snielson

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by snielson 5mo ago
My wife runs a food blog and sometimes uses AI to come up with recipes she tests on us first. One of the best dishes she’s ever made (and one of the best I’ve ever eaten) was pork with an apricot sauce. The pork was fine, but the sauce was
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by snielson 6mo ago
Yeah, I really like Windows 11. I'm not a developer; just an ordinary user. I guess the difference is that I fully embrace the MS ecosystem—i.e., OneDrive, M365 Family account (the storage alone is worth the cost), Power Toys, Edge (sy
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by snielson 8mo ago
The "Files-On-Demand" feature of OneDrive makes it possible for everyone in the family to login into any computer with OneDrive and quickly access all their files (I have 500/500 fiber). Because some/most of the files ar
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by snielson 8mo ago
I love OneDrive. I don't know why everyone hates it. I save things in OneDrive, and they are backed up to the cloud and synced with the other computers I use. Some computers are shared by six family members, each with their own MS acco
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by snielson 9mo ago
I'm not a developer, but I consider myself relatively tech literate. That said, I really like Windows 11 and many other MS products such as M365, Edge, new Outlook, One Drive, and even Teams is tolerable (maybe not as polished as Zoom)
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by snielson 9mo ago
> Additionally, every colleague, counterparty, outside-counsel, and client a lawyer ever works with uses docx. To introduce a new format into this ecosystem would introduce friction into every single interaction. As an attorney, this is
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by snielson 11mo ago
Ublock origin can be installed in Edge mobile.
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by snielson 1y ago
Assistive access mode for an iPhone is fantastic for the elderly. It's the only way my 85-year-old father can even use a phone. One of the best features is that it can be set to allow incoming calls only from people in his contacts. It
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by snielson 1y ago
The solution proposed by Kagi—separate the search index from the rest of Google—seems to make the most sense. Kagi explains it more here: https://blog.kagi.com/dawn-new-era-search
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by snielson 1y ago
I use Paint.net for simple tasks like those you listed. I paid $10 for it in the Microsoft store but I think you can get it for free from the website.
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by snielson 2y ago
I use Contacts+. It's not free, but it syncs Google and Microsoft contacts nicely, which is my primary need.
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by snielson 2y ago
According to my testing, Claude 3 Opus makes drafting patent applications about 50% faster.
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by snielson 2y ago
T-mobile business has a backup plan for $30/mo ($15/mo on a promo a month ago) that can be used for up to 7 days of internet per month. I signed up for it so I will still have internet if my fiber goes out (my router will automati
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by snielson 2y ago
Lehi offers 1Gbps fiber for $80/mo, which is about the same as Utopia. The pricing seems pretty good for dinner in Utah.
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by snielson 2y ago
Utopia provides an active ethernet connection to each subscriber with the specified bandwidth. This is superior to most fiber deployments, which are passive optical networks (GPON) where groups of 16-32 homes share a connection (usually 2.4
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by snielson 2y ago
Having been to Guatemala, the culture is to throw most trash on the ground. The trash is then washed into the rivers during heavy rains. It's sad to see. The country has a lot of natural beauty, but there is trash everywhere.
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by snielson 3y ago
Set kagi as the default search engine in edge on android (you need to install edge) and add the edge search widget to your home screen. I also switched to the MS launcher so I could get rid of the Google search bar.
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by snielson 3y ago
I live a little north of Bountiful. I was a big advocate of municipal fiber and pushed my city to build a network. In hindsight, I'm glad the city didn't do it. The neighboring city (Kaysville) voted down a municipal fiber network
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by snielson 3y ago
Thanks for this! The summarizer is great for quickly getting the gist of legal cases.
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by snielson 3y ago
Kagi is great. I've had to find some obscure things recently and it was fantastic. No ads, no irrelevant garbage designed to make money for the search engine. Instead my interests and that of kagi are aligned - find the best search res
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by snielson 4y ago
Yes, PDF-XChange is the best pdf software.
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by snielson 4y ago
PDF-XChange pdf software. I often have to edit/manipulate pdf files for work. I've tried so many (including Acrobat DC, Power PDF Advanced, Nitro PDF, Phantom, etc.) and this software is hands down the best. It is even reasonably
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by snielson 4y ago
Transfer your domains to cloudflare.
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by snielson 5y ago
Kagi is listening. Sign up and give it a shot. I've tried them all (Neeva, Brave, Bing, Yandex, etc.) and I like Kagi the best. They are planning to make it a paid service when it gets out of beta.
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by snielson 5y ago
I recently had to deal with this. I created a free Outlook account. I transferred the domain from Gsuite to cloudflare and signed up for the email beta (all email is forwarded to the Outlook account). I moved the email using Outlook on Wind
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by snielson 5y ago
I can confirm that moving email is the easiest of all the migration tasks. I connected my Google account and a destination email account to Outlook and moved all my email in less than 5 minutes.
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by snielson 5y ago
Microsoft has recently been pushing a new centralized web based feedback portal: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ It looks like they have imported feedback from other places such as the feedback hub.
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by snielson 5y ago
I've been using Kagi for a couple months and generally like it. It's the default search engine in my browser. My only complaint is that occasionally I run a search and get zero results, like the page is literally blank (I try the
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by snielson 5y ago
I recently switched to neeva for search and it's great. No ads. The search results seem much more relevant.
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by snielson 5y ago
I have the Tmobile service. I use at least 500 Gb/mo without problems. Others on the reddit forum use over a Tb without problems. The terms of service say Tmobile will deprioritize us when there is congestion, but I haven't experi

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