PCR has been around since the 80s, though it has continued getting more efficient and cheaper

I don’t know about hardware, but they marketed that you’d be able to interact with an AI that would use your apps for you, via what they called a Large Action Model. None of those apps currently work, because they all are likely getting defeated up front by Captchas and other roadblocks companies put up to stop automated usage of their services.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=rabbit+r1+long-form+review+

As with most of their good products

The Pebble UI was also just plain fun while also being so functional. I loved the timeline concept.

Apparently it can. I think I tried it once when they had a promotion but hard to remember.

I believe PayPal can do it IIRC?

It is nice to generate generalizable code examples, to give me clues how stuff works. I find that my work (marine biogeochemistry) is obscure enough that there’s a certain level where I am still on my own. Which is a good sign for my future employability!

Yeah, whatever floats your boat! Firefox password manager is fine, but I have some devices where I don’t use Firefox, so I need cross-platform. Plus, Bitwarden can save other stuff securely like notes, and the features it has for secure password generation work very well.

I’ve used Bitwarden because it’s available everywhere I need it, including a good Firefox desktop extension. The only thing I worry about how they raised VC funds in 2022, and hope that doesn’t lead to enshittification. Fortunately I’m prepared to switch to self-hosted alternatives if that’s the case.

yes, many of these apps feel kind of lobotomized

agreed, I opened up some old photospheres of past apartments, places I visited during study abroad and it was kind of eerie how it teleported me back to the moment! much more than a picture or video would

I tend to think the modern material doesn’t provide nearly as much opportunity to be colorful and provide a unique visual identity as the OG material did.

Running natively rather than on the xamarin/maui framework would hopefully mean it’s more responsive. It is a bit sluggish to load right now

Previously big Chinese OEM. Got attention in the West for being one of the earliest to clone the iPhone, built on top of Windows CE (lol)

Huh, maybe a battery optimization thing?

which is why I changed the title :)

I do however like Droidify with Shizuku integration for this purpose!

I was hoping it would help me save on international transfer fees when I was an overseas postdoc, but it would have actually cost more between the exchange fees and my time setting up all the exchanges in various countries, meanwhile also introducing risk in me being robbed of said money and screwing something up and introducing myself to some sort of tax liability. Needless to say, I continued to just pay for the bank transfers