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There are lots of fun ways to experience literature or any art, and you can do multiple! I love reading a book and just considering it from the text alone, and then also considering it from in the context it was written. And then considering my own biases and how they might be similar or different to the author and how that might affect my interpretation.

I could probably enjoy certain LLM-generated art, but in far fewer ways.

I won't (if I know) either, but for me it's because a very big part of reading fiction or enjoying any art is that you have a relationship of a kind with its creator. When a passage surprises me or a song lifts me or a painting inspires me it's partly because I'm amazed that someone was able to do that, and that they were able to reach me like that.

Everyone borrows or steals from prior art but I'm still amazed by the people that build on what came before to create something new. I just don't have that experience if I know it's generated by a LLM. I appreciate that it will be harder to know the difference as time goes on, and I'll need to be careful not to cast a side-eye at a lot of legitimate stuff unfairly in the future because of that.

I thought this was going to be about its logo.

As a user of software I find myself disabling most transition animations when the OS or application supports it, desktop, mobile and web. Very rarely I find myself turning something back on - either it's actually useful in the situation, or it's done so well that it's pleasant even to an old like me.

Winapp, it really whips the LLMas ass

1.1x is my default setting in pocket casts, with a couple at 1.2x and others at 1x.

I don't need to hear more content more quickly, it's just that some readers/presenters talk very slowly and my ears find the cadence - not the slower reveal of information - a bit frustrating.

My ISP has good IPv6 support. I was using it for a while and recently disabled it across my home network for simplicity of maintenance, cutting my vyos config in half. When I need to access something not available on IPv4 I'll set it up again but I'm not convinced that will happen in my lifetime.

The removal of the forums that the author mentions was what finally ended my 1000ish day streak. It was the most important part of the app for me, the way each question would link to a forum topic and users would discuss the various subtleties.

My assumption, despite plausible claims of moderation issues, is that they removed it so that their expensive AI addon provided more value. But it was the last straw for me.

I haven't liked any integrated tooling at all, but that's not such a surprise since I generally disable autocomplete and autocorrect since, like tinsel, I find them distracting.

I do really like to use the plain web browser tools, though (currently claude), for generating boilerplate code that I then review and integrate carefully into my code. It has sped up my workflow in that way.

I found this a very beautiful story, I was moved to tears and I learnt a lot I didn't know about the process.

I would like to assure the author that there is little to no risk that "AI" will perform that job any time soon, though. It's handy for certain things but those of us who use it every day know how limited it is, and will be for a long time.

In around 1997 I installed I think Red Hat 4.x because I'd seen screenshots of the Enlightenment window manager and wanted that beauty on my desktop.

Now all I want is the Windows 98 look and feel back, when icons and user controls were clear and legible and consistent and you could drag a window from anywhere on a title bar.

I didn't realise that the campaign was considered a fizzer. As a 14yo in a regional area who had just started connecting to the Internet (and hadn't yet developed distrust of Microsoft), it was one of very few ad slogans that ever inspired me. I think about it often.

"If you wish to build an economy simulator from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

I'm the same - I have been using Dvorak for twelve years, but that's all about muscle memory with both hands, I struggle to type with it without two hands in place. When I jump onto a colleague's computer I can use QWERTY OK because my brain reverts to the old four-finger typing I used to do. I'm much faster at Swyping on a QWERTY keyboard, though, because it's a different paradigm entirely - it's more about movement than keypress.