martin82

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by martin82 19d ago
Does Kobo still crash regularly? Mine crashed several times daily on my Kobo reader and I gave up on the app and the device and moved on to Supernote and just reading PDFs on it.
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by martin82 19d ago
I think the damage that Meta has done not only to children, but to all human beings alive and online today, cannot be put into monetary terms. Meta should be destroyed and forced to stop all operations immediately. I think it would be quite
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by martin82 29d ago
And Microsoft doesn't use Github to feed their own monsters? And why wouldn't Elon just use GitHub to feed Grok? Is Elon maybe just living rent free in your head?
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by martin82 2mo ago
Voting has never worked to bring competence into the government. Exhibit A: All governments of the world, right now.
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by martin82 4mo ago
All these emails are written by AI nowadays and therefore they all sound he same. This is not a grand achievement or a sign of a great CEO.
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by martin82 7mo ago
I basically have to hit the edit function in Signal and correct typos in Every. Single. Thread. Every. Single. Day. It is infuriating. This has been going on for years, so I guess when this guy claims this started at iOS 17, it seems to mak
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by martin82 7mo ago
I have scrubbed my account completely clean years ago and never use it for anything. When I log in once a quarter or so, just to check if someone sent me a message via the Messenger, all I see is soft-porn on my timeline.
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by martin82 8mo ago
German here. Root beer does INDEED taste like toothpaste. Disguting. :) We Germans drink Malzbier, which is equally unhealthy, but at least it tastes somewhat OK.
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by martin82 10mo ago
I have updated as soon as possible and I if you asked me, I couldn't tell you what is different now. Everything I do on a daily basis still works exactly the same. If there are some weird more rounded corners somewhere now, I don'
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by martin82 10mo ago
Why should ads be a moat??? People hate ads. I have changed from ChatGPT to Grok and have felt absolutely no difference in my usage patterns, just getting better answers. Every competitor has cloned ChatGPTs UI/UX and API, so hopping
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by martin82 10mo ago
Keychat or Whitenoise.
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by martin82 10mo ago
That is not the case any more. The "users" show up in the shape and form of malicious AI crawling bots that don't honor your robots.txt nor apply any kind of self-throttling.
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by martin82 10mo ago
That's a very diplomatic way of saying "we burnt all this money but we have not the faintest clue about how to proceed"
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by martin82 10mo ago
We can do something about it: Just not use those services. X is addictive, but otherwise utterly unnecessary. It seemed useful about 8 years ago when you could get tech insights form industry veterans on a daily basis and then use them in y
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by martin82 10mo ago
At this point I 100% see the EU as a failed experiment and I would love to witness a mass exodus of the slavic countries, and then Germany and France. Burn this thing to the ground. Nothing good came out of it.
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by martin82 10mo ago
Seems like this is very under-spec'd in terms of RAM. I have my doubts that this will run modern games at acceptable performance.
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by martin82 10mo ago
People warn to not hold smartphones near the head for too long due to too strong signal strenghts... Is it not a concern to strap such a powerful defive that receives super strong signals right onto the head for hours??
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by martin82 10mo ago
This sounds it will be a milestone recorded in the history books in the chapter of the accelerating downfall of the US empire into hyperinflation...
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by martin82 10mo ago
There is no reason take statins, ever. They will destroy your muscles, then cause diabetes and thus indirectly kill you. They will prevent a heart attack by... four days. If biomarkers are elevated, the question must always be, "why
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by martin82 10mo ago
The opposite. Those children who are barred to own phones are forced to actually seek out an actual social life. The digital illusion of a "social life" that smartphones create is neither social, nor living.
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by martin82 10mo ago
"adults use smartphones" Is this so? I think of it like the time when Hong Kong was flooded with Opium. "adults smoke opium" If you find that too crass, there are countless other ways to put it: "adults eat sugar&qu
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by martin82 10mo ago
I don't agree at all. VERY few authors write consistenly good books. If you liked one book by an author, it is not at all likely that you will like the other books as well. For example, Neil Stephenson is probably my favorite author al
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by martin82 10mo ago
Been using Boka for years. Don't see any difference. I'm on a low carb diet and never eat things with added sugar anyways, so I assume that I could even drop toothpaste alltogether. Also, my teeth have been yellow since as long as
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by martin82 10mo ago
I don't know if I am all that smart, but I can attest that the one thing that made me happier beyond my wildest expectations is seeing my daughter see the light of the world and then spending every single day of her life, so far, givin
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by martin82 11mo ago
I predict that NYC will now quickly turn into an absolute shithole of epic proportions to the point that people will have to flee the city. Similar to London.
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by martin82 11mo ago
I live in unbelievably hot and humid Singapore and buying physical books is essentially "not possible". Unless I blast the AC in my house 24/7, all books will eventually succumb to mould.
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by martin82 11mo ago
what we need is a unified search engine for non DRM bookshops so that I can just search for what I need and then be directed to whatever shop offers it at the best price or format.
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by martin82 11mo ago
In that case, I will own a surveillance phone JUST for the government ID app, and put that into airplane mode almost all the time, except for the few times per month where I need that shitty app. The rest of the time, I will use a free phon
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by martin82 11mo ago
Just swipe up from the address bar.
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by martin82 11mo ago
I love the update. OS looks super nice and fresh. I love playing around with it and interacting with the glassy elements. Don't care what some ulta-rationale pixelpushers are trying to tell me. There is nothing in my day-to-day interac

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