The layer of disassociation is present w/ humans speaking different languages too though, right? My point is that once we can understand each other, we are all building on what already exists

they are appropriating what already existed and saying it in another way.

Isn’t this humanity in a nutshell? Standing on the shoulders of Giants, etc.

I quit my job to start the year and I’m currently doing a sabbatical year. I’m apathetic about the idea of eventually honing in on a specialty to learn when I re-enter the workforce because I’m unsure how sustainable the skills I learn will be in demand for.

The only thing I can think of is expanding my base level understanding of LLMs. My bet is that they will become the foundation with which future projects are launched in the same way that elementary school is the foundation for basic reading/writing/comprehension skills.

My limited understanding is that ARM usually is a lower priority for devs and so software is often harder to come by?

My personal hope is that people start to turn used desktops/laptops into servers.

Yeah I like it over Mastodon as well. The UI/UX feels more modern. The only downside is that the majority of the Twitter-alternative fediverse is on Mastodon, so I have to run 90% of accounts through ‘search’ to follow them.

The article does touch on some of the main instance’s issues towards the bottom too I just found out.

I’ve used it for a few months. I enjoy the idea of updating my progress after each reading session, so that hypothetically, I can see how fast I read.

If nothing else, the article is great for a breakdown of the features of Firefish. I’ve been a user for 2-3 months and didn’t know a lot of the info covered.

On a related note, I was on firefish.social but it was very buggy for me after a while. Thought about throwing in the towel but eventually realized that it was instance specific.

I have since migrated to calckey.world (Calckey -> Firefish instance that didn’t change its name) and the experience has been buttery smooth.

Very familiar UI over there. Creating an acct now

It’s completely markdown which is future-proof and easily portable to other software

Grand opening. Grand closing

The scratches during the review period makes me nervous. I walk into walls all the time with my watch so that’s a no go.

I’ll wait and see if it’s more widespread and if there’s any xmas discounts before I potentially pull the trigger

This is going increasingly off topic.

1. Yes wikipedia does have ads every time they fundraise
2. I use libredirect to complete privacy-focused searches across various front-ends, from YouTube to Reddit to Wikipedia, and my searches are distributed across various instances, so no, a single random third party is not getting all of my searches.
3. ‘The point’ is to share an article on the guy who owns Brave. I’ve provided additional context about wikiless as requested, but if you need more context moving forward, please do a google search.

It’s a free, open source alternative Wikipedia front-end focused on privacy.

https://github.com/Nangjing/wikiless

Basically you search wikipedia w/o tracking.

The owner is the guy who created JavaScript and is funded by controversial right-winger Peter Thiel

To me, it feels like the final frontier for phones before a pivot to virtual/augmented reality becomes more tangible.

Got rid of my GV # after ~10 years w/ it so that I could use RCS. Not a vast difference tbh but feels a lot more modern

Not sure if joke or serious

Didn’t expect a lot out of A14 tbh. I think that Operating Systems have matured to become mostly an intermediary between the user and apps as opposed to the conductor. As long as they stay out of the way, most users will be content.

Personally tho, I wouldn’t be surprised if 15 is a huge release. Right now, the next frontier seems to obviously be transitioning phones towards AI personal assistants and w/ full integration. Microsoft is already leading the charge from the desktop OS front, but phones imo will be the most familiar integration opportunity.

Yup. Came out a few months before the 4a 5G:
https://endoflife.date/pixel

Battery life is my biggest concern. I see 24 hour battery life w/ Always-On display… does anyone have any references that speak to the battery life when the feature is turned off?

Looking to replace a Garmin watch that lasts 4-5 days and trying to see whether it’ll be worth it