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Reading books instead of news/blogs/social media. Thinking slowly and clearly away from all that noise. Using Zettelkasten notes. Looking at raw data (from sources I trust) to make decisions instead of trusting gurus/influencers/people with an opion.

For anyone wanting to try something similar but with a better graph view, check Tangent: http://tangentnotes.com/

Also more performant and less plugin-dependent.

SAP is a mystery to me. Customers hate it with the passion of a burning sun. Yet they don't switch. Why? Is what they are doing so hard no competitor has managed to dethrone them? It's the only company I know that is universally hated by their customers.

No evidence for the claim on the article though. Where's the experimental data? This is an opinion.

Pity this is US only; Any idea when/if it will be available in Europe? I'm in Germany.

I use a dedicated voice recorder to think while I walk. It has made a world of difference in my thinking. And no, a phone with an app is not the same. A button you can press anytime that just records is a godsent. No notifications, no chats, no Trillion dollar companies giving you dopamine shots.

Your attention is too valuable. We are squandering it on devices that are designed so you can't think clearly.

The Economist is optimistic there won’t be a rerun of the dotcom crash. Still it's not clear to me what the consequences of this slowdown are. Is this a renaissance opportunity for bootstrapped companies to take more of the economy?

This feels really good.

If I may suggest a feature, It'd be great to have probability estimations of each of the node, and then the leaf nodes (last node in a stream of dependencies) would have its probability computed as the multiplication of all parents.

This would make it obvious when something is not gonna happen :)

And it would make it easy to detect which part of the chain with a low probability kills the entire chain :)

I've used KDE all this time and never noticed. Try it, it's not heavier than LXDE nowadays, which is saying something!

Have you seen cloudron.io? They are spot on solving the problem you describe

Would the wiki part of fossil be a good static site generator? As in, if I wanted to publish a markdown lake with lots of interlinking with [[wikilinks]] would this work?

It might be faster than many SSGs and perhaps less complicated.

I have absolutely no use for a code editor with a typing latency as high as vscode. Anyone who has not read https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/ is doing himself a disservice.

Oh, a memex (aka zettelkasten). That's a perfect match for the format. I have > 5000 notes and would love to publish at least a fraction. And they are not about tech, which I think would be refreshing for the atom aggregators (which are quite a bit biased towards tech, in particular simple tech).

I use lagrange too. It makes gemini pages very pretty to look at with very little effort. Take that, medium. We just need a few top bloggers to take up the medium.

I moved from DDG to metager and coudn't be happier.

I guess it still has no versioning right? this is a key feature for me. I used ghost back in v 3.0 days, but moved on partly because of that.

Settings for 'original audio' on zoom are missing on desktop linux. As I imagine HN skews towards that OS, I'd encourage you to write to them asking for support (or avoid zoom altogether; but that might be impossible for some).

If you really want that full-duplex audio experience on linux today, disable audio on the call and move everyone to https://cleanfeed.net. This is not an ideal workflow, but it gets you there.

Why other products don't just take audio seriously is a pity.

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Intelligence: ability to get what you want, and to know what you want

> One of the most overlooked trends of the 21st century is we have too much entertainment. That's some deep insight right there. I used to watch netflix while eating alone only. I unsubscribed Jan 2022, and now I read a book on an ereader on a stand at eye level. Much more value for me and as entertaining if not more.

It's not entertainment, it's education.

The challenge now is to find and filter 'useful books' (most are not, and don't deliver on the promise on the cover).

No support for my Note 10 pro, and either camera or network doesn't work for the majority of supported phones

I've bought laptops from XMG for the last 10 years (last one was an older version of https://www.xmg.gg/en/xmg-neo-15/). They last forever, have user replaceable parts, and while they are game oriented (I don't game), they even have mechanical keyboards (!). Plus having a strong GPU has advantages.

I'm on linux with a powerful GPU, if that matters. I noticed that I spend quite some time every day finding and killing tabs that hit the CPU. It's becoming a distraction to my actual productive work: I'm dual tasking. The fans tell me when there's one tab stuck. It's very often the case. Why is the web so complex that so many sites need so much CPU/GPU power? What can you do about it, other than navigating with JS off?

I wonder how long till we can post gemini: links on HN and people can open them without wondering 'what is that?'

An alternative to github is https://sr.ht/, by Drew DeVault. Very promising and simple. I hope more open source projects realize they can do what github offers with open source (and simpler) tools, there's no need for centralization.

The best wm config-wise for global shorcuts is openbox. You can do system calls. Really easy. One config file, no need to do more than reload the wm (which is done via shortcut) :) It's finished software, and it works

I use openbox with lots of keyboard shortcuts to bring up apps/windows. I prefer this to tiling wm, which I used for a while.

I have recommended it to at least 20 people. I'm sure my girlfriend and close friends are tired of me bringing up the topic in pretty much every conversation.

You did something great with that book. Last time I recommended it I said something like "If you were impacted by Stallman or Lanier, this Farnell is deeper, more philosophical, and at the same time more applicable. It solves a real problem that _everybody_ has." They look at me with Dali-like eyes-wide-open :)

The author of the book 'digital vegan', the most impactful thing I've read in at least a year, responded to my post. I'm fulfilled :)

One effective thing I'm doing for myself (hard do to on mobile, or for kids in general) is to use the Firefox addon 'disengaged'. It hides upvotes, likes, and recommendations.

https://github.com/a13o/disengaged/blob/master/CODE_OF_ETHIC...

Yes, and also that even if you make 'reasonable efforts' to stay off the radar, algorithms will build a shadow profile of you from other people's interactions with you they track. For example, if you send an email to a gmail account, google has access to that text you wrote even if they don't have you on gmail.