Gotta justify a $60B purchase of an IDE and (at the time) a single, decent model.

I think the idea of being all in on LLMs or being 100% anti-LLM are both positions that miss opportunity for better development.

This is all a relative scale though. But if we're looking at smartphones specifically, I'd argue Apple has been the least force obsolescence of anyone. I wouldn't be surprised if there are some smaller manufacturer niche cases that surpass it.

It's a shame. I will continue to purchase vehicles with as internet connected and touch screen features as possible. My 2025 Toyota has knobs and a physical key still. Terrified what will be left on the market when I have to get a new vehicle in (hopefully over) 15 years.

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>The goal is not to replace the current mail system, heaven forbid!, but to learn, have fun and discover current technologies to swap out every element: sending, receiving, gateway, keys, and so on.

It's all for fun.

Cleaning in general is also usually a core part of maintaining something. Dirt and grime lead to wear and tear.

As we see more and more heavily AI built open source projects, I wonder how the perception of them becomes. There's a huge spectrum of AI developed code, the same way there is with human code, except a human at least had to think a bit about what they wrote. If you generate code with an LLM to the standards that you'd write it yourself (which is the only way I'd consider for anything important) and you review every bit that's written, I think that's wonderful. Even if you don't, I don't think that's bad, but I will have more friction to adopt that project as there's likely lower quality code and less personal investment into it.

I find that a lot of online discussion has gone either "AI generate everything" or "never AI generate anything", with the middle ground being mostly silent. That's probably just because it's the internet and most people I talk to IRL have a reasonable middle ground take. I'm all for it if it accelerates a person making thoughtful decisions. If not, more power to you, but I'm less inclined to use the software out of fear of using something of poor quality or something that'll be abandonware.

> and it's a shallow way of taking notes to begin with

Are we really going to speak down to how someone uses a bunch of paper bound together? That's how they wanted to use it, which is cool, it's just not how you like it.

I swear there are little gaps in each that the others get, but they're very minor. When uBlock Origin Lote recently released on iOS (within the last year), I noticed a few more things blocked. I also prefer the custom element removal or uBlock and can reuse my desktop filters.

It's free, so I'd recommend adding it as an addition to the bunch.

Beej's writing always impresses me.

Also, for anyone that wants to cut doom scrolling, just delete your accounts and delete the apps for the services you're not using in a way you like. In many cases, it's that simple.

Love e-readers though. I've carried one with me (when I had a reason to expect at least 30 minutes of downtime) for a few years now and it's a lot more convenient than the paperbacks I used to lug around.

https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/ronald-dahl-...