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I'm surprised Googles ad business stays afloat. It seems every video I watch on YouTube is preceded with a Grammarly advert, a service I have no use for and will not subscribe to/p…

Bloody hell. That name takes me back. I got started on web with Piczo (albeit moved on very quickly).

I remember using Pocket briefly and wondering what the purpose of it was when you could just save bookmarks in any stock web browser.

Any geography buffs able to explain why the greenspace in Northern Africa seems to ebb and flow across this time period? That looks quite interesting but I can't seem to find anyth…

This is a good technique but I fear YouTube will always try to sway us away from our interests, and towards what they are soft-promoting. I've always wanted a YouTube which is basi…

I guess societal collapse was a bit melodramatic of me. I guess I just wanted to vent a bit. It's just sad that we live with such a hijacking force in our pockets and that seems to…

I really think society is sleepwalking into a ton of problems with mass media consumption (mostly by the phone, and of which Instagram is one component). We are not supposed to be …

I read and write from a desktop PC at work. Echo the other person who replied. I can't stand virtual keyboards for writing anything as long as ... about this comment.

> I too want to get paid 500k to sit on a bean bag, drink lattes, have office affairs, work a 3 hours day Unfortunately this was most of the lot that Google and others cut loose in…

Is this just one of the top dogs at Stripe bigging up their own company? Surely it's common public opinion that most social initiatives and stances major companies take are entirel…

Thanks for writing this. It's refreshing to see there's a bunch of us in the same boat. I think you've hit the nail on the head about the two worlds. My phone sits in my pocket mos…

I must be going through some mental changes nowadays. I just want my computers and software to get their job done and go back to the real world as soon as possible. I feel sad abou…

Material Design v1 cracked it. It was simple to implement, simple to understand and simple to use. Minimal overheads with a clear content-first approach. "It's time to move beyond …

There's more interesting things to a person than their drinking preferences.

Why keep pursuing it if you don't like it in general? I don't like coffee. I've tried most of the variations over the years, and don't like any of them. So I don't drink it. The to…

I'm surprised you are the only person saying this. I don't like coffee, and I'm not going to keep drinking coffee until I like it (or become hooked on caffeine). It seems odd that …

Yet another frontend for ChatGPT. You can do all of this on ChatGPT.

It's a cool looking site, but these terminal style sites (seen a few of them from web developers and software types) look terrible on phones and tablets (keyboard constantly presen…

A lot of the time, you aren't even learning how to translate the sentence. It's more like you've recognised basic sentence structure (in your own language) and managed to make a se…

The process of making decks and the SRS features Anki provides are some of the most effective ways to learn language (particularly vocab) behind learning (grammar) from books and l…

It's selling a lifestyle change, and one which is "easy" and fun. Once you're hooked in, they gamify everything to make you feel like you're doing well. There's the leaderboards, t…

Duolingo is an awful language learning tool (primary tool or only tool). Here is a Duolingo game. Translate the following into English: jvgug5 g54g 4g g45g ! g54 43 43r pgd0f Here …

Why bother reinventing it? The only social apps that have ever been needed are basic chat apps (group or private) and tools for meeting up in real life (such as group chats). Every…

I'm not sure if I am or not. If it's not too much of a write-up, how might I be able to check? Is this something that can be changed in phone settings? Thanks for letting me know. …

I don't know why but that video on the homepage (third media item from top) split me up for how rude/brash it came across. The mans thrusting his palm out in front of the colleague…