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Step 1: make copilot in window actually useful.

"Broetry" See: https://fenwick.media/rewild/magazine/dead-broets-society-be...

AltTab works well for me on macOS https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

GA is free while Fathom and Plausible are not. I think that's the main reason why GA is so popular and therefore why most sites need cookie consent banners.

I wonder if Amazon's differing pricing by region is just an Amazon business problem or whether it applies to regular consumers as well. If the latter is the case, how does camelcamelcamel.com keep track of pricing?

I suspect Dropbox doesn't care about b2c customers anymore... only b2b

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's in the cloud and not local. Still useless to me.

I use AI all the time when coding (very useful) and ChatGPT in general is also very useful. Never found Windows co-pilot or Office co-pilot useful for anything.

Yes, here's the email. No mention of the $99 no-AI option.

Thank you for being a valued Microsoft 365 subscriber. To reflect the value we’ve added over the past decade, address rising costs, and enable us to continue delivering new innovations, we’re increasing the price of your subscription.

Effective February 14, 2025, the price for Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions will increase from USD 99.99* per year to USD 129.99* per year. To continue with the new price, no action is needed—your payment method on file will be automatically charged. To make changes to your subscription plan or turn off recurring billing, visit your Microsoft account at least two days before your next billing date.

By maintaining your subscription, you’ll enjoy secure cloud storage, advanced security for your data and devices, and cutting-edge AI-powered features, along with all your other subscription benefits. Thank you for choosing Microsoft.

Learn more about how to manage your subscription, including how to cancel and switch your subscription.

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This happened to me in the U.S. too. Family plan went from $99/yr to $129/yr. I was going to just going to resentfully accept this, when I just got annoyed and said, "you know what? we don't use word and excel enough to justify this and there are definitely alternatives." Only when I went to cancel did I find out that they tried to force me onto the $129 "with AI" plan (who actually thinks AI features are worth anything? I've never used them in office or really any MS product) and that the "without AI" plan is still $99.

I decided to cancel anyway because I was still resentful.

Thing is, either $99 or $129 for the Family plan is actually quite reasonable, our family has 5 users. I just don't like giving money to deceitful or disrespectful companies.

If Microsoft had just kept the pricing the same as they had for many years, I almost certainly would have re-subscribed.

I'm still keeping my iPhone 8 Plus and MacBook Air M1 for the exact same reason. I'm not buying any more Apple products until the notch goes away.

For me, a really annoying tick in Cursor is how it often says "Perfect!" after completing a task, especially if it completely fails to execute the prompt.

So I told Cursor, "please stop saying 'perfect' after executing a task, it's very annoying." Cursor replied something like, "Got it, I understand" and then I saw a pop-up saying it created a memory for this request.

Then immediately after the next task, it declares "Perfect!" (spoiler: it was not perfect.)

Same for me.

This is gold.

Nice! I hope the sidebar can be disabled (I'm not a fan) but everything else looks much better.

If I recall, I think the same thing is going to happen to the Microsoft Edge browser, which is built on chromium, which is a real shame because this could've been a point of differentiation for them. Windows has always asked me to switch from Chrome to Edge without giving me a compelling reason. This would have been a compelling reason.

As a longtime Chrome user, I just switched to Firefox because of this. Everything seems fine so far. I just wish Mozilla would invest some time to polish the UI a little – it feels a bit dated and rough.

Apple Wired Keyboard with Numeric Keypad (MB110LL/B) + Colemak

Could you share a link to your game? I'd love to check it out.

On a somewhat unrelated note, I remember Nuance used to be quite litigious, using its deep patent collection to sue startups and competitors. I'm not sure if this is still the case now that they're owned by Microsoft, but you may want to look into that.

I use both, about 50/50. I have a windows desktop and a mac laptop. Perhaps that's why I have difficulty adjusting because I am switching between the two. But I find the windows approach more intuitive since I use a combination of chrome web apps in separate browser windows and desktop apps, I don't like having to think about what type of windows switching I need to do, I just want to switch windows.

Ok, it's obviously exaggeration. It's a frequent source of annoyance, not hatred.

It is also true that I am a curmudgeon.

I use both macOS and Windows. I think they are both fine operating systems, each has its own annoyances, but I agree with most of the article's points.

For me, I hate having the extra mental overhead of thinking "am I switching windows between apps or in the same app"? I just want to switch windows. I often pick the wrong shortcut.

The article says that even 2700k leds have a blue light spike (albeit smaller than the 4100ks) since the led source is blue light.

Also, maybe it just in my head, but I think the light from incandescents/halogens look nicer than leds... it feels more natural.

Interesting, thanks for sharing. I don't have any home automation stuff, but good to know this exists.

Nice little rhyme, never heard that one.

Yes, I think 2700k would have been better, we had originally picked 4100k because we prefered the look.

But the article says that even 2700k leds have a blue light spike (albeit smaller than the 4100ks) since the led source is blue light.

Yeah, I learned this when I thought my kid was spending hours coding, he was actually spending hours playing games.

I came across this article on HN recently:

https://www.sevarg.net/2023/02/11/how-your-leds-are-killing-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34902429

After reading it, I realized that having overhead led lights in our home were possibly contributing to my worsening sleep and general tiredness over the past few years. Granted, we used 4100k lights which are much bluer than 2700k.

We swapped all our leds back to incandescents and halogens (which were a bit tricky to find, but not impossible). Anecdotally, I've been sleeping so much better since, finally feeling well rested and far less stressed. I just feel a tremendous amount of relief after not sleeping well for years.

Also, while we had leds, I had to replace a surprising number of them for burnout/failure, and also experienced flickering, dimming issues, buzzing and more.

Wow, I've been waiting for this for years and honestly thought it would never happen.

Does anyone have any sense of how long it might take for this get out of beta and widely supported by iOS/iPadOS devices?

How does one find a good tax accountant? I used to use one who cost around $1200/yr, but I lost trust in him for various reasons, so I do my own with TurboTax Home & Business. Probably not a good use of my time (takes 1-2 days per year), moderately complex taxes with multiple K-1s, LLC filings, home office deduction, but otherwise normal stuff like W-2s/1099s/standard deduction (not itemized).

When I search google or yelp results, it's hard for me to judge who is going to be competent and also reasonabily priced.

How did people find their accountant?

"The American crayfish was introduced in the '20s. A guest, if you like. And like most guests having a good time, they didn't wanna leave. Next 50 years, they consumed all the local crayfish, wiped them out. And then, they started eating each other. That's the thing about greed, Arch. It's blind. And it doesn't know when to stop." - Lenny Cole, from Rocknrolla