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by zeumo 8d ago
Absolutely agree. Note that modern flip/soapbar phones (Commodore, KaiOI) usually support some social media, including WhatsApp. Banking apps are a problem though, and really contribute locking everyone in the iOS/Android duopoly,
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by zeumo 8d ago
It's kind of cool, I like that there are people trying to do something else, but I don't how it's "minimal" or discourages heavy use. It's an Android phone, with pretty decent specs. Nothing is stopping you fro
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by zeumo 10d ago
> they're also (mostly) worse for cyclists and pedestrians For cyclists, this is mostly true IMO (depending on implementation), but for pedestrians roudabouts are way better than traffic lights. In the absence of lights, pedestrians
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by zeumo 29d ago
People may not say that, but they are more likely to read the hand-crafted email over the LLM-generated one.
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by zeumo 2mo ago
Support for in-place website translations has been introduced in FF 118, initially for a handful of western languages, now 50 languages. There is also support for translating highlighted text and user text with about:translations. It's
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by zeumo 3mo ago
Why would Todd Durham have issues with a Lord Buckethead doing his thing in another country and continent, but apparently not with a guitar player named Buckethead in the United States?
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by zeumo 3mo ago
Neat, I'm wearing that exact shirt right at the moment I see this on the front page! I typed it out myself, and I liked the comment in Japanese text, which sort of added another layer of obfuscation (even though pasting it in an online
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by zeumo 3mo ago
They do also sell the data-hungry side-loaded app builder.
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by zeumo 4mo ago
Genuine question: what's the point of vibe-coding a personal, low-stake project? I do work on such projects, but the main goal for me is to learn, not the end result. If the end result is important, then there it's overwhelmingly
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by zeumo 4mo ago
> So, what you describe, is already in place. I guess mostly the "interfaces" are missing for you, or hard to discover maybe? That's definitely an issue. Mind you, the general population is not a developer. I'm a mech
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by zeumo 4mo ago
My take on the issue is that for most use cases where AI is pushed to the general public, a conversational chatbot is not the right tool, and the experience is bound to be frustrating. Remember when Copilot was basically a super-smart versi