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What would be the benefit of using this over NextDNS? Simplicity due to non existing config?

At the moment, only through Airplay and iPhone. But the new update is apparently bringing a possibility to set default music app to other apps (similar to email now) which should allow direct playback.

NPS originally came from car manufactures and industries that produce products that are easy comparable, I.e. how happy are you with the car? Would you recommend BMW to friends?

I don’t think it’s that great for software, but it’s very trendy. It can be gamed, like anything else, usually by sending NPS surveys to decision makers who aren’t usually the actual users.

Slightly better metric is Customer Effort Score (CEF) which shows how easy is to do business with a company.

I believe the strongest points for Fitbit are its looks of a discrete non fancy fitness tracker with long battery. My mum didn’t even want to hear about Apple Watch, she just wanted something that counts steps.

In the UK, Starling is worth a shot, although Monzo is constantly being mentioned as a good bank in my circles.

While I dislike “subscription everywhere” model, I suspect this could work miracles for second hand market, allowing consumers to add options to their purchase. I wouldn’t be surprised if these options are thrown in as “freebies” to the first owner and free for a couple of years and then turn into subscription.

It’s better, but still drives me crazy. Microsoft has come long way but still got heaps of work to do (I.e. no way to customise ribbon in Outlook)

Linux on desktop is one of those things where reputation precedes reality. It runs fine most of the time, but many remember or have read the nightmare stories about non-functioning hardware, the need to compile drivers and so on. While Linux has been sorting out those issues, a lot of things moved ahead to SaaS and Web applications and for majority the device is just a terminal. Which runs Windows or MacOS because people are complacent and don’t care.

The UK has implemented Open Banking [1] and PSD2 directive since late 2018.

It allows apps to interconnect and pull data - I can use a single banking app to check balances across all my accounts.

[1] https://www.openbanking.org.uk

I share the same memory. I remember being very impressed how it run on my Dell laptops Pentium 233 MMX and 64 MB RAM. It even had the driver support for 3Com 14.4k PCMCIA modem... ah the nostalgia!

I have seen a fair amount of successful transitions. My company develops open source software and our development team is on Linux/Mac. Works a treat. Sales/Marketing/etc - Windows mostly with some more adventurous users using Mac. Linux is still not there yet, for an end-user overall nice experience.

With the slight difference that any of these boundaries pushers (never did) cost $75. Not now not then.

With Windows practically giving licenses away, Apple coming with MacOS, cheap chromebooks coming with chromeOS, I really don’t get this “Linux on a desktop move”, especially when it is $75 device + $250 of accessories.

That said I love Pi, have it for home automation and media server, amazing piece of tech, NOT a desktop replacement and for the most part it’s not even aiming at that.

If you quit before your home office is amortised, would you have to ship it back to google? :) While most of us used to (some level of) WFH and already have monitors, printers, etc, $1k doesn’t sound as a lot to someone furnishing the whole home office.

My thoughts exactly. Unless you have a stable place to work, it’s mostly pain and stress and being reactive rather than super productive.

My company gives out 12” little cute Thinkpads to those who want a Windows machine. Those machines without a dock are really good just for checking emails in the airport.

In a sense that is a default go to platform for many people when searching for (video) content.

This is not particularly new concept, but the internet is a huge market so the cake is big enough I guess.

His project reminds me of Marina Abramovic “The artist is present” she held in MoMA (https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/marina-abramovic-ma...).

After having the Touch Bar model I almost wish they kept the “Touchbar Escape” model. At least the choice is easier now - Apple NoChoice.