100% Pebble

https://store.repebble.com/

No resume feature kind of ruins it for me

You joke but for the visually impaired that is absolutely a service in demand. Check out Be My Eyes if you want to volunteer

Humans. Not a joke. Computers can generate a best guess, but they don’t hold a candle to human understanding and expression

If files were easily accessible between profiles, wouldn’t that harm the privacy of having multiple profiles?

Same. Physical media will degrade and fail. If you want reliable access to the VHS collection then you need to digitize and create backups. About 10% of my collection wasn’t able to be digitized due to degradation

A la carte pricing has gone out the window in favor of bundles. This enables the same subsidization model of business used by Apple, Google, etc. Even when you pay, they display ads and reminders to get you to upgrade to higher tiers. Drive launched in beta only for paid users. Drive now encourages the use of their proprietary document format. They hand out storage bonuses for each year of membership. That’s not a sustainable long-term practice and purposefully creates stickiness. Generally speaking, they don’t have easy export tools, so they’re not very interoperable. Forwarding emails sent to @proton.me or @protonmail.com addresses to a new inbox is not possible unless you’re a paying customer, which makes switching more difficult.

Moved from Proton to Mullvad to Windscribe

Proton kept getting worse and is moving towards a walled garden.

Mullvad seemed great on the private payment front. Their apps are pretty solid. The device limit was too low for me. For 6-10 devices the price doubles.

Windscribe won me over with their build a plan option. Their apps aren’t the most visually appealing but get the job done.

I recommend not supporting that company. The old Ticket to Ride app was delisted and servers shuttered. It probably had ~$100 worth of IAP for different maps which couldn’t be transferred to the new app

Yes, but not in a way you might think.

When it comes to the death penalty, I’ve always been on the “against” side of the fence. But for very heinous crimes, I believed I understood why families of victims would want to pursue that.

On an online forum, I encountered such a family member. They shared the crime in great detail, and how they felt about the assailant. The way they discussed it was very ugly, selfish, and overly punitive. It was clear they no longer viewed the person as a human being. They weren’t able to process the trauma. This changed my belief that there are rational arguments for the death penalty from family members.

Didn’t they go hard promoting Web3?

Almost all of the big websites have parental control settings that would alleviate the vast majority of these “problems” if parents actually used them.

Nope. Parental controls in general suck and are often bare bones just for a semblance of legal compliance. Parents don’t have access to every device children have access to either

This could really use a lightweight web interface. A wall of text with open-ended prompts is going to turn a lot of folks away. Maybe I’ll reach out to the author and see about extending it

If you’re down for a recipe…

1. Get a couple packs of blueberries
2. Pour them in a bowl
3. Add a couple tablespoons of cocoa powder
4. Add cayenne pepper (twice as much as you think you should)
5. Stir with a spoon to combine
6. Use the same spoon to eat (do NOT eat with your hands)

Should taste equal parts spicy and sweet. If too spicy, dilute with more cocoa powder or blueberries.

The EU is developing their own centralized system

I’m more pessimistic about the idea. Life simulation can include anything and everything, which means making an API will be difficult.

Just my two cents. Wishing you the best

Highly recommend SomaFM

This is still the case

Drop-in cloud/API replacement for YouTube front-ends. It would keep track of watch history and return recommended videos from an algorithm that’s user configurable

Same thing for the sequels. Here’s an article about it. Maybe it’s the passage of time, but I’d say 2 is much more visually stunning than 1