Dan Moren starts his experience with iCloud this way.
Your data is in sync across all your devices, changes update immediately, and you never get a single error message.
It has never been my experience with iCloud - sync takes ages in the always-connected cloud world of today. Especially when I compare it with Dropbox and Google Cloud, the services that I use.
I am a big, big fan of Dropbox. The service has got the perfect balance of functionality and performance. Everything just works.
People get #mastodon wrong. The power of this platform lies in its decentralized nature. If you ignore the purpose of instances and look at it as part of the address to reach a handle, you will only see the messiness.
Adapt to the decentralized nature, and find the community, represented by the instance, that you most resonate with. And stick with it. Make it your home first, and know the nearest neighbours. Once and only when you have done that, visit the surrounding communities.
I look at some of the posts in my drafts and I can barely remember when (or if) I wrote them. They sound so unlike me. Did I copy the snippets as a reference but forgot to note the source? Or did I actually write them? Eventually, I don't post. I need a better system for Drafts.
Just because I saw the name floating around, I signed up to try our Kagi search. I don't know if I expect anything to change with my searching habit. Or if this will stick. I just want to be aware first-hand.
I have always disliked the apps that provide you with a 15-minute summary of the books, usually non-fiction books. Such services are reviewed well and people seem to be paying for them. For example, Blinkist. Here’s whom this service claims to be built for.
Perfect for curious people who love to learn, busy people who don’t have time to read, and even people who aren’t into reading.
I don’t get this. What’s the fun in listening to a 15-minute summary of books? Even podcasts, they claim?
It’s okay to not be into reading books. One isn’t really missing anything if they don’t read books – the information will find its way to reach them. Why, then, the farce of reading books through summaries?
With the rise of ChatGPT and likes, services now don’t even want people to read articles on the web. For example, the latest update for Arc browser launched a new feature called 5-second preview where one can “press Shift and hover over any link to generate a summary of the webpage, without a single click”. This is not good as it can potentially kill people’s (already dwindling) interest in visiting other websites.
Why are we so against any form of reading in the original voice?
I do not know how, but my blog's single-post template is broken. I don't recall any changes that I have pushed to the theme. Hmm. Do I need to fix it now? Sigh!
Every day that I don’t write makes writing again more difficult. I don’t because I convince myself what I write next needs to be significant. I don’t have anything meaningful to talk about. Why does it need to be meaningful? And meaningful for whom?
The most meaningful thing I do is live my life. Isn’t everything happening to me, around me, of the most importance? Why won’t, then, #writing about it be meaningful? It is to me and that’s all that should matter.
I don’t write for readers to find meaning in what I have written. I write to calm myself down. I write to focus.
No surprise then that every time I stop writing, I am more unsettled. The restlessness is not the cause of my block. It’s the effect.
Burger - eat it cold or microwave it?
After days of hot weather, it is raining again. I love rain. But this year, this incessant dampness is tiring now.
Panorama #mbsept
