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They are all USB C form factor port cables. The actual functionality being different is a USB spec/labelling failure not one of naming. Thunderbolt is also a USB C form factor/port…

The BLS has been gutted. It's surprising anything negative is escaping in these reports.

I don't have a password manager. All the passkeys I've been asked to set up are locked within this one browser on this one device. By single credential, all the passkeys on this br…

and to unlock that passkey on my PC uses... my user account password. So now every passkey on my device has a single password. and I can't use this on any other device by default. …

On my PC I don't have a manager set up. The browser has the passkey saved, if I accidentally set one up by mistake, but it's not accessible on my other devices. How do I log in to …

By design. It worked great, then they launched Gemini and moved features out of Assistant. At least Assistant can still follow basic directions like a voice command to navigate hom…

Gemini has no idea what to do when I tell it to 'Navigate home'. Or 'Next song'. It's objectively worse at every basic command.

Another name and worse experience. Bloated, heavy, slow, bad with voice commands, and overall much more annoying to work with. One of the few things google did better than Apple wa…

Their level is set where it best feeds their revenue. Their security plays equally as well into their walled garden.

A $1.5Bil settlement just went in on stolen content used for training. It's arguably many times larger in long term damages especially compared to investment into those who stole t…

Clearly the best way to test these is a completely scientific and controlled process of prompting for a creature on a bicycle. Much like testing the fitness of a fish by making it …

A password manager let's me use my service specific credential from any device, securely and decentralized. Passkeys lock into a specific device and seem easy until you need to use…

It makes sense for a work device that is off network/domain, but then it is your primary/only means of interfacing with services. Then you can consolidate under a Windows Hello pas…

Even my primary Credit Union is limiting teller roles in branches. There are still people to help, but then you have to go in person. My nearest branch is a day trip away but I can…

The what and why make sense. The how is poorly done. People are generally familiar with passwords but passkeys are different.

If another payment service offered the same or better protections by default with a lower or zero fee would you jump ship? Or would your bank at least offer that option?

The month to month changes and improvements across free tools is noticeable. A number of skills SE and other roles are built on (or people started with) like more simple scripting …

> Apple has taught their customer base well. Apple has taught their costumers that Apple products are a style choice, a lifestyle product. It makes them boring. Their utility is se…

Cost, limited OS/etc support, ignore/avoid their walled garden, not using any other apple devices, lac of reparability (historically) Many many reasons to avoid Apple products. I s…

Many places near me have different cash/card pricing from a % to a flat fee on the transaction. I've used debit cards to pay car repair bills to skip the 3% fee (sizeable on a $250…

The adoption of standards like skills and agent setup helps a ton. Nobody wants to be locked into an AI vendor like with cloud systems in general. And companies can't hold on to th…

You're forced to document every check and thought related to development until you're wiring a manual on how to be laid off (unless self employed or otherwise critical). Which is f…

Russian diminutives, making nicknames much harder to track for those not familiar with the culture and language. Vladimir is Vova is Volodya, same person. Then other parts of their…

In my experience it's more the Russian diminutives across the language that cause issues. If you're familiar with the nickname variations then it's easy to follow. If you aren't yo…

In my current use case I'm setting up a new Ubuntu server for hosting LLMs. I didn't take notes when setting it up last time around but want to document exactly what was required t…