best desktop. I think the statement is better suited as Ubuntu is the "best desktop experience for the average person". I think that's what most people really mean when having this discussion. The average person part is sort of implied.

Problem with that is that "average person" isn't defined by any kind of metrics or anything, it's just whatever the developer imagines it is, which is usually some drooling moron caricature (when they don't want to provide a feature) or themselves (when they've written something that harms others' workflows).

What's an average person, though?

We're keeping this aura of mysticism around customized computer setups (obviously also because there's commercial interests against them).

I think many "average" people would have no greater difficulty learning a fast, simple, customizable mail client instead of Outlook for example.