dwayne_dibley

This was my plan, but then I just switched to lost of chess.com

hahaha, this is how I found out too!

I think this is only going to get worse worse, as phones, tablets and PCs are broadly a solved problem these days (outside intensive tasks). Literally nothing wrong with the 15 year old imac I have except for apple no longer supporting the OS.

'"Working in trade" had a low social status' I think the push in the 90's to drive everyone to university also had a big negative impact on the status of 'working in the trades'.

I still use PICASA it works fine. However, when google severed the gdrive-photo linking it meant my photos didn’t automatically download from google to my PC. This is what killed google for me.

Yoto is genuinely one of the most underrated pieces of tech. 10/10 for me.

I wonder how many people in the UK have actually got their passport out to sign into these services. I'm guessing the average HN user isn't likely to do this, but I'd love to see the numbers for the general populous.

sure, but your reducing the likelihood of your real data getting out there if it's only stored in one place, rather than hundreds.

ah, 'newspeak'

Would you really put it past them? Gmail is after all a free service.

can confirm, my MS Surface did it all the time, something about shutting the lid before removing the power supply. I can't recall now, but it was the thing that make me switch back to apple.

This is what I'm banking on. I really want a new mini next year.

I wonder how all this will really change the web. In your manual mode, you a human, are viewing and visiting webpages, but if one never needs to and always interacts with the web through an agent, what does the web need to look like, and will people even bother making websites? Interesting times ahead.

Well this is lovely. Well done.

basically just a profile that can only access a single playlist or feed, with which content is added to by another account.

uncertain what to think about this comment. Are you living under a rock?

“Why are there no laws requiring device manufacturers to open source all software and hardware for consumer devices no longer sold?”

See stop killing games.

Similarly we use the borrow box library website to download the mp3s to the cards.

If you’re interested there’s a home assistant plugin for Yoto.

Just in case anyone is here for this. IMO Yoto >> toniebox

Jake (Yoto daily podcast guy) is a legend in our house.

I’d forgotten about this. What a banging feature that was.

'Based on a tip from a reader, we checked 18 of the 46 citations in the book.' Why not just check them all?

I fabricated this reply out of my brain.

But my real frustration is that with some thought the AI tools shoved in those apps could be useful but they’ve been rushed out and badly implemented.

and all in 4:3! Why, why microsoft.

I don’t understand how it’s not more useful to most people with copilot subscriptions in work. It has access to my works OneDrive, it really should be the most commonly used LLM

Does Mendeley perform any better here than it does with overleaf?

- AI is the primary audience for our writing

I've been wondering about this a lot lately, specifically if there's a way to optimise my writing for AI to return specific elements when it's scraped/summarised (or whatever).

I know this is ranty, but I really miss internet sites that aren't 60% adverts, 30% padding and 10% actual thing. This isn't anything more than an announcement page.

yup me too, which really defeats the point somewhat :(