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I've been using Proton Mail and iOS (through iCloud+) for this. Almost every purchase online goes through a proxy, and once the item is delivered, the email deleted.

This has a side benefit of being able to sign up to the popup modals for like, 10-20% off a first purchase.

Some sites do not parse the emails correctly though (if they contain periods, etc) and it's also hard to order track.

I find it's worth the trouble to have a relatively quiet inbox.

RetroArch seemed pretty easy to set up? Unless you're doing custom key bindings, it was relatively easy to navigate through the emulators.

Growing up, I vividly remember user accounts being important for our families personas on Windows XP. There's definitely a place for them, but there should be an option to not use one.

Unless your specifically calling out accounts that require online registration for the OS. I'm vehemently against that requirement.

AirPods Max 2 4 months ago

FWIW we use the minis all over our place and love'em. But we pretty much only ask basic questions or use them for airplay. Sounds quality is impressive imo.

iPhone 17e 5 months ago

I did! I ended up buying a kit off ifixit IIRC. It was super cheap and works great! If I did it again, I would splurge for the Apple verified battery as a third party one doesn't work with the new Battery app features.

iPhone 17e 5 months ago

Still holding onto my 13 mini. Dreaming of another small form factor release one of these announcements.. :'}

You can obviously bypass them, but having precommit hooks to run scripts locally, to make sure certain checks pass, can save them from failing in your pipeline, which can save time and money.

From an org standpoint you can have them (mandate?) as part of the developer experience.

(Our team doesn't use them, but I can see the potential value)

EmulatorJS 6 months ago

There's an AppleTV app for it, which makes it trivial to connect a BT controller and finally finishing that Donkey Kong Country that's been holding you back,

Built a scheduler with pretty much all my moment/moment-tz questions answered through ChatGPT. One of the things it excels at, crawling long lived API documentation, answers, etc.

Just to add I'm also in this boat. We have a ASUS ROG NUC in our living room and it's a pain logging into Windows (cant find an actual tutorial to skip that works) .

It's been a great entry way into gaming for my wife (lot's of cozy games) and I also play a few games from my steam backlog (Halo, Hades 2, etc). I don't feel like we're in the minority for what a couch system is used for but maybe.

The largest hurdle for steam in the living room so far has been controller support or lack of couch co-op games.

Steam Machine 8 months ago

We have the ROG NUC and absolutely love it for our living room. Not playing any crazy AAA ultra graphics games, but it's been great.

If I had known this was finally releasing, I would have waited though.

Kagi News 10 months ago

FWIW, I have not had any issues with email rendering in the iOS app so YMMV. Have not noticed any zooming problems.

ChatGPT Pulse 10 months ago

Was thinking exactly the same. This correlates with having to another revenue stream and monetization strategy for OpenAi.

In the end, it's almost always ads.