No way. I reduced to 30 hours a week and I’m never going back to full time. I use the extra time for my own projects or other things that need to get done. Such a huge improvement in quality of life.
The butterfly keyboard was pretty terrible. They continued selling the model for years before finally removing it. Customers didn’t get any recourse until the recent lawsuit, but that only applies to certain US states. Apple still denies any wrong doing.
I got it to replace playing games on an Intel Mac, as Mac has become a worse platform for gaming (32bit dropped, OpenGL deprecated, no Vulkan support, and now developers would have to support Apple Silicon).
The plan was to use it mainly in desktop mode, but it has been really amazing for handheld gaming, that I game more on the couch and in bed with it than as a desktop.
Also Proton works really well and it is great to be able to boot in to a full Linux desktop environment. It’s so refreshing to have control of the device and to use it how I want.
On the day I received it, I had the feeling that my Steam Deck would end up closed in its case taking dust, once the “new gadget” sensations would have worn out. In fact, something similar happened to me a couple of years ago with Stadia.
But after ~6 months I am still in love with this pocket PC, well after the usual honeymoon.
I finally found the best way to play Paradox games and many indie gems right on my couch, reducing the friction that is involved in gaming while being “tied” to your desk.
Now, every 30-40-mins slot is the ideal moment for a gaming session, instead of mindlessly killing time with doomscrolling or casual activities on my phone.
I have been a Mac and iOS developer for 7 years now and am moving away. I feel like Apple treats developers really poorly from App Review process to forced updates of your hardware/OS/Xcode.
It’s already common to work part time as a software engineer here in Germany. I work 30 hours a week (6 hours a day) and have 75% of a full time salary. I actually get the same amount of vacation as full time since the vacation is based on working five days a week and not working 40 hours a week. There is no loss of benefits.
I don’t have any numbers, but some job postings will say full time, part time, or will have a minimum number of hours they offer. Some will also give a percentage range of hours they offer of part time to full time.
If the posting doesn’t say, I just brought it up during the initial call so we were on the same page before continuing the interview process. Most German companies didn’t have a problem with it, but I found that UK and US companies did.
Keep in mind working hours are fixed in your contract and it’s not unspecified like in the US.
I have a 2018 Mac mini and have problems waking it up from sleep. It was significantly worse when using the HDMI port on the Mac mini, I would get snow on the external display. Switching to USB-C eliminated the snow, but it still takes a long time for the monitor to receive the signal when waking up.
I have a 2011 MacBook Pro and had no problems on the same monitor.
I also had the opposite experience. I used Sourcetree for a while, but the performance became really bad, so I switch to Fork and have never looked back.
