nicbou

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by nicbou 1y ago
I think that normalising LGBT and its symbols was a necessary step towards acceptance. If it's still a controversial idea to some, it's on them.
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by nicbou 1y ago
Fridges and televisions for sure. They also preload phones with third party bloatware.
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by nicbou 1y ago
Would one of the combinations make it acceptable?
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by nicbou 1y ago
Samsung is notorious for adding ads to products you have already purchased, and for many egregious privacy violations. Their appliances are also very unreliable. In general, it's just not a trustworthy company.
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by nicbou 1y ago
The Surface Go 2. I wanted to combine my MacBook, my notebook and my books to reduce my pack size, since I travel a lot. It spent a full 24 hours doing software updates. Then I realised that nothing kills the joy of sketching like the file
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by nicbou 1y ago
The iPad Mini is wonderful with Notability and Procreate for writing, and Instapaper and some ebook app for readings. Mine is a completely silent and disconnected device that packs lighter than books and art supplies.
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by nicbou 1y ago
And any hardware from Samsung, for entirely different reasons.
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by nicbou 1y ago
DarkModeBuddy uses the Mac's light sensor. It works so well that I wonder why it's not how the OS works. I don't care if it's sunny outside. Rainy days in Germany can get quite dark long before Night Shift kicks in.
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by nicbou 1y ago
This "one line per paragraph" writing style is so grating. Call me petty, but I struggle to read anything written in that format because it sounds like a pointless LinkedIn post.
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by nicbou 1y ago
You should brag. This is a great shot! I could hardly keep my binoculars on target without a tripod.
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by nicbou 1y ago
They're doing EU support for iPhones syncing Wi-Fi networks to Apple Watch
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by nicbou 1y ago
It's hard to know where your work ends, and where the AI's work begins.
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by nicbou 1y ago
You're right, but I have to say that the Berlin immigration office has greatly improved in the last two years. The wait times are getting a bit more acceptable. The biggest challenge now is housing those newcomers. The housing situatio
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by nicbou 1y ago
> I've met many people on my travels who went to Europe on tourist visas, got work and then got to stay legally later. That's completely legal for some nationalities, at least in Germany. §41 AufenthV allows people from certain
825.
by nicbou 1y ago
A bunch of people are going to become "acceptable risk" and "cost of doing business". Companies will opt to get it 95% right for cheap over getting it 100% right, and for 95% of the population, it will be good enough.
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by nicbou 1y ago
I live in Berlin and I am self-employed. I earn a living from simplifying German bureaucracy for immigrants. I am quite stereotypically left-leaning, and hostile to greedy behavior and "move fast and break things". I mesh pretty w
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by nicbou 1y ago
The images are AI-generated, and the text had a lot of LLM markers like emdashes and "it's not X, it's Y". Did you create any of this yourself?
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by nicbou 1y ago
I started this website to surface and summarize information that just did not exist on the internet before. This work is still needed, even if AI captures half of the value I create. If I wanted to build software that I charge for, I have a
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by nicbou 1y ago
It's the abandoned shopping mall of the internet. All dead save for a few properties.
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by nicbou 1y ago
I had to make up for it. This year was a huge diversion from my usual work as I scrambled to monetise properly. I spent a lot more time on topics that bring revenue, instead of purely optimising for usefulness as in the past. It had a good
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by nicbou 1y ago
This dismissive tone does not encourage pleasant conversation. Mind the website’s guidelines.
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by nicbou 1y ago
I am not American. Adults with obligations are harder to get into the same room. When you do it regularly, you have to get better at it. Sometimes you also need to know who will be there because if half the group flakes out, the logistics f
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by nicbou 1y ago
I prefer to invite people individually, and create a group chat with those who confirmed. Nothing is more demoralising than 24 hours of people saying they won’t come, in the group chat, right before the event. My flake rate is close to zero
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by nicbou 1y ago
I earn affiliate income on https://allaboutberlin.com . It allows me to help far more people by keeping everything free. It's been my main source of income for a few years now. AI is changing the game - it halved my traffic
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by nicbou 1y ago
I deliberately avoided fancy coffee because I didn't want to raise that bar and add a chore to my mornings, but last year I finally caved in. A friend asked incredulously "why wouldn't you want to enjoy something more?"
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by nicbou 1y ago
The world is full of little utilities that are useful to enough people to feed someone. In their quest for scale, a lot of entrepreneurs forget all these little opportunities that could pay their rent. My industry has more than I have time
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by nicbou 1y ago
Aggressively shutting down distractions. Now my phone charges in a drawer in the other room, and it’s in focus mode most of the time. I don’t get emails on my phone. I barely get any emails anyway. I stay logged out of websites. I use ad bl
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by nicbou 1y ago
Have you tried paper books? For reasons I can’t explain, I found they made me read even more.
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by nicbou 1y ago
This is all I want. My Macbook Air is already stupid fast. Now I want the OS to support working faster. I would love nothing more than a ton of small quality of life updates.
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by nicbou 1y ago
Or they are neutered by a software update, or stop working when the company shuts down the servers that make them work.

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