I have a 2020 MacBook Air M1 with 16GB RAM - for development work, there is 0 reason to upgrade it. All day battery, silent, small, no lag...

At least in the ChatGPT app, you can set some "personality" traits. Like the style (more or les warm or enthusiastic, use more or less lists and emojis) and the tone.

I have mine set to efficient, using less warmth, less enthusiasm, less headers and lists and less emoji's. Combined with sensible personal instructions (don't placate me, don't flatter me, be professional, tell me if I'm wrong, tell me if you don't know etc.), I see none of the "that's not crazy, that's commitment!" or "here is the no-frills rundown" BS.

> They will agree to make some high margin simple to assemble thing in the US to appease government

I chuckled out loud at the huge-ass-safety-hazard-in-any-manufacturing-environment US flag thumb tacked to the factory wall. It's all wafer thin gold leaf to appease the toddler in command.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/2026/02/apple-accelera...

This seems like a very nice project to learn stuff, including hardware design/implementation.

Are there similar options on the market for "set and forget" people like me?

Love those weather icons. Personality in software design is underrated.

Thanks! I intentionaly made the weather symbols somewhat "childlike" to give it some personality and also make it obvious that it's a custom device, and not some off the shelf gadget. Works well as a conversation starter!

With so many apps introducing either paywalls (requiring either login or circumvention measures) or terrible RSS feeds (with content missing, images missing etc.) I have found it necessary to use a feed reader that you can configure per-feed to open either:

- The feed item (read the XML)

- The site fulltext

- The original site (in case of login required)

For me that app is https://www.lireapp.com/

Is there some way to create this kind of experience without having to change RSS readers? Is there a service that allows you to easily create RSS feeds for websites without them? I'd rather go with a more unix "do one thing and do it well" philosophy for something like this.

There’s rss-bridge which is in the ballpark

Wero is very new, no wonder it’s not used a lot yet.

Wero is basically a rename (and territorial expansion) of the Dutch iDeal system, which processed €141 billion Euros in 2024.

not really

Wero acquired iDeal and integrated it (as well as Payconiq)

Apple making sure to stay in lock step with the US' general decline into late stage capitalist decline.

When one person acts up it’s a person problem. When everyone acts up it’s a system problem.

And the result is that for every oh-so-sustainable AirTag sold, a keyring doohickey is dieseled/kerosened from AliExpress' China warehouse to the consumer.

Some of these bugs are more well known but for some like AirDrop not working or hotspot not connecting I always thought “well it’s probably because some power setting / DNS config / ad blocker / whatever” that I accidentally changed from the default years ago.

Nostalgia is real but I do remember a not so distant past (around iPhone 4S or so) where AirDrop worked, autocorrect worked, text selection was flawed but predictable, WiFi connected and stayed connected etc.

What happened?

> Nostalgia is real but I do remember a not so distant past (around iPhone 4S or so) where AirDrop worked, autocorrect worked, text selection was flawed but predictable, WiFi connected and stayed connected etc.

The funny thing is all of those features are fine for me.

AirDrop and hotspot work 50% of the time for me. It’s a shame since they must own all of the stack for those technologies