crimsontech

I switched to proton about 5 months ago but I switched back after a couple of months, I found the UX in their apps to be pretty poor. Seeing the reports that came out around this I'll be staying away.

A real audiophile can hear the difference between FLAC and WAV.

I'm pretty sure it was to protect the children, or fight terrorism, or to save the NHS, or lower taxes.

I made something similar to OP a while back, but added an effect which blurs the screen for a configurable amount of time to force myself to stop whatever I'm doing and step away and reevaluate what I'm doing.

I quickly realised I had to put a quick warning blur so I don't get locked out in the middle of a call, but other than that its been working well for me.

Its actually cheaper (for me in the UK) to run a corolla hybrid than an EV as I don't have the ability to charge at home.

I had a family member who became suicidal on Chantix. I was wanting to quit at the same time so when given the option I went with Zyban (bupropion hydrochloride) and had quit by the second week.

What was really incredible though was right from the start I felt fantastic, like I spent all day in a flow state.

The doctor stopped the prescription after (I think) 8 weeks and I didn't start smoking again. Many years later I learned it is prescribed for ADHD and also as an antidepressant.

No, in the UK they can't just take your finger and press it to your phone or point it at your face to unlock it. They can service you a notice demanding access to your phone, and not providing access is a crime.

> I'll pick my poison thanks and choose Chinese surveillance.

Assuming they won’t trade or sell it back to the US or whoever?

Not everyone has a device that can use lidar to map the face so it can’t be a requirement.

Kids have been defeating these smile and close your eyes things using photo mode in video games to control a character to perform the actions.

I didn't know about this, I'm on my laptop right now running macos and just tapped the trackpad with two fingers and it zoomed in. Usually I'm using a mouse and keyboard, I'll have to figure out how to do this with a keyboard shortcut.

Thanks!

This is about the Digital Markets Act, its not the EU saying it isn't secure enough, they are saying users should be able to choose to use the same functionality but with different AI providers.

Compliance with DMA would have Apple hand over system-wide access to AI features to third parties, which could compromise user privacy and security.

Siri AI has the capability to read your screen and access a lot of personal stuff. I don't blame Apple for not wanting to open this up to allow any model to access it. It seems Apple proposed a number of solutions which were denied.

While I can appreciate the reason for the DMA, people don't have to buy Apple devices, they can buy any type of phone they want and just use the ecosystems provided by these phones.

An apple foldable phone would be the first phone I bought apple care for.

This is a pet hate of mine. My whole family has iPhones but only my wife and daughters cables break because they use the phones while they are plugged in. The cable gets bent sharply where it joins the connector causing it to break.

I'm not sure if the newer braided cables are better or not as they don't have them.

I have never needed to replace mine as when the phone is plugged in and charging I don't use it.

I don't think it was meant to be hostile. It is a pattern I always find myself repeating personally. I think they just recognised it as something they do themselves.

If I feel like I have too many things to do, I can end up installing all sorts of todo list apps instead of doing the things. When I feel like a need a nap, I look up optimal nap times, end up reading stuff and then realising I missed the window I could have had a nap in.

I've set up vimwiki and loads of other note taking type apps (or knowledge management apps as they are often called now) and I export my notes from one system into another, and forget to use it.

But then they have something to write about as their first post.

Totally agree, I took a very well paying job with a company doing what I enjoy doing, but the attitude of the company was very much to extract as much money from the clients as possible. We had three hour monthly call where everyone would take turns to explain how they had upsold or otherwise made money for the company that month, someone from each call would get a token award for it.

I hated it, and wrote my resignation during one of these meetings without even having a solid plan of what I would do next.

A company can make money and provide a good service and experience for clients at the same time.

Same thing happened to me and I feel very blessed to get paid to do work that I would do for free as a hobby.

> People around you can "smell" your passion and sometimes it energizes your team as well.

When hiring I always look for this, if someone is passionate about the work it often means they will put the effort in to be good at it, and it raises the team in a lot of ways.

I usually respond with AI;DR so they don’t expect a response.

It doesn't move while you work, its just the lock screen and when you log in.

> Do you really respect your recipients so little that you can't be bothered to share your own thoughts?

> I might as well get an AI to call my own mother on mother's day.

One of the first copilot adverts I saw had a woman using it to write a speech for her daughters graduation, with speaker prompts instructing the woman to look at her daughter at one point in the speech.

Such a personal and important moment in both their lives, I was shocked that they even put it out and thought it was OK.

What next? "Too busy negotiating a critical business deal to attend the birth of your first child? Have copilot attend and email you a summary of it later."

Found the video: https://youtu.be/ebls5x-gb0s?t=224

The signs also seem to take priority over GPS, I was on a road with a 50mph speed limit tonight and the car read something it thought was a 20mph speed limit sign. I have the beeps disabled but it still displays the red 20mph sign on the dash to let me know it thinks I'm breaking the law.

This is pretty cool looking, I like it, it must be really heavy though.

> For a medium-sized piece like this, a vibrating dildo is actually the best thing to use. Just think of it like any other power tool.For a medium-sized piece like this, a vibrating dildo is actually the best thing to use. Just think of it like any other power tool.

I used work on foundations for warehouses, huge concrete blocks as anchor points and this is exactly how we got the bubbles out, we had a huge metal vibrator they call them high-frequency concrete pokers.

They generally do care, but not enough to change what they do or to do without something they use, like social media.

So many people I know say “I only use Signal to talk to you”, it’s like I’m the awkward one for not using Facebook.

Wow, I was just saying to a friend that I couldn’t understand people risking their jobs to steal stationery or toilet rolls from the workplace.

I guess if it’s your moral obligation to steal from the workplace it reframes it somewhat.

I have tried to explain this so many times to people. You could just scrape out the lint from the lighting port with a tooth pick. The fragile part was the easily replaceable cable. Now the fragile part is in the iPhone itself.

This happened to me recently at work, I just ignored the request, but I was tempted to feed it to copilot and just send them the response.

Does it? I haven't used the case since I bought them and don't feel like I'm missing anything.

I remember getting some questionable quality books from amazon which didn't match up to the usual standard of a publisher. No Starch Press called this out in the past saying amazon sell counterfieght books. https://x.com/nostarch/status/1183095004258099202

I'm not sure what actually happens, but I mostly stopped buying paperbacks on Amazon a good while ago, and if I do, and I'm unhappy with the quality I'll return it.

In the UK all mobile phones default to no adult content on the mobile networks, if you want to access adult content you need to request it with the mobile network provider. They could have gone the same route with consumer internet access. Most ISP supplied routers support content blocking, it could have been turned on by default with a simple update pushed by the ISP.

Kids here in the UK get educated about online safety in school, schools have sessions for parents covering this stuff too. My own kids have had age appropriate internet access all their lives, its not been difficult to control it, we have had the tools and knowledge for years.

This stuff really isn't about child safety in my opinion.