goobatrooba

But these can't be the same model - the model is far too demanding to be part of regular chrome for most people.

Either Google changed the text or you editorialised it a tiny bit - just for all others that got excited, they mean 16GB VRAM. So a premium graphics card requiring a >2500€ device is the minimum to run this.

Still progress, but not quite democratic yet.

Weird though that Google might be cannibalising it's own AI subscription service?

I've moved to Migadu a few years ago for more or less the same reason, but pre AI - Google's unrequested filtering and sorting made things actively worse on my daily chaos. Moreover the eternal threat of Google cutting the cord for any non-defined infraction and locking you out of your own life is crazy. I still use drive and other Google features, but my email is just an account login and nothing more.

Migadu has been a breeze, very sane and transparent payment model, human support, infinite domains and accounts (!). What I really miss are calendar features which are just underdeveloped, but it seems mostly the Microsoft and Google have ruined that area by doing whatever they want.

I like the instructions Migadu gave for copying your emails over - just open thunderbird and copy or move everything from one account. I put everything in an Archive folder so can find it if ever needed. Just insanely pragmatic and it worked.

That's a rather odd point. One country has left the EU due to a very narrow 'exit' vote, so it's not anyone's prison. Across surveys the EU enjoys broad support, often even more so than the national government.

Clearly not everyone loves the EU but the majorities are very much in favour (and certainly this is the case among the people who actually understand politics, economics, etc.).

While not wrong, your perspective is very simplistic. A company gains massively from strong stock performance - they can issue more shares to raise capital, give handouts, take loans at better rate, pursue M&A with stock payment, ... So anyone who buys stock they ethically disagree with is certainly supporting that company - and inversely not using those funds to the advantage of other companies that they find morally more appealing.

Well this used to be the rule until it was changed just a few months ago on anticipation of this very SpaceX IPO.

Just to stress that the world is larger than the US. Zoning exists pretty much everywhere and the reasons for its introduction were diverse and mostly about quality yof life, citizen health, or city esthetics (keeping polluting businesses out).I have no view on whether what you're saying is true for the US, it is however definitely false for most other places.

Maybe that too is a native question, but there's a large scale between single user and 6000 tweets per second - most of our apps will never reach anything approaching even one save a second. So where to draw the line? I do far have gone the sqlite route for my hobby apps as it's so easy to handle and doesn't require setting up two docker containers for a single app. Am I drawing myself in a corner in case my apps ever do become relevant?

Nice ideas, it just misses amounts. And of course there may be nuances of technique missing, e.g. low or high heat. So it might work best as a recap and starting point "how to vary m favourite recipe".

Pharma companies developing new molecules spend millions to patent all chemicals close to their target chemical, to avoid that a competitor might be able to jump in with a similar product. This is before they even know whether it works. If variation is cheap why not run directly 5-50 versions of the chip and see which works best?

I have an ergo for two years, used eight hours most days, and apart from the space bar the keys still look good. Do you by chance have quite sweaty/greasy fingers or eat while typing? I can't see any other reason why the keys would wear that quickly.

Bol, coolblue, Amazon.Com.be or .nl all deliver to Germany. Actually I often do Amazon arbitrage, same coffee machine fun the same warehouse may be 200€ cheaper on Amazon.fr than in any German shop including amazon.de. and the Belgian store has less choice but often better prices. Makes no sense but true.

I think s/he meant that if you earn 30k it's easy to be tempted by crime because the numbers are big. What night not tempt a Google engineer might tempt a telecoms infrastructure key from Anytinytown, Moldova/Romania/...

That said I don't think there are many good software engineers that earn less than that in Western Europe. Net maybe, but certainly not gross, and if it's net that covers anything from pension security to healthcare, meaning you can live a decent life in most places.

As a European I have to admit I am these days more worried about the US than China. See yesterday's article about the US government forcing Microsoft to give them lists of Dutch government officials. Utter madness. At least the Chinese mainly care about the money and power levers, the US about strange worlds of revenge and manipulation, trying to change or influence your government. E.g. which of the two countries has put crippling personal sanctions on staff of the international criminal court?

Honestly I'd love to love the US again, but basically after Obama things have just gone down and down and no soul will trust the US again in the next generation or two.

"much" is an unqualified and unjustified word here. It definitely happens but this would at most affect a tiny fraction of donor money.

Many of the NGOs have strict no-bribery policies, else they would not receive support from bodies like the EU (which is the biggest humanitarian donor on the planet).

In some cases the choice may be between "letting people starve" and "feeding people but the local warlord extracts some benefits" but these are rare and only the worst crisis contexts (think South Sudan, DRC).

But do these prices apply if you use a third party go-between? I would expect they then charge their own prices?

Oh it's about the IDE. I thought it's about this email I got just today, a bare week after subscribing:

> We wanted to let you know about changes to the usage limits included with your Google AI Pro subscription.

> What's changing starting today, 2 0 M a y 2 0 2 6 :

> Usage limits in the Gemini app: For the Gemini app, we’re introducing compute-based usage limits that factor in the complexity of your prompt, the features that you use and the length of your chat. Your limit will refresh every five hours until you reach your weekly limit. As an AI Pro subscriber, you’ll enjoy a usage limit four times higher than non-subscribers.

> AI credits: The product-based usage limit model is also rolling out to other products, starting with Flow and Antigravity. You can extend your limits by purchasing AI credits. While 1,000 AI credits will no longer be included as a benefit in your base plan each month, the new usage limit model that we are introducing should allow you to maintain the same experience as you are used to. To learn more about how to use AI credits, please visit our Help Centre.

So the app is more restricted, the "free" (actually paid) monthly credits are gone, and somehow this will "maintain the same experience as you are used to". All while releasing ever more token costly models that barely move the needle on qualify.

A very strange project. I can see the reasoning to get something familiarly premium from a cheap source, but surely in any developed country your only ever starting point should be tap water. Water that has been bottled months ago and been in (usually plastic) bottles for months can never be better than your local aquifer even if the source is harder. Gets more difficult of course if you are in a big city and your main source is recycled water from the local facility, but even then a little osmosis machine or simple filter will give you a better water than any Don Perrignon or Evian.

I honestly don't know why there is so much Jolla love here. I backed their tablet Kickstarter project early on and never got a product. Only a series of "it will take a bit longer" emails that got more spaced out and then stopped altogether. And then they made very strange deals for russian support/carriers/... I can forgive losing money but I feel they just strung us along. And then the jolla-russia link is just scary and I struggle to believe this has been fully resolved and all their liquidity problems (which drove them initially to Russia) are gone?

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/01/jolla-cut-ties-russia/

https://jolla.com/content/uploads/2023/11/Former_leadership_...

All very confusing.. this summary captures it well. But then the company also wants to run the AI route..

> Jolla's return to the smartphone market follows a turbulent decade during which the company nearly collapsed, pivoted to licensing its Sailfish OS platform, severed business ties with Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, and later reorganized under the new corporate structure Jollyboys. The reset produced a device assembled in Salo, Finland that combines mid-range mobile silicon, a Linux-based operating system with optional Android app compatibility, and a modular back cover system designed to encourage hardware customization.

...

> Jolla is also developing Mind2, a compact AI computing device intended to function as a privacy-preserving personal assistant that operates primarily on local hardware. Rather than transmitting email, calendar, or document data to remote servers, the system is designed to ingest personal information locally and answer queries directly on the device.

https://www.techspot.com/news/111540-jolla-sailfish-pitches-...

One issue seems to be also that there are means dead plugins, not updated for years but still available. Does that mean they are especially stable or just no longer maintained? I don't know but ili applied the same rule I would for FDroid or the play store - not to install anything that isn't actively maintained.

Also I can't tell how to prevent plugin updates. As long as you rely on a known safe version I guess there is never any real risk.

While not wrong I'm not sure the publisher is uninterested as they are a competitor.

E.g. this is how they criticise obsidian - suggesting that a default location backup is somehow worse than default cloud sync is just very strange to me.

Obsidian stores your data as a folder of plaintext files on your local computer. You are thus responsible for securing this folder and making it available on your other devices. This is particularly difficult on mobile platforms that lack access to a robust file system.

I don't understand the hate here. Obsidian is a well working product that scratches many inches. Plugins allow to scratch some more itches, but are not mandatory.

I am using several plugins and would prefer not to, but they allow me to bring the (mobile) app closer to what I want (notably templater and homepage as I want to get a new daily note sorted in monthly folders, which obsidian doesn't seem to allow natively).

Maybe an alternative would also be to more explicitly allow users to create their own scripts - but maybe that's possible and I just don't know.

Overall I think the key challenge with obsidian use is that it offers too much, and there's a lot to fiddle with. While it will bother the power users probably best would be to just move on many ways to "default" behaviours and e.g. make many of the "core plugins" just settings to make the list lsss overwhelming.

All salary discussions need a cost of living context. Yes in Europe you earn a bit less but the public services are much better than in the US and one emergency (r.g. healthcare) won't ruin you as it's mostly a public system.

I'll take a Euro salary and qualify life over a FIRE-typs salary and daily fear of falling into the abyss any day.

Grossly incorrect and unfounded. There are no Googles there, but there are plenty of mid tier companies delivering quality products. For a blatant example see e.g. Shelly in Bulgaria. Or depending on how you count South, e.g. Vinci or Eni or car producers in Italy.

And not everyone needs to succeed in industrial household names, that e.g. much of southern European economies come from tourism is not a bad thing.

There are plenty of polish companies, but like in Germany many are more in the middle of the spectrum, so they might be well known in their sector but not much beyond. I've seen e.g. plenty of polish building materials and furniture across shops on western Europe.

I'm sure that some people claim that but I would be grateful for evidence that solidarnosc received significant material support from the west.

Not to forget tens of billions in EU subsidies. Not trying to diminish the polish efforts, but not every country gets this opportunity of massive, predictable transfers without much conditionality.

I wonder how far Poland would be without the years of PiS corruption.

That's just bad outdated practice. It leads to cramming and less remembering than of the demand is for students to do work and show learning and effort throughout the year.

The Netherlands has a great agricultural economy, but is it really so innovative/sustainable ? Half seems to be giant greenhouses and the other half just the same planting the Germans or french do, maybe on larger fields.

Definitely far ahead on the curve on "how to grow things efficiently in a greenhouse", but then there are usually giant heaters next to those..

Why even kill the grasses. If you can now and then directly plant would that not allow still most grains/vegetables to grow and overpower the grass/green fertiliser?