I never write thanks specially if we are finishing. If there are no more interactions is simply wasting money. But when adding new messages I almost always start with "ok great, now let's continue with..." when previous job is ok, so I "reinforce" the clanker as much as I reinforce myself in my train of thought.
Meta is also going at it [0], which inevitably makes me ponder some orwellian questions for the near future:
If I bring my pet mouse to the cinema and my friend scans the movie back using his apple ifmri does the DRM still holds or will the mouses be DRM locked?
Will my iris suffice for booting my computer or would I need to press accept all brainwave cookies?
Can I email my local Flock representative to install a new Brain Pole in my neighborhood? I saw a bunch of dark thoughted young males around and my amazon think camera says the probability of missing packages increased.
I tend to specify oss/free/self hosted solutions when looking for things and it usually get appropiate results. I think if commercial options are more popular and more present in training the bias is kinda expected. Eg when asking for c compilers vs mobile video editor apps it's clear where they gonna fall.
For now it's my experience but ads surely will start getting in the way.
I always thought that the donate tokens thing would be done by sending some tokens from your personal sub to the maintainer's pool with some sort of proxy for tokens with rules, in a more direct way without doing it in cash, but yeah that's where the sweet fees live.
If this gets any traction, the "share tokens with a friend" could be good PR for the labs, instead of buy me a coffee, buy me a clanker.
I saw it the other day in the release notes and I'm definitely setting this up since I already use mise for many of my global tools and projects.
Some months ago I ported part of my git bare repo to chezmoi but never really picked it up since, even if I see it as a great and very complete tool for managing complex dotfiles, I don't have many machines and can live by with a bunch of if uname -s, and the fact that I still need to wrangle brewfiles and scripts for packages. Having the sytem package managers glue along the configs and symlinks is exactly what I wanted.
The best I can do now (in absence of this machine) is trying to remember we are already slowly dying day by day, and that we can drop dead in any instant. But even using this machine I think I would easily forget about my own mortality and keep wasting my time with mundane things.
A serious AI-native founder should not waste time reading this brochures, they should make agentic loops instead where their agents autonomously read and produce brochures for their brochure first, product second startups.
Maybe it was needed until recently and today the scale and monopoly is sufficiently well oiled that a couple 1M$/month programmers with some clankers can ship some new buttons and keep it running?
I was on Claude Code the past year, now I use chinese models, but I've used Cursor and they have an ok pricing offering today because of their mix of sota models with usage based pricing along with their Kimi based Composer model with generous limits. I think it makes a lot of sense for the enterprise market, which is the real moat, and not the capabilities/features of the forked ide or app/tui/github bot anyone can come up with today.
In the web I use Vimium, I tried mouseless in the past and loved the idea but it just didn't click with me. Now I use a lot a mouse layer in zmk and also a trackball.
I went fro regular keyboard to happy user of (slightly modified) Glorious Engrammer here.
I use qwerty and I'm really not a fast typist, but the "primitives" and thought put on this layout, from home row mods timings, pinch movements, mouse layer, symbol layer etc really helped me to stay comfortable keeping the hands on the keys with less finger movement and less overreaching to the mouse, which really was what was harming my wrist.
The keyboard in itself is great and all, being split and easy to mount creatively also helps for ergonomics, but to me it's half the battle. In fact at the begging, with default and using a mouse in the middle of both halves was hurting my hand even more.
Having grown up with an unreliable sluggish gsm dial up connection when the web was already getting heavier payloads, and forced to have developed the virtue of patience and love of progress bars, I think this might work with latency intransigent people, but I know I will blank stare into the load spinner to get my doom ration.
Hard blocks (gotta re enable noprocrast here asap) and behavioral nudges like keeping an ebook with page open positioned inconveniently close and my phone out of reach work better for me.
I don't understand the fuss about this. Offering freeware as marketing gimmick so you can work in the most propietary closed software domain (fpgas toolchains)?