bel_marinaio

Soldered to the board for anyone that does not know

Beeper.com is promising. It rolls a lot of the big messaging apps into one. You can add 5 or 6 accounts under the free plan.

I had a Tidal subscription for over a year. I love that they pay the artists way more. Unfortunately Tidal looks similar Spotify, but is somehow janky and less polished. Sharing music was a hassle. I had to go search my friends shares by typing the artist and song into tidal because most of them use Spotify. Spotify is the typical BigCo spreading enshittification far and wide, but not enough people care to change that.

Often the most important part of an app is the user base. That is why inferior apps with a gigantic community are hard to replace.

“The ask” is give me a clue how to choose the best settings for a specific task. Model releases happen so often that the calculation keeps changing. Maybe even OpenAI doesn’t always know the answer.

This morning I asked GPT which models and settings I should use to inspect my VM dashboard with computer control. It said: - GPT-6 Astra at Medium - GPT-6.1 Sol at Medium (alt) - use Luna only when the route was already known.

But I had already completed the task twice with Luna and it was 5.6! It navigated through a few pages of my dashboard, pulled up the 30-day usage chart, analyzed my CPU and RAM, and explained why I didn’t need an upgrade. I’d give Luna 5.6 an A on this task.

Maybe OpenAI should give us a “Tiptronic” selector: recommend the model and reasoning level based on the prompt, while still letting users override it.

Wake up. These mega corporations are too big to care now. Most people are uninformed or unaffected. America has been brainwashed into a FU I got mine mindset.

The tiny fraction of people willing to vote with their wallet has effectively a 0% chance of pushing big corporate to act right.

The problem with every "should" idea is that *THE SYSTEM WORKS AS INTENDED*

The system is not there to help you or me. The system is to protect and accelerate the flow of money up to the 0.1% at any and all costs. It does not matter if it will destroy the environment or if the innocent people will die.

People need to wake up to this fact, band together, and fix it by any means necessary. Until that happens "should" ideas are wasted breath.

Perfect example of why I haven't bought media for many years and won't be buying any media from BigCo.

They have been ffffing around for way too long. I can not wait for find out arrive and I hope it's excessive and very harsh.

You don't seem to understand how CRAPitalism works. Profits are privatized, losses and expenses are dumped onto the the community whenever possible to increase profits further

Why are so many things better in the EU?

so you're saying $250k to build the app once you get specs from the $53,750,000 worth of meetings and planning committees? That sounds much more reasonable and not like $50million worth of tax payer money was stolen /s

Life was extremely rigid not that long ago. People knew their place and did not break the rules.

I am not sure if this is better or worse than my idiot downstairs neighbors that would party every weekend til 3am with zero regard for any of their neighbors. Then they are banging on the ceiling at 4pm on a Wednesday because we were moving furniture around for 15 minutes.

privacy.com is one of my favorite companies.

They have saved me from fraud 2x in 3 years. Then I simply closed that "card" with the click of a button. No need to call my bank, cancel my debit card that I use at ATMs, and wait a week for a new card

I don't have to worry about remembering to cancel free subscriptions. I set the card max at $1. This has saved me multiple times from the free trial scams that you need to opt out of. Free trials should be opt in after the trial. Opt out is a scam to trickle money into a company from non customers.

They stopped a contractor from charging me over $2k when I specifically told them they needed to tell me how much before charging me. Of course they didnt tell me and tried to run the charge. Privacy put a stop to their BS.

It is mostly automatic or easy to set up once you are using Privacy. Some banks have started to offer similar digital card numbers similar to Privacy.

>If you aren't getting hits then all you can do is work on your profile

Working on yourself > working on your profile. Hit the gym, lose a few pounds, maybe find a better barber, etc

"gifting" women you barely know is a terrible strategy. This is the best way to land yourself a gold digger or some other undesirable. It signals to her that you are beneath her and are trying to buy her affection.

On one first date a woman I had been talking to for a week texted me late at night. I told her to show up at my house and for her to bring a bottle of red wine. The next morning she is telling me a recent dating story. A guy took her out for a fancy meal. He spent $120 on her and then he got pissed after the meal when she wouldn't kiss him.

I have some success and plenty of failure too when it comes to dating. There is so much bad dating advice out there for men. I feel bad for the men that are in the dark and being taken advantage of.