The industry will end up with one or two winners and a lot of losers. Very hard to predict these things (smart money in 1997 was that Apple was about to file bankruptcy). One or two companies will have success and the rest will evaporate or be absorbed. Then the AI product itself will be priced up (and dumbed down) significantly.

AI will not go away, but will be far more limited and specialized. The day of free general access to powerful chatbots will be up.

“Our ancestors possessed wisdom that is lost to us now. This artifact is believed to have been used to distribute concentrated food pellets. They called it a ‘PEZ.’”

Here is a plan for 5$ per month for 300 minutes from tello.

Edit: To clarify, I don’t believe a true prepaid minutes only plan exists in the U.S. This was the most basic/cheapest plan I was able to find.

Get in now before the enshittification.

Who cares? Is anyone still on X other than bots, nazis, and a few misguided journalists?

Hasn’t been relevant since 2019

To me it doesn’t read as AI at all. It’s a bit bloviating, but that is the style of a lot of blogs.

Never heard of this. But even if you could connect to them, how would you cool it?

Edit: never mind, that’s exactly what the article is about.

You might be interested in Rush, which detects music from your “now playing” and displays the lyrics beautifully. Then you can use whatever local player you like for your library and have great lyrics experience regardless.

If you end up setting up a home server with navidrome or similar, Chora has the best lyrics search and display. The website also mentions local playback, so it may meet your need, although I’ve never used it that way.

It’s been a while since I’ve used a local player, but the best ones I’ve found were Oto Music (closed source), which has very good lyrics search and support, and Booming Music.

PixelPlayer also looks like a promising new option.

Yea, it’s not winning any beauty contests. But super fun turn based strategy.

Some overlooked ones:

Material Files

Anx Reader

Overmorrow Weather

OSS Document Scanner

Lavender Photos

KashCal

Feudal Tactics rarely shows up in the “best of FOSS” lists or games lists. Yet I think it’s one of the most engaging and nicely balanced single player, local games out there.

Some people find it helpful to name the negative self-talk voice. Then you can say things like, “shut up, Karen. You never have useful suggestions.”

There is also something in toddler parenting called a “no thanks bite.” That’s the first vite of food that you have to decide if you want to say “no thanks.” It works with toddlers because there is less pressure around eating, and you are allowed to try new things that you might later decide not to have.

The adult version is the same. When trying out a new health routine, etc., you can do a “no thanks try.” Say, I am going to go to the gym this week and next week. If it works out, I may go again after that, or I may not. It just depends on whether it fits in my routine.

Remember that we have routines for reasons. We don’t always know why. Routines are very hard to change while the underlying reasons persist.

Wow, I just recovered a childhood memory

GeoCities

I couldn’t quite follow all that. TLDR?

Thanks, I did not realize. I just did a quick search because I remembered an app but couldn’t remember the name. Must be something else.

Edit: Maybe it was mapillary after all. They were acquired by Meta in 2020. A better option looks to be KartaView.

Album I would listen to start to finish on any given day: Rubber Soul by the Beatles.

Favorite overall album to listen to: Chutes Too Narrow by The Shins.

Most important album: London Calling by The Clash

I’d love to see that wonderful interoperability we were all promised. It should be possible to have one identity/account that’s connected to multiple services. I should be able to log in once, post some thoughts on Mastodon, share a photo on Pixelfed, and comment on a PeerTube video. Some services have tried to combine various formats with a little success, but it has been very limited, and generally broken.

Not the one you’re replying to, but I’d generally agree.

If someone wants to post on Peertube, they basically either have to have the time, funding, and know-how to self-host, or arrive with an established audience. Someone with great creative talent does not necessarily want to run an expensive and complicated software project. Someone who has an established audience has very little incentive to jump to federation.

PeerTube is improving slowly. There are now a few instances with open registration, which could mean more fertile ground for good content. We shall see.