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I like the Sonos speaker. But the app is absolutely terrible and buggy. It takes quite literally a full minute to play a song initially and often times failed to load /play altogether. Oddly the app worked much better with my Apple Music subscription years ago and has been just getting progressively worse. Someone needs to provide a hack so I can just use Sonos like a regular dumb Bluetooth speaker tbh.

Just a matter of time before anyone can buy ad placements like Google Adsense and a walled app garden allows a customer to price match their car insurance when they type in “how do I get cheap car insurance?” into ChatGPT and openAI takes 30%. The future is here! I guess?

I was an early adopter with the original PlayStation VR. The screen door effect was an issue but the biggest one is that I couldn’t last more than 30 minutes before getting nauseous. Granted I get seasick and likely susceptible more than most but I really hope Apple have solved it for people like me. Either way Im pre-ordering as well.

Try this as I am the same YMMV: get an eye mask and do 4-10 mins of deep “belly” breathing (5s inhale through the nose, 10s exhale through the mouth, though I prefer exhale through the nose.

Looking forward to the update. I have the quick launch on my Apple Watch face complication… where I usually use it after I had initially fined-tuned the exercises in the app. My only bit of feedback is after a session on the watch it doesn’t always consistently show the before/after HR which then doesn’t consequently update other health metrics like HRV etc.. otherwise love the app and the watch app!

Huge fan of unwind! I have been using it for nearly a year.

Everyone is built different. 4 years ago my bloodwork came back with an extremely low level of Vit D (so low the dr. Said they’ve never seen it that low. I live in Canada and work in an office so not a big surprise. But the severity and frequency of flu/colds lead me to investigate further including doing a genetic test. Turns out I am genetically predisposed to low vit d absorption. With dr supervision I began megadosing 4-5000 IUs daily. As of my latest bloodwork which was 3 weeks ago my vit. D is still just below average. What I have noticed is that the severity and frequency of my cold/flu is much lower than what it was pre-dosing. I know this is not placebo because often in the past if I got the flu it would lead to pneumonia. Since dosing I have not had a single case of it. My 2 cents N=1.

I’m fortunate enough to have a an entire set from 1989 that my father bought for me and my older sister. I refuse to get rid of it. At the moment the set is in my old bedroom in my parents house but one day I intend to feature it prominently in my library.. it’s funny how one can get attached like that.

Netflix originally had a very healthy and diverse social ecosystem of reviewers. For some reason they decided to remove all comments and lengthy reviews for the thumbs up/down. Maybe it was because they didn’t want to hire mods but honestly it was a huge opportunity for Netflix to create a very sticky social media network that would be impossible to replicate and disrupt. Maybe because of hubris they thought that the studios would never catch up with the tech. I mean look at blackberry and Nokia - they never caught up to Apple but when you think of it as hardware vs software especially commodity cdn software after a decade it really comes down to either the content or social network effect. They missed on both.

IPhone 7 Plus user here. Have swapped the battery twice (the last time I did it myself). Still don’t feel the urge to buy the latest. I’m probably going to keep going with it until Apple stops supporting updates for it.

I’ve had a genetic test done, after being told that I have significantly lower than average vitamin d levels it turned out I’m genetically predisposed to low vitamin d and b12 absorption. So I have to supplement significantly more than what is normal.

After doing so, my colds have been far less severe then in the past. What made me go to such lengths testing myself was that I thought I was doing everything right and yet got pneumonia two years in a row.

So aside from testing your blood serum levels you should consider a genetic test to see how well you absorb vitamin d. You may benefit from above average dosage (consult your dr. Ymmv)

I had a genetic test done (not 23andme or other retail genetic tests) and it turns out I have genes that essentially cause me to have low absorption for vitamins d, b6 and b12 and vitamin e. According to my bloodwork I also had extremely low Vit d in the blood (way below average). I started megadosing and honestly I feel like a different person, when I got a cold before it would last for 7 days, and twice it led to bronchitis and then pneumonia this year since megadosing I’ve had two colds and both lasted no more than 2 days. So I’m not superman, I still get sick but the severity of the colds have been significantly lower than before megadosing.

I find it fascinating when there's still room for innovation in crowded seemingly done to death markets like running shoes. There's always a sub-niche to go after, in any sufficiently large market there will be power users that are totally willing to shell out $250 for a 4% improvement. Given that these shoes according to the article last for 200 miles that's a couple of marathons and couple months of training tops before having to be replaced. Reminds me of the Tinker Hatfield doc on the Abstract series on Netflix.

China now flexing its soft power...

This was one of the most fun reads ever. Personally I wouldn't like being on a plane all that much. I find flying exhausting, but having that wanderlust certainly made me really enjoy the destination once I got there.

Suppose all this points out is that Pinterest needs to hire Facebooks international growth team. Surely there are countries outside of say India where users are more prone to monetization, despite stagnating growth in the USA.

It all started when I was looking for a more substantial pen in general. I've always written with a Pilot V hi-tecpoint or some other roller ball like that and found the styling lacking and most of all hated the wasteful nature of plastic pens. The idea of refillable fountain pens was great, and the ones being made today are not like the leaky ones of the past.

So just searching around I landed on a pen store like Goulet Pens, STYLO, Wonderpens, Nibs.com etc and the Reddit community. Theres a ton out there. The big challenge though is that you can get sucked in really fast. The entire experience can become more about the pens than the actual writing and using of the pens. Nathan Tardiff (prolific founder of ink making company Doodlers Inks) is religious about this.

I would recommend studying your writing style a little bit first and understanding your main use cases. Do you need a pen for school? Do you write left handed? Do you want something to show off? Do you lose pens often? Do you travel a lot? How do you currently hold your pens? All of these questions will impact the pen(s) you should purchase and use. I use plural because you might need two pens for different colours, or for inks with different properties like an "eternal" ink that will never fade or a "fancy" colour.

For example if you're a student and write a lot for school you may consider the Lamy Safari line or Pilot Metro. They're not terribly expensive and you can get them in different colours and designs. That being said the Safari has a very specific section (the middle part where you hold a pen) that you may or may not like because it forces your hand into a traditional triangle pattern.

If you're looking for a status symbol you can't go wrong with a Montblanc - now there's a caveat here, most reddit forum types hate on Montblancs because they're expensive for what you seemingly get. However, I'll be honest I have numerous pens spanning all sorts of European, American and Japanese brands and the ones that consistently write all the time without hassle are my Montblancs. Not to mention the lifetime of the pen warranty. If you want different and unique and a piece of art, there's that too. I have a bunch Omas pens that are no longer made (Omas went out of business a couple years ago now) and they're like beautiful inspiring pieces of art between your fingers (now difficult to find and purchase and when you do expensive as heck).

There really is something for everyone but be careful it's easy to blow a budget here. The one thing I don't recommend is starting with cheap brands like Jinhao or HERO. You may have a poor experience the first time if these brands are your first and it will certainly colour your experience.

Sorry for the rambling note. Hope this helps and enjoy the journey!

I'm in my mid 30's and have been collecting fountain pens for a few years now. Not a a lot of vintage but I have a few rare limited editions and high end stuff not because of status or collectibility but because I love the materials and look and feel. To be honest, it's the tactility of it. Being all digital all the time makes me miss the closeness to the words when I'm actually writing with a pen and paper. And when you have this wonderful somewhat piece of art of pen and ink to write with it makes writing different - more emotive somehow. There are plenty of pens now that suit any particular style and budget which is great. It's a great hobby to be honest.

Chauffeur as a service in the near future with autonomous fleets.

Through an app request a Tesla to come pick you up, take you where you need to go, then drop you off and serve someone else after. Once you're ready to head back use your app and request a Tesla or your Tesla to come pick you up again. Pay as you go or monthly subscription like ZipCar.

You could potentially own the car, and let it be a revenue source picking up others while you're not using and Tesla manages the fleet and infrastructure. Or you might not own the vehicle at all and it's a Taxi.

I feel like I've used them all. OneNote, Notion.so, NotePlan, Outliner, Mac Notes, Scrivner, Evernote.

I personally seem to gravitate towards OneNote for pure note taking. I personally like Notion.so more for notes that refer to tasks, using Notionas more of a task management and organization app vs pure note taking.

Outliner is a great app for quick note taking in nested format.

Interesting how the cognitive behaviour model looks similar to the OODA Loop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop. Can general decision making be boiled down to a similar model?

A long time ago blackberry had this is in spades with its red flashing LED. Pavlov’s dogs response to it.. well before the red dot was invented.