Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks?
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@afewbugs As someone who struggles with doing things on a schedule, IMO there's a sub-type of the second - the tasks that need to be done some amount of time after they were *last* done, whether or not that actually matched the schedule. I want to push a button to indicate that the sheets have in fact been changed, and the next reminder should be X weeks after that date, not end up at odds with the calender because they actually got changed 3 days after the reminder and the skew just keeps accumulating. I don't think I've ever seen this option in any scheduling software.
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@afewbugs @suearcher my favourite repeat offender is having unsealed chipboard or MDF edges butted against a tiled floor, which is tiled because you expect (a) people to spill liquids on it and (b) it to he mopped regularly... Those edges soak up gross liquids and the wood expands and rots... In my home I've run a fat bead of silicone caulk around the edges of the kitchen and bathroom floors! Also turns the acute 90° grime trap into two 45°s so easier to clean!
One of my favourites is the church hall stairs, which have a chrome rail and glass panel bannister. But they turn 180 degrees halfway up, so a large part of two of the glass panels overlap with a narrow gap, making them difficult to reach to clean.
And outside, where the ramp that goes from the church yard gate to the hall door cuts across two of the window niches, providing a lovely spot for autumn leaves to gather, with only a very narrow gap to get a broom in.
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@afewbugs There's one thing that I can somewhat, only a bit, accept as an excuse for talking about NextCloud in particular: It operates on CalDAV Standards and the Tasks part of that ... sucks badly. Like, terrible. I've not been happy with any of CalDAV synced Tasks because not only is support shoddy, but for exactly the reason you give.
However, NextCloud could – as any one of the stakeholders – try to push for something different or find ways to enable this use case better.
Case in point: What do people use for such tasks? Alarms are... hard to manage. Calendar entries are overwhelming. I try paper but I forget too often.
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@suearcher @kitten_tech This was all before my time so I didn't witness it, but we did have to live with the consequences when I was working there which were that the top floor of the building was unbearably hot every summer due to being encased in a hastily erected greenhouse
@afewbugs @suearcher @kitten_tech that sounds like the shiny PFI hospital in my home town. Tony Blair was *so proud* of the whole thing.
But they gave the atrium a glass roof three stories high. This did not impress the receptionists expected to work there when they were sweating so much they struggled to hold onto the phones. Neither were they at all happy with the absolute cacophony every time it rained, meaning they were shouting sensitive information to patients to be heard.
The rest of the building was similarly unsuitable. The doors were only just wide enough to get a hospital bed through. Porters had to work out complicated ways of opening the door, holding it with one foot, squeezing the bed through, and then going after it. They could have had extra space for wide, swinging doors, but they wasted so much on the damned atrium! -
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@afewbugs @suearcher @kitten_tech that sounds like the shiny PFI hospital in my home town. Tony Blair was *so proud* of the whole thing.
But they gave the atrium a glass roof three stories high. This did not impress the receptionists expected to work there when they were sweating so much they struggled to hold onto the phones. Neither were they at all happy with the absolute cacophony every time it rained, meaning they were shouting sensitive information to patients to be heard.
The rest of the building was similarly unsuitable. The doors were only just wide enough to get a hospital bed through. Porters had to work out complicated ways of opening the door, holding it with one foot, squeezing the bed through, and then going after it. They could have had extra space for wide, swinging doors, but they wasted so much on the damned atrium!@jetlagjen @afewbugs @kitten_tech
Considering it apparently takes 7 or 8 years to qualify as an Architect, you'd think they'd be taught some useful stuff at some point.
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@jetlagjen @afewbugs @kitten_tech
Considering it apparently takes 7 or 8 years to qualify as an Architect, you'd think they'd be taught some useful stuff at some point.
@suearcher @jetlagjen @afewbugs @kitten_tech
If something has won architecture awards, I know it's probably inaccessible for me at a sensory level while being "accessible" on paper cos our regulations are minimal.
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Org-mode has good recurrence, plus/minus all the decisions being right there in the text file.
It’s interesting comparing how org-mode and Todoist handle some things that aren’t obvious re. what we want the system to “just do”
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Org-mode has good recurrence, plus/minus all the decisions being right there in the text file.
It’s interesting comparing how org-mode and Todoist handle some things that aren’t obvious re. what we want the system to “just do”
It’s MORE interesting, cough cough, that there are *two* open and well established task systems with recurrence and it still isn’t managed by a big attempt. (Meaning org-mode and cron. )
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@afewbugs @suearcher @kitten_tech that sounds like the shiny PFI hospital in my home town. Tony Blair was *so proud* of the whole thing.
But they gave the atrium a glass roof three stories high. This did not impress the receptionists expected to work there when they were sweating so much they struggled to hold onto the phones. Neither were they at all happy with the absolute cacophony every time it rained, meaning they were shouting sensitive information to patients to be heard.
The rest of the building was similarly unsuitable. The doors were only just wide enough to get a hospital bed through. Porters had to work out complicated ways of opening the door, holding it with one foot, squeezing the bed through, and then going after it. They could have had extra space for wide, swinging doors, but they wasted so much on the damned atrium!@jetlagjen @afewbugs @suearcher @kitten_tech
Possibly an urban myth, but an award winning building in the US intended to be a university library never got used as such because the architect overlooked that books weigh quite a lot and the floor decks were not strong enough...
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@jetlagjen @afewbugs @suearcher @kitten_tech
Possibly an urban myth, but an award winning building in the US intended to be a university library never got used as such because the architect overlooked that books weigh quite a lot and the floor decks were not strong enough...
@EricBranse @jetlagjen @afewbugs @suearcher @kitten_tech
Pretty sure this one is myth. I heard it back in the late 80s about our college campus library, which was in fine condition
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@EricBranse @jetlagjen @afewbugs @suearcher @kitten_tech
Pretty sure this one is myth. I heard it back in the late 80s about our college campus library, which was in fine condition
@pseudonym @EricBranse @jetlagjen @afewbugs @kitten_tech
Yes, I heard it about the University of York library, which was built on the side of a slope and the story was that once the books were added it started sliding downwards.
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@jetlagjen @suearcher @afewbugs @kitten_tech yup, never mind the acoustics are horrific, there is mega sunlight glare or evil spotlights, or that the doors are bastard heavy cos they cheaped out on electronic door openers.
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@jetlagjen @afewbugs @suearcher @kitten_tech Hospital doors are apparently a big deal. When New Addenbrooke's was built there was stuff in the news about how many hundreds of different designs of door were needed for all the different functions.
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@vfrmedia @NatalyaD @jetlagjen @suearcher @kitten_tech that's amazing. The entire world, united in their hatred of one shitty door.
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@vfrmedia @NatalyaD @jetlagjen @suearcher @kitten_tech that's amazing. The entire world, united in their hatred of one shitty door.
@vfrmedia @NatalyaD @jetlagjen @suearcher @kitten_tech thinking about it, the same thing seems to have happened with the entire world hating one shitty president
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As a cleaner, married to a caretaker, I can assert that architects have never had to clean or maintain a building....
I am told that a reliable technique for learning new swear words is to ask a firefighter about architects.
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@vfrmedia @NatalyaD @jetlagjen @suearcher @kitten_tech thinking about it, the same thing seems to have happened with the entire world hating one shitty president
Sadly there seem to be quite a few people who like that shitty president, billionaires etc. Of course they're the SAME fuckers who like evil buildings, cos they never have to use them, they always have a nice cosy vintage style office with perfect for them temperature control, lighting, furniture, comfort and of course staff to run around after their every whim.
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Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks?
@afewbugs There is not. There was a third party plugin which added support for household-oriented chore tracking but it is unmaintained. Your further conjecture has the ring of truth, in my experience.
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The first type is the one that tends to get celebrated, awarded and rewarded, the second type are necessary for everyone to stay healthy and everything to keep ticking over, to create an environment in which the first type that impresses everyone can happen. At home we call these housework or care work, in a professional context we call them routine maintenance or "glue"
@afewbugs
I've been thinking about this in the context of sustainability. We do over-value the new, when most of the work in the world is maintenance.How do we as a society shift what we value? Sure, ditch patriarchy, but it's a value heavily ingrained in society.
UBI would likely do it - a lot of "unskilled" but essential work would pay a lot better.
But I also wonder if we could somehow shift also with media or education.
