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Happy new year everyone

Hope 2026 I can finish my todo list

- Got at least JLPT N5

- Work abroad

- Start working out again

From my experience, it's really hard to create an account and upgrade your account to PAYG. People saying you need that if you want to get the free tier VM because the free tier VM keep out of stock.

I need to email the customer support to make an account and even then to change my account to PAYG account, I need to register the credit card again, they keep rejecting my credit card even though that is the same credit card that I used for my account and the test payment go through.

After that I just give up and go with Hetzner (same you need to email CS) but I can start paying them immediately after the account created.

I mean the tools like notebookLM and MusicFX

Ah as usual, only available in the U.S

For me, if it need to manually tracked then I will absolutely forget or stop using it because too lazy. Unless you need to track for getting paid or something important.

The website looks clean though, good work!

If you only want to track what are you doing in your laptop or PC, I recommend activitywatch [1], it can detect when AFK and what app or web we open. I only run and forget it and check it later when I want to know what I'm doing this week/month. It's open source and I'm not affiliated with it, just a happy user.

[1] https://activitywatch.net/

> The calculating method is based on the latest available pricing data released by OpenAI at https://openai.com/pricing. However, please note that actual costs may vary and we cannot guarantee the price.

I guess in that case we can just use this as reference and calculate it by yourself

From https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-...

1 token ~= 4 chars in English

1 token ~= ¾ words

100 tokens ~= 75 words

Or

1-2 sentence ~= 30 tokens

1 paragraph ~= 100 tokens

1,500 words ~= 2048 tokens

For me, it's reproducibility and version control.

I started from using asdf [1] for managing golang, python and node. My main language is golang but often I need to run project from other language and different version especially python with packages have different version needed from pip i.e python 3.6 and python 3.8

I found about nix and it looks a good fit for my usecase because it not messing with PATH and not spawning container like docker but when I try to use it, I feel overwhelmed by it.

I use devbox now because it's easy to use but definitely will try flox. I welcome any tools that can help reduce nix complexity.

[1] https://asdf-vm.com

This looks similar to https://www.jetpack.io/devbox/ that build on top of nix too.