Caveat: net optimistic on a grand time scale, under the assumption humanity becomes better only after it is humbled by other species first.
For me, the iPhone is the primary device I unlock and use in short burst 10's of times throughout the day. The iPad (Mini) is something I use more deliberately, like twice per day to read the newspaper and to watch some…
Now's as good a time as ever to ask this question. I have an iPhone logged in to my iCloud account. My wife has her iPhone logged in to her own iCloud account. Both of these iCloud accounts, plus a few more from my…
The average Joe, via AirPods and the like, in 2026 has access to vastly better audio than in 2005. In 2005, you had serious and expensive high end audio from the established brands (Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic etc.) and…
Every news headline or public statement these days is a gut punch. Only bad news, and nothing we (as "the general public") can do about it. Take this one. Ok, AI is going to ruin us all. But let's say we do our civic…
Just like WordPerfect enabled your mom to create a professional-enough cover letter, ChatGPT allows your mom to send you a more or less visually pleasing virtual birthday card of you wearing a party hat.
Both for simplicity and portability, I am a very happy user of https://firecore.com/infuse. I guess it's less full featured as Plex or Jellyfin (it still more than covers the bases for video: format support, different…
I stopped using Gemini a few months ago because it would often just (partially) reply literal nonsense to me. Think 2023 style ChatGPT. Something like “to open a document on your Mac click File > Open docurrrar” - like…
Especially Gruber is getting really tiresome. Almost devolving into a “look at them there fruity Yuropeeans with their healthcare and holidays”-level of tech commentary about any minor roadbump big-US-tech encounters in…
Unfortunately (but logically I think) the OSM-ecosystem is very Android leaning - so missing out on a large % of street walking smartphone wielding would-be mappers. Also, to get "basic non-tech regular people" involved…
If you’re a startup but you don’t have a blog post with some wishy washy doodah showcasing your own personal font, its cute glyphs, its heritage in 1800’s Europe and some translucent overlays showing how it’s definitely…
I own the Clara BW (C) and the Libra Colour (L). The C is sharper but the L looks more like a real book/paper. I believe as an artifact of the colour screen and it’s called “screenshot effect”. In the end, once you use…
5.6 Sol is a joy to use for "daily chat" as well. Compared to earlier OpenAI models it catches and corrects its mistakes very reliably. It also seems way smarter in tuning its replies to areas I am more/less…
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from…
I have AdGuard DNS set up (mainly use HaGeZi lists) for system wide blocking + AdGuard content blockers to catch some web ads and annoyances that cannot be caught via DNS. Works very well, it’s been a good long while…
Exact same question as you. When the new ChatGPT app dropped it suggested to me to set up a task something like (paraphrased) “every Monday read my Gmail and Slack an make a summary and task list for the week”. Why…
Even if Lightning was possibly a nicer or smaller connector; nothing beats a true industry standard. Makes the entire “what chargers and cables to bring to connect my stuff” question so much easier.
It definitely has the Vaporwave aesthetic. Would love to try and test this for usability.
Reading your reply, I think we have different definitions of “incredibly easy”.
I enjoyed OiNK and What.cd but ultimately their ratio requirements killed that joy. At some point the “market” was saturated. 99% of music was on the site, and every release had plenty of seeders and peers. Unless you…
> I generally suspect folks would be a lot happier if they'd had a few more crap jobs as a baseline! Fully agree. I cleaned a potato processing plant at night. They had to stop production for a few hours so there was…
I always understood it as "the further from the (dirty/basic) Earth, the more luxurious".
(At least in Europe) Toyota used to name their models "Sol", "Luna" and "Terra" as well. Sol had all the trimmings, Terra had the least. It sounded nicer than something like "Luxury" and "Basic".
I agree there might be a more or les arbitrary border, and it will probably be in different places for different people. However the original statement: > The CEO’s extracurricular activities are none of my business.…
Let's draw this to its ultimate conclusion. Would you subscribe to an excellent VPN service, if it was run by [insert universally abhorred brutal dictator from history here]?
Caveat: net optimistic on a grand time scale, under the assumption humanity becomes better only after it is humbled by other species first.
For me, the iPhone is the primary device I unlock and use in short burst 10's of times throughout the day. The iPad (Mini) is something I use more deliberately, like twice per day to read the newspaper and to watch some…
Now's as good a time as ever to ask this question. I have an iPhone logged in to my iCloud account. My wife has her iPhone logged in to her own iCloud account. Both of these iCloud accounts, plus a few more from my…
The average Joe, via AirPods and the like, in 2026 has access to vastly better audio than in 2005. In 2005, you had serious and expensive high end audio from the established brands (Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic etc.) and…
Every news headline or public statement these days is a gut punch. Only bad news, and nothing we (as "the general public") can do about it. Take this one. Ok, AI is going to ruin us all. But let's say we do our civic…
Just like WordPerfect enabled your mom to create a professional-enough cover letter, ChatGPT allows your mom to send you a more or less visually pleasing virtual birthday card of you wearing a party hat.
Both for simplicity and portability, I am a very happy user of https://firecore.com/infuse. I guess it's less full featured as Plex or Jellyfin (it still more than covers the bases for video: format support, different…
I stopped using Gemini a few months ago because it would often just (partially) reply literal nonsense to me. Think 2023 style ChatGPT. Something like “to open a document on your Mac click File > Open docurrrar” - like…
Especially Gruber is getting really tiresome. Almost devolving into a “look at them there fruity Yuropeeans with their healthcare and holidays”-level of tech commentary about any minor roadbump big-US-tech encounters in…
Unfortunately (but logically I think) the OSM-ecosystem is very Android leaning - so missing out on a large % of street walking smartphone wielding would-be mappers. Also, to get "basic non-tech regular people" involved…
If you’re a startup but you don’t have a blog post with some wishy washy doodah showcasing your own personal font, its cute glyphs, its heritage in 1800’s Europe and some translucent overlays showing how it’s definitely…
I own the Clara BW (C) and the Libra Colour (L). The C is sharper but the L looks more like a real book/paper. I believe as an artifact of the colour screen and it’s called “screenshot effect”. In the end, once you use…
5.6 Sol is a joy to use for "daily chat" as well. Compared to earlier OpenAI models it catches and corrects its mistakes very reliably. It also seems way smarter in tuning its replies to areas I am more/less…
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from…
I have AdGuard DNS set up (mainly use HaGeZi lists) for system wide blocking + AdGuard content blockers to catch some web ads and annoyances that cannot be caught via DNS. Works very well, it’s been a good long while…
Exact same question as you. When the new ChatGPT app dropped it suggested to me to set up a task something like (paraphrased) “every Monday read my Gmail and Slack an make a summary and task list for the week”. Why…
Even if Lightning was possibly a nicer or smaller connector; nothing beats a true industry standard. Makes the entire “what chargers and cables to bring to connect my stuff” question so much easier.
It definitely has the Vaporwave aesthetic. Would love to try and test this for usability.
Reading your reply, I think we have different definitions of “incredibly easy”.
I enjoyed OiNK and What.cd but ultimately their ratio requirements killed that joy. At some point the “market” was saturated. 99% of music was on the site, and every release had plenty of seeders and peers. Unless you…
> I generally suspect folks would be a lot happier if they'd had a few more crap jobs as a baseline! Fully agree. I cleaned a potato processing plant at night. They had to stop production for a few hours so there was…
I always understood it as "the further from the (dirty/basic) Earth, the more luxurious".
(At least in Europe) Toyota used to name their models "Sol", "Luna" and "Terra" as well. Sol had all the trimmings, Terra had the least. It sounded nicer than something like "Luxury" and "Basic".
I agree there might be a more or les arbitrary border, and it will probably be in different places for different people. However the original statement: > The CEO’s extracurricular activities are none of my business.…
Let's draw this to its ultimate conclusion. Would you subscribe to an excellent VPN service, if it was run by [insert universally abhorred brutal dictator from history here]?