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For those who don't want to use Twitter, I would also suggest replacing it with nothing.

Good point. My grandad used to call it the history as well!

Depends on the publication. I read The Economist, which doesn't cover sports at all. It's mostly 1-2 page long articles for each story, blocked into categories (UK, Europe, US, The…

I think it's important to keep reading the news occasionally. Personally, I, as a programmer, read the news in the same way as my grandad who was a farmer. I read a printed weekly …

And if they simply want something tailored for themselves? Something designed without content suggestions, ads, influence and constant un-necessary redesigns, for privacy and to re…

This seems like an incredibly defensive take for vibe coding personal apps. Replacing some subscription app like Any.do, Google Calendar, fitness/diet tracking or basically any oth…

That's understandable. I have quite minimal music taste so my setup worked for me. I only listen to music at home when I'm not doing anything else and it's mostly classical so ther…

Making your own software is a good way to escape enshittification and influence. I switched from Spotify to buying MP3s and using my own audio client, because I'm fed up of a compa…

I have never understood social media. For me, talking face-to-face is the only real means of socialising. I can barely even see the appeal of having a proper conversation on a chat…

People want different interfaces for the home screen of their device, obviously. I want a black background, with a simple A-Z list of the apps I have on my phone, with some hidden.…

I've never done Android app development. How simple or advanced are we talking to build something like this? This sounds like my exact setup with Octopi. Just I have 4 scrollable h…

Sad news. I've been using Nova for years now, across multiple devices. Thankfully my build is super minimalistic and another launcher was able to replicate it pretty quickly. Black…

Wrist based sleep tracking is worse than finger. Oura for measuring sleep. Garmin for tracking physical exercise. Oura always reflected the timings and my feeling much closer than …

Not sure why Garmin or any of the exercise tracking watches are being used for sleep tracking. They're infamously bad at it from my experience. The rings (notably Oura) are much be…

> you are going to get well under a 50% success rate here. Accept that most people flake This is true, but as long as the success rate is >= 1 other person, it's okay. I started a …

I'm already there. I never use social media and I limit news consumption to once per week for catching up. I'm seeing these messages in the real world. Adverts on the side of buses…

Does anybody get the looming impression that the probability they'll die in war is approaching 1? I don't know which country / group of countries it'll be against, but I get the im…

That's quite hardcore. Well done. I've noticed the same flatness you're describing with a similar product. The other week I had two items spaced across different meals. I'm still p…

That's a nice way to give the postie a pleasant walk on a lovely summer day.

Interesting. What hardware do you use to measure this? I have a Netatmo home device that measures PPM and have been observing the trend lines throughout the day. At some points my …

I've been exploring kefir. I'm looking at finding some live grains to boost the store bought variety here (10-20 varieties) up to 50-60 varieties or so, like the kefir in Eastern E…

"I have built more in the past 10 months than I ever have." Correction. The genAI has built it. I haven't got any skin on either side here, but doesn't the fact the genAI can build…

I don't think this is based around GLP drugs. I've noticed the gym, swimming pools, running and cycling routes I usually frequent have been lower every year for the past 5 years or…

“users who stop taking it gain the weight back” is not a baseless claim. Most of the people on GLP will come off the drugs and regain the weight back to their original weight, if n…

This is the most sensible attitude I've seen people express that has led to meaningful weight loss, maintenance and as far as we can see across large timespans, lifestyle change. I…