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I've just been using LLMs (specifically DuckDuckGo's chat) to help find research and articles to dive into. I don't really see the point of asking LLMs to summarize something for m…

My last laptop was a used 2012 T530. My current is a used M1 MBP Pro with 16GB of ram. I thought this was all I was ever going to need, but wanting to run really nice models locall…

Oh hi! I'm a huge fan of your work! I've watched so many videos breaking down Doki Doki Literature Club. Thank you for all that you do.

The Wii is very moddable. I've modded my Wii in the past just for playing modded versions of Super Smash Brother Melee (mainly training packs, like flashing a red light when I miss…

I'm a fan of ambient and instrumental hip hop for programming. My personal favorites are pretty much anything by Nujabes (including the soundtracks for Samurai Champloo), Fat Jon, …

Thank you for mentioning this, it was the first thing I thought of in this conversation thread!

Another way to frame trade deficit (sometimes) is using the phrase "investment surplus". Many top economies have trade deficits. China is a unique example that goes against that, a…

If you drive a truck because you like trucks, then a Cybertruck works. If you drive a truck because you need a truck, then Cybertrucks don't really work. That being said, I think a…

Fastmail is awesome! I've been a happy user for a long time. Everything just works. The UI is great, nothing gets in my way. I'm a fan of the randomly generated emails as well. Tha…

Dang, and I felt like I wrote up a good response lol

I'm sorry that you are going through this. I haven't gone through something similar, but I think something that helped me out the 2nd time I looked for a job was how valued work ex…

Oh wow this looks really awesome! I'll have to check it out. I unfortunately primarily use Firefox, but still this is great. I've manually tried to keep track of bookmarks via org,…

I highly recommend just trying out org-mode and seeing what works best for you. There are so many things built into org-mode and so many tools built around org-mode that you'll be …

I also have a bunch of different org files for work and personal use. For example, I have a file called tracker.org that is just for recurring habits/tasks that I set up with org-s…

My daily log file basically looks like this: * Year * Month ** Day For example: * 2025 * January ** Saturday 01/10/26 In each day heading I'll have either a short note (like saying…

I've been using Org Mode for organizing my life in plain text for the past 10 years now. Beorg on iOS [0] makes it great. I've also started using things like org-ql [1] and org-sup…

When I start working on a ticket I actually start writing up a PR early on. As I figure out my manual testing, I'll write out the steps that I took in my PR. I've found that writin…

I still use Last.fm! I've had it since 2008. It's really cool seeing how my music taste has changed, and seeing what I've come back to over and over again. When I used to be much m…

I'm a huge fan of Majuular, these videos are amazing. I like that he dives deeply into the history behind each game as well - like the company, Richard Garriott (Lord British), etc…

I was just about to make the same comment! I never remembered the name of this software. Thank you so much for posting it!

My apologies, I should've been more clear! The scam was that this service is actually free provided by AOL. The grandparents shouldn't have ever been charged, they just ended up fi…

My apologies, I should've been clear! AOL doesn't charge for any helpdesk service at all. It explicitly says on their website that all helpdesk services are free and they'll never …

My wife's grandparents use and pay for AOL. I think they pay for a premium package? All I know is that it handles their internet, web browsing, and email. One day they had issues s…

I haven't tried uv yet, but I did use it's precursor - rye. I had to update some messy python code and I was looking for a tool that could handle python versions, package updates, …