I worked at a summer program for high school students about 2 years ago, and we had them write postcards that would be mailed to next year's program participants. Quite a few of them were really confused about the concept of a postcard. "We're just going to write on the back of it?", "How is it going to get there?", "But people can read what I wrote!"
I didn't anticipate this at all, and it was pretty amusing how put off people were by the "but someone can just read it" aspect. I guess kids care about privacy to some degree still.
ZRAM is real. Even on computers with lots of ram it lets the os compress and tuck away memory that a process is hoarding. When I start using android studio all these long-running election process get 1/2 their memory swapped out to disk, and evidently they never really needed it because days later I still see lots of their memory swapped out.
I bought a Fairphone 4 off Clove.co.uk and I live in Canada. After a year and a bit of enjoying that my wife agreed to replace her Pixel 4a with a Fairphone 5.
I guess my notes are unstructured, as in they're what I type as I'm in the meeting. I'm a "more is better" sort of note taker, so it's definitely faster to let AI pull things out.
Infosec ... I guess people will have to evaluate that for themselves. Certainly, for my use case there's no concern.
"Based on the following daily notes, what should I follow-up on in my next meeting with #SomeTeamTag?"
"Based on the following daily notes, what has the #SomeTeamTag accomplished the past month?"
etc.
I'm not counting on it to not miss anything, but it jogs my memory, it does often pull out things I completely forgot about, and it lets me get away with being super lazy. Whoops, 5 minutes before a meeting I forgot about? Suddenly I can follow up on things that were talked about last meeting. Or, for sprint retrospectives, give feedback that is accurate.
To add: I've also started using AI to "talk to podcast guests." You can use Whisper to transcribe a podcast, then give the transcript to AI to ask questions. I find the Modern Wisdom Podcast is great for this.
(I say this naive of all sorts of things, but...) I wish Canada would do something bold and actively court all these high-skill people who are probably interested in jumping ship. Make it easier for whole companies to move and bring their employees, make it easy for entrepreneurs to start a business serving this new migration, relax some tax rules for those in the process of moving, make it easy for extended family to tag along, make it clear it'll be easy for them to go back... ehh, and do something about housing.
Then, take out billboards in big cities. Put on events in the US. Partner with Canadian companies to handle logistics for potential employees, etc., etc.
Don't just go "Hey smart people, come to Canada" and afterwards say "I bet they'll do smart-people things!" Go for an unprecedented scale migration and actually shape the process for long-term benefit and payoff.
In the past I figured we didn't do this because we didn't want to piss off people in the US, but, I feel like who gives a shit now.
Their brand-new car, their charger, and (evidently) on the spot Tesla says "yeah, this isn't our problem." I can't imagine they expect the person is going to go "Oh, dear." hang up, then pay thousands of dollars to fix whatever broke.
I tried maybe 3 years ago and I found it incredibly buggy. I've been using Thunderbird, but definitely wish there was a KDE or Qt-native mail app that did what I wanted.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice and I must be a Microsoft customer.
I'm convinced Mac users just become blind to the file. I see it all over repos at work.
39.8% of internet traffic that Cloudflare saw in the last 7 days was IPv6: https://radar.cloudflare.com/adoption-and-usage
I sure like it. "Free" YouTube is like using a browser without an blocker now - I forget how bad it is and I can't believe people live like that.
Being able to cancel Spotify was a nice bonus too.
I worked at a summer program for high school students about 2 years ago, and we had them write postcards that would be mailed to next year's program participants. Quite a few of them were really confused about the concept of a postcard. "We're just going to write on the back of it?", "How is it going to get there?", "But people can read what I wrote!"
I didn't anticipate this at all, and it was pretty amusing how put off people were by the "but someone can just read it" aspect. I guess kids care about privacy to some degree still.
If it is a well-known problem, it's not universal. Mine doesn't do this. I'm running openSUSE Tumbleweed.
You must have uncanny luck with printers then. The printer I have I bought for it's Linux support and I still have problems.
ZRAM is real. Even on computers with lots of ram it lets the os compress and tuck away memory that a process is hoarding. When I start using android studio all these long-running election process get 1/2 their memory swapped out to disk, and evidently they never really needed it because days later I still see lots of their memory swapped out.
I bought a Fairphone 4 off Clove.co.uk and I live in Canada. After a year and a bit of enjoying that my wife agreed to replace her Pixel 4a with a Fairphone 5.
Has anyone used this program? Did your dentist treat it like any other insurance?
I used to pick based on the package manager, leading me to apt-based distros. With flatpak now, I don't feel as bothered by non-apt distros.
(And here's my shoutout to openSUSE tumbleweed!)
We're in Alberta and used this site: https://www.homeradontest.ca/
It was cheap and easy. Unfortunately our results were right at the warning level, so now we're trying to figure out what to do.
What is happening in that picture?!
I'm sad to see how many mentions of "proprietary" there are in there. I didn't think that was DeepSeek's way of doing things.
I guess my notes are unstructured, as in they're what I type as I'm in the meeting. I'm a "more is better" sort of note taker, so it's definitely faster to let AI pull things out.
Infosec ... I guess people will have to evaluate that for themselves. Certainly, for my use case there's no concern.
I use it to review my meeting notes.
I'm not counting on it to not miss anything, but it jogs my memory, it does often pull out things I completely forgot about, and it lets me get away with being super lazy. Whoops, 5 minutes before a meeting I forgot about? Suddenly I can follow up on things that were talked about last meeting. Or, for sprint retrospectives, give feedback that is accurate.
To add: I've also started using AI to "talk to podcast guests." You can use Whisper to transcribe a podcast, then give the transcript to AI to ask questions. I find the Modern Wisdom Podcast is great for this.
(I say this naive of all sorts of things, but...) I wish Canada would do something bold and actively court all these high-skill people who are probably interested in jumping ship. Make it easier for whole companies to move and bring their employees, make it easy for entrepreneurs to start a business serving this new migration, relax some tax rules for those in the process of moving, make it easy for extended family to tag along, make it clear it'll be easy for them to go back... ehh, and do something about housing.
Then, take out billboards in big cities. Put on events in the US. Partner with Canadian companies to handle logistics for potential employees, etc., etc.
Don't just go "Hey smart people, come to Canada" and afterwards say "I bet they'll do smart-people things!" Go for an unprecedented scale migration and actually shape the process for long-term benefit and payoff.
In the past I figured we didn't do this because we didn't want to piss off people in the US, but, I feel like who gives a shit now.
Their brand-new car, their charger, and (evidently) on the spot Tesla says "yeah, this isn't our problem." I can't imagine they expect the person is going to go "Oh, dear." hang up, then pay thousands of dollars to fix whatever broke.
No, all within the province. I thought... that would be a funny way to out someone who is "working from home" in Europe.
How long have you been using Kmail?
I tried maybe 3 years ago and I found it incredibly buggy. I've been using Thunderbird, but definitely wish there was a KDE or Qt-native mail app that did what I wanted.