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Settings, Accessibility, Motion, switch off Auto-Play preview videos is supposed to do the trick for System Apps (including messages, safari etc).

Untested since I run my phone via Wireguard to my home network and block everything there.

And yet this discussion seems to be driven by a load of TSLA maximalists.

Elon is a busted flush. He promises the world, delivers somewhat less, somewhat late, if at all. And then layers it with deeply unpleasant politics.

Not groupthink, a sane reaction. Belated, but sane.

That was an artificial boost created by setting a time-limit for a low price. There were ten days to buy at the price, then they put it back up. [1]

[1] https://electrek.co/2026/03/01/tesla-cybertruck-awd-price-in...

EDIT: grammar

Original title: "LangChain Integration for Vector Support for SQL-based AI applications"

The original title was "LangChain Integration for Vector Support for SQL-based AI applications"

Or, "Why only one of the letters in 'AI' is valid". Not exactly a hot take, I know. We're so far beyond emperor's new clothes territory with "AI".

I use Obsidian (other note-taking apps and editor modes are available) and generally write at least a sentence about each bookmark. Subject areas get their own notes/bookmarks and I use the available linking and tagging options to try to make the resource more useful and easier to refer to in the future.

Less paywalled: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0zdd7yl4vo

I might be misreading it, but that screenshot looks like an example of how you can disable the plugin for particular sites, like SO.

Whistlerite here. My Strava stats for last year suggest half and half eMTB and road riding. Tiny bit of fully self-powered MTB work.

As a 56-year old, eBikes are what make mountain biking possible and fun for me.

As a child in the 80s I was exceedingly nerdy. My loving and generous parents did nothing to discourage that. Indeed they encouraged my nascent interest in computers by regularly updating my ZX computers (80->81->Spectrum->48K etc.) and then Acorn computers. All gratefully received.

But then I was offered a C5 as a potential Christmas gift. "It's a Sinclair, you like those" was the approximate reasoning. But even I had to draw the line. There's only so much bullying one person can take. I was used to being laughed at for my fashion choices, my social awkwardness and my lack of sporting prowess. But a C5 would have been the final nail in the coffin.

Ungrateful? Certainly. But I think I made the right choice.

I’m in the same corner of the parties with you.

Also I’m passionately opposed to feathering billionaires’ nests, even with fractions of pennies of profit.

This story is funny, but also so so sad.

Pleased that I'm not alone. The comments here suggest that I should just bin my Mac and buy a Linux-capable machine instead since MacOS is now "unusable", "heinous", "diabolical", "worst OS EVER".

I updated, carried on enjoying the best desktop experience (IMHO). It's not perfect, but was and remains better than the alternatives for me. Very little "struggle".

As someone from 1969, but with an excellent circulatory system, I just roll my eyes and look forward to the sound of bubbles bursting whilst billionaires weep.

As I said, I was being lame. But I get real Terminator vibes when a very good robotics company joins forces with a company that might make those robots autonomous. Terminator and Asimov robot stories make me pessimistic.

It was a knee-jerk reaction as opposed to detailed analysis.

What could possibly go wrong? Lame, I know, but seriously can we have some good, not sinister news for a week or two? With no AI or evil tech-bro, or senile despot overtones if possible.

You know you’re moving the goalposts, don’t you? I’ll grant you that the App Store and Music show ads. But that’s not what you claimed originally, is it?

I said it was simplistic :). Point taken.

Simplistic analysis of whether CSS sucks: this definitive guide is 1,126 pages long. On the Amazon page it also suggests the "Definitive guide to JavaScript" - it's 704 pages long.

If you can fully explain JS (an inexplicable bodge built on a tower of inexplicable bodges) in less pages then CSS almost definitely sucks.

Indeed - it’s like the last hundred years of detergent marketing: “the whitest whites ever, the gentlest wash you’ve ever experienced”. Then six months later another advance from the boffins in their lab coats. All the time it’s just soap.

Self-reply addendum - individual photos can be dealt with with a simple long-press, no need for delving into the info page for the user.

Messages, select user, click the user icon to get to the info page, click Photos, Edit, Select, Download -> photos are in the Photos app and you can do what you want with them.

Not the easiest operation, but hardly jealously prevented.

With respect - bull.

Since the dawn of the current "AI" I've continued to buy and read books at the same pace. Likewise downloading interesting human-created PDFs. I know I'm not the only human who takes zero interest in the output of word-sausage extruders.

Thank you for remembering and sharing this - I knew I'd seen it before, I just couldn't recall where. Mr Scott is and was (and maybe will be?) the obligatory xkcd of nerd experiments.

Yup, Apple user since 2001, desktop and laptop, 20ish years in an office environment used for 8+ hours a day, now 5 years retired. Total faults - zero. Desire to upgrade RAM before rest of machine needed updates (eg storage+CPU+screen) - zero. Dissatisfaction with "Apple model": zero.

But... lately I've felt a hankering to run Linux as a first-class citizen rather than a VM and that's definitely a gap in Mac functionality. I wouldn't sacrifice the five years I enjoy MacOS on my machines for the ability to then move them to Linux, but it would still be nice.

"Think “screen share, but the thing being shared is a robot writing code.”"

Thinks: why not send text instead of graphics, then? I'm sure it's more complicated than that...

British-born Canadian here. Strong spelling pedantry courses through my veins.

But... this is just the next chapter in Canadian media (ha! it mostly belongs to the southern dictatorship) having a go at non-Trumpish politicians.

Life continues.

Discussed entertainingly here by ThePrimeTimeagen: https://youtu.be/E3_95BZYIVs?si=IY-iT1eyXKnVvpTS

I've got a sudden strong urge to play Katamari Damacy.