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by loloquwowndueo 368 days ago
Cool, however “ Opening the Weather app every morning is too much effort” - is it really? And even if it was, don't most mobile OSes support having a Lock Screen weather widget you can check at a glance?
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This is a British thing called self-deprecating humour where he's already thought ahead to those who will critically ask, "wouldn't it be less effort to just open the Weather app every morning!?" and is jokingly acknowledging that yes, it would be, while signalling to other hackers this shared feeling we all know that we don't do these things to save time even if we say we do, we do them because they make us happy.
Oh that must be it then. British humor is totally beyond me.

(Just to make it blindingly obvious, I’m being tongue-in-cheek)

Most of the time it’s a solution looking for a problem with these recreational programming writeups, and that’s perfectly fine.

I also wrote a script that downloads my mum’s favorite series from public broadcasters, puts them in Plex and sends her a text message. Is it necessary? No, but it was fun.

It's fine, but it's also good to be honest with yourself and your readers.
He was being honest, it was clear tongue in cheek sarcasm
Yeah on my Android device I use an app called Breezy Weather [1] which shows me the temp, weather, and air quality on my lock screen.

I'd love to figure out how to get an hourly weather widget on the lock screen though.

[1] https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather