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Does Kobo still crash regularly? Mine crashed several times daily on my Kobo reader and I gave up on the app and the device and moved on to Supernote and just reading PDFs on it.

I think the damage that Meta has done not only to children, but to all human beings alive and online today, cannot be put into monetary terms.

Meta should be destroyed and forced to stop all operations immediately. I think it would be quite an interesting wake-up call when we would then realize that... nothing of value was lost and the world will just go on - just a little bit saner and happier.

And Microsoft doesn't use Github to feed their own monsters? And why wouldn't Elon just use GitHub to feed Grok?

Is Elon maybe just living rent free in your head?

Voting has never worked to bring competence into the government. Exhibit A: All governments of the world, right now.

All these emails are written by AI nowadays and therefore they all sound he same. This is not a grand achievement or a sign of a great CEO.

I basically have to hit the edit function in Signal and correct typos in Every. Single. Thread. Every. Single. Day. It is infuriating.

This has been going on for years, so I guess when this guy claims this started at iOS 17, it seems to make sense.

The iOS keyboard really really is utterly broken. I'm glad it's not just me. I was already wondering if I should schedule an appointment with a doctor and check if I have early onset dementia or something.

I have scrubbed my account completely clean years ago and never use it for anything. When I log in once a quarter or so, just to check if someone sent me a message via the Messenger, all I see is soft-porn on my timeline.

German here. Root beer does INDEED taste like toothpaste. Disguting. :)

We Germans drink Malzbier, which is equally unhealthy, but at least it tastes somewhat OK.

I have updated as soon as possible and I if you asked me, I couldn't tell you what is different now. Everything I do on a daily basis still works exactly the same. If there are some weird more rounded corners somewhere now, I don't consciously notice them. The glassy effects look cool but after a week you don't even think about them any more.

Why should ads be a moat???

People hate ads. I have changed from ChatGPT to Grok and have felt absolutely no difference in my usage patterns, just getting better answers.

Every competitor has cloned ChatGPTs UI/UX and API, so hopping between competitors is a no-brainer. There is no moat.

Keychat or Whitenoise.

That is not the case any more. The "users" show up in the shape and form of malicious AI crawling bots that don't honor your robots.txt nor apply any kind of self-throttling.

That's a very diplomatic way of saying "we burnt all this money but we have not the faintest clue about how to proceed"

We can do something about it:

Just not use those services. X is addictive, but otherwise utterly unnecessary. It seemed useful about 8 years ago when you could get tech insights form industry veterans on a daily basis and then use them in your own company. Those days are long gone.

Just. Don't. Use. Those. Services.

Easiest life-hack ever for a happier and more productive life.

At this point I 100% see the EU as a failed experiment and I would love to witness a mass exodus of the slavic countries, and then Germany and France. Burn this thing to the ground. Nothing good came out of it.

Seems like this is very under-spec'd in terms of RAM. I have my doubts that this will run modern games at acceptable performance.

People warn to not hold smartphones near the head for too long due to too strong signal strenghts...

Is it not a concern to strap such a powerful defive that receives super strong signals right onto the head for hours??

This sounds it will be a milestone recorded in the history books in the chapter of the accelerating downfall of the US empire into hyperinflation...

There is no reason take statins, ever. They will destroy your muscles, then cause diabetes and thus indirectly kill you. They will prevent a heart attack by... four days.

If biomarkers are elevated, the question must always be, "why is this elevated", and "is there a natural change in habit and diet that can reverse this elevation".

Artifically lowering the marker with a drug is like pasting duct tape on a leaking pipe - the leak is still there and it will likely quietly get worse over time and then eventually kill you anyways.

I find it unbelievable that our society swallows any drug without second thought. You body produces cholesterol on purpose. There must be reason why it produces it. "Ah well, who cares, let's just throw in a wrench and make it stop producing the cholesterol" and hope for the best...

The opposite. Those children who are barred to own phones are forced to actually seek out an actual social life.

The digital illusion of a "social life" that smartphones create is neither social, nor living.

"adults use smartphones"

Is this so?

I think of it like the time when Hong Kong was flooded with Opium.

"adults smoke opium"

If you find that too crass, there are countless other ways to put it:

"adults eat sugar"

"adults watch TV"

Just because everyone in the mainstream does something, DOES NOT mean that this is a good thing or a smart thing to do.

In fact, we can easily observe that the few adults who are at the absolute top of their game, the most skilled, the most wealthy, the most powerful... well guess what? They DO NOT use smartphones. They don't tweet. They don't have profiles anywhere.

Except for GPS directions, there is actually very very little actual need to use a smartphone. At work, you have a computer for access to Google. At home, you have a tablet or TV or books or a Kindle for media consumption.

You can just swipe a credit card for payments.

A smartphone is not at all needed to be a highly functioning adult.

In fact - it actually prevents you from ever unlocking your fullest potential by removing any chance for your brain to ever catch a breath and just be bored for half an hour and hear your own thoughts.

I don't agree at all.

VERY few authors write consistenly good books.

If you liked one book by an author, it is not at all likely that you will like the other books as well. For example, Neil Stephenson is probably my favorite author alive today, but I hate almost half of his books.

The only author that I can think of where I read and liked every single book was Terry Pratchett, and that might have be a case of "I was still young and easy to impress".

Been using Boka for years.

Don't see any difference. I'm on a low carb diet and never eat things with added sugar anyways, so I assume that I could even drop toothpaste alltogether.

Also, my teeth have been yellow since as long as I can remember (and long before I got into coffee and tea) and the same is true for everyone in my family - and Boka didn't change that at all.

So... it is not doing me any harm, so far, but it is also not performing any miracles.

I don't know if I am all that smart, but I can attest that the one thing that made me happier beyond my wildest expectations is seeing my daughter see the light of the world and then spending every single day of her life, so far, giving my very best to raise her into an exceptional being. Seeing the milestones and progress that she makes is utterly incredible.

Our society will never get fixed if we don't raise children. It completely changes the game and your worldview.

I predict that NYC will now quickly turn into an absolute shithole of epic proportions to the point that people will have to flee the city. Similar to London.

I live in unbelievably hot and humid Singapore and buying physical books is essentially "not possible". Unless I blast the AC in my house 24/7, all books will eventually succumb to mould.

what we need is a unified search engine for non DRM bookshops so that I can just search for what I need and then be directed to whatever shop offers it at the best price or format.

In that case, I will own a surveillance phone JUST for the government ID app, and put that into airplane mode almost all the time, except for the few times per month where I need that shitty app.

The rest of the time, I will use a free phone.

All the apps that I will not be able to use any more? Doesn't matter. I am now old and grumpy enough to realise that phones are utterly evil and actually useless. Give me a camera, Google Maps (or better a non-Google alternative), Signal and a browser, and I don't need anything else.

Just swipe up from the address bar.

I love the update. OS looks super nice and fresh. I love playing around with it and interacting with the glassy elements.

Don't care what some ulta-rationale pixelpushers are trying to tell me. There is nothing in my day-to-day interactions with the phone that got degraded, but many things are more fun now.