Not to mention the time it would take to ingest that data

Redundancy and high quality backups maybe? Some people have hoarded a lot of media over how many years, doesn’t seem too far fetched to me.

People should look into the ikko mind one too. Its shit that they have so much emphasis on their “AI OS” which is just an integrated app (which can be requested to be removed before delivery or removed via adb). But the hardware looks solid.

Its a square screen phone that you can get a keyboard case for that includes a hifi dac. Its camera is a big sony sensor that can flip over to the front so they didn’t need to split the camera money between two or more sensors.

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I think the USA is a bit big to be considered an island

I didn’t mean to make it come across as creative writing was the only way to get better at writing as a whole. Was more trying to say that exercising the creative side would make you better at that side in particular because you said you found yourself not good at creative writing. I was trying to encourage you into expand your hobby of writing into creative writing as well, if you felt like you were being held back on trying it more because of that.

Just write whatever, doesn’t ever have to be a complete story, can just be snippets or ideas. Just little bits here and there to exercise that part of your brain. And who knows maybe eventually you’ll start coming up with ideas you think are cooler.

I always suggest creative hobbies that build up a skill more so than just active ones because active ones (unless there’s problem solving involved like bouldering for example), it gets to a point where you just doing repetitions of the act. If there’s a creative aspect to it you can always build upon it on it in new and interesting ways as you become more proficient.

Please try find a hobby for your spare time. Then you can live for that. Even if it’s just a passing hobby, it could get you out of your rut and make way for a new hobby you may encounter.

Vivaldi is unusable for me because you can’t have the bookmarks bar only show on the new tab screen, and they seem unwilling to add that in to save face in a few discussions they’ve had about that feature, it’s weird.

My primary is Firefox too by the way.

Its developers tools, as is is better than chromes.

And like i said in my original comment it’s vertical tabs are one of the best implementations out there at the moment.

It has sensible tab folder features which I usually don’t use in other browsers but in edge they’re great.

It also has what they call workspaces that keeps the exact state of your tabs across signed in instances if the browser irregardless of device (it even syncs in real-time - which has helped me in times at work when i can remote into multiple different devices on our network).

Granted i can understand on personal devices the signed in workspaces may sound awful to most but on a device where i already have to be signed in to a Microsoft account for work anyway, it’s a moot point for me. My work laptop is the only windows device i have in the house if that’s worth any merit. Windows is awful, getting worse by the way and edge will soon be following suit so even though I’m praising it in its current state, I can’t see me continuing to do so for much longer.

As a base browser. I think edge is better than standard Chrome if you want Chromium.

Edge was fine, i use it at work to further separate personal use from work use further. It’s vertical tabs are top tier and being able to have the dev tools have vertical tabs is also a massive plots for productivity. However the latter is getting removed for seemingly no reason and once that’s gone there’s no boon to using edge anymore and I’ll just use a separate Firefox profile or use some chromium browser for work.

It’s great in communal areas like at an office where you want music for everyone, but also want everyone to be able to easily glance over at what’s playing. It’s good for secondary monitors and parties too.

My Spotify issue/feature request was attributed to bringing back a good version of the full screen view on desktop.

I’ve since moved away from Spotify but it was cool that that happened (even though they should not have made it shit beforehand in the first place)

Is this an American thing?

You were just fired and not made redundant instead? Seems very shady if you were just fired without just cause.

In the UK it’s not. The surrounding bank holidays are only Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve. Some companies that require employees to take holidays during the period may also give Boxing Day “for free”.

Yes but I don’t fully mind actually. I can work from home and at any time so I can take it easy. Plus when I am working, I strangely find it pretty fun when I’m in the groove.

I don’t think I could ever have an AI actively modify my code. I use one semi regularly but just for the first steps of research and brainstorming ideas. It often never lands exactly on what I need but the process helps me think a bit better and to avoid the shortcomings that the AI often produces in responses.