hoyland

joined 1 year ago
[–] hoyland@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I guess it's not actually a widget, it's a silent notification (that shows current conditions plus hourly if you expand it). The actual hourly forecast in the app is like that too, but since you can see the percentage chance of precipitation, it's less annoying. I switched from the Norwegian Met Office to the NWS in the hopes Norway was just rubbish at forecasting the US, but it's the same--it's how Weawow maps the forecast data to icons.

I'd take a screenshot, but unbelievably Weawow doesn't think it's going to rain today.

[–] hoyland@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The one thing that bugs me about Weawow is that the logic for when to display rain or thunderstorms in the widget is way wrong. It seems to show the rain or thunderstorm icon at the slightest possibility of precipitation.

[–] hoyland@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I believe the Norwegian weather service (which is the default option, IIRC) does worldwide forecasting.

[–] hoyland@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Twitter had the Arab Spring as this odd formative event, where it suddenly became a source of news information. I think it's really hard to know how Twitter would have developed without that.

[–] hoyland@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

It doubly makes me roll my eyes due to the fact that a large reason why we’re even back in the office now was because the local government feeling that it was the duty of us office workers to support downtown restaurants/businesses.

I swear a significant chunk of my employer's motivation to get people into the office is that they're paying rent on it.