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I had browseros do a bunch of data validation for me in my Dolibarr ERP system. It cross checked my new master data against our old ERP, flagging bad links and filling in missing data. I could have done it much quicker overall with the api and some scripting, but it was easy to just write a two line prompt telling it where the data is and how to manage disagreements. Then I just watched it run on a second monitor for a few hours while I worked other projects.

I used a local Ollama model and though it was kind of amazing that it worked. I couldn't turn a typical user lose with something like this yet, but I think I see the vision. I image a lot of automation could happen this way in the future. I put less effort into the prompt than I would have needed to spend teaching someone from the office pool to accomplish the same goal, and got a good enough result.

In practice I have found that I can accomplish the same results in a stricter, more accurate, and faster way just using codex on the command line with some scripting and API access, but that's not going to work for a lot of people and putting it in the browser is pretty convenient... The MCP server that's built in can also become a bit of an API for the entire web if you're careful in how you use it, which opens up possibilities for things that don't have real APIs.

"I think most people know by now..."

Sadly, I don't think that that's true. I've been shocked by the lack of understanding there in groups of technical people who should know better. It's even worse in groups of non technical people. I'm afraid this is an ongoing battle, and every time ideas like this come up from government it's going to be an effort to inform the public.

You're right that businesses might roll fees into the base price, but that’s the point: transparency. When all costs are upfront, customers can more easily compare prices between competitors. Hidden fees make price comparisons difficult and misleading.

Take airlines, for example—if one shows a $200 ticket and another shows $180 but sneaks in $30 of fees later, the second one appears cheaper. By requiring prices to reflect the full cost upfront, businesses compete on the actual price rather than deceptive practices. This won’t magically lower costs, but it will force clarity and reward companies offering genuine value.

Consumers should have a clear picture of what they’re paying, not a surprise at checkout. Isn’t that just fair competition?

I don't have to do anything else. I just use the current proton. I just installed it on the flatpak version too. No trouble.

If done well, a android tablet would be a heck of a good laptop with this.

I run it on Linux everyday with Steam on Proton. It is my go to game on steamdeck and my Fedora desktop.

By default steam wants to download the old old old Linux version that doesn't allow online play, but if you enable proton it will download the Windows version and run fine. I am pretty sure it doesn't have a real anti-cheat included.

Right, many or most don't have credit card terminals. You plug in, load an app, find you station, select a port number, tell it to start and hope it works. It doesn't sound that bad, but the chargers janky, the apps are janky and it takes a long time often with multiple attempts.

I'm not advocating for banning M&As, but I think that could be addressed by only allowing acquisitions under specific bankruptcy conditions.

Again, though, I'm not advocating for that position. I'd hate to spend part of my life building a business and not be able to cash out when the time comes for me to retire.

Gnome-Web if you're on linux and it is fine. It is a little light on features, but it does the basics. Falkon is another for the QT/KDE crowd. There are several forks of chrome and firefox, if that's your thing.

I'm trying to ungoogle and switched to Vivaldi without enough research. Its a really nice browser and I really like the community around it (like their Mastodon service), but I basically jumped from one corporation's browser to another.

I watched one of the developers YouTube video and he said it should run on consumer hardware. He said it's not going to ever run on something like a raspberry pi, but it should run pretty well on an "average Joe PC "

They exist in several forms. In the US I think the best kind are called employee-ownership-trusts or worker-owned cooperatives.

It depends on what you mean by stand-alone. It works for me as a stand-alone device for days at a time, but you still need a phone to set up the watch and my phone plan is like an addon to the phone so you need that to set up the account. I don't think you can set up a line for these watches in the US without the "host" phone.

I've been using my Samsung smartwatch with LTE as a smartphone that's hard to abuse. Thursday through Sunday I only carry it and leave my "real" phone at home.

It's pretty nice because I still have Bluetooth calls in my car and navigation in a pinch. I can still stream music and ask Google to look things up for me.

Actual calls on the watch are fine, but I do keep a pair of bluetooth headphones on me so I don't have to take business calls on speakerphone.

If texting is your addiction, technically this doesn't solve it but it doesn't increase the friction so maybe it's less of a temptation. I don't text that much so it's not a big deal to me. Doomscrolling is my downfall and fortunately not really doable on a watch.

I just use Firefox sync. It integrated with iOS and Android. You just install the app and use the system settings to set Firefox as the default password store for the system. It works in all apps, as far as I can tell. I wish it integrated with Linux& gnome a bit better, but I just work around that by bookmarking the browser link to the password page in Firefox.

I trust Mozilla more than any random app that advertises on random podcasts. I like that it warns me when sites I use have been compromised, and that it is generally easy to use. That said, I am not a security expert, so I am interested to see if anybody has any concerns about this setup.

I'm probably overlooking an obvious answer, I'm not sure how you define this clearly. Using your noise level example, we know how to measure noise levels. It is straight forward to say your new technology complies with a noise regulation.

How do you do that for a regulation like standardized connectors? Just say you can't use any non-open-standard connectors?

I use t-mobile. The SIM they sent me worked out of the box.

Every release of the magazine seems to make the front page. Its not specifically about the never OpenBSD version.

I keep going back to the todoist app. It works OK but there is something about it it doesn’t click with me. Maybe there’s a little too much white space in the design and it looks like a webpage instead of an app that fits into the desktop.

I also really like elementary planner, but its sync feature doesn’t work perfectly with Todoist … which is more or less required for me because I need my todo list on my Phone. It is going through a major revision right now so I’m hopeful that it gets even better.

Both support recurring monthly reminders. If I were you, I would try elementary’s planner first. It was designed for elementary distro desktop, but it works just fine in gnome

I have to say I agree. I feel like a lot of people seem to think it is a suit and tie enterprise type boring distribution. Its really not. It has similarities to the enterprise distros, but it certainly doesn't feel like RHEL.

Its where the new fun stuff goes first... not so new that it will bite you, but still new enough to be fun to play with. That seems perfectly in line with the marketing I see from framework.

I have one and I'm using it right now. It is more than fine. My eyes aren't perfect so maybe others would care more but the image is super crisp and looks really good.

The screen outclasses the rest of the hardware.

As always it depends on a lot of things, but anyone with a background marketing should be pretty versed in product-market fit. It is a fundamental concept to marketing in the same way double-entry bookkeeping is fundamental to accounting... I'm sure there are a bunch of people calling themselves marketers who are really just sales drones, but there are also a lot of developers who are just spaghetti coders and accountants who are really just glorified filers and data entry specialists.

I've read conflicting reports on how much more powerful it is in practice. I've seen only one direct review that said the Librem is clearly much faster, but I've also seen a few comparisons that show little to no difference in daily use tasks.

The problem might be that we don't have a quality comparison yet (or I haven't found it), but I wonder if there is a performance bottle neck in the hardware. Maybe the software is still better optimized for the pine and the Librem will start to pull ahead as more developers get a chance to work on it.

Thanks for the suggestion. I did try Calligra Plan. I manage a lot of medium-small projects, and to ended up not fitting my workflow very well. That said, I could see how it might be perfect for people who manage and plan bigger projects.

I wish someone would pick it back up. It was pretty useful. It took some work to get it to run on Modern Fedora and I had a lot of stability problems with it.

I've been using this for a long time and I am Patreon supporter. When I switched from Mac to Linux I had to find a replacement for my todo/planner app called Things. Planner was initially a good enough solution, but Alain (the developer) has gone above and beyond to deliver an amazing tool. It is now every bit as good as Things and the Board view will be an awesome addition.

This is one of those times where the open source option is clearly the best tool. You don't give up anything. Plus, and I think this is important for something you use all day long, it is has a nice visual design that is easy to use and figure out.

So far I've only been able to find Flutter on Linux with ARM cpus as an initial proof of concept project someone did specifically on a raspberry pi. Is there now an official path for full Linux flutter support on ARM? I'm learning Flutter now and would love to start writing some useful apps for my Pinephone and Pinebook.

On an x86 Linux desktop, Flutter apps can run pretty well and very fast. I hope that holds true on embedded/mobile.

I guess it depends on what you're looking for. I've seen people working on customizing SWAY to be a super simple launcher. With a little effort you could probably create a simple menu launcher for that. You can run anything* that runs linux & arm so I'm sure something could be done without much code.

Yes, while YMMV, I've found it to be in or near the top tier of images as far as hardware support for the pinephone. All the top distros are developed in the open so they tend to improve together. Like all distros on the phone, Manjaro breaks sometimes but they are doing a pretty good job. I've had the best luck with Mobian, but Manjaro and Fedora were a close second.

I think the problem is that because reddit banned a lot of extremist communities there is pent up demand within those groups for a new host platform. If you start a new reddit competitor, users with those extemist views are looking for a home and will be the first to find and adopt it.

A large well formed community can survive a portion of its users with negative comments and posts, but I doubt you can build a community on the back of those users. Instead that negative group poisons the the platform for a more mainstream crowd. People won't join a plateform if the first thing they are exposed to supports extremist views.

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