I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba where it is quite cold for a big majority of the year. I have dabbled with supplements because I get a couple of major colds every year.
I've heard things like you only need 15 minutes of sunshine per day to get your recommended dose of Vitamin D, but I've also heard it can be quite bad for you if you have too much in your system (and it's hard for your body to flush excess amounts).
If there a safe level of Vitamin D supplements where you won't run this risk? I don't drink milk either because I'm lactose intolerant.
I really enjoyed Flexbox Froggy and felt like it helped me a lot better than Grid Garden. Maybe my brain just isn't a grid-oriented brain— CSS Grid never seems to stick.
Yeah, I'm not holding out much hope, but I'm an AIO guy and I have zero interest in putting a tall Mac Mini on my desk. I ended up adding a 32" TV as a second monitor and it's good enough.
No, sorry, I meant it was so fragile, it no longer exists— I bumped it off my coffee table and the screen shattered (fell 18" to a hardwood floor).
I balked at spending over $700 to replace the screen. It definitely was leaps and bounds more performant than my 2012. I also hated the lack of MagSafe.
I usually baby my computers, but I did accidentally step on my 2012 MacBook Air when I was in college (I had placed it on stairs while doing a photo shoot with some classmates). It was fine.
My 2012 can't receive macOS and Adobe upgrades, but my partner is happily using it for basic browsing and photo editing.
I had a 13" M1 MacBook Air. It was an OK machine to move to from my 2012 MacBook Air, but the thing was super fragile.
Let's just say it's been retired while my 2012 is still going strong (my not-so-technically-inclined partner uses it for basic browsing).
I now have a 15" M2 MacBook Air and I have to say: this machine is the laptop of my dreams. It could be one of the best computers I've ever owned.
Now I'm just holding out for a 27" or larger iMac. I have a 24" M1 iMac and while I have gotten used to the screen being smaller, I still really could use the extra real-estate.
I am a web developer and media producer. These machines handle Premiere Pro and Blender just fine for my purposes. I have zero interest in getting the Studio.
I hesitate to post this here because I probably can't handle a rush of traffic if it gets attention, but I've been working on this at prezince.com.
Just launched an MVP on February 1st and it is very much alpha software.
It's a social network generator, essentially Wix or Squarespace for social networking.
You go through a simple wizard to choose what type of feed your network is based around (like Facebook/Twitter/Insta, YouTube-like streaming, TikTok-like vertical videos, or classic chat), how connections work (follow/follow back, request friend/confirm friend, or automatic for teams), what it looks like (fonts and colours), what features it has (right now, like button, comments on posts, and trending topics), and who can access it (public or invite only).
I very much learnt PHP and MySQL back in 2007 because of how cool I thought Facebook was, and I miss the early way the site operated.
I also just see how it can be a solution to a lot of different problems. My family is using one as a replacement for group chat on Signal— we can keep discussion centred around posts in the feed which only we have access to.
I'm subscribed to all this stuff but it never seems to give me similar content, it recommends all the videos I've already watched.
If I happen to watch something new, like a People's Court segment, then all I see is People's Court stuff.
There never seems to be balance.
Then there's the problem where a new video (like Gourmet Makes from BA) gets posted on a channel I like. I'll watch it with my partner on his machine, but then YouTube just chokes up, wondering why I never click on it, and then shoves it in my face ad nauseum.
Like, their search engine doesn't even seem to scratch the surface of content they're holding. It seems to be really stupid machine learning or AI.
Why can't it show me balanced recommendations from everything I watch or subscribe to, toss in some new things which are similar/popular, and maybe differentiate between content likely to be consumed multiple times (music videos) vs stuff people don't often watch a rerun of?
They seem to have so much data they could work with. They have amazing engineers and Google's expertise in algorithms.
Facebook even had problems with news feed being overrun with low quality content early on but seems to have figured it our fairly well- at least in my experience on the site (I know there are big echo chamber problems over there as well, don't get me wrong).
Even a lot of my non-techie friends seem to complain often about how terrible YouTube's recommendations are.
I've heard things like you only need 15 minutes of sunshine per day to get your recommended dose of Vitamin D, but I've also heard it can be quite bad for you if you have too much in your system (and it's hard for your body to flush excess amounts).
If there a safe level of Vitamin D supplements where you won't run this risk? I don't drink milk either because I'm lactose intolerant.