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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.

you should try figuring out all Google products where you can generate images and videos, even attempt to learn how they work, how does billing work, where it uses credits from or API costs charged to where, what are the differences between all the weirdly named products (AI Studio, Vertex, Whisk, ImageFX, Veo Studio, Flow, etc.) with seemingly overlaping purposes

the product description of Whisk at https://labs.google/fx/ for example is "Whisk - Create some magic" ... wow, so obvious what it does

lot of fun ... especially considering this would be meant usually for non-engineer user

Google is bonkers for this ... takes an engineering degree to generate 4K Nano Banana Image outside of Gemini or even to begin understanding why VEO videos look different from each of their different products and why

the 3rd party platforms that use their API are 10x easier, put in credit card, choose model and settings, prompt and hit enter

okay ...

- it's fast (great!)

- it can't play videos in preview pane (very bad) or display some types of images (webp)

- design is nice but there is too much padding in thumbnail view and no way to control it (not good)

- it's super similar to Files - https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nghp3dx8hdx?hl=en-US&gl=U... , except that one can play videos and is more than 20x cheaper

- price, the Files I mentioned cost $8.99, I'd never thought i'd dish out any money on file explorer but here we go, yours is faster and if the full release will perfect the areas i mentioned, id pay up to $19 for it ... now asking $200 for file explorer is just mad ... i am in B2B so I know pains of dev software, but if I see such price, Id just be giving imaginary thumbs up to people who pirate this instead, unless this has some crazy super powers and is meant for some very specific professionals for business (I don't see the use case), there is no justification for such price, even from point of view of maximum greed I highly doubt with such prices youd be squeezing the most revenue out of market you could, the yearly plan is more of a slap in a face, software without updates is useless, especially since its early in development and will see lot of basic polish in first few years if worked on .. i wouldn't buy it, but something along $49 for it wouldn't at least scream offensive ... id just look at that with disappointment and move on, even that would be basically asking for the price of AAA videogame, for minor improvement of utility in Windows

- that said, good luck ... I saw lot of people here post what they use; i dont want to offend anyone, but seems devs don't have cells for visual taste, those don't compare with yours, but you seem to have the speed of those (sort of, once i opened folder with 4k images, it completely froze for a full minute, windows explorer wouldn't do that, so ... speed is good, but can't sacrifice reliability for it.)

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.

That explains everything. In my country Czechia, there are ongoing scam ads on YouTube and Instagram where the president of our country supposedly passed some law to give every citizen free money, if they invest via some broker into our biggest energy producer.

It links to fake news site (copy of the biggest news site in the country), with fake news detailing our president just passed and to rush to get your free money. It's absolutely insane. I reported it multiple times and always just get "it doesnt break any policices". What? :D

It's pure cancer. I only saw this because of the recent YouTube adblock drama after disabling my uBlock after years. YouTube wants me hard to get back to watch ads, these ads, yea thanks no. At least some ads on Instagram are relevant.

Looks interesting but with paywalled trial, you might as well say on homepage "we don't want anyone to use this app, go away".

I see that lot of people critize this a lot, but after reading the earlier post linked in the begining of it, it strongly reminds me of Carl Jung's individuation.

A lifelong process that involves an individual becoming whole by integrating various aspects of their personality and becoming their true authentic self.

Jung spoke about humanity suffering from neurosis, if they basically deep down feel that their life is meaningless. Oversimplified example is - if parents want a kid to be a doctor, and the kid succeeds at that, but is then severly unhappy, because he supressed parts of himself to do that.

Individuation is life long process, where the person is trying to put all the parts of themselves into light, even the parts they for example don't like about themselves, like being lazy, vain, etc. (The Shadow). And then live according to that authentic self.

Jungs's theory has nothing to do with evolutionary psychology or the idea that most people shoud be farmers like our ancestors or something. But it is similar in the way, that there is effort to uncover what makes someone happy - and that idea the depression is a message to the person that they are not on the right track, not one aligned with their authentic self. Depression is then considered a tool, a valuable one, and no mistake of brain chemistry or something.

I think there is something about this - that depression is lack of meaning. I also heard that in the startup context - a burnout is a state where you care about something, but come to subconscious realization that you are powerless to change it. It is basically another way a meaninglessness manifests. Because if you come to believe you can't influnce something, why would you keep working on it right? Your body will refuse that.

What the author of the article did is Jung's ideation, when she got married, moved to countryside and all that. Her explanation was evolutionary psychology and thinking it has somthing to do with her genetic ancestors, but that's just one explanation. In essence, she only admitted to herself, what she is really like deep down and then acted upon it. Ancestors or not, she got closer to her authentic self - instead of letting herself be programmed by the society. For somebody else though, the countryside life and kids might NOT be the right answer for them. Everybody is different, hence why it's called Individuation - seperating yourself, individualizing into your own authentic self.

Any smaller city in Europe lol. With a flat facing the inside of house block (not the street). If you want it to be dead silent and truly pitch dark, then northern Europe (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia).

Looks good, but since there is no transparency on pricing, it doesn't motivate me to sign up. Not sure if there is pricing visible after signing up, but I can't be bothered to find out. Id be clear what is offered for free and where does/will paid plan start, if there is even anything for free at all, or it's jut premium pricing.

"I feel like we have so much leverage and don't use it at all."

Devs might have leverage. But in terms of actually contributing to the success of their company, the data seems to suggest otherwise, as far as their importance is involved.

It used to be all about technical talent and product excellence. But dive deeper into reasons why tech companies fail today, and you will see all points to Marketing. Not really in sense of Advertising/Acquisition, but Marketing and Business Strategy as whole. Research, Positioning, Model, Pricing, etc..

Basically more than half startups fail because they are building wrong product for wrong market (Marketing). Less than 10% companies fail because of issues with the tech side. I am not saying devs are not important and that there aren't big differences in the quality and speed of their work, but wouldn't go as far as claiming some sort of god-like status when devs are not really where the future of the business is decided (unless it's some extremely unique technology involving product, most aren't). As Brian Balfour says, the game has changed, it's all about distribution now.

That being said, I wouldn't tell a dev how should their do their job. I can only lead them in terms of what we should be working on, what part of product or what feature, but how exactly to code it? Well that's of course up to them. We don't really micromanage in our company. We just all sync on priorities and then trust each other to execute as per everyone's best judgment. But yeah, we're a tiny company.

That in a sense could be an advice, go work for a startup. Corporate micromanagement is a choice. To be honest, in a larger organization, I would be probably micromanaged too, even as a non-dev, and I would fu*king hate it. Don't think devs are special in this. Not like managers understand Growth and Product work either.