rockooooo

These are usually called LSVs; the number of these is low but growing because in dense urban areas or planned developments (golf courses, parks, senior communities) they're far more cost effective.

I've tried obsidian so many times and want to love it but the sync situation - either the expensive official one, the approved options for mixed iOS/Windows clients (icloud) and third party tools like obsidain-livesync - were all way too issue-prone for me to ever trust it. I hope they figure this out

the dollar cost he's talking about does not include the large dollar cost the externalities burning gas creates

Flightly is really popular on iOS, there's not really a comparable android version. Gentler Streak and a lot of fitness app also don't have comparable android versions - most of the examples I can think of are apps that focus (and charge for) good design

There's many iOS only apps that either don't have anything comparable on android or the alternative is just nowhere near as good (a lot of it is more creative-focused stuff)

A lot of people question the "effective" part of effective altruism, and simply saying "we support more effective giving" is not convincing, especially when the most public figurehead of the movement is/was a convicted fraudster.

I don't use beancount but if you're already in sheets, Tiller might be easier to switch to to get lots of built-in dashboards/metrics

1) technically? yes, absolutely- apps like explorer or photo viewer should only use public APIs so other companies can make comparable apps on the OS with 90% market share 2) these are all OS utilities, not workplace apps - there's a big difference between Adobe/Microsoft Office/Google bundling their apps where there's a very clear, very powerful disincentive to compete vs something like explorer.

It shouldn't be! Forcing big companies to unbundle product pricing would give new entrants to the market a fighting change at success.

multiple people at previous jobs joked about how using FMLA would get you fired or at minimum banned from promotion

If your company is even halfway legitimate they will have what they collect / monitor in your employee handbook or a privacy policy somewhere.

Zulip is more of a Slack-like instant chat system with threading as a first class citizen; CQ2 looks like threads only exist in the context of one "root" document vs a channel in zulip where threads can intermingle.

$24 a year is too much?

There are downsides to over-medicating, even if your personal budget for health is ~unlimited. Nobody wants to be a false positive.

no AI company wants to be the one generating pornographic deepfakes of someone and getting in legal / PR hot water

Open-source projects where all the developers work for one company tend not to do too well when that company dies, especially if there isn't a large ecosystem around the software yet.

It breaks a lot of websites, I used NextDNS for about two years but got tired of the headaches.

They do, he says so in the article.

AI theme generation really seems like a solution looking for a problem

I use Tiller, which ingests my transactions but doesn't categorize them for me (except by a rule set that I manually defined)

sure, but when there's a dozen apps that will do it automatically, why?

The iCloud file syncing on Windows destroyed my files twice and I never touched it again.

I played this a few years ago, it was awesome

It's funny how we reach a society where you need government as a babysitter and tell what you can do and whatnot.

every code regulation is written is blood. the inconvenience is designed to prevent people burning their house down or worse.

There is no FOSS file sharing solution that gets close to being as usable, especially for sharing, as dropbox/drive.

yeah, I see tons of models on aliexpress but the software support isn't there yet. an IKEA version would be great.

When I started work at a higher-level IT job where I can start saying yes or no like this, I wanted to say yes to everyone and never be that guy blocking people. I still end up saying no very frequently because people will not want to think about anything not relevant to their specific use case at all (how are you authenticating/who controls the app/what happens when you/the owner leave?/is there a project plan?).

I can't count the number of integrations/projects I've already dropped because I asked a few follow-up questions and never got a response. Any business that actually wants to follow the law and reduce the risk of massive data loss or other embarrassing cyber event needs to screen things, ask questions, and sometimes prevent one very smart person from setting up an undocumented rube goldberg machine that will drag down an entire team if they leave and it breaks.

I believe that for the surface line, but I mainly deal with the O365 folks.

Apple is only good compared to the total garbage fire of MS/Google, and Amazon's support has been horrible for years now. If they don't have an automated answer to your problem you're SOL.I had them ship me the wrong item with the correct item's SKU taped on it and they argued with me for quite awhile before just refunding me.

"So in moving it to GitHub, we’re finding that a lot of things are just nicer because a large paid staff of engineers is working on it every day. And I grew up during the heydey of the Free Software Foundation, so I know this is a trap, but I’m tired and don’t have the energy to be a server admin for something that’s held together with scotch tape and prayers when I’m really supposed to be writing OpenGL code."

This seems to sum up the biggest pain point that drives people away from OSS. Not knowledge, not skill, not price, but the total experience of a nice piece of software that lets you get the work you actually want to get done... done.