IMO, Matrix is definitely the best protocol for sending oneself messages in a running thread across all of one's devices. That is one excellent use case, and it's a real one.

It is also great for the same thing, but with other users, too. I have no idea why its current uptake is so slow among small groups. Is it the apps? The fact that you need to find or join a host (or self host)? Merely being "one more app" and "unknown"?

I wonder what the Matrix team is doing to smooth out whatever adoption issues it has. I think it is worthy of more adoption.

Second, never use the "apps" built into the TV.

Next, don't plug Ethernet into the TV. Plug HDMI cables into the TV.

Use a box of your choice on the other end of the HDMI cables. This is now the box that you trust. (Roku? Shield? Blu-ray? MacBook? PC? Linux? Playstation? XBox? Whatever you want.)

The Smart TV itself is now fine. Choose the devices you plug into it to play content. The TV just shows it.

- you (GROUP 1) are the 0.001%,

and you

- hire the 0.030% (30x more unclean than GROUP 1 on some scale),

to

- build for the 1.000% (33.3% more unclean than GROUP 2 and 1000x more unclean than GROUP 1 on some scale),

then I could see how

- "building for the 1%" would actually feel like building for the general public.

In 2021, Backblaze saw ~14% failure rate at 7 years 9 months. Drive useful life: about 6 years.

That gave us what was a stable-seeming, old "replace drives at 5 years, or you're getting risky" rule of thumb (unless you prefer to replace on failure, of course).

In 2025, Backblaze saw ~5% failure rate at 10 years 3 months. Drive useful life: ~10 years, roughly!

Thanks for all the HDD improvements, industry!

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What's wrong with the G502? I like the wired G502 pretty well. Ideally I'd tweak the shape to be a little more like the M500s shape, but I'm happy enough with it overall.

Great question.

As a very satisfied, long time user of 2 extensions in combination, Temporary Containers and Firefox Multi-Account Containers, I wonder the same thing.

I found out the hard way some time back that simply disabling (not even removing it) and re-enabling the Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension would cause all the painstakingly set up containers and their saved credentials/data to get "lost".

If there were to be a way to "export" and "import" sets of named containers with their settings and data, that would be great for not losing which-site-maps-to-which-container-and-is-already-signed-in (whether natively or within an extension).

I buy the highest quality, lowest cost stuff I can find.

There can be a positive story here maybe though:

- More doordash = less grocery

- More farmer's market = less grocery

- More home-grown = less grocery

Though TFA points out,

  80% of Americans say they're still trying to spend less
  28% are actively trying to cut back on groceries
  56% are trading down to lower-priced brands
  49% are simply buying fewer items,
  44% are leaning harder on coupons and promotions

Effectively, it sort of does that, but really it just listens to the wakeword and opens/switches to the requested app & modality.

FWIW, I get a very different functional result using the Shortcut method vs. asking Siri to delegate natively. To compare, I asked Siri (non-beta here) now to "ask ChatGPT " and I got a top-card with some fairly low quality SEO-ranked weblinks.

  1. In Shortcuts app, make shortcut named "AI Voice Mode" (or whatever you want, YMMV)
  2. Set it to run the ChatGPT action "Voice Mode" (requires at least the minimum paid tier, I think)
  3. To trigger, say "Hey Siri, AI Voice Mode" (or whatever you called the shortcut)

  WHAT YOU ARE SAYING

  WHAT YOU NEED FROM YOUR AUDIENCE (RESPONSE OR DECISION OR ACTION ETC)

As time goes on, often I say (to myself) "forget that", and write all the detail that is needed anyway, even in email. But only for audiences that may care about the detail (or otherwise are safe to skip the email altogether).

But who uses email at work anymore, anyway, right? I guess some organizations.

That under-states the matter. It is a terrible time, price-wise, to build a NAS.

I'd almost rather have no AI whatsoever and have storage 1/10 the price of pre-AI times.

(If there were a magical choice between having AI and significantly more expensive storage, and having no AI and some program to dump that investment money into getting and somehow leveraging significantly more available storage, that is.)

I'd say it's a "small keyboard" in width and in height.

Mechanical, can be fairly quiet (with red switches), arrow keys, F keys, home/page keys. Well-built IME. Not exorbitantly priced.

It does not require a "service" to consume multiple blogs efficiently, just simply "software" (an app will do).

The below RSS readers pretty much do their job and get out of the user's way. What's amazing is the sheer number of RSS readers that people choose to use; there are so many, people find ones that they personally like.

On desktop: Vienna https://www.vienna-rss.com/

On iOS: R2SReader https://apps.apple.com/us/app/r2sreader/id1608635613

Of course, if one wanted to use a service (or run one oneself), for features like syncing, then that is possible too.

But the basic setup remarkably simple, easy, and useful by itself IMO.

Because of a load-bearing CSS attribute, as I understand it.

So, it's hard to consider it a web-standards supportive platform anymore.

Or, at least, it's a web platform with a technical challenge of not being interactive (so users can post and interact) from web standards supporting devices but lacking whatever HTML standards were introduced since as recently as 2021.

I'd call it a technical challenge. Literally the CSS language framework / build process is just not that flexible.

Semantic design development process became separated from semantic HTML serving somewhere along the way.

Maybe that's fine and quite good for 99% of uses. But I see this one as a glaring technical question mark.

Bringing it back to the titular point in the OP, the "crappy forums" do not seem to (cause some users to) suffer from this problem.

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I read it in my early 20s and at that time my main takeaway, as I recall, was to (paraphrasing), "carefully plant the evidence, thus making the conclusion something the audience comes to on their own (they 'think of it' themselves)".

In entrepreneurship, this was slightly dangerous to me, since I immediately started implementing this successfully. Before long, I (apparently) took "credit" for "my idea" (that I successfully got the audience to see, oh so carefully), whereas audience thought that we "came up with it together"!

Oy vey! So, a word to the wise. I now subscribe to more of a "plain honesty but with tact" approach.