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I found myself muttering as I scrolled along, "I am almost certain there is extensive documentation of the source of each of these in obvious locations, probably wikipedia." This was more valuable as a list of utilities (etc.) tha
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I try to do that, and if I get the robodialer pause I do hang up without any preamble. But some of the sales scripts are unnervingly similar to normal work conversations I have any day of the week. Those folks? They get the “no thank you” f
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For what it's worth, this article has given me ample moral justification for the disdain I show for cold-callers and relationship-based sellers alike (though typically I'll be openly hostile only to the first group): I don't
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I've watched Logseq (note app) go from a perfect little browser-based app that did exactly what I wanted--block-based markdown notes synced through git--to an app with dozens of features that are pure bloat for me that I can't use
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Alternate possibility: "We're beginning to see that this path isn't going where we thought it would so we're going to extract as much value as we can before it crashes into mundaneness."
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That's just it: I wouldn't trust myself to be expert enough to do it properly. That, of all the things I might be asked to experience in life, begs for a knowledgeable, caring expert. You're right, of course, but that raises
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My bio father (he was not a part of my life, which is important to note when you get to the end of this comment) lived to 89, for certain values of "lived". He had long ago exhausted his ability to support himself financially, he
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Terrible day to be a very specific kind of literate.
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The sheer number of these things that are going to get shot by angry Miami drivers ...
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A lot of these tools aren't going to have this kind of value (for me) until they are operating autonomously at some level. For example, "looking at" my inbox and prepping a bundle of proposed responses for items I've bee
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Off-topic, but the US is, oddly, a bit of an outlier compared to some of our cousins on the other side of the Atlantic, where buying one can be an over the counter transaction. It's weird to be in a situation where the US is more res
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> Currently, these websites are outliers created by individuals who care deeply about the reader's experience or by companies willing to invest extra effort. We need more of them. The premise is deeply flawed. Richness is not a sign
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Yep, and she's simultaneously magical and awful. Just a perfect cat. She came out of a storm drain as a very, very young kitten, so her wiring is probably all sorts of messed up.
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We have an almost pure-black void that screams bloody murder at everything--pick her up, screaming; walk in the room, screaming; give her food, screaming--but cuddles more aggressively than any cat I've ever heard of and purrs nonstop
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Thing is, it didn't even try to answer my question about switching. It was indignant that there was any connection to switch . The conversation went rapidly off course before I--and this is a weird thing to say--I reassured it that I
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I'm not sure which part in the chain is responsible, but the Kagi Assistant got extremely testy with me when (a) I was using Claude for its engine (hold that thought) and (b) I asked the Assistant how much it changed its approach whe
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No and, currently, no, though Asahi has the accelerated graphics and an x86 compatibility layer sort of working now, so I imagine that will come soon enough. The usuals are there, like Libreoffice, though I use browser-based MS Office too.
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Counterpoint: I've been on an M2 Macbook running NixOS-via-Asahi-installer for about a year, and I've run into maybe 2 applications that I cannot find in the Nix repos or flathub. I have a stable, fast, long-lasting machine runnin
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Depends if you’re looking at supply or demand side. I’ve been hesitating to look at a new stove because I’m terrified that I’ll find a bunch of capacitive touch buttons rather than proper knobs. I think the difference with appliances, thoug
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I don’t think touchscreens were ever “in” except as a cost-saving measure by manufacturers, especially in the car space.
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That by itself raises an interesting editorial question. Apple (like most big companies) doesn't do things randomly re: high impact public communications like this. I'm curious what made the Mac mini a product that merited showing
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In a strange way, yes, with the premise that the world is otherwise the realm of uncreative, uninspired people. But the comment was addressed more at the odd lifelessness of the imagery.
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Oh I think they're very well done and very pretty! But lately this discomfort has started to creep in, as you note. Like something you'd see in a WALL-E spinoff: everyone has left the planet already but Buy n Large is still puttin
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It's a strange conflict. So much of their other stuff is about togetherness mediated by technology (eg, facetime). And their Jobs-era presentations always ended with a note of appreciation for the folks who worked so hard to make the l
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The weird thing about these Apple product videos in the last few years is that there are all these beautiful shots of Apple's campus with nobody there other than the presenter. It's a beautiful stage for these videos, but it'
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As a hack, this is great. As a thing I would actually use? Very, very unlikely. - I would never use a random QR code in public and I wouldn’t ask anyone else to. - Pranking seems like an issue. - If I know someone, they’ll text me they’ve a
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Meanwhile, my feed is photographers, linux people (because of course), and a weird confluence of unobjectionable academics. I saw what you're describing in my brief visit to the Lemmy world, and I absolutely know that there are hostile
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My almost post-social media life has been interesting. I ditched Twitter, came back to it briefly, then ditched it again when it was purchased because I found my mental health growing increasingly fragile with the constant outrage, the need
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8pm - Hillary shows as having a 99% chance of winning the presidential election. 9pm - Hillary has a 0% chance of winning. Turning rapidly changing and imprecisely known information into a widget was just one of their astonishing number of
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Aside from never, ever, ever using the NYT for elections after "the needle" debacle in 2016, I have been utterly unimpressed with the NYT more broadly. Their average, day-to-day journalism--and especially their political journalis

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