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out of curiosity, any other examples?
Re:Improving your online privacy: An update on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @12:20PM (#37572224)
I like the general recommendations here but think it really undersells how hard it is to switch in many cases - the time recommendation are comically short. Yes, going to a new site instead of a Google site might only take a minute of your time to sign up but moving all your data over and learning a new, sometimes inferior tool can take weeks.
Re:Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web on Thursday August 24, 2023 @05:48PM (#37254989)
Your website has photos of the doctors for the "care team" and coaches buried under a link. Come on, just be uprfront with people.
Re:MacWhisper: Transcribe audio files on your Mac on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @12:10PM (#37238232)
Does anyone know of an easy to use whisper fork with speaker attestation?
Re:Escaping High School on Friday July 07, 2023 @01:12PM (#36634944)
The phonic issue is absurd, can you imagine if an entire industry followed a fad for years with minimal pushback? Now, if you'll excuse me I've been in a cave for a few years and need to check my crypto balances.
I switched from the Move to the Studio (freestanding version) and the form feedback triggers __slightly__ more often but it's still not worth bothering about imo. the rep counting not working bothers me way more.
Re:Kissinger's killing fields on Thursday May 25, 2023 @05:40PM (#36076616)
It was literally founded as a boot-licking rag! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist#History
Re:How to Become a Debt Buyer on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:03PM (#35980525)
Do parts of this sound ai-written to anyone else?
who's going to volunteer for any community support/bugfixes that aren't "use some other company's toner"?
Re:OpenLLaMA: An Open Reproduction of LLaMA on Monday May 08, 2023 @04:21PM (#35866553)
it's repeatedly made up entire quotes and research papers?
Re:OpenLLaMA: An Open Reproduction of LLaMA on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @02:34PM (#35805990)
> why don't you spend 30 minutes of quality time with chatGPT and get to the bottom of this?

when it can hallucinate content, why do that instead of reading a blog post from an expert?

were we ever promised high-speed (fiber) internet everywhere or was that always a pipe dream?
Re:Nostr – Decentralized Social Network on Monday May 01, 2023 @01:49PM (#35776517)
There's been a steady attrition of celebrities and other major players from the platform. social media platforms don't die overnight, they die over time.
Siri's functionality is fine for me, it just seems to really struggle to understand me compared to Google
also, people are glad to take slightly busted IKEA stuff for free or cheap. It goes quickly in all the facebook groups I'm in.
Re:People who use Notion to plan their whole lives on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @03:27PM (#35705423)
The average person is not capable of self-hosting software and SaaS is much nicer looking / more fully features 99% of the time. I say this as someone who loves self-hosting and self hosts most of my own stuff.
> Games work well

come on now

Cities subsidizing maker spaces would solve the wood/metal workign part of this well, and I live in a pretty dense part of the city that has a community garden down the street.
they did this alrady with Tables, they labeled it an area120 project. they really need to do this for more stuff

https://tables.area120.google.com/u/0/about

Re:Apple introduces Apple Pay Later on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:24PM (#35343585)
If your laptop breaks and you need a new one you are probably better off doing BNPL if you can instead of buying a cheap, crappy one now.
Re:Push notifications are now supported cross-browser on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:28AM (#35341684)
also pro: notifications on iOS for things that won't pass apple's walled garden
they are, but I think it's interesting how people feel the need to hide this. it's not like only skinny people can go hiking.
it's used as a proxy for fitness.
teachers do not want to be babysitters, but when you have overstuffed classrooms, no prep time, no equipment, hungry kids, etc etc what are you able to do?
Re:Mullvad VPN: Security audit of account and payment services on Thursday February 23, 2023 @12:09PM (#34913255)
it can help reduce some kinda of tracking/fingerprinting although from what I've heard the utility of that is going down over time
Re:Ask HN: I hate gym. How to stay in shape? on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @10:34AM (#34694107)
Work out from home. I have a Tempo and doing a 20-30 minute class a day has been the best thing I've found for someone who doesn't really like the gym/sports/etc.
How many of these have there been in like the past month? a dozen? two dozen?
Re:Unapproved books now a felony in Manatee County schools on Monday January 23, 2023 @11:36AM (#34491052)
"voters" and "people" are two different groups, of which there can be notable difference the harder is it to vote.
Re:My Coffee Maker Just Makes Coffee on Monday January 09, 2023 @05:11PM (#34317006)
reddit is chock-full of astroturfing and someone's washer brand lasting 20 years doesn't mean their modern model will last 20 years.
that's really interesting, I wonder what's it's reading to troubleshoot. StackOverflow, presumably? It sound like a handy way of collating multiple answers into one quick, coherent format which would be super helpful.

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