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Meanwhile, phone-sized readers like the Boox Palma exist and are much more capable.

They also have a Gemini site gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/hundredrabbits/

Two things: decentralized generation (solar on roofs everywhere) and market forces (demand drives grid buildout)

Work at a larger organization and the only browser we’re allowed is fucking Edge. All other browsers are blocked as malicious processes.

Watched a clip yesterday and learned that compared to just last year, there were four times as many contestants and they managed to complete the race in less than half the time.

But the really fascinating things were mundane tasks like chopping vegetables.

Comparing that to what Europe has got to offer is what scares me.

At this moment, I am sitting in a Amazon Kiro course. We have spent more than 2 hours and half the tokens of our test account just to fucking connect to an MCP server.

The process is so convoluted and Byzantine it has to be some kind of cult to enjoy this pain.

I‘m with Ed Zitron - the AI hype and especially stuff like this just makes it so obvious that the tech bros are flat out of ideas.

Don’t worry, Chinese LLM vendors without access to the newest hardware will take care of that.

A few years back I regularly ran half marathons. If I missed a few weeks of training due to illness, work or whatever’s, the trainer would often say „the body never forgets“. Thought it was just old guy pseudowisdom, turns out there’s science behind it!

Windows is a hot steaming pile, so I won’t get into that. You really should set you bar higher.

Pros: everything except super cutting edge hardware runs painlessly, right out the box. You can get software for pretty much anything, and it will be free. You can keep using super old hardware until it physically dies. No ads, hardly any telemetry or tracking, no AI junk.

Cons: each program looks and acts different, and might be super opionated and janky. But that’s the situation with Windows anyways. No customer support for private end users, and if you dare ask about your problem online, elite users will berate you and get on your case with arcane commands.

Bottom line: if you feel comfortable with a computer and won’t get scared if the icons and menus look different, try it out.

The megacorps can do anything they want with their product. The chef can change the menu anytime and he can refuse you service - it’s his restaurant. Our problem is that it’s a duopoly and there’s nowhere else to go.

The only way out is open standards and platforms, enabling true competition.