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and also left out Nano Banana Pro, which in my opinion is still better in many cases then NB2 ... even on the site arena.ai, it's still best at editing

I use floccus.org to sync between Chrome and Zen browser, works flawlessly! It wasn't that difficut to find, once I had the two browser setup (as in the end I refufsed to fully switch to Zen), just searched extensions, and setup this up in a minute. It also syncs to google drive and bunch of 3rd party bookmark apps.

Central EU citizen. I don't know, I am not naive about US and privacy, but as far as I know, US's motivation is mostly profit, not growth at absolutely any (human) cost, human rights repression, and world dominance.

Am I the only one to be worried about using the DeepSeek web app due to how my data will be used? Since this is China.

I was looking for some comment providing discussion about that... but nobody cares? How is this not worrying? Does nobody understand the political regime China is under? Is everyone really that politically uneducated?

People just go out and play with it as if nothing?

LLMs by their nature get to extract a ton of sensitive and personal data. I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole.

Devs always complain about advertising, but it's why devs tend to do much better comparatively to other jobs in same region. Without distribution mechanisms, there are no sales, without sales, there are no well paid jobs, and eventually no jobs at all.

Similar can be said about almost any other job, except the well-paid part.

Look at the world before advertising. Everything had to be local small scale only. So everything was very expensive, because no large-scale manufacturing effectivity and massive discounting on end product. Lot of technology isn't even possible on small scale.

Nothing worse than salty uneducated devs that think they understand how world works, just because they know how to code, but know nothing about history, economy, business and marketing.

I don't like intrusive advertising either. Nobody says that it has to be pushed to the most extreme level possible for it to maintain the benefits. Not even remotely. I also use agressive adblock, I don't react to ads in Google or YouTube, because they tend to be bad and completely non-relevant. I occasionaly react to Instagram ads though, for example. I bought products off Instagram ads and I am glad for it.

Some way to promote your product to consumers is extremely valuable and healthy to the modern world. Unless you want to separate yourself from it and become a self-sufficient small community oriented society, like Mormons.

The idea of virality and "build great product and they will come" has to be the stupidest crap devs tend to believe. It only works briefly in the early stage within the new market category. 99.9% of world'S products are in mature stage, and those beliefs will get you bankrupt. World needs advertising. New startup founders of great valuable products need advertising. You can notice that those that understand that, succeed vastly more often.

I say ChatGPTed it almost every day, or some form of it, OpenAI dropped ball on the name. Me and me friends say "asked CHatGPT, asked GPT, asked AI (but mean ChatGPT)" ... it hurts though as it's all too long and akward, no intuitive verb to use.

Probably just my limited perspective, but I am also noticing, it's vastly men who use ChatGPT daily on anything from random questions, to health queries or personal growth. Not sure why, but somehow, I don't know a single female who would use it much, beyond super basic queries. Meanwhile guys of all kinds of backgrounds, nerds or not, technical or not, young or old, doesn't matter ... if there is a heavy user, it's a guy. But as I say, just limited perspective, I don't know big enough number of people for substantial sample size. Just recently I see the stark contrasts more and more, even very smart, nerdy and highly curious women I know, are not interested in ChatGPT.

After reading the whole thing, I am bit worried about all the logical leaps and this just being a weird mashup of ideas that don't make much sense.

That being said, as a person that is mildly on ASD spectrum I was bit intrigued by the hypothesis of higher lactate orinted energy production in autistics. It would match two of my lifelong problems, having strong exhaustion (food coma) after eating high carbs and having similar reaction to even short (5min) high-intensity workouts. I had to adapt by avoiding large doses of carbs and focusing more on resistance training with large pauses inbetween.

I am baffled how some of my friends can eat a mountain of white rice or workout hard for hour and be completely fine after.

Does anybody know a directory of free no-login in-browser apps?

Occasionally I search for something simple like character counter, text editor, etc. but google keeps giving me only ads-ridden login requiring options. I feel like you have to know the URL, they tend to do poorly with SEO as they have no marketing/SEO behind them.

I know some people who permanently move from Spain or Italy to Czechia. In their own words, there was no work in their home country. They tried super hard to get a job at home, but came up with nothing. Here they have some sort of non-technical office jobs in tech companies and are quite happy with the pay.

salary doesn't mean much in the vacuum without considering costs of living ... my cost of living in Czechia is a fraction to life in US ... with $300 a month, I can cover my social insurance, health insurance and taxes, and then I am free ... and whatever I need from health care has no additional costs, from a full bag of meds every month, through psychotherapy to big a and serious operations, no other income taxes either, and I will get a small pension too when I retire

as for firing employees, many tech workers are not employees but contractors, conditions about the job are set by the company in the begining ... also what I noticed that US workers can and will quit on the spot if they decided so ... the othe side of the coin with EU employees is that they won't and can't do this ... the employer can rely on this ... if they are given notice and fired, they will responsibly continue working for the law mandated X months, so that the employer has time to replace them, and they will train their replacement and do proper handover ... at least from what i've seen, americans in tech once they learn they are being let go, they drop everything and are gone

the EU way isn't that one-sided towards the employee, it has implications both ways ... and if you don't like the protections and stability, just get the person on contract instead, which many smaller startups do, as they don't want to be locked into their decisions too much

does anyone how does copyright work for these? and if there is a way to generate these without the vocals? (i know there is voice removal AI, but that will introduce quality loss), basically curious if person could generate something with Suno and then do a "cover" with real singing and release it on social media?

when you think about it, touch is good for complex things and it's universal, the UI can shift to anything

for specialized repetitive control, doesn't seem to make much sense to me - certain functions in car, will be super repetitive, AC control, speaker volume, etc.

even for phones this logic applies, volume buttons are still physical

this means that something like navigation is better of with voice/touch (coz who would want physical letter keyboard there) ... but to pull down a window? yeah, hell nah with touch

Ah, I didn't see this "Skip and try free for 7 days only".

Ahh the classic SaaS founder marketing :), putting forward product experience negatives and hiding the product positives. I was kind of annoyed because there was promise of "Try it free" on homepage and then it required me to input my credit card.

I wouldn't buy even the next revolutionary ChatGPT without trying it a first so I just closed it and commented here. And as a general rule I don't give anyone my credit card unless I plan to buy it, that's just such a dark pattern. I am a Marketer, not a Product guy, but still, big nope on this. If my intent is to try, don't push me into buying with underhanded tactics (aka, let's hope the guy forgets he's in trial and gets charged at least for a month before he remembers to cancel it). This just doesn't match the stage in the journey at all.

Basically I was checking it out on laptop and I didn't see the option to continue without inputting credit card, either because it was in the bottom or because of the nearly invisible color.

Yea, I just wouldn't do this at all. Remove credit card requirement completely, you're in a highly mature market with a todo list app. There's nothing special about another to-do app, in mature enviroment, you should encourage users to try your app fast. If it was me, id remove the homepage video and embed a demo of the live app there. Then you can keep asking for credit card.

Or like you said, start without the extra step of credit card altogether, then give option to add it for another 30 days, although, i am not sure if this isnt overcomplicated for no reason. Might as well just give 14 days without credit card and then ask for payment.

Personally I think best case is what todoist does, free "crippled" version with max 5 projects, and you need to pay for unlimited. You can use it free, but its annyoing, there are also more limits, and you basically get going with the tool and only get to face the question of payment when youre starting to depend on it, at that point youre like whatever, i need to solve something here so, buy. In your case you could have 2-3 root items for free, and want more? pay.