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Yup, my friend has some of these that were custom made based on his ears. They seem to be much much better for him as a result. I don't believe they were inexpensive though, at least what he had made.

Ugh, that sucks. I had hoped my experience was a one off situation but I've heard from others over the past few years that they have had the same type of problem.

I previously wrote about how difficult it was to return and get a refund on a Remarkable 2. It was hell. I would highly recommend avoiding them like the freaking plague if you're at all on the fence, because it's a hellacious process to return one.

I also assume that if you were to ever need to use the warranty for any purpose that requires returning the product it's going to be the same thing and also awful.

Buyer beware.

I subscribe to Readwise, their Reader portion is awesome in that I can subscribe to RSS feeds, but it also gives you a feed email (and a library email, which would be like Instapaper) that you can subscribe to newsletters with and they go directly into your feed reader as an item to be read.

Worth it imo, to just have it all in one place.

This will absolutely get me to go back to Halide once iOS 18 hits and I can change the default camera that gets launched from the Home Screen button.

In 2025 I'd love to see "AI" disappear from usage. I know I'm not likely to get that, but damn if I am not tired of hearing about it. I've never wanted a dumb phone more than I have in 2024, or to get rid of my computers.

I've heard it's really important for bonded pairs. None of mine are bonded like that, but I still wanted to make sure I did the right thing and not make things worse than they already were.

I'd highly recommend others do it if possible just to be a little proactive in sparing our little furry critters some possible pain and suffering.

I had to say goodbye to one of my cats on Monday. I found out she had cancer on Thursday after she collapsed. Did enough to keep her around and not in too much pain over the weekend but Monday was the day.

I cried my eyes out before taking her to the vet for the last time and she came up to me and licked my face and nibbled. She was an extremely affectionate cat.

I brought her back home so the other two could see/sniff her because I didn't want them to not understand that she just disappeared. One of them is definitely more concerned than the other.

Cats are pretty amazing creatures and while not all of them are super affectionate (my other two aren't) they seem to understand a lot more than we give them credit for. Mine always know and understand when I'm not feeling well and show it in their own ways. I will miss the hugs and cuddles from the one I said goodbye to... I needed those hugs and cuddles this week but the one that would give them wasn't with me anymore. Tough times.

I would encourage anyone to take the time with their animals and give them attention and love. You never know when a surprise may come and you have very little time to say goodbye.

I wrote and maintained a tool that was sent to users when something went wrong.

Man was I always afraid and stressed that the tool meant to help users when they were already having a failure was also having a failure.

I've never been offered a better deal with Comcast/Xfinity for using their modems or hardware. Renting their stuff is $10/mo and a modem is $100, last I bought something like 5 years ago now, for a higher end one that supports gigabit service.

So, $100 or pay $10/mo forever, and over the past 5 years that $10 would be $600, or $500 saved by buying my own modem.

As someone who has very little experience working on a browser, but is interested in helping, could you possibly recommend where a dumb dude that wants to help could get started?

There's probably a huge influx of people trying to get involved now, which probably really complicates and muddies the waters right now as well.

Either way, congrats!

I believe the PS3 had an option to install Linux on it at some point. No? That would've made it a neat option for classes like this.

The biggest reason I'm moving away from 1Password is the abysmal support for Safari Profiles. It's so bad it's ridiculous.

Right now for instance I have a Personal profile, and a few work specific ones around admin, development, and my day-to-day work to split things off easily. I have 1Password unlocked in one profile and it works in that, but if I switch to any other profile it needs to be unlocked, then it tells me it needs to reload the extension. Reloading it doesn't do anything but break it again. I have to fully quit Safari then it works again for some unknown amount of time then falls apart completely soon after (probably laptop sleep or something like that).

Just a shitshow all around from 1Password anymore. How the mighty have fallen due to profits and investors.

I noticed a "Notes" section in password items. So, I guess in theory you could utilize those.

But my biggest one is wanting to store secure files. Think copies of a drivers license, signed documents or various certs and keys. That's not being covered here either for me sadly. It's not a super common situation for me so I can probably find an alternative app for that purpose.

Edit: Also for notes, I'd just password protect something in the Notes app. But that's just me.

FreeTaxUSA is pretty great. I've used it for 2 or 3 years now. Would definitely recommend, and it is getting better each year at making the process easier in my experience.

I tend to pay a little bit extra for services I don't necessarily need but whatever. Like Deluxe. It's way cheaper than what I would pay for a professional to do it, and still less than I'd pay for Turbo Tax or similar. As long as the quality of the app keeps going up and the price gouging stays out, I'll keep using it.

Yup, I miss those days.

I had computers from an early age, but being connected all the time has had a negative impact on me personally. I've started really paying attention and doing the "Digital Declutter" that Cal Newport talks about in his book Digital Minimalism.

I have very very few notifications pop up on my phone now and I'm experimenting more with leaving it at home when I go somewhere. Trying to add a bigger disconnection between me and my phone.

> If they want to adhere to said code of conduct, of course... which was made -- first and foremostly -- for and by softies to avoid altercation.

This is a really poor way to look at this.

Using this type of language is probably part of the reason the code of conduct exists.

People that work for free on something don't deserve this. No one deserves this. I'm particularly angered by this type of thing because I deal with horrible colleagues all the time. I'm working on getting away from this situation but the job market is not easy to navigate right now. No one should have to feel like the work they do is negatively impacting their mental health because some random on the internet has forgotten they're talking to another human being.

As an IT and data analytics manager in ed tech, I agree, there is no money in ed tech. I make a customer support rep salary. It's ridiculous.

Previous discussion from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40361128

Man... the world sure makes me depressed some days.

Today I've hit the limit of stupid on the internet, time to go home and go for a walk and not think about how absolutely awful some people can be.

Not that I've ever had a need for this project, but, Diego, you're a terrible human being.

I also use US Mobile and have been generally quite happy. I need a much cheaper plan than the parent post though. I think I'm at about $18/mo which gets me the unlimited minutes/texts and 6gb of data per month. I'm typically on wifi so tend to use about 1gb a month of data, the extra data is mostly for the rare occurrence that my internet is out and I need to tether for work.

Support tends to be wishy-washy but each issue I've had has been resolved, so I can't complain really. I think I've had two issues in the 3 years I've been with them. Maybe 3 conversations with support total? The third was getting assistance flipping to eSIM as it had just rolled out at the time so there wasn't a super clear solution (to me) at the time.

Oh, I'm on the Verizon network, and have never seen deprioritization. I am in a small town though, so I'd be shocked if I was going to encounter it, probably larger cities it becomes a thing.

Interesting, I'll have to take a look at that when I have some time. I may have missed that the first time around. Thanks!

That totally makes sense. I'm not saying there aren't advantages to what is being done, but what is being done does add a level of complexity to it all.

I think there is a valid reason for tools like Pharo to exist, I don't know the answer to how to improve the situation outside of a (selfish) desire to see better beginner documentation that talks about using it for people that have zero knowledge of Pharo and similar tools. Explain it like I'm 5 type stuff. I suspect it all becomes easier once the general primitives are explained but until they are there's an inscrutability to it.

I don't think that's necessarily what the OP is saying. I agree with OP.

Finding documentation to learn to use this absolutely obscure system is near impossible. I seen an announcement about a Pharo release a couple years ago and was like "huh, that sounds cool." Proceded to download it and had no clue about anything. It is not at all like any other IDE.

Learning it might not be hard, but when the IDE is absolutely different from anything else you've ever used, combined with very little documentation that speaks to how to do the basics, it can be a very mysterious and difficult thing.

Rust is like any other programming language, in that you write code in a file, then compile it. Yes, there's other stuff to deal with in between and it can get way more complicated. But the IDE is the real culprit, combined with documentation for a developer to learn to develop real applications with, that makes Pharo infinitely more difficult in my personal opinion.

I guess to simplify this a little with an edit. If you already know another programming language, learning Rust is not fundamentally different. Some parts of it will be difficult like the borrow system and stuff that's very Rust centric. But in most ways it behaves like a lot of other languages in terms of using it at a bare bones basic level. Pharo is ... otherworldly in that nothing else really compares, you have to learn a completely different paradigm for how to program it, and that is the difficult part imo.

The biometric stuff is simply allowing access to the keys. It’s not being used for anything else.

Your face or fingerprint being out there isn’t a concern because that’s not, ultimately, the thing being used to generate the keys or anything.

It’s an ease of use function.

On iOS for instance, as I understand it, these are being stored in iCloud Keychain. Which has a password. The derived key for iCloud Keychain is stored in such a way that the system has access if you allow biometrics to be used.

Biometrics then simply allow access, in essence, not part of the encryption process. The password for iCloud Keychain is necessary to add those items on a new device. Your biometrics aren’t stored by Apple anywhere other than in the device.

Honestly I am blown away how few people on this site understand how this stuff works. It’s fascinating and I’m surprised more people aren’t interested in understanding it. But so many people assume the biometrics are being used in the encryption process and that if your face is somehow stolen your whole life is doomed. These features have been on Apple devices for what.. a decade almost at this point? More? The process for Face ID is the same as Touch ID. Developers make zero distinction between the two in code, as that whole process is passed off to the system and effectively results in a bool value (or access to the secure item requested). At no point does a developer ever get your biometrics data.

I don’t know how Android or Windows do it but it is similar enough I suspect.

The FUD around passkeys feels like some sort of propaganda campaign to discredit it.

This thread seems to be getting some views. I'm looking to break into the Rails work, but it seems rough trying to get into a job doing Rails work as a junior, not quite senior role. I have other development experience, primarily in Ruby and Objective-C.

Any advice? I know the job market is a bit of a rough one right now as well.

That seems reasonable. But nice catch. I didn’t know that limit existed. I have 6 lol. Long way to go before that limit impacts me

Nice. I think I might keep an eye on potential rumors of a Libra 3 or something like that given that the Libra 2 came out in 2021, that's nearly 3 years old.

But that gives me time to save a few buckets as well. For now the Oasis is working well enough, just it'd be nice to get away from some of the paper cuts.

Fastmail has been about the same for me with speed of response. I don't have to reach out to them often, but when I do it's always quick.

They also don't have a limit on domains. I haven't seen any price gated functionality or any limits. I don't have 12 domains, but I do have a handful and it all works quite seamlessly.

I have been with Fastmail for probably a decade or more now. Worth it.

Got it, thanks!

It seems it's between two devices, the Libra 2 and the Sage, but I keep hearing the Sage has worse battery life (sort of the downfall of the Oasis for me as well). I just like using Calibre since I get a lot of epubs from places like HumbleBundle and other book bundles. These always have issues with the Kindle, like covers going missing.

I'd love to get something a little less fickle for my use case and it does sound like the Kobo devices might get me there. I just really like the Oasis from a materials, size and general usage.