leokennis

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by leokennis 6d ago
For me, the iPhone is the primary device I unlock and use in short burst 10's of times throughout the day. The iPad (Mini) is something I use more deliberately, like twice per day to read the newspaper and to watch some video. For me t
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by leokennis 6d ago
Now's as good a time as ever to ask this question. I have an iPhone logged in to my iCloud account. My wife has her iPhone logged in to her own iCloud account. Both of these iCloud accounts, plus a few more from my kids, make up our &q
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by leokennis 6d ago
The average Joe, via AirPods and the like, in 2026 has access to vastly better audio than in 2005. In 2005, you had serious and expensive high end audio from the established brands (Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic etc.) and you had consumer audi
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by leokennis 7d ago
Every news headline or public statement these days is a gut punch. Only bad news, and nothing we (as "the general public") can do about it. Take this one. Ok, AI is going to ruin us all. But let's say we do our civic duty: we
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by leokennis 8d ago
Just like WordPerfect enabled your mom to create a professional-enough cover letter, ChatGPT allows your mom to send you a more or less visually pleasing virtual birthday card of you wearing a party hat.
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by leokennis 8d ago
Both for simplicity and portability, I am a very happy user of https://firecore.com/infuse . I guess it's less full featured as Plex or Jellyfin (it still more than covers the bases for video: format support, different
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by leokennis 14d ago
I stopped using Gemini a few months ago because it would often just (partially) reply literal nonsense to me. Think 2023 style ChatGPT. Something like “to open a document on your Mac click File > Open docurrrar” - like it suddenly forgot
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by leokennis 18d ago
Especially Gruber is getting really tiresome. Almost devolving into a “look at them there fruity Yuropeeans with their healthcare and holidays”-level of tech commentary about any minor roadbump big-US-tech encounters in the EU.
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by leokennis 20d ago
Unfortunately (but logically I think) the OSM-ecosystem is very Android leaning - so missing out on a large % of street walking smartphone wielding would-be mappers. Also, to get "basic non-tech regular people" involved in improvi
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by leokennis 21d ago
If you’re a startup but you don’t have a blog post with some wishy washy doodah showcasing your own personal font, its cute glyphs, its heritage in 1800’s Europe and some translucent overlays showing how it’s definitely different but not re
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by leokennis 25d ago
I own the Clara BW (C) and the Libra Colour (L). The C is sharper but the L looks more like a real book/paper. I believe as an artifact of the colour screen and it’s called “screenshot effect”. In the end, once you use either for 10 mi
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by leokennis 29d ago
5.6 Sol is a joy to use for "daily chat" as well. Compared to earlier OpenAI models it catches and corrects its mistakes very reliably. It also seems way smarter in tuning its replies to areas I am more/less knowledgeable abo
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by leokennis 1mo ago
"People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you
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by leokennis 1mo ago
I have AdGuard DNS set up (mainly use HaGeZi lists) for system wide blocking + AdGuard content blockers to catch some web ads and annoyances that cannot be caught via DNS. Works very well, it’s been a good long while since any ad cheapened
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by leokennis 2mo ago
Exact same question as you. When the new ChatGPT app dropped it suggested to me to set up a task something like (paraphrased) “every Monday read my Gmail and Slack an make a summary and task list for the week”. Why would I need an LLM to do
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by leokennis 2mo ago
Even if Lightning was possibly a nicer or smaller connector; nothing beats a true industry standard. Makes the entire “what chargers and cables to bring to connect my stuff” question so much easier.
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by leokennis 2mo ago
It definitely has the Vaporwave aesthetic. Would love to try and test this for usability.
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by leokennis 2mo ago
Reading your reply, I think we have different definitions of “incredibly easy”.
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by leokennis 2mo ago
I enjoyed OiNK and What.cd but ultimately their ratio requirements killed that joy. At some point the “market” was saturated. 99% of music was on the site, and every release had plenty of seeders and peers. Unless you had early access to ne
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by leokennis 2mo ago
> I generally suspect folks would be a lot happier if they'd had a few more crap jobs as a baseline! Fully agree. I cleaned a potato processing plant at night. They had to stop production for a few hours so there was huge time press
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by leokennis 2mo ago
I always understood it as "the further from the (dirty/basic) Earth, the more luxurious".
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by leokennis 2mo ago
(At least in Europe) Toyota used to name their models "Sol", "Luna" and "Terra" as well. Sol had all the trimmings, Terra had the least. It sounded nicer than something like "Luxury" and "Basic&q
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by leokennis 3mo ago
I agree there might be a more or les arbitrary border, and it will probably be in different places for different people. However the original statement: > The CEO’s extracurricular activities are none of my business. Basically says that
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by leokennis 3mo ago
Let's draw this to its ultimate conclusion. Would you subscribe to an excellent VPN service, if it was run by [insert universally abhorred brutal dictator from history here]?
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by leokennis 3mo ago
Unfortunately, somehow AirPods also at random go from my wife's iPhone to my iPad. And then when she "steals" them back switch to my Mac a minute later. Doesn't matter that they are linked to her iCloud account/Appl
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by leokennis 3mo ago
My experience with German colleagues is not efficiency; but they do have a remarkable ability (in my field) to read a 400 page regulator rulebook and overlay it on a 200 page design document and pinpoint the rulebook edge cases not covered
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by leokennis 3mo ago
Days of our Lives is staged and so is The Godfather. Yet one is not like the other. Valve staged a scene of two people playing a game like how most people play a game. Just like that, there are many small human touches to this Steam Machine
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by leokennis 3mo ago
Beautifully said. Engineering is often just a cost center and I often have the feeling management is suspicious that the engineers are just wasting time and throwing up roadblocks for nothing. This in turn makes managers always on the looko
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by leokennis 3mo ago
Always appreciate people answering their own questions in great detail!
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by leokennis 3mo ago
I bought my parents a M1 iMac in 2021. Connected a drive to it for Time Machine. Set up an admin account and wrote its password on a sticky note. Set up auto update. Gave a 5 minute instruction. I haven’t had to look at it for 5 years now.

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