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Origami.

People who defend “they’re” as some form of grammatical purity. It’s a fucking contraction, basically the printing press version of an emoji. Stop with the pretentious bullshit.

Escalators and moving walkways are there to get you somewhere faster and with less effort. They are not meant to ferry your fat ass the entire way. That’s what elevators and carts are for. Move it!!!

Blister packaging for fucking everything.

I am paying for Cursor, which can use various models to help with software development. I use the AI to help me create design documents for software ideas I have and use those design documents to guide it in the development of that code. I’ve tried free models on my own hardware and they don’t come close, mostly because I don’t have a spare $5k for the right GPUs.

A long time ago I adopted the Jinx’s Rating For All Things system and it’s served me very well. It is very similar to OPs suggestion.

• ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: This thing is core to who I am. I don’t want to live in a world without it. The experience was life changing.
• ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: I really like this thing! This will be in my rotation for along time. I had an amazing time!
• ⭐️⭐️⭐️: I like it. Perfect in the background. If it’s on, I probably will watch/listen, but I probably won’t seek it out. Inoffensive. This meets but doesn’t exceed my expectations.
• ⭐️⭐️: Not my thing, but I see why people like it. It has value, just not to me. I was slightly annoyed.
• ⭐️: Why would anyone like this thing?!?!?!?

I personally think the 5-star rating system is perfect. Any more than that and a lot of the mid-tier ratings become arbitrary and everything is subject to immediacy bias. Tastes change over time and how much you like stuff changes, but I’ve found that they rarely change buckets in this system.

I don’t understand why someone cares if they like one thing “just a little bit more” than another. It doesn’t have to be a competition. Do you like it or do you love it? Is it core to understanding you as a person? Did you have an amazing time?

Keeper’s Browser extension is/was trash. Recently it had a bug where, on some websites, it’ll kept pasting my MFA token in every single number field on every page for the website, long after authentication finished.

I mean, you can, or you can use it to assure your firewall is configured correctly. The entire Internet is scanning you at all times, why would you focus your attention on one of the services who is willing to share their results with you?

Believe me, you probably have lower hanging fruit to pick.

This article is giving me Pee Wee vibes.

That is a good looking model!

Ironically, salt has probably killed more people than both Sodium explosions and Chlorine gas combined.

This is some ignorant FUD. Everything you just listed is technology companies, who get blamed for every computer failure whether its their fault or not, trying to prevent those problems. TrustedComputing and TPM is a direct answer to malware. UEFI a direct answer to ever increasingly complicated computer hardware, kernel-level DRM is a direct answer to software piracy and online game cheaters.

These things are implemented because there’s a lot of people making a lot of money ruining the lives of people who just want to use their computer. Just because YOU can’t explain it, doesn’t mean it’s evil.

Musicbrainz Picard --> mp3Tag --> MusicBee

• Picard handles the initial tagging.
• mp3Tag handles the clean-up. I like things “just so”, and some of the time Picard goes rogue. The Actions function is super powerful for automating “fixing” tags. Oh, and you can cut, filter and paste an entire directory’s worth of song tags if you want to bulk remove a bunch of unwanted tags that Picard adds.
• MusicBee is the database. I like the Inbox feature that allows me to do a last check before “promoting” the files to my master library.

There are portable versions of all three, so you can lock a version in your music directory and never worry about updates ruining your tags.

I’ve been using them for a couple years now and, so far, only one vendor has rejected their card. I pay for their service, so I don’t have any limits and their cash back program usually pays for the monthly fee.

I rarely use my actual CC anymore, and now they integrate with Apple Wallet, I will probably stop needing my bank card altogether.

I love being able to visualize all my subscriptions in one place and be able to turn them off whenever I want. That alone is worth the price.

The second phase is to stop using all the accounts they find and start using disposable emails and credit cards. I use Simple Login and Privacy and have made it very difficult linking my information in any low-level clearinghouse.

I highly recommend Optery. There are far more information databases than those found on Google.

Who?

I agree with most of this. I disagree with the confidence statement. Humility and curiosity will get you further than blind confidence. When you don’t know something, say so and then ask questions. There is no worse interview than someone being brazenly wrong.

This can backfire if the decision to select a candidate is too far away from your interview. If they did all the talking, then they will have nothing to remember you by.