ValentineC

> You can spend less - Google Drive and iCloud will offer 2TB for $10/month - but they don't really want power users who use their whole quota, so they don't make things like command line / API access easy.

rclone works very, very well with Google Drive:

https://rclone.org/drive/

Complete stab in the dark: AWS "training as a service" (further split into multiple microservices) for companies looking to train their own models.

Reselling something one gets for free doesn't sound like a very clever hack.

Took me a minute to realise this isn't 1.1.1.1 (which Cloudflare also runs), but their original website DNS hosting service.

> However, in the long term, if you run a sustainable SaaS over many years, these small amounts add up quickly. So, as an example, I do not use Stripe billing; I have my own subscription system. Because I looked at the amount I would be spending with them yearly, and realized that I prefer to have my own, building my own also gives me more control and flexibility. And independence, which matters quite a bit.

Not only does the amount build up, but I guess there's some kind of vendor lock-in? 1% extra is far too much for this, but that's the strategy for Stripe Billing since that's not much different from using PayPal end-to-end.

How can you tell that they're all Adyen? It's not like it shows on the statement descriptor.

The headline is nonsense. Assuming this is for the US market, Adyen's 0.6% probably only applies to lower-tier debit cards.

Some of the pricing tables are public, like Visa US's:

https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/regional/na/us/support-legal/d...

We haven't had a banked reset in a while though. Tibo should give them out instead of forcibly resetting everyone and their refresh date.

Claude Code has an "output styles" setting that supposedly directly modifies the system prompt:

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/output-styles

Ah, it seems like a hack that some telcos are doing to get around the pairing problem.

From the page you linked:

> Your iPhone and Apple Watch will have different numbers and Apple IDs, but will need to be members of the same iCloud Family.

And from this Reddit discussion, it looks like texts won't sync:

https://www.reddit.com/r/USMobile/comments/1q8wpie/is_the_st...

Apple Health is on device unless you choose to sync it.

> You can just use an old one if you have any laying around, or your current one after you’ve deactivated service on it. Just get a standalone watch plan, something like $80/year from US Mobile or other MVNOs.

I don't think this is true. It needs to ride alongside a telco eSIM (and only specific ones that support SIM sharing) that's already provisioned on the phone.

Googlers earn top-tier salaries but don't verify their AI-generated stuff?

Maybe people really do deserve their layoffs.

The buck needs to stop with a human being.

> I don't like having to charge my Apple Watch. I don't want to charge it when I'm asleep because I want sleep tracking.

Feels like I've been replying the same thing everywhere, but people aren't charging their smart watches while they're in the shower?!

I take mine off to charge whenever I'm in the shower.

> But charging it everyday? Nope, who have time for that!?

I wear my Apple Watch to sleep, and take it off to charge whenever I'm in the shower.

That's just another routine for me.

> Am I wrong or are these evaluations, while interesting, not really meaningful for anyone doing serious development work?

As a non-designer trying to build something solo, I think value's in the higher-tier models being able to brainstorm and infer a variety of design directions, as well as dissect the "this looks off" comments that would frustrate human designers.

Some of the frontend design skills try to bridge the gap, but the better models perform far better as is, and often better without one of those frontend design skills trying to ram their own workflows in.

> Hard to understand why anyone would choose 3.7 Flash under these conditions.. is Deepmind still a frontier lab?

At this point, I think they're mostly targeting Google One and Workspace subscribers, except doing worse compared to Microsoft because they don't have Microsoft's huge enterprise moat built from their DOS and Windows days.

> Combined with poor battery life, this is quite pointless.

Seems like it'll work with the Fitbit Air too. That has a 7 day battery life.

I keep laptop unlock off. Touch ID on the MacBooks more than suffices for this.

> He was quizzing her at a party about what features she used - which were pretty much step counter and payment. He somewhat dismissively sneered, "Well, you're not exactly a power user, are you?"

If everyone on the Pixel Watch team was like that, that could explain why they haven't found any success breaking out from the crowd. Smart watches should discreetly enhance one's life, not be a list of features to be built and used all the time.

I've been an Apple Watch user since Series 5, and I mostly use the watch as a normal-ish smart watch, with silent alarms, iPhone music control, and two-finger-tap to feel the time discreetly as the "power user" features I'd use most often. I barely use any of the apps, and still have trouble navigating the grid.

After my and many others' experience with Claude Opus 5 being hot garbage for normal agentic programming use, I'm not sure benchmarks mean much anymore.

Much less Grok's, since they have a reputation for unethical benchmaxxing, among other things.

> Google can't seem to decide on a direction and stick with it. Years of new features that inevitably ended up abandoned 2 versions later resulted in a constantly changing and unpredictable user experience.

I'm guessing cultures that reward shipping new products (e.g. 67 different messaging apps) don't turn out great for consumers.

Halide's subscription system seems to have broken since late 2024/early 2025 — my v1 purchase with a different Apple ID from the one I'm usually logged in with (different country/region) wasn't being recognised.

When I emailed in, they blamed it on how the App Store mechanism changed.

Halide somehow is the only app that has this issue.

I believe the reasoning for not using anything higher than medium is that Opus 5 has a tendency to overthink at higher effort levels.

So I guess the washing machine analogy is that you've somehow added too much detergent because the new formula is 3x as strong, and your clothes are very clean, but the fibres have also degraded leaving your clothes a bit threadbare.

> It's the easy option, with a better safety score than human review.

Considering I went through a phase before I started using Claude Code where I'd eventually reach a point where I'd mindlessly approve ridiculously long command chains, I believe this.

As the article writes: "many users are clicking through reflexively rather than reviewing each command".

It's far better (for my working style, anyway) to have some external isolation/sandboxing, but leave the actual command approval to LLM.

> [Claude/Opus 5 Max goes looking]

The general consensus I've seen for Opus 5 on the various Claude subreddits is to only use it in low or medium effort.

I've reverted to Opus 4.8 for most of my work. It's crazy that Opus 5 was lauded at release for scoring so highly on benchmarks.

> That’s why I recently switched it from AGPL to Apache: I want everyone to use Herdr freely, without any problem.

I'm curious what the actual problems with AGPL were.

Is the battery replaceable? Or is the keyboard going to be tethered-only when the lithium battery degrades after 5-10 years?