midnightgrocer ๐ mikey
TRMNL completely customizable e-ink display. Beautiful product. Battery last 3 months. Easy on the eyes. Weighs 6oz. I love this shit man (even though I have no idea what I would put on display). Bummed I missed out on the first wave but restock coming in march. ๐ค usetrmnl.com
It seems inevitable to me that we get ads, and I want them to survive. The paid tier however should remove the ads Itโs also good to remember if they start pulling engagement levers you donโt like pulled to optimize rev you have multiple courses of action (by design): feeds, clients, and PDS
> Bluesky may eventually experiment with ads in a way that doesnโt compromise the core user experience. That could include running ads in Blueskyโs search results (...) I prefer no ads, but non-intrusive ads in search would be ok. The crucial limit is ads in the middle of our conversations.
You have to watch it in motion, you really do. Unfortunately compression does extra damage to a style like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nG-...
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pro tip, check your microwave shielding. Itโs not unlikely it operates on the same 2.4gHz band as your WiFi and only needs to leak a small amount of radiation before messing with the network. Happened to us. My brother would nuke a burrito and Iโd get kicked out of overwatch or get crazy ping
Iโm concerned this will hurt Googleโs interest in continuing to heavily invest and push web standards. While chrome certainly has some ugly (hello manifest v3), all things considered it has been a Mostly Goodโข trade for the web at large
DOJ antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Google, $GOOGL, to sell off its Chrome browser
God I love Remarkable. The product is so good and fun to use. But I returned it today because reading ebooks on it (a major boon for e-ink devices) is awful. If you didnโt know, Remarkable canโt read epubs. It converts everything to PDF, which is slow, some images donโt load, and no reflow options.
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Exactly right. Human synthesis will be vital and is driven by finding patterns of insight in emotionality, imperfection, and subjectivity. In other words, journaling and personal writing are way too underrated
At some point, AI systems will be able to do more comprehensive and deep research on a single topic (assuming itโs well-documented in writing) than people. But having thoughtful insights, meaningful takes, and deploying all of this towards The Good is still the core skill set.
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it's gonna be day 1 for me
We will begin developing a subscription model for features like higher quality video or profile customizations like colors and avatar frames. Bluesky will always be free to use โ we believe that information and conversation should be easily accessible. (We wonโt uprank paid accounts.)
DNS being one of the webโs most byzantine concepts makes @bsky.appโs decision to build the handles infrastructure on top of it both badass and hilarious