Anthony

As YouTube continues to enlarge thumbnails to Tiktokify your YouTube home page, you can just have @bot or just use another model with computer access add an extension to your browser, which sets a limit on thumbnail size. For example, I had it change mine to allow for 8 per row.

AI will effectively reset education. Rather than have students read a chapter, the information will be used to create a short video explaining and showing the information contained. It's not just faster; it's better. It's easier to retain information when you see the concepts in play.

Europeans (and much of the world) will continue killing each other. Over and over again. It will not stop. Our survival depends on our ability to detach ourselves from their choices.

I re-up'd on @OpenAI to give another chance after a few months. Tried Astra via VM code extension and it seemed to be working great until "Worked for 24m 10s" and that was it. It worked for 24 min of a 5-hour block and hit limits. Useless. Maybe I'll try it again next year.

I installed @OmarchyLinux on a 2017 iMac that had been sitting in a closet collecting dust for years. I expected it to work, but honesty surprised by just how well it works, and with just 8 gb of memory. The only hiccup was the audio and mic which I had Grok figure out and fix or me. The AI integration with Herdr is as good as I've seen anywhere. Not sure how I'm gonna use it as I don't see any reason to replace my Mac Studio or Macbook which also work great, but this could be the start of a shift when it comes time to replace those devices. Similar iMacs are selling for <$400 w/27" 5k display and the memory is upgradable to 32gb for about $260. For most people's everyday computer use, this would be sufficient. Honestly, this is an even better deal than an old ThinkPad for Linux (unless you need a laptop). Great work @dhh and thank you!

Grok Build just one-shotted a mac menu bar app with EQ pre-sets for my computer speakers. Drastic improvements in Grok over the last year.

Xbox and PlayStation seem to have lost the plot and forgot what consoles are. An affordable, single-purpose way to play games. Cheaper because they did less than a PC. By chasing PC specs and going digital-only, they've become expensive locked-down boxes that cost nearly as much as a PC while offering way less. What's the point?

Xbox & PS digital push ignored how GameStop trade-ins sold more games. Buy $60 game → quick $25 back when done + credit from your old game = effective ~$10-35 cost. They treated used games as a threat instead of an incentive driving purchases. They killed the gaming economy.

The same Macbook Pro I bought 2 months ago for $3k (14" M5 Pro chip with 18/20 cpu/gpu cores, 64 GB of memory, and 1 TB ssd) is now $3700. Looks like the chip shortage is gonna be a thing for at least another 1-2 years.

Sony shutting down Destiny 2 and focusing on Marathon seems odd at first glance. I don't play the game, but it seems enough people do to keep it going with expansions even if not to invest the cash needed for a full D3. I haven't seen any signs of momentum in Marathon. Destiny had 167k concurrent players on its last content update. Marathon's peak is less than half that. If this were purely a performance based business decision, they'd be saving Destiny and panicking about Marathon. I think Sony wants the Destiny IP but not the Bungie team that came with it. Shutting down the live service lets them lay off 400 people in one clean move instead of navigating messy individual cuts. The layoffs aren't a consequence of the shutdown, the shutdown is cover for the layoffs. They keep the franchise, dismiss the people they lost confidence in, and rebuild later with a new team. My guess is there were a significant number of people on the Destiny team that Sony simply didn't want around and this was the easiest way to get rid of them.

Hey @tesla and @elonmusk , adding a persistent menu everytime FSD is disengaged is probably the worst thing I've seen in the car since I got my Model Y a year ago. Ths was a terrible idea. This may come as a surprise to you, but at that moment I'm actually busy...driving. I would have thought the disengagement might have given that away. Also, I really don't owe you an explanation each time I choose to drive my car myself. 🙄 Please stop this ridiclulous intrusion.

Hey @X , you're algo seems to be in a doom loop. It was looking pretty good ~2 months ago, but since then it's narrowed my "for you" feed into a small group of mostly the same accounts on the same subjects. It like another "following" feed, but for accounts I don't follow.

Alright @claudeai , this is getting ridiculous. Max 5x plan. Used 100% (5h block) with about 45 min of work this morning. Resets at 8am. I sent 3 basic queries just asking about Karpathy's LLM wiki concept (not building- just questions). That burns 20% of my new 5h block in 10 min. Opus is clearly the best model out there, but at this rate, it's becoming unreliable as I can't schedule my day around Claude usage blocks/limits. Sure, I probably shouldn't have used Opus for these questions, but still, it's just 3 questions. I'm not even close to a power user and typically only use about 50% of my weekly limit, but the 5h blocks are a problem.

While we continue to see panic from the easily frightened, keep in mind that the market is still up 27% from where it was just 2 years ago.